2010 in archosaur paleontology

Abydosaurus[18] Valid Albian Cedar Mountain Formation A narrow toothed brachiosaurid whose remains include the first known cranial material of any Cretaceous sauropod from the Americas.

Arkharavia[21] Nomen Dubium Maastrichtian Udurchukan Formation A Somphospondylan Sauropod known only from a single weakly heterocoelous tail vertebrae.

[33] Concavenator[34] Valid Barremian Calizas de La Huérguina Formation A carcharodontosaurid with a pointed, hump-like crest near the hips and bumps on the ulnae that may be quill knobs.

Cruxicheiros[35] Valid early 1960s[35] Lower Bathonian Chipping Norton Formation A large basal tetanuran known from scant remains.

nov. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré Denis Geraads Late Pliocene Ahl al Oughlam Morocco A Psittacidae, a lovebird.

nov. Marcos M. Cenizo Federico L. Agnolín Early or Middle Miocene Santa Cruz Formation Argentina A basal member of Anatidae.

nov. Csiki Vremir et al.[CAL 29] Late Cretaceous: Maastrichtian Sebeş Formation Romania A four-toed, two-fingered avialian.

nov. Gareth J. Dyke Attila Ősi Santonian Csehbánya Formation Hungary An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Avisauridae Brett-Surman & Paul, 1985.

nov. Ursula B. Göhlich Cécile Mourer-Chauviré Early Miocene MN 4c Germany: Bavaria A Phalacrocoracoidea, Pelecaniformes, possibly a species of Borvocarbo.

nov. Carlos Rando Josep A. Alcover Juan C. Illera Late Pleistocene to Holocene Spain: Canary Islands A Fringillidae, Carduelinae.

nov. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré Denis Geraads Late Pliocene Ahl al Oughlam Morocco A Threskiornithidae, a species of Geronticus.

nov. Alyssa K. Bell Luis M. Chiappe Gregory M. Erickson Shigeru Suzuki Mahito Watabe Rinchen Barsbold K. Tsogtbaatar Campanian Barun Goyot Formation Mongolia A predatory ground bird known from an unusual hind limb.

nov. Wang Xia Zhang Zihui Gao Chunling Hou Lianhan Meng Qingjin Liu Jinyuan Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation China An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981.

nov. Julia A. Clarke Daniel T. Ksepka Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi Ali J. Altamirano Matthew D. Shawkey Liliana D’Alba Jakob Vinther Thomas J. DeVries Patrice Baby Late Eocene Ica Region Peru A giant Spheniscidae and the type species of the new genus.

nov. Emilio Novas Federico L. Agnolín Carlos A. Scanferla Campanian Las Curtiembres Formation Argentina An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Avisauridae Brett-Surman et Paul, 1985, the type species of the new genus.

nov. Federico L. Agnolin Late Cretaceous Allen Formation, Campanian or Maastrichtian Argentina A Cimolopterygidae Brodkorb, 1963, this is the type species of the new genus.

Meijer Rokus Awe Due Late Pleistocene Liang Bua Indonesia A giant marabou stork, Ciconiidae.

nov. Nikita V. Zelenkov Evgeny N. Kurochkin Middle Miocene Naran Bulak Formation Mongolia A Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus.

nov. R. Paul Scofield Trevor H. Worthy Alan J. D. Tennyson Early Miocene Bannockburn Formation New Zealand An Ardeidae, the type species of the new genus.

nov. Gerald Mayr Late Oligocene / Early Miocene Mainz Basin Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate A small Psittacidae, the type species of the new genus.

nov. Sara Bertelli Bent E. K. Lindow Gareth J. Dyke Luis M. Chiappe Early Eocene Fur Formation Denmark The type species of the new genus.

nov. Trevor H. Worthy Alan J. D. Tennyson Michael Archer R. Paul Scofield Early Miocene Bannockburn Formation New Zealand A Phoenicopteriformes, Palaelodidae Stejneger, 1885.

nov. Gerald Mayr David Rubilar-Rogers Miocene Bahia Inglesa Formation Chile A Pelagornithidae Fürbringer, 1888 with a large wingspan.

nov. Cécille Mourer-Chauviré Denis Geraads Late Pliocene Casablanca Morocco A Phasianidae, Galliformes, a species of Plioperdix Kretzoi, 1955.

nov. Evgeney N. Kurochkin Gareth J. Dyke Late Paleocene Bumbam Member of the Narabulag Svita Mongolia A Presbyornithidae Wetmore, 1926, Anseriformes.

nov. Late Oligocene / Early Miocene MN 2a, Wiesbaden Formation, Mainz Basin Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate A small Rallidae, the type species of the new genus.

nov. Wang Xuri Jingmai K. O'Connor Zhao Bo Luis M. Chiappe Gao Chunling Cheng Xiaodong Aptian Qiaotou Formation China An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus.

nov. Gerald Mayr Rajendra S. Rana Kenneth D. Rose Ashok Sahni Kishor Kumar Lachham Singh Thierry Smith Early Eocene Ypresian India A Vastanavidae G. Mayr, Rana, Rose, Sahni, Kumar, Sing et T. Smith, 2010, basal Psittaciformes.

Archaeoistiodactylus[125] Valid Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation China An istiodactylid[125] or a poorly preserved specimen of Darwinopterus.

[126] Darwinopterus[127] Valid Oxfordian Tiaojishan Formation China A wukongopterid that was described as a derived rhamphorhynchoid with transitional characters connecting it with pterodactyloids.