2012 in paleontology
[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues.
nov Valid Di Martino & Taylor Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Czech Republic Germany[13] A member of Cheilostomata belonging to the family Pyrisinellidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Strophomenida belonging to the group Plectambonitoidea and the family Sowerbyellidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Orthida belonging to the group Enteletoidea and the family Saukrodictyidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Christianiidae.
nov Valid Jin Late Ordovician United States A dalmanellid brachiopod, with C. multisecta, C. meeki, C. minnesotensis Craspedelia potterella[15] Sp.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Strophomenida belonging to the group Plectambonitoidea and the family Bimuriidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Orthida belonging to the group Plectorthoidea and the family Plectorthidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Strophomenida belonging to the family Rafinesquinidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Orthida belonging to the group Enteletoidea and the family Draboviidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Strophomenida belonging to the group Plectambonitoidea and the family Sowerbyellidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Strophomenida belonging to the group Plectambonitoidea and the family Sowerbyellidae.
nov Valid Rasmussen, Harper & Blodgett Late Ordovician Farewell Terrane United States A member of Strophomenida belonging to the group Plectambonitoidea and the family Sowerbyellidae.
nov Valid Ausich, Wilson & Vinn Silurian (Pridoli) Kaugatuma Formation Estonia A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida.
nov Valid Hearn & Deline Late Ordovician Lexington Limestone United States A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Diplobathra and the family Rhodocrinitidae.
nov Valid Ausich & Roeser Late Kinderhookian Cuyahoga Formation United States A camerate crinoid, a species of Platycrinites sensu lato.
nov Valid Ausich, Wilson & Vinn Silurian (Pridoli) Kaugatuma Formation Estonia A camerate crinoid belonging to the group Monobathrida.
nov Valid Donovan et al. Middle Ordovician (latest Darriwilian) China Probably a stem-group cladid crinoid, possibly a dendrocrinid; a species of Segmentocolumnus.
parva[56] Sp nov Valid Drygant & Szaniawski Early Devonian (late Lochkovian or Pragian) Ivanye Formation Ukraine A spathognathodontid, possibly a species of Pandorinellina.
nov Valid Clack, Ahlberg, Blom & Finney Famennian Celsius Bjerg Group Greenland A stem tetrapod closely related to Ichthyostega.
nov Junior synonym Martín, Alonso-Zarazaga & Sanchiz Eocene Quercy Phosphorites France A replacement name for Rana plicata Filhol (1877).
Valid McKean Early Turonian Tropic Shale United States Originally described as a third species of Dolichorhynchops, Clark, O'Keefe & Slack (2023) later moved it to the distinct genus Scalamagnus.
nov Valid Tong, Danilov, Ye, Ouyang & Peng Middle Jurassic Xiashaximiao Formation China A bashuchelyid cryptodiran, a new genus for "Chengyuchelys" dashanpuensis (Fang, 1987).
nov Valid Pérez-García, Ortega & Murelaga Late Campanian to Maastrichtian France Spain A bothremydid, a new genus for "Elochelys" convenarum (Laurent et al. 2002).
nov Valid Pérez-García & Murelaga Early Cretaceous (late Hauterivian–early Barremian) Pinilla de los Moros Formation Spain A basal member of Pan-Cryptodira (the clade containing living cryptodirans and all extinct turtles that were more closely related to them than to pleurodirans).
Doswellia sixmilensis[163] sp nov Valid Heckert, Lucas & Spielmann Late Triassic Bluewater Creek Formation United States A doswelliid archosauromorph.
nov Valid Valent et al. Middle Cambrian Buchava Formation Czech Republic A member of Hyolitha (a group of animals of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly molluscs), a species of Circotheca.
nov Valid Plusquellec, Tourneur & Fernández-Martínez in Racheboeuf et al. Devonian (Emsian or Eifelian) Belén Formation Bolivia A tabulate coral belonging to the superfamily Pachyporoidea and the family Parastriatoporidae.
nov Valid O'Brien & Caron Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale Canada A stem-bilaterian of uncertain phylogenetic placement, a stalked filter feeder.
nov Valid Woelkerling, Bassi & Iryu Quaternary Reef terraces around Tahiti, French Polynesia A red alga belonging to the family Corallinaceae, a species of Hydrolithon.
