This paleomammalogy list records new fossilmammaltaxa that were described during the year 2012, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries and events which occurred during that year.
A lagostrophine kangaroo. The type species is Tjukuru wellsi.
Eutherians
Research
A phylogenetic analysis of living and fossil members of Carnivoramorpha is published by Michelle Spaulding and John J. Flynn (2012).[9]
A study of fossil giant deers is published by I. A. Vislobokova (2012).[10]
A study of the anatomy of skull and teeth of the proboscideanEritherium azzouzorum is published by Emmanuel Gheerbrant, Baadi Bouya and Mbarek Amaghzaz (2012).[11]
A baleen whale belonging to the family Cetotheriidae. The type species is Kurdalagonus mchedlidzei. Tarasenko & Lopatin (2012) originally assigned the new species K. adygeicus, as well as the species "Cetotherium" maicopicum Spasskii, 1951 to the genus Kurdalagonus as well;[62] however, Gol'din & Startsev (2016) excluded K. adygeicus from the genus and stated that "C." maicopicum requires further research to determine its phylogenetic affinities.[63]
A member of Palaeotheriidae. A new genus for "Anchilophus" dumasi; genus also contains "Anchilophus" radegondensis, "Anchilophus" gaudini (including new subspecies Metanchilophus gaudini fontensis) and "Anchilophus" depereti, as well as new species Metanchilophus castrensis and Metanchilophus chaubeti.
A shrew, a species of Nesiotites. Argued by different authors to be either a probable junior synonym of Nesiotites ponsi[80] or a valid and distinct species.[81]
A peccary. The type species is Waldochoerus bassleri. Gasparini et al. (2021) considered W. bassleri to be a junior synonym of the collared peccary.[104]
A member of Cingulata of uncertain phylogenetic placement, similar to Machlydotherium and Eocoleophorus. The type species is Paleogene (?Eocene) Yuruatherium tropicalis; genus also contains Eocene (Mustersan) "Machlydotherium" intortum Ameghino.
^Leandro C. Gaetano & Guillermo W. Rougier (2012). "First Amphilestid from South America: A Molariform from the Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation, Patagonia, Argentina". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 19 (4): 235–248. doi:10.1007/s10914-012-9194-1. hdl:11336/68489. S2CID16988665.
^Francisco J. Goin; Marcelo F. Tejedor; Laura Chornogubsky; Guillermo M. López; Javier N. Gelfo; Mariano Bond; Michael O. Woodburne; Yamila Gurovich; Marcelo Reguero (2012). "Persistence of a Mesozoic, non-therian mammalian lineage (Gondwanatheria) in the mid-Paleogene of Patagonia". Naturwissenschaften. 99 (6): 449–463. Bibcode:2012NW.....99..449G. doi:10.1007/s00114-012-0919-z. PMID22584426. S2CID14077735.
^Karen H. Black; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand (2012). "New Tertiary koala (Marsupialia, Phascolarctidae) from Riversleigh, Australia, with a revision of phascolarctid phylogenetics, paleoecology, and paleobiodiversity". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (1): 125–138. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.626825. S2CID86152273.
^Thomas E. Williamson; Stephen L. Brusatte; Thomas D. Carr; Anne Weil & Barbara R. Standhardt (2012). "The phylogeny and evolution of Cretaceous–Palaeogene metatherians: cladistic analysis and description of new early Palaeocene specimens from the Nacimiento Formation, New Mexico". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (4): 625–651. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.631592. S2CID83996185.
^Gavin J. Prideaux; Richard H. Tedford (2012). "Tjukuru wellsi, gen. et sp. nov., a lagostrophine kangaroo (Diprotodontia, Macropodidae) from the Pliocene (Tirarian) of northern South Australia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 717–721. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.652323. S2CID84569000.
^Michelle Spaulding & John J. Flynn (2012). "Phylogeny of the Carnivoramorpha: The impact of postcranial characters". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (4): 653–677. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.630681. S2CID83695399.
^I. A. Vislobokova (2012). "Giant deer: Origin, evolution, role in the biosphere". Paleontological Journal. 46 (7): 643–775. doi:10.1134/S0031030112070027. S2CID85385952.
^ abAldo F. Rincon; Jonathan I. Bloch; Catalina Suarez; Bruce J. MacFadden; Carlos A. Jaramillo (2012). "New floridatragulines (Mammalia, Camelidae) from the early Miocene Las Cascadas Formation, Panama". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 456–475. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.635736. S2CID85984250.
^Yukimitsu Tomida (2012). "New Species of Alloptox (Lagomorpha, Ochotonidae), First Record of the Genus in Japan, and Subgeneric Distinction". Paleontological Research. 16 (1): 19–25. doi:10.2517/1342-8144-16.1.019. S2CID86696886.
^George Dimitrios Koufos (2012). "New material of Chalicotheriidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Axios Valley, Macedonia (Greece) with the description of a new species". Annales de Paléontologie. 98 (3): 203–224. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2012.06.002.
^ abMizuki Murakami; Chieko Shimada; Yoshinori Hikida & Hiromichi Hirano (2012). "Two new extinct basal phocoenids (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea), from the upper Miocene Koetoi Formation of Japan and their phylogenetic significance". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (5): 1172–1185. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.694337. S2CID84268028.
^ abcdefHelder Gomes Rodrigues; Laurent Marivaux; Monique Vianey-Liaud (2012). "The Cricetidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the Ulantatal area (Inner Mongolia, China): New data concerning the evolution of Asian cricetids during the Oligocene". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 56: 160–179. Bibcode:2012JAESc..56..160G. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.05.007.
^David M. Alba; Salvador Moyà-Solà (2012). "A new pliopithecid genus (Primates: Pliopithecoidea) from Castell de Barberà (Vallès-Penedès Basin, Catalonia, Spain)". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 147 (1): 88–112. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21630. PMID22101732.
^Gregg F. Gunnell (2012). "New Uintasoricine (?Primates, Plesiadapiformes) from the Earliest Bridgerian, Latest Early Eocene of Wyoming". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (6): 973–978. doi:10.1666/12-022R.1. S2CID129858182.
^Jorge Vélez-Juarbe; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2012). "Bohaskaia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 476–484. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.641705. S2CID55606151.
^Thomas E. Williamson; Thomas D. Carr (2012). "Bomburodon, A New Name for the Paleocene Mammal Bomburia Van Valen, 1978". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (3): 567. doi:10.1666/12-013.1. S2CID129558800.
^María Encarnación Pérez; Marcelo Krause; María Guiomar Vucetich (2012). "A new species of Chubutomys (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the late Oligocene of Patagonia and its implications on the early evolutionary history of Cavioidea sensu stricto". Geobios. 45 (6): 573–580. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2012.06.001.
^ abcRobert J. Emry; William W. Korth (2012). "Early Chadronian (late Eocene) rodents from the Flagstaff Rim area, central Wyoming". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 419–432. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.649329. S2CID128773831.
^J. Tyler Faith; Richard Potts; Thomas W. Plummer; Laura C. Bishop; Curtis W. Marean; Christian A. Tryon (2012). "New perspectives on middle Pleistocene change in the large mammal faunas of East Africa: Damaliscus hypsodon sp. nov. (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lainyamok, Kenya". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 361–362: 84–93. Bibcode:2012PPP...361...84F. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.005.
^ abStephen G. B. Chester & K. Christopher Beard (2012). "New Micromomyid Plesiadapiforms (Mammalia, Euarchonta) from the Late Paleocene of Big Multi Quarry, Washakie Basin, Wyoming". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 80 (2): 159–172. doi:10.2992/007.080.0204. S2CID84338884.
^ abIyad S. Zalmout; Philip D. Gingerich (2012). "Late Eocene Sea Cows (Mammalia, Sirenia) From Wadi Al Hitan In The Western Desert of Fayum, Egypt". University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology. 37: 1–158. hdl:2027.42/94568.
^ abRodolphe Tabuce; Jean-Jacques Jaeger; Laurent Marivaux; Mustapha Salem; Awad Abolhassan Bilal; Mouloud Benammi; Yaowalak Chaimanee; Pauline Coster; Bernard Marandat; Xavier Valentin; Michel Brunet (2012). "New stem elephant-shrews (Mammalia, Macroscelidea) from the Eocene of Dur At-Talah, Libya". Palaeontology. 55 (5): 945–955. Bibcode:2012Palgy..55..945T. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01163.x. S2CID86687336.
^ abRosina, Valentina V.; Semenov, Yuriy A. (2012). "New taxa of vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Ukraine". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 264 (3): 191–203. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2012/0236.
^ abGregg F. Gunnell; Philip D. Gingerich; Jonathan I. Bloch; William C. Clyde (2012). "Sulaimanius, gen. nov., and Indusomys, gen. nov., replacement names for Sulaimania and Indusius Gunnell, Gingerich, Ul-Haw, Bloch, Kahn, and Clyde, 2008, preoccupied names". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (4): 975. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..975G. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.670180. S2CID84428644.
^ abK. K. Tarasenko; A. V. Lopatin (2012). "New baleen whale genera (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the miocene of the northern Caucasus and Ciscaucasia: 1. Kurdalagonus gen. nov. from the middle-late Sarmatian of Adygea". Paleontological Journal. 46 (5): 531–542. doi:10.1134/S0031030112050115. S2CID85334152.
^Pavel Gol'din; Dmitry Startsev (2016). "A systematic review of cetothere baleen whales (Cetacea, Cetotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of Crimea and Caucasus, with a new genus". Papers in Palaeontology. 3: 49–68. doi:10.1002/spp2.1066. S2CID88690543.
^Emmanuel Gheerbrant & Humberto Astibia (2012). "Addition to the Late Cretaceous Laño mammal faunule (Spain) and to the knowledge of European "Zhelestidae" (Lainodontinae nov.)". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 183 (6): 537–546. doi:10.2113/gssgfbull.183.6.537.
^ abcdeKenneth D. Rose; Amy E. Chew; Rachel H. Dunn; Mary J. Kraus; Henry C. Fricke; Shawn P. Zack (2012). "Earliest Eocene mammalian fauna from the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Sand Creek Divide, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming". University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology. 36: 1–122. hdl:2027.42/89881.
^Samuel T. Turvey; Selina Brace; Marcelo Weksler (2012). "A new species of recently extinct rice rat (Megalomys) from Barbados". Mammalian Biology - Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde. 77 (6): 404–413. doi:10.1016/j.mambio.2012.03.005.
^Jonathan H. Geisler; Stephen J. Godfrey; Olivier Lambert (2012). "A new genus and species of late Miocene inioid (Cetacea, Odontoceti) from the Meherrin River, North Carolina, U.S.A.". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (1): 198–211. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..198G. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.629016. S2CID85886880.
^Floréal Solé (2013). "New proviverrine genus from the Early Eocene of Europe and the first phylogeny of Late Palaeocene–Middle Eocene hyaenodontidans (Mammalia)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (4): 375–398. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.686927. S2CID84734979.
^ abPauline Coster; Mouloud Benammi; Mustafa Salem; Awad Abolhassan Bilal; Yaowalak Chaimanee; Xavier Valentin; Michel Brunet; Jean-Jacques Jaeger (2012). "New Hystricognathous Rodents from the Early Oligocene of Central Libya (Zallah Oasis, Sahara Desert): Systematic, Phylogenetic, and Biochronologic Implications". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 80 (3): 239–259. doi:10.2992/007.080.0304. S2CID129328649.
^Erik R. Seiffert; Sobhi Nasir; Abdulrahman Al-Harthy; Joseph R. Groenke; Brian P. Kraatz; Nancy J. Stevens; Abdul Razak Al-Sayigh (2012). "Diversity in the later Paleogene proboscidean radiation: a small barytheriid from the Oligocene of Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman". Naturwissenschaften. 99 (2): 133–141. Bibcode:2012NW.....99..133S. doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0878-9. PMID22230880. S2CID7864573.
^ abMartín Ricardo Ciancio; Alfredo A. Carlini; Kenneth E. Campbell; Gustavo J. Scillato-Yané (2013). "New Palaeogene cingulates (Mammalia, Xenarthra) from Santa Rosa, Perú and their importance in the context of South American faunas". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (6): 727–741. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.704949. hdl:11336/23283. S2CID86574213.
^Mary T. Silcox; Thomas E. Williamson (2012). "New discoveries of early Paleocene (Torrejonian) primates from the Nacimiento Formation, San Juan Basin, New Mexico". Journal of Human Evolution. 63 (6): 805–833. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.09.002. PMID23084622.
^Donald R. Prothero & Jessica Grenader (2012). "A New Primitive Species of the Flat-Headed Peccary Platygonus (Tayassuidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of the High Plains". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (6): 1021–1031. Bibcode:2012JPal...86.1021P. doi:10.1666/12-050R.1. S2CID128776045.
^Esperanza Cerdeño; Bárbara Vera; Gabriela Inés Schmidt; François Pujos; Bernardino Mamaní Quispe (2012). "An almost complete skeleton of a new Mesotheriidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Miocene of Casira, Bolivia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (2): 341–360. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.569576. hdl:11336/60297. S2CID85749884.
^ abManuel J. Salesa; Mauricio Antón; Jorge Morales; Stéphane Peigné (2012). "Systematics and phylogeny of the small felines (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Late Miocene of Europe: a new species of Felinae from the Vallesian of Batallones (MN 10, Madrid, Spain)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 10 (1): 87–102. doi:10.1080/14772019.2011.566584. S2CID84912711.
^George D. Koufos (2012). "A new protictithere from the late Miocene hominoid locality Ravin de la Pluie of Axios Valley (Macedonia, Greece)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 86 (2): 219–229. doi:10.1007/s12542-011-0126-9. S2CID129434416.
^Raef Minwer-Barakat; Judit Marigó; Salvador Moyà-Solà (2012). "Pseudoloris cuestai, a new microchoerine (Primates, Omomyidae) from the middle Eocene of the Iberian Peninsula". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (2): 407–418. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..407M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.643330. S2CID130216501.
^Mizuki Murakami; Chieko Shimada; Yoshinori Hikida & Hiromichi Hirano (2012). "A new basal porpoise, Pterophocaena nishinoi (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea), from the upper Miocene of Japan and its phylogenetic relationships". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (5): 1157–1171. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32.1157M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.677299. S2CID86825231.
^Claudia M. Herrera; Jaime E. Powell; Cecilia Del Papa (2012). "Un Nuevo Dasypodidae (Mammalia, Xenarthra) de la Formación Casa Grande (Eoceno) de la Provincia de Jujuy, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 49 (2): 267–271. doi:10.5710/AMGH.v49i2(502). hdl:11336/137610. S2CID130246829.
^Manuel J. Salesa; Gema Siliceo; Mauricio Antón; Stéphane Peigné; Jorge Morales (2019). "Functional and systematic implications of the postcranial anatomy of a late Miocene feline (Carnivora, Felidae) from Batallones-1 (Madrid, Spain)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 26 (1): 101–131. doi:10.1007/s10914-017-9414-9. hdl:10261/225344. S2CID19719645.
^ abCarl David Frailey & Kenneth E. Campbell Jr. (2012). "Two New Genera of Peccaries (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Tayassuidae) from Upper Miocene Deposits of the Amazon Basin". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (5): 852–877. Bibcode:2012JPal...86..852F. doi:10.1666/12-012.1. S2CID85961848.
^Paul E. Morse; Stephen G.B. Chester; Doug M. Boyer; Thierry Smith; Richard Smith; Paul Gigase; Jonathan I. Bloch (2019). "New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America". Journal of Human Evolution. 128: 103–131. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.08.005. PMID30497682. S2CID54167483.
^Jordi Agusti; Pere Bover; Josep Antoni Alcover (2012). "A new genus of endemic cricetid (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Neogene of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 722–726. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..722A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.652322. S2CID85814789.
^Laurent Marivaux; Fabrice Lihoreau; Fredrick Kyalo Manthi; Stéphane Ducrocq (2012). "A new basal phiomorph (Rodentia, Hystricognathi) from the late Oligocene of Lokone (Turkana Basin, Kenya)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32 (3): 646–657. Bibcode:2012JVPal..32..646M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.657318. S2CID130994065.
^Robert L. Anemone; Mary R. Dawson; K. Christopher Beard (2012). "The Early Eocene Rodent Tuscahomys (Cylindrodontidae) from the Great Divide Basin, Wyoming: Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Paleoecology". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 80 (3): 187–205. doi:10.2992/007.080.0302. S2CID84115747.
^K. K. Tarasenko; A. V. Lopatin (2012). "New baleen whale genera (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the Miocene of the northern Caucasus and Ciscaucasia: 2. Vampalus gen. nov. from the Middle-Late Miocene of Chechnya and Krasnodar Region". Paleontological Journal. 46 (6): 620–629. doi:10.1134/S003103011206010X. S2CID85122480.
^Geraads, D.; McCrossin, M.; Benefit, B. (2012). "A New Rhinoceros, Victoriaceros kenyensis gen. et sp. nov., and Other Perissodactyla from the Middle Miocene of Maboko, Kenya". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 19 (1): 57–75. doi:10.1007/s10914-011-9183-9. S2CID1547306.