This paleomammalogy list records new fossilmammaltaxa that were described during the year 2014, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries and events which occurred during that year.
A mammal of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Originally described as a dryolestidtrechnotherian, but subsequently argued to be a possible member of Meridiolestida.[16] The type species is Lakotalestes luoi.
An afrotherian of uncertain phylogenetic placement, probably related to the clade Paenungulata. With description of new material of O. daouiensis and erection of the monotypic family Ocepeiidae, Ocepeia becomes the oldest known Afrotherian skull and best-known African mammal of the Paleocene.[27]
A sac-winged bat, a species of Vespertiliavus. The species contains two subspecies: Vespertiliavus disjunctus disjunctus and Vespertiliavus disjunctus nauzensis.
An odd-toed ungulate of uncertain phylogenetic placement; considered to be a basal member of the family Equidae by Bai, Wang & Meng (2018).[40] The type species is Ghazijhippus talibhasani.
A hoplitomerycid cervoid (relative of deers), a species of Hoplitomeryx. Mazza et al. (2016) considered the species to be based on dubious body mass calculations and size class scoring.[55]
A hoplitomerycid cervoid (relative of deers), a species of Hoplitomeryx. Mazza et al. (2016) considered the species to be based on dubious body mass calculations and size class scoring.[55]
A hoplitomerycid cervoid (relative of deers), a species of Hoplitomeryx. Mazza et al. (2016) considered the species to be based on dubious body mass calculations and size class scoring.[55]
A hoplitomerycid cervoid (relative of deers). A new genus for "Hoplitomeryx" minutus Mazza & Rustioni, 2011; genus also contains "H." falcidens Mazza & Rustioni, 2011, "H." apulicus Mazza & Rustioni, 2011, "H." apruthiensis Mazza & Rustioni, 2011, "H." magnus Mazza & Rustioni, 2011 and a new species Scontromeryx mazzai. Mazza et al. (2016) considered the genus Scontromeryx to be invalid and the species S. mazzai to be imperfectly defined.[55]
Originally described as a dromomerycine palaeomerycid. The type species is Surameryx acrensis. Gasparini et al. (2021) reinterpreted S. woodburnei as described on the basis of fossils of a deer.[70]
Originally described as a melinemustelid. The type species is Yunnanotherium lufengense; genus also contains "Trochotherium" yuanmouense Zong (1997). The generic name is preoccupied by Yunnanotherium Han (1986); Deshmukh & Valenciano (2022) coined a replacement name Neoyunnanotherium, and reinterpreted is as a member of the family Mephitidae.[101]
A member of Sciuridae. The type species is Comtia bernardi Vianey-Liaud in Vianey-Liaud et al. (2014); genus might also contain "Sciurus" giganteus Freudenberg (1941).
A didolodontid "condylarth"; a replacement name for Paulacoutoia Cifelli, 1983 (preoccupied). The replacement name itself is a junior homonym of Depaulacoutoia Kretzoi & Kretzoi (2000); Mones (2015) coined a new replacement name Ricardocifellia.[142]
A member of Anthracobunidae (a group of placental mammals of uncertain phylogenetic placement; might be stem-perissodactyls or relatives of proboscideans and sirenians). The type species is Obergfellia occidentalis.
A zhelestid. The type species is Zhalmouzia bazhanovi.
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^Wei Dong; Jin-yi Liu; Li-min Zhang; Qin-qi Xu (2014). "The Early Pleistocene water buffalo associated with Gigantopithecus from Chongzuo in southern China". Quaternary International. 354: 86–93. Bibcode:2014QuInt.354...86D. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.054.
^Denis Geraads (2014). "Camelus grattardi, sp. nov., a new camel from the Shungura Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia, and the relationships of African fossil Camelidae (Mammalia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (6): 1481–1485. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34.1481G. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.880447. S2CID83872851.
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^Tao Deng; Shi-Qi Wang; Qin-Qin Shi; Yi-Kun Li; Yu Li (2014). "A new species of Eostyloceros (Cervidae, Artiodactyla) from the Late Miocene of the Linxia Basin in Gansu, China". Zootaxa. 3893 (3): 363–381. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3893.3.3. PMID25544527. S2CID40643492.
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^F. Lihoreau; J.-R. Boisserie; C. Blondel; L. Jacques; A. Likius; H. T. Mackaye; P. Vignaud; M. Brunet (2014). "Description and palaeobiology of a new species of Libycosaurus (Cetartiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of Toros-Menalla, northern Chad". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (7): 761–798. Bibcode:2014JSPal..12..761L. doi:10.1080/14772019.2013.838609. S2CID83652247.
^Bastien Mennecart; Grégoire Métais (2014). "Mosaicomeryx gen. nov., a ruminant mammal from the Oligocene of Europe and the significance of 'gelocids'". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (7): 581–600. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.948505. S2CID56365084.
^Grégoire Métais; Bastien Mennecart; Ghazala Roohi (2017). "A new assemblage of stem pecoran ruminants from the Oligocene Chitarwata Formation, Bugti Hills, Baluchistan, Pakistan: paleoenvironmental and paleobiogeographic implications". Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 136: 40–49. Bibcode:2017JAESc.136...40M. doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.09.009.
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^Mizuki Murakami; Chieko Shimada; Yoshinori Hikida; Yuhji Soeda; Hiromichi Hirano (2014). "Eodelphis kabatensis, a new name for the oldest true dolphin Stenella kabatensis Horikawa, 1977 (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinidae), from the upper Miocene of Japan, and the phylogeny and paleobiogeography of Delphinoidea". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (3): 491–511. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34..491M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.816720. S2CID85210375.
^Mizuki Murakami; Chieko Shimada; Yoshinori Hikida; Yuhji Soeda (2014). "Eodelphinus kabatensis, a replacement name for Eodelphis kabatensis (Cetacea: Delphinoidea: Delphinidae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1261. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34.1261M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.938159. S2CID84059105.
^Michelangelo Bisconti (2014). "Anatomy of a new cetotheriid genus and species from the Miocene of Herentals, Belgium, and the phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographical relationships of Cetotheriidae s.s. (Mammalia, Cetacea, Mysticeti)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (5): 377–395. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.890136. S2CID84554891.
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^Philip D. Gingerich; Henri Cappetta (2014). "A New Archaeocete and Other Marine Mammals (Cetacea and Sirenia) from Lower Middle Eocene Phosphate Deposits of Togo". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (1): 109–129. Bibcode:2014JPal...88..109G. doi:10.1666/13-040. S2CID85915213.
^Robert W. Boessenecker; R. Ewan Fordyce (2014). "A new Eomysticetid (Mammalia: Cetacea) from the Late Oligocene of New Zealand and a re-evaluation of 'Mauicetus' waitakiensis". Papers in Palaeontology. 1 (2): 107–140. doi:10.1002/spp2.1005. S2CID85162637.
^K. K. Tarasenko (2014). "New genera of baleen whales (Cetacea, Mammalia) from the Miocene of the northern Caucasus and Ciscaucasia: 3. Zygiocetus gen. nov. (Middle Sarmatian, Adygea)". Paleontological Journal. 48 (5): 551–562. Bibcode:2014PalJ...48..551T. doi:10.1134/S0031030114050116. S2CID84342193.
^Umakant Bhoopati Deshmukh; Alberto Valenciano (2022). "Neoyunnanotherium nom. nov., a replacement name for the genus Yunnanotherium Qi, 2014 (Carnivora, Mephitidae) non Han, 1986 (Tragulidae)". Zootaxa. 5222 (3): 298–300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5222.3.7. PMID37044523. S2CID254922038.
^Jelle S. Zijlstra; Donald A. McFarlane; Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende; Joyce Lundberg (2014). "New rodents (Cricetidae) from the Neogene of Curaçao and Bonaire, Dutch Antilles". Palaeontology. 57 (5): 895–908. Bibcode:2014Palgy..57..895Z. doi:10.1111/pala.12091. S2CID22539800.
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^Hüseyin Erten; Sevket Sen; Muhi̇tti̇n Görmüş (2014). "Middle and late Miocene Cricetidae (Rodentia, Mammalia) from Denizli Basin (southwestern Turkey) and a new species of Megacricetodon". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (3): 504–518. Bibcode:2014JPal...88..504E. doi:10.1666/13-060. S2CID129824242.
^ abLeonardo Kerber; Elver Luiz Mayer; Ana Maria Ribeiro; Maria Guiomar Vucetich (2014). "Late Quaternary caviomorph rodents (Rodentia: Hystricognathi) from the Serra da Capivara, northeastern Brazil, with description of a new taxon". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 28 (4): 439–458. doi:10.1080/08912963.2014.967766. S2CID85194254.
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^Leonardo F. Machado; Yuri L. R. Leite; Alexandre U. Christoff; Lilian G. Giugliano (2014). "Phylogeny and biogeography of tetralophodont rodents of the tribe Oryzomyini (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae)". Zoologica Scripta. 43 (2): 119–130. doi:10.1111/zsc.12041. S2CID84742911.
^Laurent Marivaux; El Mabrouk Essid; Wissem Marzougui; Hayet Khayati Ammar; Sylvain Adnet; Bernard Marandat; Gilles Merzeraud; Anusha Ramdarshan; Rodolphe Tabuce; Monique Vianey-Liaud; Johan Yans (2014). "A morphological intermediate between eosimiiform and simiiform primates from the late middle Eocene of Tunisia: Macroevolutionary and paleobiogeographic implications of early anthropoids". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 154 (3): 387–401. doi:10.1002/ajpa.22523. PMID24782403.
^Richard C. Fox; Brian D. Rankin; Craig S. Scott; Arthur R. Sweet (2014). "Second known occurrence of the early Paleocene plesiadapiform Pandemonium (Mammalia: Primates), with description of a new species". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 51 (12): 1059–1066. Bibcode:2014CaJES..51.1059F. doi:10.1139/cjes-2014-0113.
^Richard C. Fox; Craig S. Scott; Gregory A. Buckley (2015). "A 'giant' purgatoriid (Plesiadapiformes) from the Paleocene of Montana, USA: mosaic evolution in the earliest primates". Palaeontology. 58 (2): 277–291. Bibcode:2015Palgy..58..277F. doi:10.1111/pala.12141. S2CID129115422.
^ abcBrian D. Rankin (2014). "New pantolestids (Mammalia, Eutheria) from the late Paleocene (late middle Tiffanian) Roche Percée local fauna, southeastern Saskatchewan, Canada". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (6): 1199–1211. Bibcode:2014JPal...88.1199R. doi:10.1666/13-157. S2CID129925253.
^Brian D. Rankin; Patricia A. Holroyd (2014). "Aceroryctes dulcis, a new palaeoryctid (Mammalia, Eutheria) from the early Eocene of the Wasatch Formation of southwestern Wyoming, USA". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 51 (10): 919–926. Bibcode:2014CaJES..51..919R. doi:10.1139/cjes-2014-0101.
^D. A. García-López; M. J. Babot (2014). "Notoungulate faunas of north-western Argentina: new findings of early-diverging forms from the Eocene Geste Formation". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (7): 557–579. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.930527. S2CID85395963.
^Alvaro Mones (2015). "Ricardocifellia, a replacement name for Paulacoutoia Cifelli, 1983, and Depaulacoutoia Cifelli and Ortiz-Jaureguizar, 2014 (Mammalia, 'Condylarthra,' Didolodontidae), and the status of Depaulacoutoia Kretzoi and Kretzoi, 2000 (Mammalia, Australidelphia, Polydolopimorphia)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (5): e973571. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E3571M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.973571. S2CID84044078.
^Floréal Solé; Richard Smith; Tiphaine Coillot; Eric de Bast; Thierry Smith (2014). "Dental and tarsal anatomy of 'Miacis' latouri and a phylogenetic analysis of the earliest carnivoraforms (Mammalia, Carnivoramorpha)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (1): 1–21. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34....1S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.793195. S2CID86207013.
^Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik; Qian Li (2014). "A new genus of stem lagomorph (Mammalia: Glires) from the Middle Eocene of the Erlian Basin, Nei Mongol, China". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 57 (1–2): 29–42. doi:10.3409/azc.57_1-2.29. S2CID54823256.
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^Esperanza Cerdeño; Bárbara Vera (2014). "A new Leontiniidae (Notoungulata) from the Late Oligocene beds of Mendoza Province, Argentina". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 13 (11): 943–962. doi:10.1080/14772019.2014.982727. hdl:11336/59428. S2CID83798693.
^Jaelyn J. Eberle; Natalia Rybczynski; David R. Greenwood (2014). "Early Eocene mammals from the Driftwood Creek beds, Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park, northern British Columbia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (4): 739–746. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34..739E. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.838175. S2CID130316011.