2010 in arthropod paleontology

This list of fossil arthropods described in 2010 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods of every kind that have been described during the year 2010. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.

List of years in arthropod paleontology
In paleontology
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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In science
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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In reptile paleontology
2007
2008
2009
2010
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In paleobotany
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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In paleoentomology
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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In paleomalacology
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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In archosaur paleontology
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
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In mammal paleontology
2007
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In paleoichthyology
2007
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Dinocaridida

Newly named Dinocaridids
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Amplectobelua stephenensis[1]

Sp nov

Valid

Daley & Budd

Middle Cambrian

Burgess Shale Formation

 Canada

A radiodont

Amplectobelua stephenensis (frontal appendage)

Caryosyntrips[1]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Daley & Budd

Middle Cambrian

Burgess Shale Formation

 Canada

A radiodont, type species C. serratus

Caryosyntrips serratus (frontal appendage)

Tamisiocaris[2][3]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Daley & Peel

Cambrian

Buen Formation
Kinzers Formation[4]

 Greenland
 United States[4]

A suspension-feeding radiodont.[3] The type species is T. borealis

Tamisiocaris borealis (frontal appendage)

Newly named crustaceans

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Aciculopoda[5]

Fam, gen et Sp nov

Valid

Feldmann & Schweitzer

Devonian

 USA

Oldest known shrimp.

Chenops[6]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Hegna & Ren

Barremian

Yixian Formation

 China

A notostracan

Jeholops[6]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Hegna & Ren

Barremian

Yixian Formation

 China

A notostracan

Jeholops (left)

Nasunaris[7]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Siveter, Briggs, Siveter, & Sutton

Silurian

 UK

An ostracod

Newly named insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Bohemiatupus elegans[14]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Prokop & Nel

Westphalian

Kladno Formation

 Czech Republic

Camptoneurites soyanensis[15]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui

Kazanian

Soyana locality

 Russia

A Notopteran

Cantabroraphidia[16]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Pérez-de la Fuente, Nel,
Peñalver, & Delclòs

Albian

Las Peñosas Formation, Cave of El Soplao

 Spain

A mesoraphidiid snakefly;
The type species is C. marcanoi

Cascopleciidae[17]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Poinar

Early Cretaceous

Burmese amber

 Myanmar

A flower-visiting Bibionomorpha fly.
Type genus Cascoplecia, type species C. insolitis

Crepidodera decolorata[18]

sp nov

Valid

Nadein & Perkovsky

Late Eocene

Rovno amber

 Ukraine

A flea beetle

Deinodryinus? aptianus[19]

sp nov

Valid

Olmi, Rasnitsyn, & Guglielmino

Aptian

Khurilt rock unit

 Mongolia

A dryinid wasp.

Ektatotricha[20]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi

Middle Cretaceous

Burmese amber

 Myanmar

Electroatopos[20]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi

Middle Cretaceous

Burmese amber

 Myanmar

Epiaeschna pseudoheros[21]

Sp nov

valid

Nel & Petrulevicius

Chattian

Les Figons

 France

An Aeshnid dragonfly

Epiaeschna pseudoheros

Holcorpa dillhoffi[22]

sp nov

valid

Archibald

Ypresian

McAbee fossil site

 Canada

A holcorpid scorpionfly

Iberoevania[23]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Peñalver, Ortega-Blanco, Nel, & Delclòs

Early Cretaceous

Amber

 Spain

An evaniid

Jerseyempheria[24]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Azar, Nel, & Petrulevicius

Cretaceous

New Jersey amber

 USA

A empheriid psocodean

Kachinus[20]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Chatzimanolis, Engel, Newton, & Grimaldi

Middle Cretaceous

Burmese amber

 Myanmar

Lichnomesopsyche[25]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Ren, Labandeira, & Shih

Middle Jurassic

Jiulongshan Formation

 China

A mesopsychid mecopteran

Limnoxenus olenus[26]

Sp nov

Valid

Fikacek, Prokop, & Nel

Chattian

Niveau du gypse d'Aix Formation

 France

A water scavenger beetle

Limnoxenus olenus

Manobiomorpha[18]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Nadein & Perkovsky

Late Eocene

Rovno amber

 Ukraine

A flea beetle

Mendozachorista[9]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Brauckmann, Gallego, Hauschke,
Martins-Neto, Groening, Ilger, & Lara

Late Triassic

Llantenes Formation

 Argentina

The species is M. volkheimeri

Mesokristensenia[10]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Huang, Nel, & Minet

Middle Jurassic

Daohugou Beds

 China

Microcostaphron[8]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs

Early Cretaceous

Álava amber

 Spain

The species is M. parvus

Nylanderia pygmaea[27]

Comb nov

Valid

(Mayr)

Middle Eocene

European amber

 Europe

A formicine ant,
new combination for Paratrechina pygmaea

Paleophaedon[18]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Nadein & Perkovsky

Late Eocene

Rovno amber

 Ukraine

A chrysomeline leaf beetle

Parazila[11]

gen et sp nov

Synonymized

Vršanský, Ren, & Shih

Late Jurassic

 Russia

A fly

Psyllototus[18]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Nadein & Perkovsky

Late Eocene

Rovno amber

 Ukraine

A flea beetle

Radiophron[8]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, & Delclòs

Early Cretaceous

Álava amber

 Spain

The species is R. ibericus

Raptorapax[28]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Petrulevicius, Azar, & Nel

Early Cretaceous

Amber

 Lebanon

A rhachiberothid lacewing

Sociala[12]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Vršanský

Albian

Amber

 France

A cockroach

Sapho legrandi[21]

Sp nov

valid

Nel & Petrulevicius

Chattian

Les Figons

 France

A Calopterygid damselfly

Sapho legrandi

Tyulkinia[15]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Aristov, Storozhenko, & Cui

Kungurian

Tyulkino locality

 Russia

A Notopteran

Vitimopsyche kozlovi[25]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Ren, Labandeira, & Shih

Early Cretaceous

Jehol Biota

 China

A mesopsychid mecopteran

Vosila[11]

fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Vršanský, Ren, & Shih

Middle Jurassic

 China

A fly

Weiwoboa[13]

Fam, gen et sp nov

Valid

Lin, Szwedo, Huang, & Stroiński

Lower Eocene

 China

Newly named spiders

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Eoplectreurys[29]

Valid

  • Selden
  • Huang

Middle Jurassic

Daohugou Beds

The oldest known haplogyne spider.

Trilobites

Newly named trilobites
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Pseudocybele paranasuta[30]

Sp nov

Valid

McAdams & Adrain

Early Ordovician

Fillmore Limestone

 United States

A member of the family Pliomeridae.

Notes

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    13. Lin Qibin; Jacek Szwedo; Huang Diying; Adam Stroiński (2010). "Weiwoboidae fam. nov. of 'Higher' Fulgoroidea (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) from the Eocene Deposits of Yunnan, China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 751–755. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00263.x.
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    18. Konstantin Nadein; Evgeny Perkovsky (2010). "New Taxa of Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Rovno Amber, Late Eocene". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 772–782. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00259.x.
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    20. Stylianos Chatzimanolis; Michael S. Engel; Alfred F. Newton; David A. Grimaldi (2010). "New ant-like stone beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera:Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)". Cretaceous Research. 31 (1): 77–84. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2009.09.009.
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    23. Enrique Peñalver; Jaime Ortega-Blanco; André Nel; Xavier Delclòs (2010). "Mesozoic Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Spanish Amber: Reanalysis of the Phylogeny of the Evanioidea". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 809–827. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00257.x.
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    28. Julian F. Petrulevicius; Dany Azar; André Nel (2010). "A New Thorny Lacewing (Insecta: Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae) from the Early Cretaceous Amber of Lebanon". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 84 (4): 828–833. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00242.x.
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