This paleomammalogy list records new fossilmammaltaxa that were described during the year 2015, as well as notes other significant paleomammalogy discoveries and events which occurred during that year.
General research
Description of exceptionally preserved specimens of the pantodont species Alcidedorbignya inopinata and a study of its phylogenetic relationships is published by De Muizon et al. (2015).[1]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the family Nyctitheriidae based on new fossil remains of Plagioctenodon rosei and Plagioctenodon thewisseni is published by Manz et al. (2015).[2]
A study of the phylogenetic relationships of the Pleistocenecamelid genus Camelops, based on genomic data extracted from its bones, is published by Heintzman et al. (2015).[5]
A study on the feeding habits of extant and fossil members of the family Canidae belonging to the tribe Canini, as indicated by skull size and shape, is published by Meloro, Hudson & Hook (2015).[6]
A study on the population dynamics of the cave lion (Panthera spelaea) during the Late Pleistocene is published by Ersmark et al. (2015).[7]
Description of tarsals attributed to Purgatorius and a study on the phylogenetic relationships of this mammal is published by Chester et al. (2015).[8]
A study on the age of the holotype specimen of Darwinius masillae at the time of death and on the life history of the species is published by López-Torres, Schillaci & Silcox (2015).[9]
A study evaluating the evidence of association between extinctions or replacements of large mammals in the Northern Hemisphere in the Late Pleistocene with warming events is published by Cooper et al. (2015).[11]
A felid. The type species is Yoshi garevskii; genus also contains "Metailurus" parvulus (Hensel, 1862) (nomen dubium) and "Metailurus" minor Zdansky, 1924.
An octodontoid caviomorph of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Originally described as a species of Acarechimys;[90] subsequently removed from the genus and transferred to the family Octodontidae by Verzi, Olivares and Morgan (2017).[91]
A caviomorph of uncertain phylogenetic placement. The type species is Leucokephalos zeffiae Vucetich et al. (2015);[90] genus also contains Leucokephalos maior Kramarz, Bond & Arnal (2015).[95]
An ape of uncertain phylogenetic placement. A new genus for "Proconsul" nyanzae Le Gros Clark & Leakey (1950); genus also contains "Proconsul" heseloni Walker et al. (1993).
A species of hominin recovered sometime before 2008 by fishermen working in the Penghu Channel (between the Penghu Islands and mainland Taiwan) and described in 2015 by an international team of Japanese, Taiwanese, and Australian scientists.
Originally described as an ape; Bouchet et al. (2024) subsequently reinterpreted it as a member of Pliopithecoidea belonging to the family Crouzeliidae.[119] The type species is Pliobates cataloniae.
A didolodontid "condylarth"; a replacement name for Paulacoutoia Cifelli, 1983 and Depaulacoutoia Cifelli & Ortiz-Jaureguizar, 2014 (both preoccupied).
^Frido Welker; Matthew J. Collins; Jessica A. Thomas; Marc Wadsley; Selina Brace; Enrico Cappellini; Samuel T. Turvey; Marcelo Reguero; Javier N. Gelfo; Alejandro Kramarz; Joachim Burger; Jane Thomas-Oates; David A. Ashford; Peter D. Ashton; Keri Rowsell; Duncan M. Porter; Benedikt Kessler; Roman Fischer; Carsten Baessmann; Stephanie Kaspar; Jesper V. Olsen; Patrick Kiley; James A. Elliott; Christian D. Kelstrup; Victoria Mullin; Michael Hofreiter; Eske Willerslev; Jean-Jacques Hublin; Ludovic Orlando; Ian Barnes; Ross D. E. MacPhee (2015). "Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin's South American ungulates". Nature. 522 (7554): 81–84. Bibcode:2015Natur.522...81W. doi:10.1038/nature14249. hdl:11336/14769. PMID25799987. S2CID4467386.
^Ascanio D. Rincón; Bruce J. Shockey; Federico Anaya; Andrés Solórzano (2015). "Palaeothentid Marsupials of the Salla Beds of Bolivia (Late Oligocene): Two New Species and Insights into the Post-Eocene Radiation of Palaeothentoids". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (4): 455–471. doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9295-8. S2CID2940122.
^Catalina Suarez; AnalÍa M. Forasiepi; Francisco J. Goin; Carlos Jaramillo (2015). "Insights into the Neotropics Prior to the Great American Biotic Interchange: new evidence of mammalian predators from the Miocene of Northern Colombia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (1): e1029581. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1029581. S2CID86264178.
^Kenny J. Travouillon; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand; Jeanette Muirhead (2015). "Sexually Dimorphic Bandicoots (Marsupialia: Peramelemorphia) From the Oligo-Miocene of Australia, First Cranial Ontogeny for Fossil Bandicoots and New Species Descriptions". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (2): 141–167. doi:10.1007/s10914-014-9271-8. S2CID14643777.
^María Alejandra Abello; Martín de los Reyes; Adriana Magdalena Candela; Francois Pujos; Damián Voglino; Bernardino Mamani Quispe (2015). "Description of a new species of Sparassocynus (Marsupialia: Didelphoidea: Sparassocynidae) from the late Miocene of Jujuy (Argentina) and taxonomic review of Sparassocynus heterotopicus from the Pliocene of Bolivia". Zootaxa. 3937 (1): 147–160. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3937.1.7. hdl:11336/48565. PMID25947465.
^Guillermo W. Rougier; Brian M. Davis; Michael J. Novacek (2015). "A deltatheroidan mammal from the Upper Cretaceous Baynshiree Formation, eastern Mongolia". Cretaceous Research. 52, Part A: 167–177. Bibcode:2015CrRes..52..167R. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2014.09.009.
^Kenny J. Travouillon; Michael Archer; Suzanne J. Hand (2015). "Revision of Wabularoo, an early macropodid kangaroo from mid-Cenozoic deposits of the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, Queensland, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 39 (2): 274–286. Bibcode:2015Alch...39..274T. doi:10.1080/03115518.2015.994115. S2CID83976717.
^Jorge Vélez-Juarbe; Daryl P. Domning (2015). "Fossil Sirenia of the West Atlantic and Caribbean region. XI. Callistosiren boriquensis, gen. et sp. nov". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (1): e885034. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E5034V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.885034. S2CID84600341.
^Athanassios Athanassiou; Victoria Herridge; David S. Reese; George Iliopoulos; Socrates Roussiakis; Vassiliki Mitsopoulou; Efthymios Tsiolakis; George Theodorou (2015). "Cranial evidence for the presence of a second endemic elephant species on Cyprus". Quaternary International. 379: 47–57. Bibcode:2015QuInt.379...47A. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.065.
^ abcPauline M.C. Coster; K. Christopher Beard; Mustafa Salem; Yaowalak Chaimanee; Michel Brunet; Jean-Jacques Jaeger (2015). "A new early Oligocene mammal fauna from the Sirt Basin, central Libya: biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 104: 43–55. Bibcode:2015JAfES.104...43C. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.01.006.
^Suzanne J. Hand; Bernard Sigé; Michael Archer; Gregg F. Gunnell; Nancy B. Simmons (2015). "A New Early Eocene (Ypresian) Bat from Pourcy, Paris Basin, France, with Comments on Patterns of Diversity in the Earliest Chiropterans". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (3): 343–354. doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9286-9. S2CID18267639.
^Valentina V. Rosina (2015). "First Neogene Otonycteris (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) from Ukraine: its biostratigraphic and paleogeographic significance". Palæovertebrata. 39 (1): e2. doi:10.18563/pv.39.1.e2.
^Leonardo Dos Santos Avilla; Camila Bernardes; Dimila Mothé (2015). "A new genus for Onohippidium galushai Macfadden and Skinner, 1979 (Mammalia, Equidae), from the late Hemphillian of North America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (3): e925909. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E5909S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.925909. S2CID84050697.
^ abJean-Albert Remy (2015). "Les Périssodactyles (Mammalia) du gisement Bartonien supérieur de Robiac (Éocène moyen du Gard, Sud de la France)". Palæovertebrata. 39 (1): e3. doi:10.18563/pv.39.1.e3.
^Céline Robinet; Jean Albert Rémy; Yves Laurent; Laure Danilo; Fabrice Lihoreau (2015). "A new genus of Lophiodontidae (Perissodactyla, Mammalia) from the early Eocene of La Borie (Southern France) and the origin of the genus Lophiodon Cuvier, 1822". Geobios. 48 (1): 25–38. Bibcode:2015Geobi..48...25R. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2014.11.003.
^Luca Pandolfi (2015). "Persiatherium rodleri, gen. et sp. nov. (Mammalia, Rhinocerotidae) from the upper Miocene of Maragheh (northwestern Iran)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (1): e1040118. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1040118. S2CID86106116.
^R.L. Bernor; B. Sun; Y. Chen (2015). "Plesiohipparion shanxiense n. sp. from the Early Pleistocene (Nihowanian) of E Shanxi, China". Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 54 (3): 197–210.
^Thierry Smith; Floréal Solé; Pieter Missiaen; Rajendra Rana; Kishor Kumar; Ashok Sahni; Kenneth D. Rose (2015). "First early Eocene tapiroid from India and its implication for the paleobiogeographic origin of perissodactyls". Palæovertebrata. 39 (2): e5. doi:10.18563/pv.39.2.e5.
^ abcStéphane Ducrocq; Mouloud Benammi; Olivier Chavasseau; Yaowalak Chaimanee; Kantapon Suraprasit; Phan dong Pha; Vu le Phuong; Phung van Phach & Jean-jacques Jaeger (2015). "New anthracotheres (Cetartiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Paleogene of northeastern Vietnam: biochronological implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (3): e929139. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E9139D. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.929139. S2CID128991949.
^ abAlexander Averianov; Ekaterina Obraztsova; Igor Danilov; Jianhua Jin (2019). "Anthracotheriid artiodactyl Anthracokeryx and an upper Eocene age for the Youganwo Formation of southern China". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 31 (9): 1115–1122. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1421639. S2CID90645448.
^Jan van der Made & Vesna Dimitrijević (2015). "Eucladoceros montenegrensis n. sp. and other Cervidae from the Lower Pleistocene of Trlica (Montenegro)". Quaternary International. 389: 90–118. Bibcode:2015QuInt.389...90V. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.058.
^Sukuan Hou (2015). "A new species of Euprox (Cervidae, Artiodactyla) from the upper Miocene of the Linxia Basin, Gansu Province, China, with interpretation of its paleoenvironment". Zootaxa. 3911 (1): 43–62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3911.1.2. PMID25661595.
^Ansuya Bhandari; Martin Pickford; Brahma Nand Tiwari (2015). Basal Late Miocene Mammal Fauna from Tapar and Pasuda, Kachchh. Vol. 43. pp. 1–40. ISBN978-3-89937-199-4. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^ abAldo F. Rincon; Jonathan I. Bloch; Bruce J. Macfadden & Carlos A. Jaramillo (2015). "New early Miocene protoceratids (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Panama". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (5): e970688. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E0688R. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.970688. S2CID12659384.
^Elisabeth S. Vrba; Faysal Bibi & August G. Costa (2015). "First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini), Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genus Sivacobus Pilgrim, 1939". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4): e943399. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E3399V. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.943399. S2CID83914701.
^Albert E. Sanders; Jonathan H. Geisler (2015). "A new basal odontocete from the upper Rupelian of South Carolina, U.S.A., with contributions to the systematics of Xenorophus and Mirocetus (Mammalia, Cetacea)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (1): e890107. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E0107S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.890107. S2CID85040115.
^ abPhilip D. Gingerich; Samir Zouhri (2015). "New fauna of archaeocete whales (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Bartonian middle Eocene of southern Morocco". Journal of African Earth Sciences. 111: 273–286. Bibcode:2015JAfES.111..273G. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2015.08.006.
^Cheng-Hsiu Tsai; R. Ewan Fordyce (2015). "The Earliest Gulp-Feeding Mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New Zealand". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (4): 535–560. doi:10.1007/s10914-015-9290-0. S2CID14418707.
^Ana M. Valenzuela-Toro; Nicholas D. Pyenson; Carolina S. Gutstein; Mario E. Suárez (2015). "A new dwarf seal from the late Neogene of South America and the evolution of pinnipeds in the southern hemisphere". Papers in Palaeontology. 2 (1): 101–115. doi:10.1002/spp2.1033. S2CID54082356.
^Robert M. Hunt JR.; Ellen Stepleton (2015). "A skull of the immigrant Eurasian beardog Cynelos (Carnivora, Amphicyonidae) from the early Miocene of southern California". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (1): e891229. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E1229H. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.891229. S2CID129654383.
^Denis Geraads; Michelle S. M. Drapeau; René Bobe; John G. Fleagle (2015). "Vulpes mathisoni, sp. nov., a new fox from the Pliocene Mursi Formation of southern Ethiopia and its contribution to the origin of African foxes". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (4): e943765. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E3765G. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.943765. S2CID83577970.
^Nikolai Spassov; Denis Geraads (2015). "A New Felid from the Late Miocene of the Balkans and the Contents of the Genus Metailurus Zdansky, 1924 (Carnivora, Felidae)". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (1): 45–56. doi:10.1007/s10914-014-9266-5. S2CID14261386.
^ abcdefghijWilliam W. Korth; Joshua X. Samuels (2015). "New Rodent Material from the John Day Formation (Arikareean, Middle Oligocene to Early Miocene) of Oregon". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 83 (1): 19–84. doi:10.2992/007.083.0102. S2CID85780261.
^A. S. Tesakov; A. V. Lopatin (2015). "First record of Mylagaulid rodents (Rodentia, mammalia) from the Miocene of Eastern Siberia (Olkhon island, Baikal Lake, Irkutsk Region, Russia)". Doklady Biological Sciences. 460 (1): 23–26. doi:10.1134/S0012496615010032. PMID25773245. S2CID3023977.
^Hüseyin Erten; Sevket Sen; Enis K. Sagular (2015). "Miocene and early Pleistocene rodents (Mammalia) from Denizli Basin (southwestern Turkey) and a new species of fossil Mus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (1): e1054036. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1054036. S2CID130497550.
^Olivier Maridet; Gudrun Daxner-Höck; Demchig Badamgarav; Ursula B. Göhlich (2015). "The eomyid rodents (Mammalia) from the Oligocene and Miocene of the Valley of Lakes (Central Mongolia)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 89 (2): 207–228. Bibcode:2015PalZ...89..207M. doi:10.1007/s12542-014-0224-6. S2CID128544694.
^Yohannes Haile-Selassie; Luis Gibert; Stephanie M. Melillo; Timothy M. Ryan; Mulugeta Alene; Alan Deino; Naomi E. Levin; Gary Scott; Beverly Z. Saylor (2015). "New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity". Nature. 521 (7553): 483–488. Bibcode:2015Natur.521..483H. doi:10.1038/nature14448. PMID26017448. S2CID4455029.
^Joshua X. Samuels; L. Barry Albright; Theodore J. Fremd (2015). "The last fossil primate in North America, new material of the enigmatic Ekgmowechashala from the Arikareean of Oregon". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 158 (1): 43–54. doi:10.1002/ajpa.22769. PMID26118778.
^Lee R. Berger; John Hawks; Darryl J. de Ruiter; Steven E. Churchill; Peter Schmid; Lucas K. Delezene; Tracy L. Kivell; Heather M. Garvin; Scott A. Williams; Jeremy M. DeSilva; Matthew M. Skinner; Charles M. Musiba; Noel Cameron; Trenton W. Holliday; William Harcourt-Smith; Rebecca R. Ackermann; Markus Bastir; Barry Bogin; Debra Bolter; Juliet Brophy; Zachary D. Cofran; Kimberly A. Congdon; Andrew S. Deane; Mana Dembo; Michelle Drapeau; Marina C. Elliott; Elen M. Feuerriegel; Daniel Garcia-Martinez; David J. Green; Alia Gurtov; Joel D. Irish; Ashley Kruger; Myra F. Laird; Damiano Marchi; Marc R. Meyer; Shahed Nalla; Enquye W. Negash; Caley M. Orr; Davorka Radovcic; Lauren Schroeder; Jill E. Scott; Zachary Throckmorton; Matthew W. Tocheri; Caroline VanSickle; Christopher S. Walker; Pianpian Wei; Bernhard Zipfel (2015). "Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa". eLife. 4: e09560. doi:10.7554/eLife.09560. PMC4559886. PMID26354291.
^Masanaru Takai; Thaung-Htike; Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein; Aung Naing Soe; Maung Maung; Takehisa Tsubamoto; Naoko Egi; Takeshi D. Nishimura; Yuichiro Nishioka (2015). "First discovery of colobine fossils from the Late Miocene/Early Pliocene in central Myanmar". Journal of Human Evolution. 84: 1–15. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.04.003. PMID25978976.
^Raef Minwer-Barakat; Judit Marigó; Salvador Moyà-Solà (2015). "Necrolemur anadoni, a new species of Microchoerinae (Omomyidae, Primates) from the Middle Eocene of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà (Pyrenees, Northeastern Spain)". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 158 (4): 730–744. doi:10.1002/ajpa.22867. PMID26390097.
^ abcRichard C. Fox (2015). "A revision of the Late Cretaceous–Paleocene eutherian mammal Cimolestes Marsh, 1889". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 52 (12): 1137–1149. Bibcode:2015CaJES..52.1137F. doi:10.1139/cjes-2015-0113.
^Lars W. van den Hoek Ostende; Oldrich Fejfar (2015). "All time high: Dimylidae (Eulipotyphla, Mammalia) diversity in the early Miocene locality of Ahníkov 1 (Czech Republic, MN 3)". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 95 (3): 453–464. Bibcode:2015PdPe...95..453V. doi:10.1007/s12549-015-0210-3. S2CID127749211.
^Virginia Deraco; Daniel A. García-López (2015). "A new Eocene Toxodontia (Mammalia, Notoungulata) from northwestern Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (1): e1037884. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.1037884. S2CID86320674.
^Carly L. Manz; Jonathan I. Bloch (2015). "Systematics and Phylogeny of Paleocene-Eocene Nyctitheriidae (Mammalia, Eulipotyphla?) with Description of a new Species from the Late Paleocene of the Clarks Fork Basin, Wyoming, USA". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (3): 307–342. doi:10.1007/s10914-014-9284-3. S2CID15369336.
^Floréal Solé; Jocelyn Falconnet; Dominique Vidalenc (2015). "New fossil Hyaenodonta (Mammalia, Placentalia) from the Ypresian and Lutetian of France and the evolution of the Proviverrinae in southern Europe". Palaeontology. 58 (6): 1049–1072. Bibcode:2015Palgy..58.1049S. doi:10.1111/pala.12198. S2CID131475135.
^ abChiara Angelone; Stanislav Čermák (2015). "Two new species of Prolagus (Lagomorpha, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of Hungary: taxonomy, biochronology, and palaeobiogeography". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 89 (4): 1023–1038. Bibcode:2015PalZ...89.1023A. doi:10.1007/s12542-014-0247-z. S2CID84114380.
^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.
^Brian Lee Beatty; Thomas C. Cockburn (2015). "New insights on the most primitive desmostylian from a partial skeleton of Behemotops (Desmostylia, Mammalia) from Vancouver Island, British Columbia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35 (5): e979939. Bibcode:2015JVPal..35E9939B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2015.979939. S2CID129905948.
^Katie M. McComas; Jaelyn J. Eberle (2015). "A new earliest Paleocene (Puercan) arctocyonid mammal from the Fort Union Formation, Great Divide Basin, Wyoming, and its phylogenetic position among early 'condylarths'". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 14 (6): 445–459. doi:10.1080/14772019.2015.1066886. S2CID127411164.
^Guillermo W. Rougier; Amir S. Sheth; Kenneth Carpenter; Lucas Appella-Guiscafre; Brian M. Davis (2015). "A New Species of Docodon (Mammaliaformes: Docodonta) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation and a Reassessment of Selected Craniodental Characters in Basal Mammaliaforms". Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 22 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1007/s10914-014-9263-8. S2CID15845185.
^ abNao Kusuhashi; Yuan-Qing Wang; Chuan-Kui Li; Xun Jin (2015). "Two new species of Gobiconodon (Mammalia, Eutriconodonta, Gobiconodontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Shahai and Fuxin formations, northeastern China". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 28 (1–2): 14–26. doi:10.1080/08912963.2014.977881. S2CID128731256.
^Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros; Richard C. Fox (2015). "A new tribotherian (Mammalia, Boreosphenida) from the late Santonian to early Campanian upper Milk River Formation, Alberta". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 52 (1): 77–83. Bibcode:2015CaJES..52...77M. doi:10.1139/cjes-2014-0144.