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Deutsch2025 in arthropod paleontology
2025 in arthropod paleontology is a list of new arthropod fossil taxa, including arachnids, crustaceans, trilobites, and other arthropods (except insects, which have their own list) that were announced or described, as well as other significant arthropod paleontological discoveries and events which occurred in 2025.
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Chelicerates
[edit]Arachnids
[edit]Amblypygi
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Image |
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| Sp. nov | Valid | Dunlop & Bartel | Miocene (probably Burdigalian) | A species of Phrynus. | ||||
| Nom. nov | Valid | Dunlop & Bartel | Miocene | A species of Phrynus; a replacement name for Phrynus mexicana Poinar & Brown (2004). |
Sarcoptiformes
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sp. nov | Valid | Kolesnikov et al. | A member of Oribatida belonging to the family Pediculochelidae. | |||||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Kolesnikov et al. | Kachin amber | A member of Oribatida belonging to the family Pediculochelidae. |
Scorpiones
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Image |
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| Sp. nov | Valid | Lourenço in Lourenço & Velten | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A scorpion belonging to the superfamily Buthoidea and the family Ananteridae. | |||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Lourenço in Lourenço & Velten | Cretaceous | Kachin amber | A scorpion belonging to the family Protoischnuridae. | |||
| Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Xuan et al. | A member of Buthida of uncertain affinities. The type species is J. longchengi. | |||||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Lourenço & Velten | Cretaceous | Kachin amber |
Scorpion research
[edit]- Xuan et al. (2025) revise scorpions from the family Chaerilobuthidae known from the Cretaceous Kachin amber from Myanmar, reinterpret Chaeriloiurus and Serratochaerilobuthus as junior synonyms of the genus Chaerilobuthus, and rerank the family Chaerilobuthidae itself as a subfamily belonging to the family Pseudochactidae.[7]
Crustaceans
[edit]Malacostracans
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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| Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Wallaard | Miocene | A tanaidacean. The type species is M. mediterraneus. | ||||
| Gen. et comb. nov | Valid | Schweitzer, Feldmann & Findling | A crab belonging to the family Ibericancridae. The type species is "Diaulax" millerae Bishop (1992); genus also includes "Seorsus" kauffmani Feldmann et al. (2013) from the Mancos Shale (New Mexico, United States). |
Malacostracan research
[edit]- Bicknell et al. (2025) study two clusters of Archaeoniscus brodiei from the Berriasian Durlston Formation (United Kingdom), providing new information on the anatomy of the studied isopod.[10]
- Baucon et al. (2025) report the discovery of vertical burrows from a new Carnian site from the Travenanzes Formation (Italy), possibly representing the oldest fossil evidence of true crabs reported to date.[11]
Ostracods
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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| Sp. nov | Sciuto, Baldanza & Reitano | |||||||
| Sp. nov | Sciuto, Baldanza & Reitano | Pliocene | ||||||
| Sp. nov | Sciuto, Baldanza & Reitano | Pliocene | ||||||
| Sp. nov | Sciuto, Baldanza & Reitano | Pliocene | ||||||
| Gen. et comb. nov | Franz, Tesakova & Schweigert | Jurassic | Genus includes "Progonocythere" gublerae Bizon (1958). | |||||
| Sp. nov | Sciuto, Baldanza & Reitano | Pliocene | ||||||
| Nom. nov | Valid | Tesakova | A replacement name for Glyptocythere tuberosa Brand & Malz (1962). | |||||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Kumari & Mahalakshmi in Mahalakshmi, Kumari & Muduli | Published online in 2025, but the issue date is listed as December 2024. | |||||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Kumari & Mahalakshmi in Mahalakshmi, Kumari & Muduli | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) | Jhuran Formation | Published online in 2025, but the issue date is listed as December 2024. | |||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Kumari & Mahalakshmi in Mahalakshmi, Kumari & Muduli | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) | Jhuran Formation | Published online in 2025, but the issue date is listed as December 2024. | |||
| Sp. nov | Sciuto, Baldanza & Reitano | Pliocene | ||||||
| Sp. nov | Sciuto, Baldanza & Reitano | Pliocene | ||||||
| Sp. nov | Sciuto, Baldanza & Reitano | Pliocene |
Ostracod research
[edit]- Wang et al. (2025) revise the ostracod fauna from the Upper Cretaceous Liwaxia and Madongshan formations (China), correlate it with contemporaneous ostracod faunas from China and Mongolia, and assign the genus Liupanshania to the subfamily Cyproidinae in the family Notodromadidae.[16]
Thecostracans
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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| Sp. nov | Valid | Gale & Jagt | Late Cretaceous (Campanian) | A barnacle. |
Thecostracan research
[edit]- Gale & Sadorf (2025) report the discovery of fossil material of Verruca stroemia from the Pliocene strata of the Yorktown Formation (North Carolina, United States), and interpret purported extinct species V. alaskana and V. koikei as junior synonyms of V. stroemia.[18]
Insects
[edit]Trilobites
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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| Gen. et 2 sp. nov | Valid | Adrain | Ordovician (Tremadocian) | A member of the family Bathyuridae. The type species is I. lossoae; genus also includes I. dekosterae from the Fillmore Formation (Utah, United States). | ||||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Van Viersen, Lerouge & Kesselaer | Devonian (Pragian) | A member of the family Odontopleuridae. | ||||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Van Viersen, Lerouge & Kesselaer | Devonian (Pragian) | Ihandar Formation | A member of the family Odontopleuridae. | |||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Van Viersen, Lerouge & Kesselaer | Devonian (Pragian) | Ihandar Formation | A member of the family Odontopleuridae. | |||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Adrain | Ordovician (Tremadocian) | Garden City Formation | A member of the family Bathyuridae. | |||
| Sp. nov | Valid | Adrain | Ordovician (Tremadocian) | Garden City Formation | A member of the family Bathyuridae. |
Trilobite research
[edit]- Crônier, Couette & Laffont (2025) compare the utility of 2D and 3D quantitative analyses for the studies of morphological diversity of phacopid trilobites.[21]
Other arthropods
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | McCoy et al. | Upper Carboniferous (Moscovian) | ( | A probable late surviving member of the Vicissicaudata within Artiopoda. The type species is T. broedeae |  | ||
| Gen. et sp. nov | Collantes & Pereira | A member of Agnostida belonging to the family Weymouthiidae. The type species is T. valverdi. |
- O'Flynn et al. (2025) describe new fossil material of Kuamaia lata from the Cambrian Chiungchussu Formation (China), providing new information on the frontal appendages and number of head segments in members of this species, and interpret the studied fossils as indicating that raptorial frontal appendages, ancestral for Euarthropoda but lost in Artiopoda, evolved secondarily within the artiopod lineage that included K. lata.[24]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Dunlop, J. A.; Bartel, C. (2025). "A new species of fossil Phrynus Lamarck, 1801, from Dominican Republic amber (Amblypygi: Phrynidae)". Zootaxa. 5563 (1): 64–72. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.7.
- ^ a b Kolesnikov, V. B.; Vorontsov, D. D.; Norton, R. A.; Klimov, P. B. (2025). "First fossil evidence of pediculochelid mites: two new species from Middle Cretaceous and Late Eocene amber revealing morphological stasis over at least 99 million years". Acarologia. 65 (1): 67–90. doi:10.24349/uxz4-s4sq.
- ^ Lourenço, W. R.; Velten, J. (2025). "A new species for the genus Archaeoananteroides Lourenço, 2016, fossil scorpion from Burmite (Scorpiones: Buthoidea: Ananteridae)". Faunitaxys. 13 (3): 1–6. doi:10.57800/faunitaxys-13(03).
- ^ Lourenço, W. R.; Velten, J. (2025). "One more new species for the genus Cretaceoushormiops Lourenço, 2018 from Cretaceous Burmite (Scorpiones: Protoischnuridae)". Faunitaxys. 13 (2): 1–6. doi:10.57800/faunitaxys-13(02).
- ^ Xuan, Q.; Cai, C.; Huang, Y.; Huang, D. (2025). "First Mesozoic scorpion from China and its ecological implications". Science Bulletin. doi:10.1016/j.scib.2025.01.035. PMID 39924406.
- ^ Lourenço, W. R.; Velten, J. (2025). "Description of a second species for the genus Serratochaerilobuthus Lourenço, 2024 (Scorpiones: Chaerilobuthidae)". Faunitaxys. 13 (10): 1–6. doi:10.57800/faunitaxys-13(10).
- ^ Xuan, Q.; Prendini, L.; Engel, M. S.; Cai, C.; Huang, D. (2025). "Extinct scorpion family Chaerilobuthidae from Mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber reinterpreted as subfamily of extant family Pseudochactidae (Chelicerata: Scorpiones)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 203 (1). zlae169. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlae169.
- ^ Wallaard, J. J. W. (2025). "Mioapseudes mediterraneus n. gen. et n. sp. (Crustacea, Tanaidacea, Apseudidae), the first Miocene tanaidacean from Cyprus". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen. 313 (2): 189–195. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2025/1229.
- ^ Schweitzer, C. E.; Feldmann, R. M.; Findling, J. (2025). "Ontogenetic morphology changes in a crab assemblage (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Dakoticancroida) from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the Mississippi Embayment, USA". Journal of Paleontology: 1–18. doi:10.1017/jpa.2024.25.
- ^ Bicknell, R. D. C.; Klompmaker, A. A.; Smith, P. M.; Hegna, T. A. (2025). "Exploring the morphology and taphonomy of Archaeoniscus brodiei—a gregarious, Early Cretaceous isopod". The Science of Nature. 112 (2). 16. doi:10.1007/s00114-025-01962-8. PMC 11811265. PMID 39928166.
- ^ Baucon, A.; Avanzini, M.; Neto De Carvalho, C.; Belaústegui, Z.; Preto, N.; Breda, A. (2025). "The earliest evidence of true crabs? Insights on the evolution of Brachyura from an exceptional exposure of Carnian Psilonichnus (Upper Triassic, Braies, Dolomites, Italy)". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 112820. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112820.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Sciuto, F.; Baldanza, A.; Reitano, A. (2025). "Ostracods taxonomic study and other faunistic record from Costa Bausa (Buccheri, Southeastern Sicily)". Revue de Micropaléontologie. 100830. doi:10.1016/j.revmic.2024.100830.
- ^ Franz, M.; Tesakova, E.; Schweigert, G. (2025). "Callovian and Oxfordian ostracoda from Baden-Wuerttemberg, SW-Germany". Palaeontographica Abteilung A. doi:10.1127/pala/2025/0158.
- ^ Tesakova, E. M. (2025). "New Ostracod Genera Bathoniella (Bathonian and Lower Callovian of the East European Platform and Northern Germany) and Parabathoniella (Lower and Middle Bathonian of Scotland). Part 2: Evolution and Biostratigraphy". Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation. 33 (1): 99–113. doi:10.1134/S0869593824700278.
- ^ a b c Mahalakshmi, T.; Kumari, M.; Muduli, G. P. (2025). "Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) Ostracodes from the Jhuran Formation, Mainland Kachchh, Gujarat, India". Paleontological Journal. 58 (11): 1216–1225. doi:10.1134/S0031030124601087.
- ^ Wang, Y.; Choi, B.-D.; Smith, R. J.; Wu, D. (2025). "Application of Ostracoda from the Lower Cretaceous Liupanshan Group at Pingliang (NW China) – Biostratigraphy and palaeoecology". Cretaceous Research. 106079. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2025.106079.
- ^ Gale, A. S.; Jagt, J. W. M. (2025). "A new species of the cirripede genus Proverruca Withers, 1914 (Crustacea, Thoracica) from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of northeastern Belgium". Zootaxa. 5583 (2): 383–390. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5583.2.9.
- ^ Gale, A. S.; Sadorf, E. (2025). "Pliocene distribution of the cirripede Verruca stroemia (O.F. Müller, 1776) and revised definitions of the verrucid genera Verruca, Metaverruca and Priscoverruca (Thoracica, Crustacea)". Acta Geologica Polonica. 75 (1). e39. doi:10.24425/agp.2024.152661.
- ^ a b c Adrain, J. M. (2025). "The Early Ordovician bathyurid trilobites Licnocephala and Ibexocephala". Journal of Paleontology: 1–28. doi:10.1017/jpa.2024.10.
- ^ a b c van Viersen, A. P.; Lerouge, F.; Kesselaer, I. (2025). "New odontopleurine trilobites from the Ihandar Formation (Pragian, Lower Devonian) in the Ma'der Basin, southern Morocco". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie – Abhandlungen. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2025/1242.
- ^ Crônier, C.; Couette, S.; Laffont, R. (2025). "Is 3D, a more accurate quantitative method than 2D, crucial for analyzing disparity patterns in extinct marine arthropods (Trilobita)?". Paleobiology: 1–19. doi:10.1017/pab.2024.44.
- ^ McCoy, Victoria E.; Herrera, Fabiany; Wittry, Jack; Mayer, Paul; Lamsdell, James C. (2025). "A possible vicissicaudatan arthropod from the Late Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte". Geological Magazine. 162: e3. doi:10.1017/S001675682400044X. ISSN 0016-7568.
- ^ Collantes, L.; Pereira, S. (2025). "Toledodiscus valverdi gen. et sp. nov., a new eodiscide trilobite from the upper Marianian (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) of Toledo, Spain". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. doi:10.1080/08912963.2025.2461086.
- ^ O'Flynn, R. J.; Williams, M.; Liu, Y.; Hou, X.; Guo, J.; Edgecombe, G. D. (2025). "The early Cambrian Kuamaia lata, an artiopodan euarthropod with a raptorial frontal appendage". Journal of Paleontology: 1–13. doi:10.1017/jpa.2024.33.