This list of fossilarthropods described in 2017 is a list of new taxa of trilobites, fossil insects, crustaceans, arachnids and other fossil arthropods of every kind that are scheduled to be described during the year 2017, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to arthropod paleontology that are scheduled to occur in the year 2017.
Arachnids
Research
A study on the anatomy of the Carboniferouswhip spiderGraeophonus anglicus, as well as on the phylogenetic relationships of fossil whip spiders, is published by Garwood et al. (2017).[1]
A study on the morphological diversity of fossil species belonging to the family Archaeidae compared with the diversity of extant species is published by Wood (2017).[2]
A member of the family Tetrablemmidae. Genus includes new species B. bizarre, B. nala and B. paranala. Wunderlich & Müller (2020) considered the genus Brignoliblemma to be a junior synonym of the genus Electroblemma, though the authors maintained the three named species as distinct species within the latter genus.[11]
A spider. Originally assigned to the family Deinopidae, but subsequently transferred to the deinopoid family Eodeinopidae.[12] Genus includes new species D. tranquillus.
A deinopoid spider. Originally assigned to the family Burmadictynidae, but subsequently transferred to the family Eodeinopidae.[12] The type species is E. longipes.
A member of the family Tetrablemmidae. Originally described as a possible species of Eogamasomorpha; Wunderlich & Müller (2020) transferred it to the genus Unicornutiblemma.[11]
A member of the family Uloboridae. The type species is F. patellaris. Wunderlich & Müller (2021) subsequently considered Furculoborus to be a junior synonym of the genus Paramiagrammopes, and transferred F. patellaris to the latter genus.[12]
Originally described as a spider belonging to the family Eopsilodercidae. Genus includes new species L. curvatus, L. longicymbium and L. rectus. Wunderlich & Müller (2020) considered the genus Loxoderces to be a junior synonym of the genus Burmorsolus, though the authors maintained the three named species as distinct species within the latter genus.[11]
A planarchaeid palpimanoid spider.[12] Originally described as a species of Planarchaea, but subsequently transferred to the genus Eomysmauchenius.[12]
A member of the family Psilodercidae. Genus includes "Leclercera" longissipes Wunderlich (2012), "Leclercera" spicula Wunderlich (2012), "Leclercera" ellenbergeri Wunderlich (2015) and "Leclercera" sexaculeata Wunderlich (2015), as well as new species P. brevispinae and P. paucispinae.
A member of Dysderoidea belonging to the family Plumorsolidae; a new genus for "Burmorsolus" crassus Wunderlich (2015). Wunderlich & Müller (2020) considered the genus Pseudorsolus to be a junior synonym of the genus Burmorsolus, and transferred its sole species back to the genus Burmorsolus.[11]
A scorpion belonging to the superfamily Buthoidea and the family Palaeoburmesebuthidae. Genus includes new species S. pohli. Xuan, Cai & Huang (2023) considered Spinoburmesebuthus to be a junior synonym of the genus Betaburmesebuthus.[23]
Crustaceans
Research
A study on the identification of sexual morphs and the reproductive system of the Early Cretaceousclam shrimpEosestheria middendorfii is published by Hethke et al. (2017).[24]
A study on the Cretaceous clam shrimp Xibeiestheria pora, identifying new taxonomic features, is published by Li (2017).[25]
A study on the anatomy of two specimens of Urda rostrata from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Germany is published by Nagler, Hyžný & Haug (2017), who interpret this species as the oldest fossil parasitic isopod known to date.[28]
A revision of the genus Eryma is published by Devillez & Charbonnier (2017), who consider the genera Protoclytiopsis Birshtein (1958) and Galicia Garassino & Krobicki (2002) to be junior synonyms of the genus Eryma.[33]
A crab belonging to the family Raninidae and the subfamily Ranininae. The type species is A. ovadaensis; genus also includes "Ranina" berglundi Squires & Demetrion (1992).
A crab belonging to the family Panopeidae. Genus includes new species E. oscensis. Ossó et al. (2020) subsequently transferred E. oscensis to the genus Sculptoplax.[59]
A member of the family Munididae or Munidopsidae.[80] The type species is T. corallina; genus might also include "Faxegalathea" valeccensis Beschin et al. (2016).
A member of Podocopida belonging to the superfamily Bairdioidea and the family Bairdiidae. The type species is E. polyacantha (Kristan-Tollmann, 1978).
A clam shrimp. The type species is P. lianmuqinensis; genus also includes new species P. karamayensis, as well as "Euestheria" trotternishensis Chen & Hudson (1991).
Three specimens of Megistaspis (Ekeraspis) hammondi preserving appendages and digestive tract are described from the Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte (Morocco) by Gutiérrez-Marco et al. (2017).[115]
Digestive structures of two species of Cambrian trilobites from China (Palaeolenus lantenoisi and Redlichia mansuyi) are described by Hopkins et al. (2017).[119]
Remnants of cellular systems are identified in the compound eye of Schmidtiellus reetae from the Cambrian of Estonia by Schoenemann, Pärnaste & Clarkson (2017).[120]
A member of Phacopidae. The type species is A. weugi; genus also includes "Phacops" boudjemaai Khaldi et al. (2016) and "Geesops" fabrei Khaldi et al. (2016).
A subgenus of Illaenus. The type species is Illaenus laticlavius Eichwald (1860); the subgenus also includes I. plautini Holm (1886), I. glabrisculus Jaanusson (1957) and I. incisus Jaanusson (1957).
A subgenus of Illaenus. The type species is "Entomostracites" tauricornis Kutorga (1848); the subgenus also includes I. wahlenbergi (Eichwald, 1825), I. schuberti Nielsen (1995), I. dalmani Volborth (1863) and I. sarsi Jaanusson (1954).
A subgenus of Illaenus. The type species is Illaenus jevensis Holm (1886); the subgenus also includes I. sphaericus Holm (1882) and I. sulcifrons Holm (1886), as well as new species I. dubari.
A subgenus of Illaenus. The type species is "Wossekia" brevispina Krylov (2010); the subgenus also includes Illaenus schmidti Nieszkowski (1857), I. sinuatus Holm (1886) and I. slancyensis Krylov (2016), as well as new species I. kotlukovae and I. volkhovensis.
A member of Phacopida. Genus includes new species L. suffeleersi, as well as "Pedinopariops" simulator Basse (1998) and "Pedinopariops" hoelleri van Viersen, Prescher & Savelsbergh (2009).
A redescription of Utahcaris orion based on a restudy of the original material is published by Legg & Pates (2017).[141]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of Enalikter aphson is published by Parry, Legg & Sutton (2017), who support the original interpretation of the species as an arthropod.[142]
A study on the lateral tail flexibility in the eurypteridSlimonia acuminata based on a new specimen is published by Persons & Acorn (2017).[143][144][145]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of Rhyniognatha hirsti is published by Haug & Haug (2017) who consider this taxon to be more likely a myriapod (possibly a centipede) rather than an insect.[148]
A study on the microstructural details of the cuticle of the concavicarid thylacocephalans from the Devonian (Famennian) of Poland, identifying possible remains of sensory system, is published by Broda & Zatoń (2017).[150]
A review of the research history, distribution, anatomy, ontogeny and inferred mode of life of Agnostus pisiformis is published by Eriksson & Horn (2017), who also present enlarged three-dimensional sculptural models of members of the species.[151]
A restudy of the Burgess Shale arthropod Habelia based on known and new specimens is published by Aria & Caron (2017), who interpret Habelia as a close relative of Sanctacaris uncata and name a new arachnomorph order Habeliida.[152]
^Ivan L. F. Magalhaes; Guilherme H. F. Azevedo; Peter Michalik; Martín J. Ramírez (2020). "The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic". Biological Reviews. 95 (1): 184–217. doi:10.1111/brv.12559. PMID31713947.
^ abWilson R. Lourenço; Andrea Rossi (2017). "Two more new species of Burmese amber scorpions of the family Palaeoburmesebuthidae Lourenço, 2015 (Scorpiones)". Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana. 13: 11–21.
^Wilson R. Lourenço (2017). "A new species of Centruroides Marx, 1890 from Chiapas amber, Mexico (Scorpiones: Buthidae)". Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 30: 100–106.
^Ekaterina A. Sidorchuk; Valerie M. Behan-Pelletier (2017). "Megeremaeus cretaceous new species (Acari: Oribatida), the first oribatid mite from Canadian amber". The Canadian Entomologist. 149 (3): 277–290. doi:10.4039/tce.2017.8. S2CID90314909.
^Chenyang Cai; Diying Huang (2017). "A new genus of whip-scorpions in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber: Earliest fossil record of the extant subfamily Thelyphoninae (Arachnida: Thelyphonida: Thelyphonidae)". Cretaceous Research. 69: 100–105. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.09.004.
^Wilson R. Lourenço; Jürgen Velten (2017). "One more new genus and species of fossil scorpion from Burmese Cretaceous amber belonging to the family Palaeoburmesebuthidae (Scorpiones)". Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana. 13: 2–10.
^Qiang Xuan; Chen-Yang Cai; Di-Ying Huang (2023). "Revision of palaeoburmesebuthid scorpions in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Scorpiones: Buthoidea)". Palaeoentomology. 6 (1): 64–101. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.1.10.
^Manja Hethke; Franz T. Fürsich; Simon Schneider; Baoyu Jiang (2017). "Sex determination of the Early Cretaceous clam shrimp Eosestheria middendorfii (Yixian Formation, China)". Lethaia. 50 (1): 105–121. doi:10.1111/let.12180.
^Gang Li (2017). "Morphological restudy of the type species of Xibeiestheria (Spinicaudata) from the lower Aptian, northwestern China". Cretaceous Research. 80: 31–37. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.08.008.
^Àlex Ossó (2017). "New records of Palaeocorystoidea from the Iberian Peninsula and remarks on the taxonomic significance of the posterior margin of Cenomanocarcinus Van Straelen, 1936 and Hasaracancer Jux, 1971 (Decapoda; Brachyura; Cenomanocarcinidae)". Zootaxa. 4303 (2): 273–283. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4303.2.7.
^Sebastian Klaus; Célio Magalhães; Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi; Martin Gross; Pierre-Olivier Antoine (2017). "Palaeogene and Neogene brachyurans of the Amazon basin: a revised first appearance date for primary freshwater crabs (Brachyura, Trichodactylidae)". Crustaceana. 90 (7–10): 953–967. doi:10.1163/15685403-00003629.
^René H.B. Fraaije; Barry W.M. Van Bakel; John W.M. Jagt (2017). "A new paguroid from the type Maastrichtian (upper Cretaceous, the Netherlands) and erection of a new family". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 188 (3): Article number 17. doi:10.1051/bsgf/2017185.
^Pierre Broly; María de Lourdes Serrano-Sánchez; Sharif Rodríguez-García; Francisco J. Vega (2017). "Fossil evidence of extended brood care in new Miocene Peracarida (Crustacea) from Mexico". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 15 (12): 1037–1049. doi:10.1080/14772019.2016.1266525. S2CID90672089.
^Giovanni Pasini; Alessandro Garassino; Antonio De Angeli (2017). "Asthenognathus alleronensis n. sp. (Decapoda, Brachyura, Varunidae) from the early Pleistocene of Bargiano, Terni (Umbria, central Italy)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 283 (1): 69–71. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0627.
^Matúš Hyžný; Sten Lennart Jakobsen; René H.B. Fraaije (2017). "Reappraisal of the burrowing lobster Axius (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Axiidea) in the fossil record with notes on palaeobiogeography and description of a new species". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 188 (3): Article number 12. doi:10.1051/bsgf/2017175.
^ abKrystyna M. Kornecki; Rodney M. Feldmann; Carrie E. Schweitzer (2017). "Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Coon Creek Formation (Maastrichtian) of Mississippi and Tennessee". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. 53 (6): 269–334. doi:10.58782/flmnh.danf1986.
^Giovanni Pasini; Alessandro Garassino (2017). "Calappa damarcoi n. sp. (Crustacea, Brachyura, Calappidae) from the early Oligocene of the Ligure Piemontese Basin, Piedmont (NW Italy)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 283 (1): 73–76. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0628.
^Antonio De Angeli; Fabio Caporiondo (2017). "Calocarides arzignanensis n. sp., nuovo crostaceo macruro (Decapoda, Axiidea) dell'Eocene medio di cava "Main" di Arzignano (Vicenza, Italia settentrionale)". Lavori – Società Veneziana di Scienze Naturali. 42: 103–110.
^Torrey Nyborg; George E. Phillips; Barry Van Bakel; Francisco J. Vega (2017). "A new genus and species of raninoid crab from the Upper Cretaceous of Mississippi". PalZ. 91 (3): 291–298. doi:10.1007/s12542-017-0373-5. S2CID89733331.
^ abcdeCarrie E. Schweitzer; Rodney M. Feldmann; Barry S. Kues; Elizabeth K. Bridge (2017). "New Decapoda (Axiidea, Anomura, Brachyura) from the Turonian of New Mexico, USA". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 284 (1): 89–115. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0654.
^ abcdefAngela Baldanza; Roberto Bizzarri; Antonio De Angeli; Federico Famiani; Alessandro Garassino; Giovanni Pasini; Francesco Pizzolato (2017). "A distinctive shallow marine crustacean fauna from the early Pleistocene of Poggi Gialli (Tuscany, central Italy): taxonomic inferences and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 286 (1): 35–74. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0685.
^José Luis Martínez-Díaz; Martha Carolina Aguillón-Martínez; Javier Luque; Francisco J. Vega (2017). "Paleocene decapod Crustacea from northeastern Mexico: Additions to biostratigraphy and diversity". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 74: 67–82. Bibcode:2017JSAES..74...67M. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2017.01.005.
^Torrey Nyborg; Alessandro Garassino; Francisco J. Vega (2023). "Validation of Cretalamoha boweni Nyborg & Garassino (Brachyura: Homolidae) from the early Campanian, Upper Cretaceous of British Columbia, Canada". Zootaxa. 5318 (1): 148–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5318.1.8. PMID37518392.
^ abRené H.B. Fraaije; Günter Schweigert; Barry W.M. van Bakel (2017). "New Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) paguroids (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the Swabian Alb, southern Germany". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 285 (1): 117–121. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0673.
^ abNorbert Winkler (2017). "Two new penaeid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata) from the Solnhofen lithographic limestones (Upper Jurassic, southern Germany)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 283 (1): 9–24. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0623.
^ abKrzysztof Broda; Joseph Collette; Petr Budil (2017). "Phyllocarid crustaceans from the Late Devonian of the Kowala quarry (Holy Cross Mountains, central Poland)". Papers in Palaeontology. 4 (1): 67–84. doi:10.1002/spp2.1099.
^Àlex Ossó; José Luis Domínguez; Antonio De Angeli; Fernando A. Ferratges (2020). "First record of Dynomene (Brachyura, Dromioidea) from the Eocene of the Iberian Peninsula and remarks on the generic placement of Eoacantholobulus oscensis (Brachyura, Xanthoidea)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 296 (1–2): 185–192. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2020/0874.
^Claudio Beschin; Antonio De Angeli (2017). "Gli Aethridae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) nel Terziario del Veneto (Italia nordorientale) con descrizione di una nuova specie". Studi e Ricerche - Associazione Amici del Museo - Museo Civico "G. Zannato" Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza). 24: 23–30.
^Torrey Nyborg; Alessandro Garassino; Greg Slak (2017). "Eonomus californianus n. gen., n. sp. (Crustacea, Brachyura, Cymonomidae) from the Eocene Llajas Formation, California (USA)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 286 (2): 189–193. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0694.
^Torrey Nyborg; Alessandro Garassino (2017). "A new genus of slipper lobster (Crustacea: Decapoda: Scyllaridae) from the Eocene of California and Oregon (USA)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 283 (3): 309–316. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0644.
^ abcPeter A. Jell; Jack T. Woods; Alex G. Cook (2017). "Mecochirus Germar (Decapoda: Glypheoidea) in the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 41 (4): 514–523. doi:10.1080/03115518.2017.1318169. S2CID133638267.
^Sylvain Charbonnier; Denis Audo; Alessandro Garassino; Martin Simpson; Raymond Gèze; Dany Azar (2021). "A new species of mecochirid lobster, Meyeria libanotica (Decapoda, Glypheoidea), from the Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of Lebanon". Annales de Paléontologie. 107 (1): Article 102470. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2021.102470. S2CID234137706.
^Michał Krobicki; René H.B. Fraaije (2017). "A new spiny lobster from the Upper Jurassic Štramberk-type limestones of Inwałd, Andrychów Klippen, southern Poland". Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France. 188 (3): Article number 16. doi:10.1051/bsgf/2017179.
^Torrey Nyborg; Alessandro Garassino; Francisco J. Vega (2023). "Validation of Paromola roseburgensis Nyborg & Garassino (Brachyura: Homolidae) from the early Eocene of Oregon, USA". Zootaxa. 5318 (3): 441–442. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5318.3.11. PMID37518368.
^P. Artal; A. Onetti (2017). "Tavernolesia, new genus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura), from the Eocene of the Iberian Peninsula". Batalleria. 24: 6–12.
^Claudio Beschin; Alessandra Busulini; Giuliano Tessier; Roberto Zorzin (2019). "La fauna di crostacei dell'Eocene superiore di Parona di Verona (Italia nordorientale): nuovi ritrovamenti". Bollettino del Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia. 70: 71–142.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqMarie-Béatrice Forel; U. Kagan Tekin; Cengiz Okuyucu; Yavuz Bedi; Alaettin Tuncer; Sylvie Crasquin (2017). "Discovery of a long-term refuge for ostracods (Crustacea) after the end-Permian extinction: a unique Carnian (Late Triassic) fauna from the Mersin Mélange, southern Turkey". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (1): 9–58. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1391342. S2CID134938962.
^ abcdefgJunjun Song; Sylvie Crasquin; Yiming Gong (2017). "Ostracods of the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian transition from Western Junggar, Xinjiang, NW China". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 41 (2): 250–276. doi:10.1080/03115518.2016.1225191. S2CID133536286.
^ abcM.A.B. Santos Filho; G. Fauth; E.K. Piovesan (2017). "Cretaceous ostracods of the Barreirinhas Basin: Taxonomy, biostratigraphic considerations and paleoenvironmental inferences". Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 73: 130–152. Bibcode:2017JSAES..73..130S. doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2016.12.011.
^ abcdefghL. M. Melnikova (2017). "Ordovician ostracods from the Upper Kalar Graben of northern Transbaikalia, Udokan Region". Paleontological Journal. 51 (3): 273–279. doi:10.1134/S0031030117030054. S2CID135015859.
^Tamara T.A. Camilleri; Mark T. Warne; David J. Holloway (2017). "Review and clarification of Bungonibeyrichia Copeland, 1981 (Ostracoda) from the upper Silurian–Lower Devonian of New South Wales, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 41 (3): 397–402. doi:10.1080/03115518.2017.1296190. S2CID133823025.
^ abcdeTatsuhiko Yamaguchi; Hiroki Matsui; Hiroshi Nishi (2017). "Taxonomy of Maastrichtian—Thanetian Deep-Sea Ostracodes from U1407, IODP Exp 342, Off Newfoundland, Northwestern Atlantic, Part 1: Families Cytherellidae, Bairdiidae, Pontocyprididae, Bythocytheridae, and Cytheruridae". Paleontological Research. 21 (1): 54–75. doi:10.2517/2016PR010. S2CID133292712.
^ abYana A. Shurupova; Ekaterina M. Tesakova (2017). "Detailed biostratigraphic scales as based on the palaeobiogenetical approach (an example of the Upper Bajocian – Lower Bathonian ostracod scale of the Russian Platform)". Volumina Jurassica. XV: 121–138. doi:10.5604/01.3001.0010.6074.
^ abcdefMarco Spadi; Elsa Gliozzi; Maria Chiara Medici (2017). "A Plio–Pleistocene Caspiocypris species flock (Candoninae, Ostracoda) from the Palaeolake Tiberino (Umbria, central Italy)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16 (5): 417–434. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1310143. S2CID90969099.
^ abcdeTatsuhiko Yamaguchi; Hiroki Matsui; Hiroshi Nishi (2017). "Taxonomy of Maastrichtian–Thanetian Deep-Sea Ostracodes from U1407, IODP Exp 342, off Newfoundland, Northwestern Atlantic, part 2: Families Eucytheridae, Krithidae, Thaerocytheridae, Trachyleberididae, and Xestoleberididae". Paleontological Research. 21 (2): 97–121. doi:10.2517/2016PR011. S2CID132112791.
^Dietmar Keyser; Frank Friedrich (2017). "An exceptionally well preserved new species of ostracod (Crustacea) with soft parts in Baltic amber". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 29 (1): 53–62. doi:10.1080/08912963.2015.1123554. S2CID86263698.
^Ya-Qiong Wang; Wen-Guang Yang; Yan-Hong Pan; Huan-Yu Liao (2017). "Species of the genus Cypridea Bosquet, 1852 (Ostracoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian and Jiufotang formations of western Liaoning, China". Palaeoworld. 26 (2): 339–351. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2016.04.003.
^ abcdefBlanca Martínez-García; Diego Corrochano; Oier Suárez-Hernando; Byron Solís-Alulima; Aitziber Suárez-Bilbao; Amaia Ordiales; Xabier Murelaga (2017). "Benthic Foraminifera and Ostracoda from middle–upper Miocene sequences of southern Ecuador". Ameghiniana. 54 (2): 177–207. doi:10.5710/AMGH.18.10.2016.2938. S2CID133353018.
^ abcMoriaki Yasuhara; Gene Hunt; Hisayo Okahashi (2017). "Quaternary deep-sea ostracods from the north-western Pacific Ocean: global biogeography and Drake-Passage, Tethyan, Central American and Arctic pathways". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (2): 91–110. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1393019. S2CID133759782.
^ abcdefRenate Matzke-Karasz; María de Lourdes Serrano-Sánchez; Liseth Pérez; Dietmar Keyser; Radovan Pipík; Francisco J. Vega (2017). "Abundant assemblage of Ostracoda (Crustacea) in Mexican Miocene amber sheds light on the evolution of the brackish-water tribe Thalassocypridini". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 31 (2): 65–101. doi:10.1080/08912963.2017.1340471. S2CID90677813.
^Huan-Yu Liao; Yan-Bin Shen; Di-Ying Huang (2017). "Conchostracans of the Middle–Late Jurassic Daohugou and Linglongta beds in NE China". Palaeoworld. 26 (2): 317–330. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2016.11.001.
^Christina Nagler; Joachim T. Haug; Henrik Glenner; John Buckeridge (2017). "Litholepas klausreschi gen. et sp. nov., a new neolepadine barnacle (Cirripedia, Thoracica) on a sponge from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of southern Germany". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 284 (1): 29–42. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0648.
^Gang Li; Kamel Boukhalfa; Xiao Teng; Mohamed Soussi; Walid Ben Ali; Mohamed Ouaja; Yassine Houla (2017). "New Early Cretaceous clam shrimps (Spinicaudata) from uppermost Bouhedma Formation of northern Chotts range, southern Tunisia: Taxonomy, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental implications". Cretaceous Research. 72: 124–133. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.12.014.
^Yan-Zhen Zhang; Gang Li; Xiao Teng; Li-Hong Wang; Xian-Sheng Cheng (2017). "New Jurassic spinicaudatans from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of northwestern China and their evolutionary implications". Palaeoworld. 26 (4): 663–671. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2017.04.004.
^Frank Scholze; Abdalla Abu Hamad; Joerg W. Schneider; Valeriy K. Golubev; Andrey G. Sennikov; Sebastian Voigt; Dieter Uhl (2017). "An enigmatic 'conchostracan' fauna in the eastern Dead Sea region of Jordan: First records of Rossolimnadiopsis Novozhilov from the early Triassic Ma'in formation". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 466: 314–325. Bibcode:2017PPP...466..314S. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.11.047.
^Huanyu Liao; Oscar F. Gallego; Yanbin Shen; Edmund A. Jarzembowski; Diying Huang (2017). "A new afrograptid (Diplostraca: Estheriellina) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England". Cretaceous Research. 71: 79–84. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.11.012. hdl:11336/29663.
^Thomas A. Hegna; Markus J. Martin; Simon A.F. Darroch (2017). "Pyritized in situ trilobite eggs from the Ordovician of New York (Lorraine Group): Implications for trilobite reproductive biology". Geology. 45 (3): 199–202. Bibcode:2017Geo....45..199H. doi:10.1130/G38773.1.
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