| |||
---|---|---|---|
+... |
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1983.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sp. nov |
valid |
Stockey |
A Pine species |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ensete oregonense[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Manchester & Kress |
A banana species. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen nov |
Valid |
Albrecht |
An astacidean crayfish. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sp. nov |
valid |
Krishna & Emerson |
first new world species of Mastotermes |
|||||
Fam. nov |
jr synonym |
Dlussky |
Stem-ants, jr synonym of Sphecomyrminae (in part) |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen. et. sp. nov |
Jr. synonym |
Duffin & Ward |
Type species is Anachronistes fordi, genus now deemed a junior synonym of Cooleyella |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]
Name | Status | Authors | Country | Image | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adasaurus[9] | |||||
"Changtusaurus"[10] | Nomen nudum. | ||||
Chungkingosaurus[11] | Valid taxon |
|
|
||
"Damalasaurus"[10] | Nomen nudum. | ||||
Enigmosaurus[12] | Valid taxon |
|
|||
Gongbusaurus[11] | Valid taxon |
|
|
||
"Lancanjiangosaurus"[10] | Nomen nudum. | ||||
"Megacervixosaurus"[10] | Nomen nudum. | ||||
"Microdontosaurus"[10] | Nomen nudum. | ||||
"Ngexisaurus"[10] | Nomen nudum. | ||||
Ornatotholus[13] | Possible junior synonym of Stegoceras. | ||||
Quaesitosaurus[14] | Valid taxon |
|
|||
Shamosaurus[15] | Valid taxon |
|
|||
Shunosaurus[11] | Valid taxon |
|
|
||
Stygimoloch[13] | Valid taxon | ||||
Ultrasaurus[16] | Nomen dubium. |
|
|||
Xiaosaurus[17] | Valid taxon |
|
|||
Zizhongosaurus[11] | Valid taxon |
|
|
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Capitonides protractus [18] |
Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Peter Ballmann |
MN 6 |
A Lybiidae |
|||
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga |
Bacia calcária de Itaboraí |
An Opisthodactylidae |
||||
Elaphrocnemus brodkorbi [20] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
MP 16-28 |
An Idiornithidae |
||||
Fluviatilavis [22] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
MP 7 |
Aves incertae sedis[21] pending restudy, this is the type species of the new genus. |
|||
Horezmavis [23] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Lev A. Nessov |
Late Albian |
An Ornithuromorphae Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. |
|||
Idiornis itardiensis [20] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Idiornithidae, moved to Dynamopterus itardiensis in 2013.[24] |
|||||
Judinornis nogontsavensis [23] |
Valid |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Lev A. Nessov L. J. Borkin |
Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian, |
A Hesperornithiformes, Baptornithidae; this is the type species of the new genus. |
|||
Oblitavis insolitus [20] |
Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
An Idiornithidae, transferred to the genus Propelargus insolitus in 2002.[21] |
|||||
Oligostrix rupelensis [25] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Karlheinz Fischer |
A Protostrigidae, type species O. rupelensis |
||||
Valid? |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Gerard F. van Tets |
A Spheniscidae, type species T. hunteri. possibly nomen dubium.[citation needed] |
|||||
Tereingaornis moiseleyi [27] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Ron J. Scarlett |
A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
|
|