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Revision as of 03:47, 16 March 2014

List of years in paleontology (table)
In science
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
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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 2004.

Protozoa

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Valid
  • Poinar & Poinar
 Albian Burmese amber, Myanmar  Myanmar Oldest record of the protozoan family Trypanosomatidae

Fungi

newly named

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Appianoporites[3]

Valid

  • Smith
  • Currah
  • Stockey

Eocene

Appian Way Flora.

 Canada

Extinct bracket fungus

Quatsinoporites[3]

Valid

  • Smith
  • Currah
  • Stockey

Barremian (Cretaceous)

Longarm Formation.

 Canada

Extinct bracket fungus.

Plants

newly named

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Neviusia dunthornei[4]

Valid

  • DeVore
  • Moore
  • Pigg
  • Wehr

Ypresian (Early Eocene)

Allenby Formation.

 Canada

oldest and only extinct species of Neviusia

Arthropoda

newly named arachnids

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

?Anyphops cortex[5]

sp nov

jr synonym[6]

Wunderlich

Unknown

Madagascar copal

 Madagascar

jr Synonym of Garcorops jadis

Garcorops jadis[7]

sp nov

Valid

Bosselaers

Unknown

Madagascar copal

 Madagascar

Possibly extant, but copal age is not determined

Newly named insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Afromyrma[8]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Dlussky, Brothers & Rasnitsyn

Turonian

 Botswana

A Myrmicin ant, type species A. petrosa

Afropone[8]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Dlussky, Brothers & Rasnitsyn

Turonian

 Botswana

A ponerin ant, two species

Microberotha[9]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Archibald

Ypresian

Hat Creek Amber

 Canada

A Berothid lacewing

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[10]

Name Status Authors Notes Images
"Astrodontaurus"[11] Junior synonym of Astrodon

Johnston vide:

  • Kranz
Huaxiagnathus
Huaxiagnathus
Huaxiagnathus
Rugops
Atrociraptor[12] Valid taxon
  • Currie
  • Varricchio
Bissektipelta[13] Valid taxon
  • Parish
  • Barrett
Bonatitan[14] Valid taxon
  • Martinelli
  • Forasiepi
Bonitasaura[15] Valid taxon
  • Apesteguía
Borealosaurus[16] Valid taxon
  • You
  • Ji Q.
  • Lamanna
  • Li J.
  • Li Y. X.
Dilong[17] Valid taxon
  • Wang X.
  • Zhao Q.
  • Jia C.
Ekrixinatosaurus[18] Valid taxon
  • Calvo
  • Rubilar-Rogers
  • Moreno
Graciliraptor[19] Valid taxon
  • Wang X.
Huaxiagnathus[20] Valid taxon
  • Ji Q.
  • Gao K.
Kerberosaurus[21] Valid taxon
  • Bolotsky
  • Godefroit
Limaysaurus[22] Valid taxon
  • Salgado
  • Garrido
  • S. E. Cocca
  • J. R. Cocca
Mei[23] Valid taxon
Mirischia[24] Valid taxon
  • Frey
"Nemegtia"[25] Preoccupied name. Renamed Nemegtomaia.
  • Lü
  • Tomida
  • Azuma
Otogosaurus Valid taxon
  • Zhao X.
  • Tan L.
Prenoceratops[26] Valid taxon
  • Chinnery
Rugops[27] Valid taxon
  • Conrad
Sinusonasus[28] Valid taxon
  • Wang X.
Spinostropheus[27] Valid taxon
  • Conrad
Suuwassea[29] Valid taxon
  • Harris
Talenkauen[30] Valid taxon
  • Novas
  • Cambiaso
  • Ambrosio
Tazoudasaurus[31] Valid taxon
  • Allain
  • Aquesbi
  • Dejax
  • C. Meyer
  • Monbaron
Unaysaurus[32] Valid taxon
  • Leal
  • Azevedo
  • Kellner
  • Da Rosa

Other archosauromorphs

Name Status Authors Notes Images
"Crosbysaurus"[33] Valid non-dinosaurian taxon.
"Protecovasaurus"[34] Valid non-dinosaurian taxon.
  • Heckert

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes

Plesiopterys

Valid

O'Keefe

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Avgodectes

Valid

Peters

Early Cretaceous

Yixian Formation

 China

A pterosaur hatchling.

Cacibupteryx

Valid

Gasparini Fernández de la Fuente

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

Jagua Formation

 Cuba

A rhamphorhynchid.

"Daitingopterus"

Valid

Maisch Matzke Ge Sun

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

Solnhofen Limestone

 Germany

A germanodactylid.

Lonchognathosaurus

Valid

Maisch, M.W., Matzke, A.T., and Ge Sun

Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

Lianmuqin Formation

 China

A dsungaripterid.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

Ianthodon[35]

Valid

  • Kissel
  • Reisz

 USA

Lobalopex[36]

Valid

  • Sidor
  • Hopson
  • Keyser

 South Africa

Progalesaurus[37]

Valid

  • Sidor
  • Smith

 South Africa

Pyozia[38]

Valid

  • Anderson
  • Reisz

 Russia

Rewaconodon[39]

Valid

  • Datta
  • Das
  • Luo

 India

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  5. ^ Wunderlich, J. (2004). "Fossil spiders in amber and copal. Conclusions, revisions, new taxa and family diagnoses of fossil and extant taxa". Beiträge zur Araneologie. 3AB: 1–1908.
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  7. ^ Bosselaers, J. (2004). "A new Garcorops species from Madagascar copal (Araneae: Selenopidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 445: 1–7.
  8. ^ a b Dlussky, G. M.; Brothers, D. J.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. (2004). "The first Late Cretaceous ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from southern Africa, with comments on the origin of the Myrmicinae". Insect Systematics and Evolution. 35: 1–13.
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  12. ^ Currie, P.J. and D.J. Varricchio. 2004. A new dromaeosaurid from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Alberta, Canada. In: Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds (P.J. Currie, E.B. Koppelhus, M.A. Shugar, and J.L. Wright, eds.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IA: pp. 112-132.
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  15. ^ Apestegua, Sebastian (2004). "Bonitasaura salgadoi gen. et sp. nov.: a beaked sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia". Naturwissenschaften. 91 (10): 493–7. doi:10.1007/s00114-004-0560-6. PMID 15729763.
  16. ^ You, H.; Ji, Q.; Lamanna, M.C.; Li, J. (2004). "A titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur with opisthocoelous caudal vertebrae from the Early Late Cretaceous of Liaoning Province, China". Acta Geologica Sinica. 78 (4): 907–911.
  17. ^ Xu X., Norell M.A., Kuang X., Wang X., Zhao Q., Jia C. (2004). "Basal tyrannosauroids from China and evidence for protofeathers in tyrannosauroids". Nature. 431 (7009): 680–684. doi:10.1038/nature02855. PMID 15470426.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  20. ^ Hwang S.H., Norell M.A., Ji Q., Gao K. (2004). "large compognathid from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 2 (1): 13–30. doi:10.1017/S1477201903001081.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Bolotsky, Yu.L. and P. Godefroit. 2004. A new hadrosaurine dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of far Eastern Russia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24 (2) pp. :351-365.
  22. ^ Salgado, L.; Garrido, A.; Cocca, S.E.; Cocca, J.R. (2004). "Lower Cretaceous rebbachisaurid sauropods from Cerro Aguada del Leon (Lohan Cura Formation), Neuquen Province, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (4): 903–912. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0903:LCRSFC]2.0.CO;2.
  23. ^ Xu X., Norell M.A. (2004). "A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping posture". Nature. 431 (7010): 838–841. doi:10.1038/nature02898. PMID 15483610.
  24. ^ Naish, D., D.M. Martill, and E. Frey. 2004. Ecology, systematics and biogeographical relationships of dinosaurs, including a new theropod, from the Santana Formation (?Albian, Early Cretaceous) of Brazil. Historical Biology (2004) pp. 1-14.
  25. ^ Lu, J., Y. Tomida, Y. Azuma, Z.-M. Dong, and Y.- N. Lee. 2004. New oviraptorid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Oviraptorosauria) from the Nemegt Formation of southwestern Mongolia. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo (Series C) 30: pp. 95-130.
  26. ^ Chinnery, B.J. (2004). "Description of Prenoceratops pieganensis gen et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Neoceratopsia) from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (3): 572–590. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0572:DOPPGE]2.0.CO;2.
  27. ^ a b Sereno, P.C., J.A. Wilson, and J.L. Conrad. 2004. New dinosaurs link southern landmasses in the Mid-Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (Series B) published online: 6 pages.
  28. ^ Xu, X. and X. Wang. 2004. A new troodontid (Theropoda: Troodontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Western Liaoning, China. Acte Geologica Sinica 78 (1) pp. 22-26.
  29. ^ Harris, J.D., and P. Dodson, P. 2004. A new diplodocoid sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Montana, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49 (2) pp. 197- 210.
  30. ^ Novas, F.E., A.V. Cambiaso, and A. Ambrosio. 2004. A new basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana 41 (1) pp. 75-85.
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  36. ^ Sidor, C.A., Hopson, J.A. and Keyser, A.W. (2004). "A new burnetiamorph theraspid from the Teekloof Formation, Permian, of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 24 (4): 938–950. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2004)024[0938:ANBTFT]2.0.CO;2.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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  38. ^ Anderson, J.S. and Reisz, R.R. (2004). "Pyozia mesenensis, a new, small varanopid (Synapsida, Eupelycosauria) from Russia: "Pelycosaur" diversity in the Middle Permian". Journal of Vertebrae Paleontology. 24 (1): 173–179. doi:10.1671/1940-13.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  39. ^ Datta, P.M., Das, D.P. and Luo, Z.-X. (2004). "A Late Triassic dromatheriid (Synapsida: Cynodontia) from India". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 73 (2): 12–24.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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