1986 in paleontology
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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 1986.
Plants
Pinophytes
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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sp nov |
Valid |
Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation |
One of the oldest fir species |
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Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Manchester |
A platanaceous infructescence genus. |
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Gen et comb nov |
valid |
(MacGinitie) Manchester |
A platanaceous stamen species. |
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Comb nov |
valid |
(Lesquereux) Manchester |
A platanaceous species. |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Manchester |
A platanaceous staminate inflorescence genus. |
Newly described insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Nel |
A Sieblosiid damselfly. |
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Molluscs
Bivalves
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Jermak |
"northern Siberia" |
possible jr synonym of Pojetaia |
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gen et sp nov |
Li & Zhou |
Henan province |
jr synonym of Pojetaia runnegari |
Fish
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Oelofsen |
Prince Albert Formation (Ecca Group) |
A member of Symmoriida.[7] The type species is D. oosthuizeni. |
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]
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Valid taxon |
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Jr. synonym of Herrerasaurus |
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Valid taxon |
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Newly named birds
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
A Procellariidae, type species E. kazachstanensis |
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Valid |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
A Eurolimnornithidae, |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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jr synonym |
Sp. nov. |
Described as an Ichthyornithidae, |
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Valid |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
A Gobipteryginae Alexornithid, |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Kessler & Jurcsák |
A Eurolimnornithidae, type genus P. biharicus |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Cathartidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
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Pterosaurs
- Fossil jaw fragments containing multicusped teeth were found in Dockum Group rocks in western Texas.[23] One fragment, apparently from a lower jaw, contained two teeth, each with five cusps.[23] Another fragment, from an upper jaw, also contained several multi-cusped teeth.[23] These finds are very similar to the pterosaur genus Eudimorphodon and may be attributable to this genus, although without better fossil remains it is impossible to be sure.[23]
New taxa
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Synapsids
Mammals
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid taxon |
Bernard Tomasetti & Plane |
A Diprotodont Metatherian. |
References
- ^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
- ^ Schorn, H.E.; Wehr, W.C. (1986). "Abies milleri, sp. nov., from the middle Eocene Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Ferry County, Washington". Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History. 1: 1–7.
- ^ a b c Manchester, S. R. (1986). "Vegetative and reproductive morphology of an extinct plane tree (Platanaceae) from the Eocene of western North America". Botanical Gazette. 147 (2): 200–226.
- ^ Nel., A. (1986). "Révision du genre cénozoïque Stenolestes Scudder, 1895; description de deux espèces nouvelles (Insecta, Odonata, Lestidae)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section C. 8 (4): 447–461.
- ^ a b Elicki, O.; Gürsu, S. (2009). "First record of Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980 and Fordilla Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 83 (2): 267–291. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0021-9.
- ^ B.W. Oelofsen (1986). "A fossil shark neurocranium from the Permo-Carboniferous (lowermost Ecca Formation) of South Africa". In T. Uyeno; R. Arai; T. Taniuchi; K. Matsuura (eds.). Indo-Pacific Fish Biology: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Indo-Pacific Fishes. Ichthyological Society of Japan. pp. 107–124. ISBN 978-4930813121.
- ^ Michael I. Coates; Robert W. Gess; John A. Finarelli; Katharine E. Criswell; Kristen Tietjen (2017). "A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes". Nature. 541 (7636): 208–211. Bibcode:2017Natur.541..208C. doi:10.1038/nature20806. PMID 28052054.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Dodson, P. 1986. Avaceratops lammersi: a new ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation of Montana. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 138: pp. 305-317.
- ^ Charig, A.J. and A.C. Milner. 1986. Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur. Nature 324 (6095): pp. 359-361.
- ^ Barsbold, R. 1986. [Raubdinosaurier Oviraptoren]. In: Vorobyeva, E. I. (ed.). Herpetologische Untersuchungen in der Mongolischen Volksrepublik. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. Inst. Evolyucionnoy Morfologii i Ekologil Zhivotnykh im. A. M. Severtsova, Moskva: pp.210-223.
- ^ Bonaparte, J.F. 1986. The early radiation and phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on vertebral anatomy. In: The beginnings of the age of dinosaurs (K. Padian, ed.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK: pp. 247-258.
- ^ Buffetaut, E. and R. Ingevat. 1986. Unusual theropod dinosaur teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Phu Wiang northeastern Thailand. Rev. Paleobiol. 5: pp. 217-220.
- ^ Martinez, R, O. Gimenez, J. Rodriguez, and G. Bochatey. 1985. Xenotarsosaurus bonapartei nov. gen. et sp. (Carnosauria, Abelisauridae) un nuevo Theropoda de la Formacion Bajo Barrel Chubut, Argentina. Actas IV Congreso Argentino de Paleontoloiga y Bioestratigraffa 2: pp. 23-31.
- ^ a b c Lev A. Nessov (1986). "Pervaya nakhodka pozdnemelovoy ptitsy-ikhtiornisa v starom svete i nekotoryye drugiye kosti ptits iz mela i paleogena Sredney Azii. [The first Find of the Late Cretaceous Bird, Ichthyornis, in the Old World, and Some Other Bird Bones from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Middle Asia.] [in Russian, with English summary]". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 147: 31–38.
- ^ Andrey V. Panteleyev (2000). "The Systematic Position of the Eocene Bird Asiavis phosphatica". Zoosystematica Rossica. 8 (2): 351–352.
- ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré & Peter D. M. Weesie (1986). "Bubo insularis n. sp., Forme Endemique Inlaire de Grande-Duc (Aves, Strigiformes) du Pleistocene de Sardaigne et de Corse" (PDF). Revue de Paléobiologie. 5: 197–205.
- ^ a b Jenö Kessler & Tibor Jurcsák (1986). "New Contributions to the Knowledge of the Lower Cretaceous Bird Remains from Cornet (Romania)" (PDF). Travaux du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa". 28: 289–295.
- ^ a b David W. Steadman (1986). "Two New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia, Southern Cook Islands" (PDF). Pacific Science. 40 (1–4): 38–54.
- ^ Evgeny N. Kurochkin (1996). "A New Enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a General Appraisal of the Infraclass Enantiornithes". Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskou. 1996: 1–50.
- ^ Ralphe E. Molnar (1986). "An Enantiornithine Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia". Nature. 322 (6081): 736–738. Bibcode:1986Natur.322..736M. doi:10.1038/322736a0.
- ^ Jonathan J. Becker (1986). "A New Vulture (Vulturidae: Pliogyps) from the Late Miocene of Florida" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 99 (3): 502–508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-27. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
- ^ a b c d Wellnhofer, Peter (1991). "Summary of Triassic Pterosaurs." The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs. London, UK: Salamander Books Limited. p. 67. ISBN 0-86101-566-5.