1982_in_paleontology
1982 in paleontology
Overview of the events of 1982 in paleontology
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 1982.
Pteridophytes
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Miller jr |
Middle Miocene |
Roza-Priest Rapids Basalts contact, |
A fern |
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Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Alangium oregonensis[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
An Alangium wood species |
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Betula clarnoensis[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
A Betula wood species |
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Cercidiphyllum alalongum[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
A Cercidiphyllum wood species |
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Fagaceoxylon[3] |
Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
A Fagaceae wood genus. |
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Liriodendroxylon multiporosum[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
A Magnoliaceae wood species |
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Magnolia angulata[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
A Magnolia wood species |
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Magnolia longiradiata[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
A Magnolia wood species |
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Quercinium crystallifera[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
A Fagaceae wood species |
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Ulminium scalariforme[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Scott & Wheeler |
A Lauraceae wood species |
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Trochodendron beckii[3] |
Comb nov |
valid |
(Hergert & Phinney) Scott & Wheeler |
A Trochodendron wood species. |
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Ray-finned fish
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Wilson |
Early Eocene |
A bowfin |
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Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
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gen et sp nov |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Unnamed unit |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
Dong, Tang, & Zhou |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Carpenter |
A troodontid. |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
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gen et sp nov |
Delair |
Referred to Polacanthus. | ||||||
Birds
Some remarks on newly named birds
- Hulsanpes perlei Osmolska, 1982 was described as a Troodontidae, it is sometimes seen as an Avialae because of having a ginglymoid metatarsal II.
Newly named birds
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Alectoris peii [14] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Hou Lianhai |
A Phasianidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Unduruhinskaya Formatie |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Ambiortiformes Kurochkin, 1982. Ambiortidae Kurochkin, 1982, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Anhinga hadarensis [16] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
± 3 My BP |
An Anhingidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Peter D. M. Weesie |
Late Pleistocene |
MQ 2C |
A Strigidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Khirgis Nur Formation, Khirgis Nur 2 |
A Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Sevil M. Aslanova Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich |
Maykopian Formation |
An Odontopterygiformes Howard, 1957, family Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Cepphus olsoni [22] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
San Luis Rey River Local Fauna |
An Alcidae. |
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Ciconia lucida [18] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Large Lakes Basin |
A Ciconiidae. |
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Columba congi [14] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Hou Lianhai |
A Columbidae. |
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Crossoptilon jiai [14] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Hou Lianhai |
A Phasianidae. |
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Ephippiorhynchus pakistanensis [23] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
Upper Dokh Pathan Formation, Siwalik Series |
A Ciconiidae. |
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Falco chowi [14] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Hou Lianhai |
A Falconidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Petr Švec |
MN 4b |
A Gaviidae. |
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Lophura wayrei [23] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
Upper Nagri Formation, Chinji Formation, Siwalik Series |
A Phasianidae. |
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Minggangia changgouensis [25] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Hou Lianhai |
Linzhuangqun |
A Threskiornithidae, placed in Aves Incerta Sedis by Olson, 1982, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Petr Švec |
MN 4b |
A Podicipedidae, this is the type species of the new genus, Mlíkovský, 2000 transferred the species to the genus Podiceps.[26] |
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Ornimegalonyx acevedoi [27] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Strigidae, probably a synonym of Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo, 1958. |
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Ornimegalonyx gigas [27] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Strigidae, probably a synonym of Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo, 1958. |
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Ornimegalonyx minor [27] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Strigidae, probably a synonym of Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo, 1958. |
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Palaeopsittacus georgei [28] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
MP 8 |
UK: |
Described as a Psittacidae, transferred by Mourer-Chauviré in 1992 to the Quercypsittidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Mayr et Daniels 1998, Mayr 2009 thought it might be a Fluvioviridavidae G. Mayr, 2005, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Paludiavis richae [23] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
Siwalik Series |
A possible Balaenicipitidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Parvulivenator watteli [29] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
Early Eocene |
MP 8 |
UK: |
Described as a Falconidae, but Mlíkovský 2002 [30] placed it in Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Physornis brasiliensis [31] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga |
Upper Deseadean, Tremembé Formation |
A Gruiformes, Phorusrhacidae Ameghino, 1889, Brontornitinae Moreno et Mercerat, 1891, in 1993 Alvarenga mede it the type species of his new genus Paraphysornis.[32] |
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Pleotis liui [14] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Hou Lianhai |
An Otididae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Porphyrio parvus [23] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
Upper Nagri Formatie, Siwalik Series |
A Rallidae. |
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Tachornis uranoceles [33] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
An Apodidae. |
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Uria paleohesperis [22] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
San Luis Rey River Local Fauna |
An Alcidae. |
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Urmiornis cracrafti [23] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
Near Kadirpur |
A Gruiformes, Ergilornithidae Kozlova, 1960. According to Karhu, 1997 not an Ergilornithidae. Olson, 1985 and Kurochkin, 1985 place the species in the genus Amphipelargus Lydekker, 1891. |
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New taxa
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Delair |
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New taxa
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Huachihuanhe Formation |
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General pseudosuchian research
- Ralph Molnar publishes a revision of the genus Pallimnarchus, comparing it to various Australasian crocodilians and diagnosing it based on proportional differences.[34]
New taxa
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
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First described as a dinosaur |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
- 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.
- Miller, C.N. jr. (1982). "Osmunda wehrii, a New Species Based on Petrified Rhizomes from the Miocene of Washington". American Journal of Botany. 69 (1): 116–121. doi:10.2307/2442836. JSTOR 2442836.
- Scott, R. A.; Wheeler, E. A. (1982). "Fossil woods from the Eocene Clarno Formation of Oregon". IAWA Journal. 3 (3–4): 135–154. doi:10.1163/22941932-90000829. S2CID 84785310.
- Wilson, MVH (1982). "A new species of the fish Amia from the Middle Eocene of British Columbia". Palaeontology. 25 (2): 413–424.
- Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- Suslov vide Suslov, Y.V. 1982. Dromaeosaurid unguals from the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Kzyl-Orda region. Akad. Nauk Kazokhskoy S.S.R. Inst. Zool. Mat. istorii fauny flory Kazakhstana 8: pp. 5-16.
- Yadagiri, P. 1982. Osteological studies of a carnosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation: Andhra Pradesh. Geological Survey of India (Progress Report for Field Season Programme 1981-1982), Regional Palaeontological Laboratories, Southern Region: 7 pages.
- Perle A., T. Maryanska, and H. Osmolska. 1982. Goyocephale lattimorei gen. et sp. n., a new flatheaded pachycephalosaur (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontol. Polonica 27: pp. 115-127.
- Dong, Z., Z. Tang, and S. Zhou. 1982. Note on the new Mid-Jurassic stegosaur from Sichuan Basin, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 20: pp. 83-87.
- Osmolska, H. 1982. Hulsanpes perlei n.g. n. sp. (Deinonychosauria, Saurischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. N. Jb. Geol. Palaontol. Mh. 1982: pp. 440-448.
- Carpenter, K. 1982. Baby dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Lance and Hell Creek formations and a description of a new species of theropod. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming. 20 (2): pp. 123-134.
- Young, C.C. 1982. On a new genus of dinosaur from Lufeng, Yunnan. In: Selected works of Yang Zhung-jian. Science Press, Beijing: pp. 38-42.
- Delair, J.B. 1982. Notes on an armoured dinosaur from Barnes High, Isle of Wight. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1980, Volume 7(5): pp. 297-302.
- Hou Lianhai (1982). "Brief Report on "Avian Fossils of Pleistocene from Zhoukoudian, China"" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 20 (4): 366–368.
- Evgeny N. Kurochkin (1982). "New Order of Birds from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 262: 215–218.
- Pierce Brodkorb & Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (1982). "Fossil Anhingas (Aves: Anhingidae) from Early Man Sites of Hadar and Omo (Ethiopia) and Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)". Geobios. 15 (4): 505–515. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(82)80071-5.
- Peter D. M. Weesie (1982). "A Pleistocene Endemic Island Form within the Genus Athene: Athene cretensis n. sp. (Aves: Strigiformes) from Crete" (PDF). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B. 85 (3): 323–336.
- Evgeny N. Kurochkin (1982). "[New Birds from the Middle Pliocene of Mongolia.]". Ornithologiya. 17: 150–154.
- Nikita V. Zelenkov & Evgeny N. Kurochkin (2009). "Neogene Phasianids (Aves: Phasianidae) of Central Asia: 2. Genera Perdix, Plioperdix, and Bantamyx". Paleontological Journal. 43 (3): 318–326. doi:10.1134/s0031030109030113. S2CID 129780358.
- Sevil M. Aslanova & Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich (1982). "Oligotsenovaya zubastaya ptitsa iz s. Perekishkyul' (Apsheronskiy poluostrov) - pervaya i yedinstvennaya nakhodka v SSSR i na vsem Aziatskom kontinente. [An Oligocene toothed bird from the village of Perekishkyul' (Apsheron Peninsula): The first and only such find in the USSR and in all of the Asiatic continent.] [in Russian, with Georgian, English summ.]". Sak'arthvelos SSR Mets'nierebatha Akademiis Matsne. Biologis Seria = Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Seriya Biologicheskaya. 8: 406–412.
- Sevil M. Aslanova & Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich (1999). "A Detailed Description of Caspiodontornis kobystanicus from the Oligocene of the Caspian Seashore". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 42 (3): 423–433. Archived from the original on 2006-09-25. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
- Hildegarde Howard (1982). "Fossil Birds from Tertiary Marine Beds at Oceanside, San Diego County, California, with Descriptions of Two New Species of the Genera Uria and Cepphus (Aves: Alcidae)" (PDF). Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science. 341: 1–15. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-20. Retrieved 2014-08-30.
- Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1982). "Fossil Birds from the Upper Miocene of Northern Pakistan". Tertiary Research. 4 (2): 53–69.
- Petr Švec (1982). "Two New Species of Diving Birds from the Lower Miocene of Czechoslovakia". Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii. 27 (3): 243–260.
- Hou Lianhai (1982). "New form of the Threskiornithidae from the Upper Eocene of the Minggang, Henan" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 20 (3): 196–202.
- Jíří Mlikovský (1982). "Early Miocene Birds of Skyrice, Czech Republic" (PDF). Casopis Narodniho Muzea, Rada Prirodovedna. 169: 97–100. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-03. Retrieved 2014-09-01.
- Oscar Arredondo (1982). "Los Strigiformes Fósiles del Pleistoceno Cubano" (PDF). Boletin del Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales. 37: 33–55.
- Colin J. O. Harrison (1982). "The Earliest Parrot: A New Species from the British Eocene". Ibis. 124 (2): 203–210. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1982.tb03765.x.
- Colin J. O. Harrison (1982). "A New Tiny Raptor from the Lower Eocene of England". Ardea. 70 (1): 77–80.
- Jíří Mlíkovský (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe" (PDF). Praha Ninox Press. 13: 1–407. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2014-09-02.
- Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga (1982). "Uma Gigantesca Ave Fóssil do Cenozóico Brasileiro: Physornis brasiliensis Sp. N.". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 54: 697–712.
- Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga (1993). "Paraphysornis Novo Genero para Physornis brasiliensis Alvarenga, 1982 (Aves: Phorusrhacidae)". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 63: 403–406.
- Storrs L. Olson (1982). "A New Species of Palm Swift (Tachornis: Apodidae) from the Pleistocene of Puerto Rico" (PDF). Auk. 99 (2): 230–235.
- Molnar, R.E. (1982). "Pallimnarchus and other Cenozoic crocodiles in Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 20 (3): 657–673.
- Young, C.-C. 1982. On a primitive crocodile from Lufeng, Yunnna. Selected Works on Yang, Zhungijang: pp. 26-28.
- Bonaparte, J.F. 1982. Classification of the Thecodontia. Geobios Mem. Spec. 6: pp. 99-112.