1983 in paleontology

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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 mankind has 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 in the year 1983.

Plants

Conifers

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Pinus driftwoodensis[2]

sp. nov

valid

Stockey

Early Eocene

Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park

 Canada

Pine species

Arthropods

Insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Mastotermes electromexicus[3]

sp. nov

valid

Krishna & Emerson

Late Oligocene - Early Miocene

Mexican amber

 Mexico

first new world species of Mastotermes

Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list[4] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.[5]

Name Status Authors Notes Images
Adasaurus[6] Valid taxon
Chungkingosaurus
"Lancangosaurus" later given the formal name Datousaurus.
Enigmosaurus
Shunosaurus
Stygimoloch
“Arkanosaurus”[7] Nomen nudum.
  • Sattler
“Changtusaurus”[8] Nomen nudum.
Chungkingosaurus[9] Valid taxon
  • Zhang Y. H.
Coloradisaurus[10] Valid taxon
  • Lambert
“Damalasaurus”[8] Nomen nudum.
Enigmosaurus[11] Possible junior synonym of Erlikosaurus.
  • Perle
Gongbusaurus[9] Valid taxon
  • Zhang Y. H.
“Lancangosaurus”[9] Nomen nudum. Later named Datousaurus.

Zhao Xijin vide:
  • Zhang Y. H.
“Lancanjiangosaurus”[8] Nomen nudum.
“Megacervixosaurus”[8] Nomen nudum.
“Microdontosaurus”[12] Nomen nudum.
“Ngexisaurus”[8] Nomen nudum.
Ornatotholus[13] Possible junior synonym of Stegoceras.
Quaesitosaurus[14] Valid taxon

Bannikov & Sergei Kurzanov vide:
  • Bannikov
“Sangonghesaurus”[8] Nomen nudum. Possibly an early named for Tianchisaurus.
Shamosaurus[15] Valid taxon
  • Tumanova
Shunosaurus[9] Valid taxon
  • Zhang Y. H.
Stygimoloch[13] Valid taxon
“Tianchungosaurus”[8] Nomen nudum.
Ultrasaurus[16] Nomen dubium.
  • Kim H. M.
Xiaosaurus[17] Valid taxon
  • Tang Z.
Zizhongosaurus[9] Valid taxon
  • Zhang Y. H.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes

Angustinaripterus

Valid

He Xinlu et al.

Preondactylus

Valid

Wild

References

  1. ↑ 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. 
  2. ↑ Stockey, R.S. (1983). "Pinus driftwoodensis sp.n. from the early Tertiary of British Columbia". Botanical gazette 144 (1): 148–156. 
  3. ↑ Krishna, K.; Emerson, A. E. (1983). "A New Fossil Species of Termite from Mexican Amber, Mastotermes electromexicus (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae)". American Museum novitates 2767: 1–8. 
  4. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
  5. ↑ Montague, Jeremy. "Dr. Montague's Database". Retrieved 2008-10-29. 
  6. ↑ Barsbold, R. 1983. Carnivorous Dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia: The Joint Soviet- Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition, Transactions (Volume 19), pp. 1-117.
  7. ↑ Sattler, H. 1983. The illustrated dinosaur dictionary. Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books, NY (315 pages).
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Zhao, X. 1983. Phylogeny and Evolutionary Stages of Dinosauria. Acta Palaeontologia Polonica 28 (1/2): pp. 295-306.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Dong, Z., S. Zhou, and Y. Zhang. 1983. Dinosaurs from the Jurassic of Sichuan. Palaeontologica Sinica Whole Number 162 New Series C, Number 23 (edited by Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica): pp. 1-136. Science Press Peking, 1983 + 43 plates.
  10. ↑ Lambert, D. 1993. The Ultimate Dinosaur Book, Dorling Kindersley Book, London (192 pages) [see p. 173 for Coloradisaurus].
  11. ↑ Barsbold, R. and A. Perle. 1983. On taphonomy of a joint burial of juvenile dinosaurs and some aspects of their ecology. Sovmestnaya Sovetsko- Mongolskaya Paleontologichekaya Ekspeditsia. Trudy 24: pp. 121-125.
  12. ↑ Zhao, X. 1986. The Jurassic system of China: stratigraphy of China 11: pp. 286-348.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Galton, P.M. and H.-D.Sues. 1983. New data on pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilia: Ornithischia) from North America. Can. J. Earth Sci. 20: pp. 462-473.
  14. ↑ Bannikov & Kurzanov vide Kurzanov, S. M., and A.F. Bannikov. 1983. A new sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontological Journal 17 (2): pp. 91-97.
  15. ↑ Tumanova, T.A. 1983. The first ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Sovm. Sov.- Mong. Paleontol. Eksped. Trudy 24: pp. 110-120.
  16. ↑ Kim, H.M. 1983. Cretaceous dinosaurs from Korea. J. Geol. Soc. Korea 19 (3): pp. 115-126.
  17. ↑ Dong, Z. and Z. Tang. 1983. A short report on the dinosaur fauna from Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan. II. Ornithopoda. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 21 (2): pp. 168- 171.
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