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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 or were published in the year 1996.
Arthropods
Newly named crustaceans
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Newly named insects
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Plesiosaurs
New taxa
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Dinosaurs
- In the summer excavation resumed on the Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur, discovered in a quarry near the Glenn Highway, approximately 150 miles northeast of Anchorage.[5]
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[6]
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| "Angaturama'"[7] | Junior synonym of Irritator |
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| Bagaraatan[8] | Valid taxon | ||||
| Deltadromeus[9] | Valid taxon |
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| Gasparinisaura[10] | Valid taxon |
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| Irritator[11] | Valid taxon |
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| Ligabueino[12] | Valid taxon | ||||
| "Jensenosaurus"[13] | Junior synonym of Supersaurus |
George Olshevsky vide:
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| "Luanpingosaurus" | Junior synonym of Psittacosaurus |
Cheng Zhengwu vide:
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| "Magulodon"[14] | Nomen nudum |
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| Neovenator[15] | Valid taxon |
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| Parvicursor[16] | Valid taxon |
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| Patagonykus[17] | Valid taxon |
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| Pawpawsaurus[18] | Valid taxon |
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| Pellegrinisaurus[19] | Valid taxon |
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| Qinlingosaurus[20] | Valid taxon |
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| Rayososaurus[12] | Valid taxon | ||||
| Shanyangosaurus[20] | Valid taxon |
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| Siamotyrannus[21] | Valid taxon |
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| Sigilmassasaurus[22] | Valid taxon | ||||
| Sinosauropteryx[23] | Valid taxon |
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Birds
Newly named birds
| Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Anas ganii [24] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich K. L. Sushpanov A. L. David |
Late Early Pleistocene |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Pierre Jouventin |
An Anatidae. |
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Anhinga fraileyi [26] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. |
Late Miocene |
An Anhingidae. |
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"Branta" minor [27] |
Valid |
Eugen Kessler Erika Gal |
Late Miocene |
MN 9 |
An Aves Incertae Sedis, it is not an Anatidae. |
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Copepteryx hexeris [28] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Yoshikazu Hasegawa |
Late Oligocene |
Ainoshima Formation |
A Pelecaniformes, Plotopteridae Howard, 1969, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Copepteryx titan [28] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Yoshikazu Hasegawa |
Late Oligocene |
Ainoshima Formation |
A Pelecaniformes, Plotopteridae Howard, 1969. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
José L. Sanz Bernardo P. Pérez-Moreno Angela D. Buscaliono José J. Moratalla Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza |
An Ornithothoraces Chiappe & Calvo, 1994, Enantiornithes. Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Campanian |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Alexornithidae Brodkorb, 1976, Gobipteryginae Elzanowski, 1974. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Eduardo P. Tonni Jorge Noriega |
Late Pliocene |
Orohué Formation |
A Psittacidae. |
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Otis bessarabicus [27] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Eugen Kessler Erika Gal |
Late Miocene |
An Otididae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cécile Mourer-Chauviré Brigitte Senut Pierre Mein |
Early Miocene |
Karingarab |
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?Tringa grigorescui [27] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Eugen Kessler Erika Gal |
Middle Miocene |
A Scolopacidae, not sure it is a Tringa. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Catharine A. Forster |
An Ornithothoraces Chiappe et Calvo, 1994 . |
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Pterosaurs
New taxa
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Footnotes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Berglund, R.E.; Goedert J.L. (1996). "A new crab (Brachyura: Cancridae) from Lower Miocene rocks of the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington". Journal of Paleontology 70 (5): 830–835. JSTOR 1306484.
- ↑ Dlussky, G. M. (1996). "Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Burmese amber" (PDF). Paleontological Journal 30 (4): 449–454. doi:10.1206/3755.2.
- ↑ Barden, P.; Grimaldi, D. (2012). "Rediscovery of the bizarre Cretaceous ant Haidomyrmex Dlussky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with two new species" (PDF). American Museum Novitates 3755: 1–16. doi:10.1206/3755.2.
- ↑ "Location and Geologic Setting," in Pasche and May (2001); page 220.
- ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ↑ Kellner, A.W.A., D. de A. Campos. 1996. First Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Brazil with comments on Spinosauridae. Neues Jahrbuch Geol. Palaontol. Abhandlungen Stuttgart 199 (2): pp. 151-166.
- ↑ Osmolska, H. 1996. An unusual theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Nemegt Formation of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 41 (1): pp. 1-38.
- ↑ Sereno, P.C., D.B. Dutheil, M. Iarochene, H.C.E. Larsson, G.H. Lyon, P.M. Magwene, C.A. Sidor, D.J. Varricchio, and J.A. Wilson. 1996. Predatory dinosaurs from the Sahara and Late Cretaceous faunal differentiation. Science 272: pp. 986-991.
- ↑ Coria, R.A. and L. Salgado. 1996. A Basal Iguanodontian (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (3): pp. 445-457.
- ↑ Martill, D.M., A.R.I. Cruickshank, E. Frey, P.G. Small, and M. Clarke. 1996. A new crested maniraptoran dinosaur from the Santana Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Brazil. J. Geol. Soc. London 153 (1): pp. 5-8.
- 1 2 Bonaparte, J.F. 1996. Cretaceous tetrapods of Argentina. Münchner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (A) 30: pp. 73-130.
- ↑ Olshevsky vide Curtice, B.D., K.L. Stadtman, and L.J. Curtice. 1996. A reassessment of Ultrasauros Macintoshi (Jensen, 1985). The continental Jurassic (M. Morales, ed.). Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin 60: pp. 87-95.
- ↑ Kranz, P.M. 1996. Notes on the Sedimentary Iron Ores of Maryland and their Dinosaurian Fauna. Maryland Geological Survey Special Publication 3: pp. 87-116.
- ↑ Hutt, S., D.M. Martill, and M.J. Barker. 1996. The first European allosaurid dinosaur (Lower Cretaceous, Wealden Group, England). N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Mh. 10: pp. 635-644.
- ↑ Karhu, A.A. and A.S. Rautian. 1996. A new family of Maniraptora (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 30 (5): pp. 583-592.
- ↑ Novas, F.E. 1996. Alvarezsauridae, Cretaceous basal birds from Patagonia and Mongolia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 39 (3): pp. 675-702.
- ↑ Lee, Y.-N. 1996. A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Paw Paw Formation (Late Albian) of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (2): pp. 232-245.
- ↑ Salgado, L. 1997. Pellegrinisaurus powelli nov. gen. et. sp. (Sauropoda, Titanosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lago Pellegrini, Northwestern Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 33 (4): pp. 355-365.
- 1 2 Xue, X., Y. Zhang, Y. Bi, L. Yue, and D. Chen. 1996. The development and environmental changes of the Intermontane Basins in the eastern part of Qinling Mountains. Geological Publishing House, Beijing: pp. 1-181.
- ↑ Buffetaut, E., Suteethorn, V. and Tong, H. 1996. The earliest known tyrannosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand. Nature 381: 689-691.
- ↑ Russell, D.A. 1996. Isolated dinosaur bones from the Middle Cretaceous of the Tafilalt, Morocco. Museum Natl. d'Histoire Nat. (Paris) Bull. (ser. 4) 18 (Section C, Nos. 2-3) : pp. 349-402.
- ↑ Ji, Q. and S.-A. Ji. 1996. On the discovery of the earliest bird fossil in China and the origin of birds. Chinese Geology 233: pp. 30-33.
- ↑ Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich, K. L. Sushpanov & A. L. David (1996). "Новый вид утки рода Anas позднего плиоцена Молдовы [A new species of the genus Anas duck from the Late Pliocene Moldova]". Bul. Acad. Ştiinţe Repub. Moldova. Şt. biol. chim. 1996. №1. С.: 38–42. doi:10.2307/1369501.
- ↑ Storrs L. Olson & Pierre Jouventin (1996). "A New Species of Small Flightless Duck from Amsterdam Island, Southern Indian Ocean (Anatidae: Anas)" (PDF). The Condor 98 (1): 1–9. doi:10.2307/1369501.
- ↑ Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. (1996). "A New Species of Giant Anhinga (Aves: Pelecaniformes: Anhingidae) from the Upper Miocene (Huyquerian) of Amazonian Peru" (PDF). Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 460: 1–9.
- 1 2 3 Eugen Kessler & Erika Gal (1996). "New Taxa in the Neogene Bird Fauna from Eastern Paratethys". Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Studia Biologica 41: 73–79.
- 1 2 Storrs L. Olson & Yoshikazu Hasegawa (1996). "A New Genus and Two New Species of Gigantic Plotopteridae from Japan (Aves: Pelecaniformes)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (4): 742–751. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011362.
- ↑ José L. Sanz, Luis M. Chiappe, Bernardo P. Pérez-Moreno, Angela D. Buscaliono, José J. Moratalla, Francisco Ortega, & Francisco J. Poyato-Ariza (1996). "An Early Cretaceous Bird from Spain and Its Implications for the Evolution of Avian Flight" (PDF). Nature 382: 442–445. doi:10.1038/382442a0.
- ↑ 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, Special Isue 1996: 1–60.
- ↑ Eduardo P. Tonni & Jorge Noriega (1996). "Uno Nova Especie de Nandayus Bonaparte, 1854. (Aves: Psittaciformes) del Plioceno Tardio de Argentina". Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 69: 97–104.
- ↑ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, Brigitte Senut, Martin Pickford & Pierre Mein (1996). "Le Plus Ancien Représentant de Genre Struthio (Aves, Struthionidae), Struthio coppensi n. sp. du Miocène Inférieur de Namibie". Académie des Sciences, Comptes Rendus, ser. 2A 322 (1): 325–332.
- ↑ Catharine A. Forster, Luis M. Chiappe, David W. Krause & Scott D. Sampson (1996). "The First Cretaceous Bird from Madagascar". Nature 382: 532–534. doi:10.1038/382532a0.
References
- Pasch, A. D., K. C. May. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska. In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Ed.s Tanke, D. H., Carpenter, K., Skrepnick, M. W. Indiana University Press. Pages 219-236.