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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

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Pinophytes

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes Images

Abies milleri[2]

sp nov

Valid

Schorn & Wehr

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Klondike Mountain Formation

 USA

One of the oldest fir species

Abies milleri

Angiosperms

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes Images

Macginicarpa[3]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Manchester

Middle Eocene

Clarno Formation

 USA
 Oregon

A platanaceous infructescence genus.
Type species M. glabra.

Macginistemon

Gen et comb nov

valid

(MacGinitie) Manchester

Middle Eocene

Clarno Formation

 USA
 Oregon

A platanaceous stamen species.
Moved from Calycites mikanoides 1941.

Macginitiea angustiloba[3]

Comb nov

valid

(Lesquereux) Manchester

Middle Eocene

Clarno Formation

 USA
 Oregon

A platanaceous species.
Moved from Aralia angustiloba 1878.

Platananthus[3]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Manchester

Middle Eocene

Clarno Formation

 USA
 Oregon

A platanaceous staminate inflorescence genus.
Type species P. synandrus.

Newly described insects

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes Images

Stenolestes fischeri[4]

Sp nov

Valid

Nel

Chattian

 France

A Sieblosiid damselfly.

Stenolestes fischeri

Molluscs

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Bivalves

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes Images

Buluniella[5]

gen et sp nov

nomen dubium

Jermak

Early Cambrian

"northern Siberia"

 Russia

possible jr synonym of Pojetaia

Jellia[5]

gen et sp nov

junior synonym

Li & Zhou

Early Cambrian

Henan province

 China

jr synonym of Pojetaia runnegari

Fish

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes Images

Dwykaselachus[6]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Oelofsen

Permian

Prince Albert Formation (Ecca Group)

A member of Symmoriida.[7] The type species is D. oosthuizeni.

Dinosaurs

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Newly named dinosaurs

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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Avaceratops[9]

Valid taxon

  • Dodson
Avaceratops

Baryonyx[10]

Valid taxon

Baryonyx

Conchoraptor[11]

Valid taxon

Frenguellisaurus

Jr. synonym of Herrerasaurus

Lapparentosaurus[12]

Valid taxon

Siamosaurus[13]

Valid taxon

  • Ingavat
Siamosaurus

Xenotarsosaurus[14]

Valid taxon

  • Martinez
  • Gimenez
  • Rodriguez
  • Bochatey

Newly named birds

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Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Asiavis [15]

Valid

Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.

Nessov

Middle Eocene

 Uzbekistan

A Cygninae,[16]
type species A. phosphatica

Bubo insularis[17]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Mourer-Chauviré & Weesie

Late Pleistocene

 France:  Corsica;
 Italy:  Sardinia

A Strigidae.

Eopuffinus[15]

Valid

Gen. et Sp. nov.

Nessov

Late Paleocene

 Kazakhstan

A Procellariidae, type species E. kazachstanensis

Eurolimnornis[18]

Valid

Gen. et Sp. nov.

Kessler & Jurcsák

Early Cretaceous

 Romania

A Eurolimnornithidae,
type species is E. corneti.

Gallirallus ripleyi[19]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Steadman

Holocene

Mangaia

 Cook Islands

A Rallidae.

Ichthyornis maltshevskyi [15]

jr synonym

Sp. nov.

Nessov

Coniacian

Bissekty Formation

 Uzbekistan

Described as an Ichthyornithidae,
transferred to Lenesornis maltshevskyi in Kurochkin, 1996.[20]

Nanantius [21]

Valid

Gen. et Sp. nov.

Molnar

Albian

Toolebuc Formation

 Australia:

 Queensland

A Gobipteryginae Alexornithid,
type species N. eos

Palaeocursornis [18]

Valid

Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.

Kessler & Jurcsák

Early Cretaceous

 Romania

A Eurolimnornithidae, type genus P. biharicus

Pliogyps charon [22]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Becker

Late Miocene

Alachua Formation

 USA:  Florida

A Cathartidae.

Porzana rua [19]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Steadman

Holocene

Mangaia

 Cook Islands

A Rallidae.

Plesiosaurs

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New taxa

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Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Tuarangisaurus

Valid

Wiffen Moisley

A Plesiosaur from New Zealand
Tuarangisaurus

Pterosaurs

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  • 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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Name Status Authors Notes

Phobetor

Junior Synonym

Bakhurina

Synonym of Noripterus.

Synapsids

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Mammals

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes Images

Hulitherium tomasetti[24]

Valid

Tomasetti & Plane

Pleistocene

 Papua New Guinea

A Diprotodont Metatherian.

Rostriamynodon grangeri[25]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Wall & Manning

Early late Eocene

Irdin Manha Formation

 China

An amynodontid

References

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  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. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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. doi:10.1086/337587. S2CID 83715341.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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. S2CID 49380913. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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. S2CID 4455946.
  8. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  9. ^ Dodson, P. 1986. Avaceratops lammersi: a new ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation of Montana. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 138: pp. 305-317.
  10. ^ Charig, A.J. and A.C. Milner. 1986. Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur. Nature 324 (6095): pp. 359-361.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ Andrey V. Panteleyev (2000). "The Systematic Position of the Eocene Bird Asiavis phosphatica". Zoosystematica Rossica. 8 (2): 351–352.
  17. ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  18. ^ 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 National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa". 28: 289–295. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ 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.
  21. ^ 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. S2CID 4311390.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ Flannery, T. F.; Plane, M. D. (1986). "A new late Pleistocene diprotodontid (Marsupialia) from Pureni, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea" (PDF). BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics. 10: 65–76.
  25. ^ Wall, William P.; Manning, Earl (1986). "Rostriamynodon grangeri n. gen., n. sp. of Amynodontid (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea) with Comments on the Phylogenetic History of Eocene Amynodontidae". Journal of Paleontology. 60 (4): 911–919. ISSN 0022-3360.