1983 in paleontology

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Paleontology or palaeontology (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 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 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
Armaniidae[4]	Fam. nov	valid	Dlussky	Cenomanian - Turonian			Family of "ant-like wasps" from impression fossils

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[5]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Adasaurus[6]	Valid taxon	Rinchen Barsbold			Chungkingosaurus Enigmosaurus Shunosaurus Stygimoloch
“Arkanosaurus”[7]	Nomen nudum.	Sattler
“Changtusaurus”[8]	Nomen nudum.	Zhao Xijin
Chungkingosaurus[9]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Zhou S.	Zhang Y. H.
Coloradisaurus[10]	Valid taxon	Lambert
“Damalasaurus”[8]	Nomen nudum.	Zhao Xijin
Enigmosaurus[11]	Valid taxon	Rinchen Barsbold	Perle
Gongbusaurus[9]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Zhou S.	Zhang Y. H.
“Lancanjiangosaurus”[8]	Nomen nudum.	Zhao Xijin
“Megacervixosaurus”[8]	Nomen nudum.	Zhao Xijin
“Microdontosaurus”[8]	Nomen nudum.	Zhao Xijin
“Ngexisaurus”[8]	Nomen nudum.	Zhao Xijin
Ornatotholus[12]	Possible junior synonym of Stegoceras.	Peter Galton	Hans-Dieter Sues
Quaesitosaurus[13]	Valid taxon	Sergei Kurzanov	Bannikov
Shamosaurus[14]	Valid taxon	Tumanova
Shunosaurus[9]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming, Zhou S.	Zhang Y. H.
Stygimoloch[12]	Valid taxon	Peter Galton	Hans-Dieter Sues
Ultrasaurus[15]	Nomen dubium.	Kim H. M.
Xiaosaurus[16]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming	Tang Z.
Zizhongosaurus[9]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming, Zhou S.	Zhang Y. H.

Newly named birds

Name	Status	Novelty	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Capitonides protractus [17]	Valid	Gen et sp nov.	Peter Ballmann	Middle Miocene	MN 6	Germany	A Lybiidae
Diogenornis fragilis [18]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga	Late Paleocene	Bacia calcária de Itaboraí	Brazil	An Opisthodactylidae
Elaphrocnemus brodkorbi [19]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Cécile Mourer-Chauviré	Eocene or Oligocene	Phosphorites du Quercy, MP 16-28	France	An Idiornithidae transferred to Talantatos brodkorbi in 2002[20] not followed here.
Fluviatilavis [21]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Colin J. O. Harrison	Early Eocene	MP 7	Portugal	Aves incertae sedis[20] pending restudy, this is the type species of the new genus.
Horezmavis [22]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Lev A. Nessov	Late Albian	Khodzhakul Formation	USSR:  Uzbekistan	An Ornithuromorphae Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus.
Idiornis itardiensis [19]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Mourer-Chauviré	Middle Eocene or Oligocene	Messel pit, Phosphorites du Quercy	Germany  France	An Idiornithidae, moved to Dynamopterus itardiensis in 2013.[23]
Judinornis nogontsavensis [22]	Valid	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Lev A. Nessov L. J. Borkin	Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian,	Nemegt Formation	Mongolia	A Hesperornithiformes, Baptornithidae; this is the type species of the new genus.
Oblitavis insolitus [19]	Valid	Gen. nov et Sp. nov.	Cécile Mourer-Chauviré	Eocene or Oligocene	Phosphorites du Quercy	France	An Idiornithidae, transferred to the genus Propelargus insolitus in 2002.[20]
Oligostrix rupelensis [24]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Karlheinz Fischer	Middle Oligocene		Germany	An Protostrigidae, type species O. rupelensis
Tasidyptes[25]	Valid?	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Gerard F. van Tets Sue O’Connor	Holocene, ± 1400-800 BP	Kitchen midden	Australia:  Tasmania	A Spheniscidae, type species T. hunteri. possibly nomen dubium.
Tereingaornis moiseleyi [26]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Ron J. Scarlett	Waipipian		New Zealand	A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus.

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. doi:10.1086/337355. JSTOR 2474678.
3. Krishna, K.; Emerson, A. E. (1983). "A New Fossil Species of Termite from Mexican Amber, Mastotermes electromexicus (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2767: 1–8.
4. Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. (1997). "New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships." (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3208: 1–43.
5. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
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. Zhao, X. 1983. Phylogeny and Evolutionary Stages of Dinosauria. Acta Palaeontologia Polonica 28 (1/2): pp. 295-306.
9. 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. 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.
13. Kurzanov, S. M., and A.F. Bannikov. 1983. A new sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontological Journal 17 (2): pp. 91-97.
14. Tumanova, T.A. 1983. The first ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Sovm. Sov.- Mong. Paleontol. Eksped. Trudy 24: pp. 110-120.
15. Kim, H.M. 1983. Cretaceous dinosaurs from Korea. J. Geol. Soc. Korea 19 (3): pp. 115-126.
16. 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.
17. Peter Ballmann (1983). "A New Species of Fossil Barbet (Aves: Piciformes) from the Late Miocene of the Nödlinger Ries (Southern Germany)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 3 (1): 43–48. doi:10.1080/02724634.1983.10011957.
18. Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga (1983). "Uma Ave Ratitae do Paleoceno Brasileiro: Bacia calcária de Itaboraí, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil". Boletim do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro), Geologia, Nova Série. 41 (1): 1–11.
19. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (1983). "Les Gruiformes (Aves) des Phosphorites du Quercy (France). 1. Sous-ordre Cariamae (Cariamidae et Phorusrhacide) Systématique et Biostratigraphie". Palaeovertebrata. 13: 83–143.
20. Jíří Mlíkovský (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe" (PDF). Praha Ninox Press. 13: 1–407.
21. Colin J. O. Harrison (1983). "A New Wader, Recurvirostridae (Charadriiformes) from the Early Eocene of Portugal". Sciências da Terra. 7: 9–16.
22. Lev A. Nessov & L. J. Borkin (1983). "[New Records of Bird Bones from Cretaceous of Mongolia and Middle Asia]". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 116: 108–110.
23. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (2002). "Idiornis Oberholser, 1899 (Aves, Gruiformes, Cariamae, Idiornithidae): a Junior Synonym of Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 (Paleogene, Phosphorites du Quercy, France)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 270 (1): 13–22. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0355.
24. Karlheinz Fischer (1983). "Oligostrix rupelensis N. Gen., N. Sp., eine Neue Ureule (Protostrigidae, Srigiformes, Aves) aus de Mitteleozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltals des Weisselsterbeckens bei Leipzig (DDR)" (PDF). Zeitschrift für Geologischen Wissenschaften. 11 (4-8): 483–487.
25. Gerard F. van Tets & Sue O’Connor (1983). "The Hunter Island Penguin, an Extinct New Genus and Species from a Tasmanian Midden". Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. 81: 1–13.
26. Ron J. Scarlett (1983). "Tereingaornis moisleyi - a New Pliocene Penguin". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 26: 419–428. doi:10.1080/00288306.1983.10422257.