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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 1995.
Contents
Molluscs
Bivalves
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
Hinz-Schallreuter |
type and only species Camya asy |
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sp nov |
Hinz-Schallreuter |
Probable synonym of P. runnegari |
Arthropods
New taxa
Arachnids
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
only scorpion from the Green River Formation |
Insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
De Andrade |
A myrmicin ant |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
De Andrade |
A myrmicin ant |
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gen nov |
valid |
new genus for Micropterix proavitella |
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sp nov |
valid |
first fossil Dryinus lamellatus group species |
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subfam, gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Eocene |
sister taxon to the rest of Inocelliidae |
Fish
Newly named bony fish
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
dubious |
A possible Ichthyodectid. |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
- Fossil hunters working on behalf of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum discover a large coprolite from a theropod dinosaur in Maastrichtian strata. In 1997 it is sent to coprolite specialist Karen Chin, who determines that this specimen of fossilized feces was attributable to Tyrannosaurus rex. One year later, in 1998, Karen Chin and others publish a joint paper in Nature announcing the finding.
- Paul Sereno lead an expedition to the Kem Kem region of southeastern Morocco. Among the fossils discovered is a partial skull of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. Significantly, it preserves a "complete and undistorted braincase" which would later be described in detail along with the structure of the inner ear of C. saharicus by Hans C. E. Larsson in 2001.[9]
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[10]
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valid |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Le Loeuff |
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Redman |
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Gen et sp nov |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Long & Murry |
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Gen et sp nov |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Sampson |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Accarie et al. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Coria & Salgado |
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Valid |
Hunt, Lockley, Lucas, & Meyer |
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Valid |
Zhang & Yang |
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Valid |
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Welles, Powell, & Pickering |
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Valid |
Carpenter, Dilkes, & Weishampel |
A nodosaurid. |
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Valid |
Chure |
An allosaurid. |
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Gen nov |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Coombs |
late Albian-early Cenomanian |
A nodosaurid. |
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material later named Duriavenator |
Newly named birds
| Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Craciformes, Quercymegapodiidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1992, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene |
An Anhingidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Alexornithiformes Brodkorb, 1976, Avisauridae Brett-Surman et Paul, 1985. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Longipterygidae Zhang, Zhou, L. H. Hou et Gu, 2000, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Confuciusornithiformes Hou, Zhou, Gu et Zhang, 1995, Confuciusornithidae Hou, Zhou, Gu et Zhang, 1995, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Corvidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pleistocene |
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A Gruidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle-Late Pliocene |
A Rheidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle Eocene |
A Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965. The genus Idiornis Oberholser, 1899 was placed in synonymy with the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Mourer-Chauviré, 2013 [36] |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Gruiformes, Messelornithidae Hesse, 1988, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
ppZlatozar N. Boev |
Late Pliocene |
Middle Villafranchian |
A Phasianidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
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A Laridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
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A Laridae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anhingidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
?Early Miocene |
A Menuridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Paleocene |
A Gruiformes, Messelornithidae Hesse, 1988. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early-Middle Paleocene |
A Neognathae Pycraft, 1900 Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. |
Pterosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Howse and Milner |
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- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Olshevsky vide Olshevsky, G. 1995. The Origin and Evolution of the Tyrannosaurids. Kyoryugaku Saizensen [Dino-Frontline] 9: 92-119 (part 1); 10:75-99 (part 2)
- ↑ Accarie, H., B. Beaudoin , J. Dejax, G. Fries, J.-C. Michard, and P. Taquet. 1995. Decouverte d’un Dinosaure Theropode nouveau (Genusaurus sisteronis n. g., n. sp.) dans l’Albien marin de Sisteron (Alpes de Haute-Provence, France) et extension au Cretace inferieur de la lignee ceratosaurienne. Compte rendu hebdomadaire des seances de l’Academie des Sciences Paris, tomo 320, 2nd series : pp. 327-334.
- ↑ Coria, R.A. and L. Salgado. 1995. A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature. 377: pp. 224-226.
- ↑ Hunt, A.P., M.G. Lockley, S.G. Lucas, and C.A. Meyer. 1995 [George Olshevsky notes 1995, not 1994]. The global sauropod fossil record. In:Aspects of sauropod paleobiology (M.G. Lockley, V.F. dos Santos, C.A. Meyer, and A. Hunt, eds,). Revista de Geociencias, Gaia 10: pp. 261-279.
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