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Overview of the events of 1995 in paleontology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 1995.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
Hinz-Schallreuter |
The type species is C. asy |
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sp nov |
Hinz-Schallreuter |
Probable synonym of P. runnegari |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
Perry |
only scorpion from the Green River Formation |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
De Andrade |
A myrmicine ant |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
De Andrade |
A myrmicine ant |
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gen et comb nov |
valid |
Skalski |
A micropterigid moth |
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sp nov |
valid |
Olmi |
A Dryinus lamellatus group wasp |
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subfam, gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Eocene |
sister taxon to the rest of Inocelliidae |
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sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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Exocryptocerus elevatus[9] |
sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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Exocryptocerus serratus[9] |
sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
dubious |
Nesov |
A possible ichthyodectid. Originally described as possible spinosaurid teeth. |
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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[13]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
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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A herrerasaurid | ![]() | |||
Gen et sp nov |
Olshevsky |
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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 |
A carcharodontosaurid |
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Valid |
Hunt, Lockley, Lucas, & Meyer |
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Olshevsky |
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Valid |
Zhang & Yang |
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Valid |
Nesov |
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Welles, Powell, & Pickering |
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Welles, Powell, & Pickering |
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Valid |
Carpenter, Dilkes, & Weishampel |
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Valid |
Chure |
An allosaurid |
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Gen nov |
Olshevsky |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Coombs |
late Albian-early Cenomanian |
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Welles, Powell & Pickering vide: Pickering |
Material later named Duriavenator |
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Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Ajaia chione [28] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Early Irvingtonian, |
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Ameripodius silvasantosi [29] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga |
Tremembé Formation |
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Anhinga malagurala [30] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Brian Mackness |
Early Pliocene |
Allingham Formation |
An anhingid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Hou Lianhai Gu Yucai |
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Corvus moravicus [34] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Jiri Mlikovsky |
Stránská Skála |
A corvid |
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Eudocimus leiseyi [28] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Early Irvingtonian, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. |
Late Pleistocene |
Rancho la Brea |
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A gruid |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Claudia P. Tambussi |
Middle-Late Pliocene |
Monte Hermoso Formation |
A rheid |
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Idiornis tuberculata [37] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Dieter S. Peters |
Middle Eocene |
An idiornithid gruiform; the genus was synonymized with the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Mourer-Chauviré, 2013 [38] |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Lagopus balcanicus [40] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
ppZlatozar N. Boev |
Late Pliocene |
Middle Villafranchian |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
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A larid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
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A larid |
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Meganhinga chilensis [42] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga |
An anhingid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Walter E. Boles |
?Early Miocene |
A menurid |
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Messelornis russelli [39] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Paleocene |
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Phalacrocorax filyawi [41] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Xue Xiangxu |
Early-Middle Paleocene |
Shimen Basin |
An indeterminate neognath |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Howse and Milner |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Spassov and Lange-Badré |
Type species is A. altidens, though this later became a junior synonym of A. gracilis. |
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