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Overview of the events of 2003 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 2003.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Kotyk, Basinger, & McIlver |
the oldest confirmed species of Chamaecyparis[2] |
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Tsuga swedaea[3] |
Sp nov |
Valid |
LePage |
A hemlock species |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Araripia florifera[4] |
Gen et sp |
Valid |
Mohr & Eklund |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Pigg, Manchester, & Wehr |
A hornbeam |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Pigg, Manchester, & Wehr |
A hazelnut |
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Palaeocarpinus barksdaleae[5] |
Sp nov |
Valid |
Pigg, Manchester, & Wehr |
A betulaceous fruit |
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Palaeocarpinus dentatus[5] |
Comb nov |
Valid |
(Penhallow) Pigg, Manchester, & Wehr |
Okanagan Highlands |
A betulaceous fruit; |
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Palaeocarpinus stonebergae[5] |
Sp nov |
Valid |
Pigg, Manchester, & Wehr |
A betulaceous fruit |
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Pseudosalix[6] |
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Boucher, Manchester, & Judd |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Cratonia cotyledon[7] |
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Rydin, Mohr, & Friis |
A relative to Welwetschia |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Get et sp nov |
Valid |
Hibbett et al |
An agaricalean fungus |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Archimyrmex piatnitzkyi[10] |
Comb nov. |
vaild |
(Viana & Haedo Rossi) |
Ventana Formation |
A myrmeciine ant. |
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Comb nov. |
valid |
(Rossi de Garcia) |
Ventana Formation |
A myrmeciine ant. |
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Subfam. Gen. et Sp. nov |
Valid |
Bolton |
A stem group ant, type species B. clavata |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Engel & Archibald |
first apoid bee fossil described from Canada |
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Lasioglossum celinae[13] |
Sp. nov |
Valid |
Nel & Petrulevicius |
Dauphin |
A sweat bee |
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Gen et sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Nel & Petrulevicius |
Aquitanian |
Bes-Konak |
An apine bee, |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Makarkin & Archibald |
An ithionid giant lacewing |
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Paraelectrobombus[13] |
Gen et sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Nel & Petrulevicius |
Aquitanian |
Bes-Konak |
Described as an Electrobombini bee |
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sp nov |
synonym |
A snakefly. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Engel & Archibald |
Coldwater beds, Princeton Group |
A Hemerobiinae lacewing |
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Xylocopa celineae[13] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Nel & Petrulevicius |
Camoins-les-Bains |
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German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genus Carnepigondolella.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
This was one of the largest herbivores of their time |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[18]
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | Images |
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"Abdallahsaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus |
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"Blancocerosaurus"[20] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus | |||
Amazonsaurus[21] | Valid taxon |
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Brazil | ||
Antetonitrus[22] | Valid taxon |
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South Africa | ||
Aviatyrannis[23] | Valid taxon |
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Portugal | ||
Bainoceratops[24] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Brohisaurus | Valid taxon |
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Pakistan | ||
Colepiocephale[25] | Valid taxon |
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Canada | ||
"Domeykosaurus" | Nomen nudum |
Rubilar-Rogers and Vargas vide:
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Chile | ||
Dromaeosauroides[26] | Valid taxon |
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Denmark | ||
Equijubus[27] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Ferganasaurus[28] | Valid taxon |
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Kyrgyzstan | ||
Fukuisaurus[29] | Valid taxon |
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Japan | ||
Gobititan[30] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Hanssuesia[25] | Valid taxon |
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Canada ( Alberta) | ||
Heyuannia[31] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Hongshanosaurus[32] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Isisaurus[33] | Valid taxon |
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India | ||
"Issasaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Dicraeosaurus |
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Lamaceratops[34] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
"Ligomasaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus |
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Lusotitan[35] | Valid taxon |
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Portugal | ||
Magnirostris[36] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Mendozasaurus[37] | Valid taxon |
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Argentina | ||
"Mohammadisaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Tornieria | |||
"Mtapaiasaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus |
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"Mtotosaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Dicraeosaurus |
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"Nteregosaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Janenschia |
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"Nyororosaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Dicraeosaurus |
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Olorotitan[38] | Valid taxon |
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Russia | ||
Platyceratops[34] | Valid taxon |
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Mongolia | ||
Rajasaurus[39] | Valid taxon |
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India | ||
Rinconsaurus[40] | Valid taxon |
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Argentina | ||
"Salimosaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus |
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"Selimanosaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Dicraeosaurus |
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Serendipaceratops[41] | Valid taxon |
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Australia | ||
Shenzhousaurus[42] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Shuangmiaosaurus[43] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Silesaurus[44] | Valid taxon |
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Poland | ||
Sinornithomimus[45] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Sphaerotholus[46] | Possible junior synonym of Prenocephale |
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"Wangonisaurus"[19] |
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Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus |
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Yixianosaurus[47] | Valid taxon |
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China | ||
Zalmoxes[48] | Valid taxon |
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Romania | ||
Zupaysaurus[49] | Valid taxon |
Arcucci & Coria |
Argentina | ||
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Amanuensis pickfordi [50] |
Gen. et sp. nov |
valid |
Middle Miocene |
A Sagittariidae, relative of the secretarybird. The type species of Amanuensis Mourer-Chauviré, 2003. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Bonnie E. Gulas-Wroblewski Anton F.-J. Wroblewski |
Middle Eocene |
USA: |
The type species of Amitabha Gulas-Wroblewski & Wroblewski, 2003. Placed in crown Galliformes, but only compared with Phasianidae, not with other Eocene birds from North America. |
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Anhinga minuta [52] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga Edson Guilherme |
Huayquerian-Montehermosian, Solimõas Formation |
An Anhingidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Vitilevu |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Diomedea tanakai [54] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Paul G. Davis |
Late Early Miocene |
A Diomedeidae. |
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Eoeurypyga olsoni [55] |
Nomen Nudum |
Thesis name. |
Ilka Weidig |
Early Eocene |
USA: |
A Eurypygidae. |
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Falco umanskajae [56] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Denis V. Sobolev |
A Falconidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Graham M. Wragg |
Late Pleistocene-Holocene |
A Columbidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Subresent |
USA: |
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Macranhinga ranzii [52] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga Edson Guilherme |
Huayquerian-Montehermosian |
An Anhingidae. |
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Milvago carbo [59] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
William Suárez Duque |
Quaternary, possibly Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene |
Las Breas de San Felipe |
A Falconidae. |
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Morus peruvianus [60] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Marcelo Stucchi |
A Sulidae. |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
valid |
Middle Miocene |
Initially thought to be an Idiornithidae, Cariamiformes but in 2011 reinterpreted as an Opisthocomidae, a relative of the hoatzin.[61] The type species of Namibiavis Mourer-Chauviré, 2003. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
W. R. P. Bourne N. P. Ashmole K. E. L. Simmons |
Subrecent |
An Ardeidae. |
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Palaeogrus mainburgensis [63] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Ursula B. Göhlich |
Upper Freshwater Molasse |
A Gruidae. |
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Parargornis messelensis [64] |
Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
Early Middle Eocene |
An Apodiformes, Cypselavidae Mourer-Chauviré, 2006. |
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Shandongornis yinansis [65] |
Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
Hou Lianhai |
A Phasianidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Steven D. Emslie Carlos Guerra Correa |
Mejillones Formation |
A Spheniscidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Marcello Stucchi Mario Urbina Alfredo Giraldo |
Late Miocene |
A Spheniscidae. |
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Sula magna [60] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Marcello Stucchi |
A Sulidae. |
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Sula sulita [60] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Marcello Stucchi |
A Sulidae. |
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Wyomingcypselus pohli [55] |
Nomen Nudum |
Thesis name. |
Ilka Weidig |
Early Eocene |
USA: |
An Apodiformes. |
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Name | Status | Authors | Discovery year | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
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Upper Carboniferous |
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Valid |
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Valid |
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Valid |
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Valid |
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Upper/Middle Permian |
an anomodont | |||||
Valid |
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Middle/Upper Permian |
an anomodont; replacement name for Lanthanocephalus Modesto, Rubidge & Welman, 2002, preoccupied by the cnidarian genus Lanthanocephalus Williams & Starmer, 2000[73] | |||||
Valid |
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Valid |
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Middle Triassic |
an anomodont; new genus for "Parakannemeyeria" brevirostris | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Caracal depereti[76] |
Sp nov |
Disputed |
Morales et al. |
Pliocene |
A Caracal. Boscaini et al. (2016) considered this species to be a junior synonym of Lynx issiodorensis.[77] |
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Guangxicyon[78] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Zhai et al. | Eocene | Nadu Formation | China | An amphicyonid. | |
Iridodon[79] |
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Morlo & Gunnell |
A limnocyonid hyaenodont.The type species is I. datzae. |
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Kogolepithecus[80] |
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Pickford et al. |
Miocene |
A catarrhine of uncertain affinity. The type species is K. morotoensis. |
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Yuesthonyx[81] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Tong, Wang & Fu | Paleocene | Dazhang Formation | China | A tillodont. The type species is Y. tingae. | |
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