1983 in paleontology

none 1983 paleontology science 1983 Plants Conifers Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPinus driftwoodensisStockey R.S. 1983 Pinus driftwoodensis sp.n. from the early Tertiary of British Columbia Botanical Gazette 144 1 148–156 10.1086/337355 2474678 84907438 sp. novvalidStockeyEarly Eocene Driftwood Canyon Provincial ParkCanadaBritish ColumbiaA Pine species Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEnsete oregonenseManchester S. R. Kress W. J. 1993 Fossil bananas (Musaceae): Ensete oregonense sp. nov. from the Eocene of western North America and its phytogeographic significance American Journal of Botany 80 11 1264–1272 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1993.tb15363.x 1993AmJB...80.1264M Sp novvalidManchester & KressMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA banana species. Arthropods Crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesProtastacusGen novValidAlbrechtEarly Cretaceous (Berriasian-Hauterivian)GermanyAn astacidean crayfish. The type species is Astacus politus (1868) Genus also includes P. antiquus. Crustacean research Albrecht (1983) reappraises the relationships of some fossil crustaceans and erects the family Protastacidae.Albrecht von Henning 1983 Die Protastacidae n. fam., fossile Vorfahren der Flußkrebse? https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/28239/28239.pdf Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1 5–15 10.1127/njgpm/1983/1983/5 Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesMastotermes electromexicusKrishna K. Emerson A. E. 1983 A New Fossil Species of Termite from Mexican Amber, Mastotermes electromexicus (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae) American Museum Novitates 2767 1–8 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/5310/v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2767.pdf?sequence=1sp. novvalidKrishna & EmersonLate Oligocene - Early Miocene Mexican amberMexicofirst new world species of MastotermesPolanskiellaDlussky G.M. 2012 New Fossil Ants of the Subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Germany Paleontological Journal 46 3 288–292 10.1134/s0031030111050054 2012PalJ...46..288D 83891156 Gen et sp nov jr synonymRossi de GarciaMiddle EoceneVentana FormationArgentinaExtinct Myrmeciin ant genus, jr synonym of type species Archimyrmex, sole species A. smekaliArmaniidaeGrimaldi D. Agosti D. Carpenter J. M. 1997 New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships. American Museum Novitates 3208 1–43 http://ants.csiro.au/Ant_Wiki/images/6/60/Grimaldi_Agosti_Carpenter_1997.pdf 2017-09-13 2014-08-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20170913135247/http://ants.csiro.au/Ant_Wiki/images/6/60/Grimaldi_Agosti_Carpenter_1997.pdf dead Fam. novjr synonymDlusskyCenomanian - TuronianStem-ants, jr synonym of Sphecomyrminae (in part) Fish Cartilaginous fish Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnachronistesGen. et. sp. novJr. synonymDuffin & WardLate Carboniferous - Early Permian Eyam LimestoneUnited KingdomType species is Anachronistes fordi, genus now deemed a junior synonym of Cooleyella Cartilaginous fish research Duffin & Ward (1983) erect the family Anachronistidae for their new genus Anachronistes, which would later become a junior synonym of Cooleyella.Duffin Christopher Ward David 1983-01-01 Neoselachian sharks' teeth from the Lower Carboniferous of Britain and the Lower Permian of the USA https://www.academia.edu/2891464 Palaeontology Reptiles Archosauromorphs Dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html dead Name Status Authors Country Image AdasaurusBarsbold, R. 1983. Carnivorous Dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia: The Joint Soviet- Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition, Transactions (Volume 19), pp. 1-117.Rinchen Barsboldthumb|center|upright|Adasaurus mongoliensis "Changtusaurus"Zhao, X. 1983. Phylogeny and Evolutionary Stages of Dinosauria. Acta Palaeontologia Polonica 28 (1/2): pp. 295-306. Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin ChungkingosaurusDong, 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. Valid taxon Dong Zhiming Zhou S. Zhang Y. H. "Damalasaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin EnigmosaurusBarsbold, 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. Valid taxon Rinchen Barsbold Perle Gongbusaurus Valid taxon Dong Zhiming Zhou S. Zhang Y. H. "Lancanjiangosaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin "Megacervixosaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin "Microdontosaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin "Ngexisaurus" Nomen nudum. Zhao Xijin OrnatotholusGalton, 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. Possible junior synonym of Stegoceras. Peter Galton Hans-Dieter Sues QuaesitosaurusKurzanov, S. M., and A.F. Bannikov. 1983. A new sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontological Journal 17 (2): pp. 91-97. Valid taxon Sergei Kurzanov Bannikov ShamosaurusTumanova, T.A. 1983. The first ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Sovm. Sov.- Mong. Paleontol. Eksped. Trudy 24: pp. 110-120. Valid taxon Tumanova Shunosaurus Valid taxon Dong Zhiming, Zhou S. Zhang Y. H. Stygimoloch Valid taxon Peter Galton Hans-Dieter Sues UltrasaurusKim, H.M. 1983. Cretaceous dinosaurs from Korea. J. Geol. Soc. Korea 19 (3): pp. 115-126. Nomen dubium. Kim H. M. XiaosaurusDong, 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. Valid taxon Dong Zhiming Tang Z. Zizhongosaurus Valid taxon Dong Zhiming, Zhou S. Zhang Y. H. Birds Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCapitonides protractus 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 10.1080/02724634.1983.10011957ValidGen et sp nov.Peter BallmannMiddle MioceneMN 6GermanyA Lybiidae Diogenornis fragilis 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 ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Herculano M. F. de AlvarengaLate PaleoceneBacia calcária de ItaboraíBrazilAn Opisthodactylidae Elaphrocnemus brodkorbi 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 ValidSp. nov.Cécile Mourer-ChauviréEocene or OligocenePhosphorites du Quercy, MP 16-28FranceAn Idiornithidae transferred to Talantatos brodkorbi in 2002Jíří Mlíkovský 2002 Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe http://www.nm.cz/download/JML-18-2002-CBE.pdf Praha Ninox Press 13 1–407 2014-08-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20110520101755/http://www.nm.cz/download/JML-18-2002-CBE.pdf 2011-05-20 dead not followed here.Fluviatilavis Colin J. O. Harrison 1983 A New Wader, Recurvirostridae (Charadriiformes) from the Early Eocene of Portugal http://www.cienciasdaterra.com/index.php/vol/article/download/82/83 Sciências da Terra 7 9–16 2014-08-30 2014-10-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20141027231308/http://www.cienciasdaterra.com/index.php/vol/article/download/82/83 dead ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Colin J. O. HarrisonEarly EoceneSilveirinha FormationPortugalAves incertae sedis pending restudy, this is the type species of the new genus.200px|Horezmavis 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 ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Lev A. NessovLate AlbianKhodzhakul FormationUSSR: UzbekistanAn Ornithuromorphae Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus.Idiornis itardiensis ValidSp. nov.Mourer-ChauviréMiddle Eocene or OligoceneMessel pit, Phosphorites du QuercyGermany FranceAn Idiornithidae, moved to Dynamopterus itardiensis in 2013. 10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0355 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 Judinornis nogontsavensis ValidGen. et Sp. nov.Lev A. Nessov L. J. BorkinLate Campanian-Early Maastrichtian,Nemegt FormationMongoliaA Hesperornithiformes, Baptornithidae; this is the type species of the new genus.Oblitavis insolitus ValidGen. nov et Sp. nov.Cécile Mourer-ChauviréEocene or OligocenePhosphorites du QuercyFranceAn Idiornithidae, transferred to the genus Propelargus insolitus in 2002.Oligostrix rupelensis 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) http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Fischer%201983.pdf Zeitschrift für Geologischen Wissenschaften 11 4–8 483–487 2016-03-04 2014-08-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054042/http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Fischer%201983.pdf dead ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Karlheinz FischerMiddle OligoceneGermanyA Protostrigidae, type species O. rupelensisTasidyptesGerard 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 Valid?Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.Gerard F. van Tets Sue O'ConnorHolocene, ± 1400-800 BPKitchen middenAustralia: TasmaniaA Spheniscidae, type species T. hunteri. possibly nomen dubium.October 2014Tereingaornis moiseleyi Ron J. Scarlett 1983 Tereingaornis moisleyi - a New Pliocene Penguin New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 26 4 419–428 10.1080/00288306.1983.10422257 1983NZJGG..26..419J free ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Ron J. ScarlettWaipipianNew ZealandA 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 Paleontology Paleontology 3