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none 1982 paleontology science 1982 Plants Pteridophytes Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesOsmunda wehriiMiller C.N. jr. 1982 Osmunda wehrii, a New Species Based on Petrified Rhizomes from the Miocene of Washington American Journal of Botany 69 1 116–121 2442836 10.2307/2442836Sp novValidMiller jrMiddle MioceneRoza-Priest Rapids Basalts contact, Columbia River Basalt Group.USAWashingtonA fern Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAlangium oregonensisScott R. A. Wheeler E. A. 1982 Fossil woods from the Eocene Clarno Formation of Oregon IAWA Journal 3 3–4 135–154 10.1163/22941932-90000829 84785310 free Sp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonAn Alangium wood species Betula clarnoensisSp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Betula wood species Cercidiphyllum alalongumSp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Cercidiphyllum wood species FagaceoxylonGen et sp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Fagaceae wood genus. Type species F. ostryopsoidesLiriodendroxylon multiporosumSp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Magnoliaceae wood species Magnolia angulataSp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Magnolia wood species Magnolia longiradiataSp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Magnolia wood species Quercinium crystalliferaSp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Fagaceae wood species Ulminium scalariformeSp novvalidScott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Lauraceae wood species Trochodendron beckiiComb novvalid(Hergert & Phinney) Scott & WheelerMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA Trochodendron wood species. New comb of Trochodendroxylon beckii Hergert & Phinney 1954 Fish Ray-finned fish Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images"Amia" hesperiaWilson MVH 1982 A new species of the fish Amia from the Middle Eocene of British Columbia Palaeontology 25 2 413–424Sp novValidWilsonEarly EoceneAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaA bowfinthumb|upright|center|Amia hesperia scale Archosauromorphs Newly named 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 Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ArstanosaurusSuslov vide Suslov, Y.V. 1982. Dromaeosaurid unguals from the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Kzyl-Orda region. Akad. Nauk Kazokhskoy S.S.R. Inst. Zool. Mat. istorii fauny flory Kazakhstana 8: pp. 5-16.gen et sp novNomen dubium.Suslov ShilinUpper CretaceousBostobinskaya FormationKazakhstanthumb|center|200px|ArstanosaurusDandakosaurusYadagiri, P. 1982. Osteological studies of a carnosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation: Andhra Pradesh. Geological Survey of India (Progress Report for Field Season Programme 1981-1982), Regional Palaeontological Laboratories, Southern Region: 7 pages.gen et sp nov Nomen dubium.YadagiriEarly JurassicKota FormationIndiaGoyocephalePerle A., T. Maryanska, and H. Osmolska. 1982. Goyocephale lattimorei gen. et sp. n., a new flatheaded pachycephalosaur (Ornithischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Acta Palaeontol. Polonica 27: pp. 115-127.gen et sp novValid Perle, Maryańska, & OsmólskaLate CretaceousUnnamed unitMongoliathumb|center|200px|Goyocephale HuayangosaurusDong, Z., Z. Tang, and S. Zhou. 1982. Note on the new Mid-Jurassic stegosaur from Sichuan Basin, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 20: pp. 83-87.gen et sp nov Valid taxonDong, Tang, & Zhou Middle JurassicLower Shaximiao FormationChinathumb|center|200px|HuayangosaurusHulsanpesOsmolska, H. 1982. Hulsanpes perlei n.g. n. sp. (Deinonychosauria, Saurischia, Dinosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. N. Jb. Geol. Palaontol. Mh. 1982: pp. 440-448.gen et sp novValid taxonOsmólskaLate CretaceousBarun Goyot FormationMongolia PectinodonCarpenter, K. 1982. Baby dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Lance and Hell Creek formations and a description of a new species of theropod. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming. 20 (2): pp. 123-134.gen et sp novValidCarpenterLate CretaceousLance FormationUSAA troodontid. TawasaurusYoung, C.C. 1982. On a new genus of dinosaur from Lufeng, Yunnan. In: Selected works of Yang Zhung-jian. Science Press, Beijing: pp. 38-42.gen et sp novValid taxonYangEarly JurassicChina "Vectensia"Delair, J.B. 1982. Notes on an armoured dinosaur from Barnes High, Isle of Wight. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1980, Volume 7(5): pp. 297-302.gen et sp novNomen nudumDelairEarly CretaceousReferred to Polacanthus. Birds Some remarks on newly named birds Hulsanpes perlei Osmolska, 1982 was described as a Troodontidae, it is sometimes seen as an Avialae because of having a ginglymoid metatarsal II. Newly named birds Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAlectoris peii Hou Lianhai 1982 Brief Report on "Avian Fossils of Pleistocene from Zhoukoudian, China" http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200903/W020090813374600911021.pdf Vertebrata PalAsiatica 20 4 366–368 ValidSp. nov.Hou LianhaiEarly PleistoceneZhoukoudianChinaA Phasianidae.Ambiortus dementjevi Evgeny N. Kurochkin 1982 New Order of Birds from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR 262 215–218 ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinEarly CretaceousNeocomian, Unduruhinskaya FormatieMongoliaAn Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Ambiortiformes Kurochkin, 1982. Ambiortidae Kurochkin, 1982, this is the type species of the new genus.Anhinga hadarensis Pierce Brodkorb & Cécile Mourer-Chauviré 1982 Fossil Anhingas (Aves: Anhingidae) from Early Man Sites of Hadar and Omo (Ethiopia) and Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) Geobios 15 4 505–515 10.1016/s0016-6995(82)80071-5 1982Geobi..15..505B ValidSp. nov.Pierce Brodkorb Cécile Mourer-ChauviréLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneHadar Formation, ± 3 My BPEthiopiaAn Anhingidae.Athene cretensis Peter D. M. Weesie 1982 A Pleistocene Endemic Island Form within the Genus Athene: Athene cretensis n. sp. (Aves: Strigiformes) from Crete http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/global_owl_project/descriptions/Fossil_owls/Athene%20cretensis%20(Weesie)%201982.pdf Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B 85 3 323–336 ValidSp. nov.Peter D. M. WeesieLate PleistoceneCrete, MQ 2CGreeceA Strigidae.Bantamyx georgicus Evgeny N. Kurochkin 1982 [New Birds from the Middle Pliocene of Mongolia.] Ornithologiya 17 150–154 Nikita V. Zelenkov & Evgeny N. Kurochkin 2009 Neogene Phasianids (Aves: Phasianidae) of Central Asia: 2. Genera Perdix, Plioperdix, and Bantamyx https://www.academia.edu/attachments/15847512/download_file?st=MTQwOTc1MDc4Myw0Ni4xMjkuNTcuMTU0LDQ1MDUyNg%3D%3D&s=sidebar&ct=MTQwOTc1MDc5MCwxNDA5NzUwNzk4LDQ1MDUyNg== Paleontological Journal 43 3 318–326 10.1134/s0031030109030113 2009PalJ...43..318Z 129780358 ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinLate MioceneKhirgis Nur Formation, Khirgis Nur 2MongoliaA Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Caspiodontornis kobystanicus Sevil M. Aslanova & Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich 1982 Oligotsenovaya zubastaya ptitsa iz s. Perekishkyul' (Apsheronskiy poluostrov) - pervaya i yedinstvennaya nakhodka v SSSR i na vsem Aziatskom kontinente. [An Oligocene toothed bird from the village of Perekishkyul' (Apsheron Peninsula): The first and only such find in the USSR and in all of the Asiatic continent.] [in Russian, with Georgian, English summ.] Sak'arthvelos SSR Mets'nierebatha Akademiis Matsne. Biologis Seria = Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoy SSR, Seriya Biologicheskaya 8 406–412 Sevil M. Aslanova & Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich 1999 A Detailed Description of Caspiodontornis kobystanicus from the Oligocene of the Caspian Seashore http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc_v/azcv42_3.htm Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 42 3 423–433 2014-09-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20060925061957/http://www.isez.pan.krakow.pl/journals/azc_v/azcv42_3.htm 2006-09-25 dead ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Sevil M. Aslanova Nikolay I. Burchak-AbramovichMiddle OligoceneMaykopian FormationUSSR: AzerbaijanAn Odontopterygiformes Howard, 1957, family Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus.Cepphus olsoni Hildegarde Howard 1982 Fossil Birds from Tertiary Marine Beds at Oceanside, San Diego County, California, with Descriptions of Two New Species of the Genera Uria and Cepphus (Aves: Alcidae) http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS341.pdf Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 341 1–15 2014-08-30 2015-12-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20151220205257/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS341.pdf dead ValidSp. nov.Hildegarde HowardLate MioceneSan Mateo Formation, San Luis Rey River Local FaunaUSA CaliforniaAn Alcidae.Ciconia lucida ValidSp. nov.Evgeny N. KurochkinMiddle PlioceneLarge Lakes BasinMongoliaA Ciconiidae.Columba congi ValidSp. nov.Hou LianhaiPleistoceneZhoukoudianChinaA Columbidae.Crossoptilon jiai ValidSp. nov.Hou LianhaiPleistoceneZhoukoudianChinaA Phasianidae.Ephippiorhynchus pakistanensis Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker 1982 Fossil Birds from the Upper Miocene of Northern Pakistan Tertiary Research 4 2 53–69 ValidSp. nov.Colin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. WalkerLate MioceneUpper Dokh Pathan Formation, Siwalik SeriesPakistanA Ciconiidae.Falco chowi ValidSp. nov.Hou LianhaiPleistoceneZhoukoudianChinaA Falconidae.Gavia egeriana Petr Švec 1982 Two New Species of Diving Birds from the Lower Miocene of Czechoslovakia Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii 27 3 243–260 ValidSp. nov.Petr ŠvecEarly MioceneMN 4bCzechoslovakiaA Gaviidae.Lophura wayrei ValidSp. nov.Colin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. WalkerLate MioceneUpper Nagri Formation, Chinji Formation, Siwalik SeriesPakistanA Phasianidae.Minggangia changgouensis Hou Lianhai 1982 New form of the Threskiornithidae from the Upper Eocene of the Minggang, Henan http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200903/W020090813374746717781.pdf Vertebrata PalAsiatica 20 3 196–202 ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Hou LianhaiLate EoceneLinzhuangqunChinaA Threskiornithidae, placed in Aves Incerta Sedis by Olson, 1982, this is the type species of the new genus.Miobaptus walteri ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Petr ŠvecEarly MioceneMN 4bCzechoslovakiaA Podicipedidae, this is the type species of the new genus, Mlíkovský, 2000 transferred the species to the genus Podiceps.Jíří Mlikovský 1982 Early Miocene Birds of Skyrice, Czech Republic http://www.nm.cz/download/pm/zoo/mlikovsky_lit/139-2000-MioceneofSkyrice.pdf Casopis Narodniho Muzea, Rada Prirodovedna 169 97–100 2014-09-01 https://web.archive.org/web/20140903083126/http://www.nm.cz/download/pm/zoo/mlikovsky_lit/139-2000-MioceneofSkyrice.pdf 2014-09-03 dead Ornimegalonyx acevedoi Oscar Arredondo 1982 Los Strigiformes Fósiles del Pleistoceno Cubano http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Ornimegalonyx%20minor%20(Arredondo)%201982.pdf Boletin del Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales 37 33–55 ValidSp. nov.Oscar ArredondoLate PleistoceneCave depositsCubaA Strigidae, probably a synonym of Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo, 1958.Ornimegalonyx gigas ValidSp. nov.Oscar ArredondoLate PleistoceneCave depositsCubaA Strigidae, probably a synonym of Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo, 1958.Ornimegalonyx minor ValidSp. nov.Oscar ArredondoLate PleistoceneCave depositsCubaA Strigidae, probably a synonym of Ornimegalonyx oteroi Arredondo, 1958.Palaeopsittacus georgei Colin J. O. Harrison 1982 The Earliest Parrot: A New Species from the British Eocene Ibis 124 2 203–210 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1982.tb03765.xValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Colin J. O. HarrisonEarly EoceneLondon Clay MP 8UK: EnglandDescribed as a Psittacidae, transferred by Mourer-Chauviré in 1992 to the Quercypsittidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Mayr et Daniels 1998, Mayr 2009 thought it might be a Fluvioviridavidae G. Mayr, 2005, this is the type species of the new genus.Paludiavis richae ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Colin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. WalkerLate MioceneSiwalik SeriesPakistanA possible Balaenicipitidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Parvulivenator watteli Colin J. O. Harrison 1982 A New Tiny Raptor from the Lower Eocene of England http://ardea.nou.nu/ardea_show_abstract.php?lang=nl&nr=1057 Ardea 70 1 77–80 ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Colin J. O. HarrisonEarly EoceneLondon Clay MP 8UK: EnglandDescribed as a Falconidae, but Mlíkovský 2002 Jíří 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 2014-09-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20110520101755/http://www.nm.cz/download/JML-18-2002-CBE.pdf 2011-05-20 dead placed it in Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus.Physornis brasiliensis Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga 1982 Uma Gigantesca Ave Fóssil do Cenozóico Brasileiro: Physornis brasiliensis Sp. N. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 54 697–712 ValidSp. nov.Herculano M. F. de AlvarengaLate Oligocene or Early MioceneUpper Deseadean, Tremembé FormationBrazilA Gruiformes, Phorusrhacidae Ameghino, 1889, Brontornitinae Moreno et Mercerat, 1891, in 1993 Alvarenga mede it the type species of his new genus Paraphysornis.Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga 1993 Paraphysornis Novo Genero para Physornis brasiliensis Alvarenga, 1982 (Aves: Phorusrhacidae) Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 63 403–406 Pleotis liui ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Hou LianhaiPleistoceneZhoukoudianChinaAn Otididae, this is the type species of the new genus.Porphyrio parvus ValidSp. nov.Colin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. WalkerLate MioceneUpper Nagri Formatie, Siwalik SeriesPakistanA Rallidae.Tachornis uranoceles Storrs L. Olson 1982 A New Species of Palm Swift (Tachornis: Apodidae) from the Pleistocene of Puerto Rico http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v099n02/p0230-p0235.pdf Auk 99 2 230–235 ValidSp. nov.Storrs L. OlsonPleistoceneCave depositsPuerto RicoAn Apodidae.Uria paleohesperis ValidSp. nov.Hildegarde HowardLate MioceneSan Mateo Formation San Luis Rey River Local FaunaUSA CaliforniaAn Alcidae.Urmiornis cracrafti ValidSp. nov.Colin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. WalkerLate MioceneNear KadirpurPakistanA Gruiformes, Ergilornithidae Kozlova, 1960. According to Karhu, 1997 not an Ergilornithidae. Olson, 1985 and Kurochkin, 1985 place the species in the genus Amphipelargus Lydekker, 1891. Plesiosaurs New taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Bathyspondylus gen et sp novValidDelairKimmeridgianEngland Pterosaurs New taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Huanhepterus gen et sp nov ValidDongLate JurassicHuachihuanhe FormationChina Pseudosuchia General pseudosuchian research Ralph Molnar publishes a revision of the genus Pallimnarchus, comparing it to various Australasian crocodilians and diagnosing it based on proportional differences.Molnar R.E. 1982 Pallimnarchus and other Cenozoic crocodiles in Queensland https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/303535 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 20 3 657–673 New taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDianchungosaurusYoung, C.-C. 1982. On a primitive crocodile from Lufeng, Yunnna. Selected Works on Yang, Zhungijang: pp. 26-28.gen et sp novvalidYang Z. J.SinemurianLufeng FormationChina First described as a dinosaur TrialestesBonaparte, J.F. 1982. Classification of the Thecodontia. Geobios Mem. Spec. 6: pp. 99-112.gen et sp novValidBonaparteLate TriassicIschigualasto FormationArgentinaSphenosuchian References Paleontology 30em Paleontology 2