- Source: 1996 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1996.
Plants
= Angiosperms
=Arthropods
= Newly named crustaceans
== Newly named insects
=Fish
= Cartilaginous fish
=Research
Duffin et al (1996) describes chondrichthyan remains from the Itaituba Formation of the Amazon Basin of Brazil and deems Anachronistes to be a junior synonym of Cooleyella.
New taxa
Amphibians
= Temnospondyls
=Plesiosaurs
= New taxa
=Dinosaurs
In the summer excavation resumed on the Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur, discovered in a quarry near the Glenn Highway, approximately 150 miles northeast of Anchorage.
= Newly named dinosaurs
=Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Birds
= Newly named birds
=Pterosaurs
= New taxa
=Fossil eggs
= New ootaxa
=Synapsids
= Mammals
=New taxa
Footnotes
References
Pasch, A. D., K. C. May. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska. In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Ed.s Tanke, D. H., Carpenter, K., Skrepnick, M. W. Indiana University Press. Pages 219–236.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Geologi Indonesia
- Carcharodontosaurus
- Therapsida
- Spinosaurus
- Nestor (genus)
- Megalodon
- Otodus chubutensis
- Conodont
- Rauisuchidae
- Rebbachisaurus
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