List of years in paleontology
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The following entries cover events related to the study of paleontology
which occurred in the listed year.
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Paleontology
Paleontology "old, ancient", ὄν, ὀντ- "being, creature", and λόγος "speech, thought") is the study of prehistoric life. It includes the study of fossils to determine organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments...
which occurred in the listed year.
1600s - 1700s - 1800s - 1900s- 2000s
1600s
1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 1606 1607 1608 16091610 1611 1612 1613 1614 1615 1616 1617 1618 1619
1620 1621 1622 1623 1624 1625 1626 1627 1628 1629
1630 1631 1632 1633 1634 1635 1636 1637 1638 1639
1640 1641 1642 1643 1644 1645 1646 1647 1648 1649
1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659
1660 1661 1662 1663 1664 1665
1665 in paleontology
-Fossils:Athanasius Kircher in his 1665 work Mundus subterraneus explained fossils as giant bones as those belonging to extinct races of giant humans....
1666 1667 1668 1669
1670 1671
1671 in paleontology
-Fossils:* Martin Lister, a member of London's Royal Society declares that despite their appearances, fossils were never part of any animals....
1672 1673 1674 1675 1676 1677
1677 in paleontology
-Fossils:* Robert Plot misinterprets a piece of Megalosaurus thigh bone as belonging to an elephant brought to Britain when the region was under the control of the Roman Empire. Despite recognizing this find as a petrified bone, he would later make the curious claim that fossils were made by God to...
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1690 1691 1692 1693 1694 1695 1696
1696 in paleontology
-Fossils:* Robert Plot, the first illustrator of a dinosaur bone, dies in Borden, the village where he was born....
1697 1698 1699
1699 in paleontology
-Fossils:* Edward Lhuyd, a Welsh naturalist, speculates that fossils form when the minute spawn of oceanic life is carried inland by air currents and is forced to germinate inside of rocks....
1700s
1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 17051705 in paleontology
-Fossils:* A paper by Robert Hooke is formally published posthumously. Its contents had originally been part of an earlier presentation to the Royal Society of London. This paper provided an argument against prevailing wisdom and advocated the idea that fossils were the remains of actual...
1706 1707 1708 1709
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1728 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* A catalogue of the large fossil collection belonging to Gresham College professor John Woodward is published posthumously. This catalogue contains fragments of dinosaur bone that may have belonged to a megalosaur. Because these specimens have been preserved in Cambridge's Sedgwick...
1729
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1755 in paleontology
-Fossils:* Joshua Platt, a dealer in curiosities, discovers three large dinosaurian vertebrae at Stonesfield. He sends them off for examination to a Quaker botanist, merchant, and friend of Benjamin Franklin named Peter Collinson. Sadly, Collinson never gives them Platt's desired examination, and...
1756 1757 1758
1758 in paleontology
-Fossils:* Joshua Platt, a curiosity dealer, continued prospecting for fossils in Stonesfield. He met with success, finding an incomplete Megalosaurus thigh bone, which he noted and illustrated. This bone was included in the 1773 catalogue of his large personal fossil collection....
1759
1760 1761 1762 1763
1763 in paleontology
-Fossils:* The end of a Megalosaurus thighbone, previously misinterpreted by Robert Plot to be the remains of an elephant brought to Britain by the Romans, is subject to further confusion when Richard Brookes publishes a paper naming it Scrotum humanum...
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1770 1771 1772 1773
1773 in paleontology
-Fossils:* A unpublished catalogue of the fossil collection belonging to curiosity dealer Joshua Platt is compiled. A notable inclusion was a partial Megalosaurus thigh bone that Platt discovered in 1758. Sadly this fossil has been lost....
1774 1775 1776
1776 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* The French Abbe Dicquemare discovers and briefly describes large bones discovered in the Normandy Coast's Vaches Noires Cliffs. Paleontologist Philippe Taquet has suggested that these bones were probably dinosaurian....
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1784 in paleontology
-Paleontologists:* Birth of William Buckland, the polymath who was the first person to scientifically describe a dinosaur....
1785 1786 1787
1787 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* A fossil bone recovered from Cretaceous strata at Woodbury, New Jersey is discussed by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia...
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1790
1790 in paleontology
-Paleontologists:*Gideon Algernon Mantell, the scientist who first described an herbivorous dinosaur, is born....
1791 1792 1793 1794
1794 in paleontology
-Paleontologists:* Birth of pioneering French paleontologist Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps....
1795 1796 1797 1798 1799
1800s
1800 18011801 in paleontology
-Paleontologists:* Birth of German Paleontologist Christian Hermann Erich von Meyer....
1802 1803
1803 in paleontology
-Paleontologists:* Birth of George Bax Holmes, a wealthy Quaker who collaborated with Sir Richard Owen....
1804 1805 1806
1806 in paleontology
-Fossils:* William Clark notices an exposed fossil rib in an area later known as the Hell Creek Formation on the south bank of the Yellowstone River. Although he mistakenly believed the rib belonged to a huge fish, paleontologists have determined that this event marks the first documented dinosaur...
1807 1808
1808 in paleontology
-Fossils:* The famed Georges Cuvier publishes illustrations of vertebrae discovered near Honfleur. He mistakenly describes them as crocodillian, although later researchers have concluded that these remains almost certainly belonged to a theropod dinosaur....
1809
1809 in paleontology
-New taxa:...
1810 1811 1812
1812 in paleontology
-Newly named plesiosaurs:Refer to article on these carnivorous aquatic reptiles.Plesiosaurs appeared at the start of the Jurassic Period, and thrived until the K-T extinction, at the end of the Cretaceous Period. While they were Mesozoic diapsid reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs,...
1813
1813 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Paleontologists:* Birth of the Reverend William Fox a significant early collector of dinosaur fossils from the Isle of Wight....
1814 1815
1815 in paleontology
-New taxa:...
1816
1816 in Paleontology
-Fossils:* Englefield publishes a general work on the geology of the Isle of Wight, reporting the discovery of large, almost certainly dinosaurian bones being discovered by geologist Thomas Webster in what would later be identified as Cretaceous strata....
1817 1818 1819
1820
1820 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Dinosaur bones are discovered in Connecticut's red sandstones. The bones are so small that they were originally believed to be human remains. Richard Lull later properly identified them as dinosaurian and proposed that these fossils may have belonged to a coelurosaur. Later work by...
1821
1821 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* On 21 June, Gideon Algernon Mantell displays his Iguanodon fossils to the Geological Society, but arouses little interest....
1822
1822 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* James Parkinson publishes a general text on paleontology wherein he illustrates and describes teeth belonging to Megalosaurus. Because his reference to this name in print was earlier to William Buckland's formal description of the genus some people have concluded that Parkinson was...
1823 1824
1824 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* William Buckland realizes that fossils he previously believed to be of cetacean origin were actually Iguanodon fossils. This mistake cost him the chance to describe the genus himself.-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1825
1825 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database....
1826 1827 1828
1828 in paleontology
-Paleontologists:* A. de Caumont discovers Megalosaurus fossils in the Jurassic oolite of Caen, Normandy. This marks the first recognized dinosaur discovery in France....
1829
1830
1830 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database....
1831
1831 in paleontology
-Paleontologists:* Birth of Othniel Charles Marsh on October 29th; noted for naming many dinosaur families and genera, including Apatosaurus and Allosaurus....
1832 1833
1833 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:...
1834
1834 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database....
1835
1835 in paleontology
-New taxa:...
1836
1836 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database....
1837
1837 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database....
1838
1838 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1839
1839 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Paleontologists:* Birth of Harry Govier Seeley, the paleontologist who invented the Saurischian/Ornithischian dinosaur dichotomy....
1840
1840 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Newly named plesiosaurs:...
1841
1841 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* On June 30, Sir Richard Owen presents his findings regarding some enormous bones that the Reverend William Buckland had acquired at an earlier date. He names the new genus to which these bones belong "Cetiosaurus." This event marks the first scientific description of a sauropod.* Owen...
1842
1842 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1843
1843 in paleontology
-New taxa:...
1844
1844 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:...
1845
1845 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1846
1846 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1847
1847 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-Non-mammalian:...
1848
1848 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1849
1850
1850 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1851
1851 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:...
1852
1852 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Paleontologists:* Gideon Algernon Mantell, the scientist who described the first known herbivorous dinosaur, dies....
1853 1854
1854 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Non-mammalian:...
1855
1855 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-Newly named Prolacertiformes:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Museums:* The Albany Museum of Grahamstown, South Africa is established....
1856
1856 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-Paleontologists:* Death of William Buckland, the polymath who was the first to scientifically describe a dinosaur....
1857
1857 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1858
1858 in paleontology
-Mammals:...
1859
1859 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1860
1860 in paleontology
-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1861
1861 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:...
1862
1862 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:...
1863 1864
1864 in paleontology
-Newly named plesiosaurs:...
1865
1865 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Newly named plesiosaurs:...
1866
1866 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-Non-mammalian:...
1867
1867 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-Paleontologists:* Death of pioneering French paleontologist Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps....
1868
1868 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1869
1869 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:-New taxa:...
1870
1870 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1871
1871 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-New taxa:...
1872
1872 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:...
1873
1873 in paleontology
-New taxa:...
1874
1874 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Newly named pterosaurs:-new taxa:...
1875
1875 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1876
1876 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1877
1877 in paleontology
-Fish:-Non-dinosaurian reptiles:-Laelaps trihedrodon, Cope criticizes Dryptosaurus:O. W. Lucas collected the first remains of what would later in the year be named Laelaps trihedrodon from Quarry I of the Saurian Hill at Garden Park, Colorado...
1878
1878 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:O. W. Lucas recovers more material which would be referred to Laelaps trihedrodon from Morrison Formation strata near Garden Park, Colorado.-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Non-mammalian:...
1879
1879 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-Non-mammalian:...
1880
1880 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1881
1881 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-Paleontologists:* Death of the Reverend William Fox a significant early collector of dinosaur fossils from the Isle of Wight....
1882
1882 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-Non-mammalian:-Paleontologists:* The fossil collection of the recently deceased Reverend William Fox, which contained over 500 specimens, was bought by the trustees of the British Museum of Natural History....
1883
1883 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:...
1884
1884 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1885
1885 in paleontology
-New taxa:...
1886
1886 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1887
1887 in paleontology
-Classification Events:* Harry Govier Seeley divides the Dinosaurs into two taxa based on the configuration of their hip bones. -Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-New taxa:-Paleontologists:...
1888
1888 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1889
1889 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:...
1890
1890 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Pteridophyta:...
1891
1891 in paleontology
-New taxa:...
1892
1892 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1893
1893 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1894
1894 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1895
1895 in paleontology
-Non-mammalian:...
1896
1896 in paleontology
-Newly named turtles:-Newly named ichthyosaurs:...
1897
1897 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:...
1898
1898 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1899
1899 in paleontology
-Newly named birds:-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1900s
19001900 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:...
1901
1901 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database....
1902
1902 in paleontology
-Crurotarsi:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Prolacertiformes:...
1903
1903 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...
1904
1904 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:-References:* Brown, B. Stomach stones and food of plesiosaurs, Science, n.s. 20, : 184-185...
1905
1905 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1906
1906 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Apatosaurus gastroliths documented.* Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-References:...
1907
1907 in paleontology
-Insects:-Dinosaurs:* Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.* Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question."* Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1908
1908 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1909
1909 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-People:...
1910
1910 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1911 1912
1912 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1913
1913 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* A US Geological Survey crew headed by Eugene Stebinger and a US National Museum crew headed by Charles Gilmore worked together to excavate the first dinosaur discovery of the Two Medicine Formation.-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1914
1914 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Eugene Stebinger became the first to identify the Two Medicine Formation and to formally described its first fossil finds, which were excavated the previous year.-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr...
1915
1915 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Turtles:-Non-mammalian:...
1916
1916 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1917
1917 in paleontology
-Insects:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1918
1918 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1919
1919 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:...
1920
1920 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1921
1921 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1922
1922 in paleontology
-Insects:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1923
1923 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1924
1924 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1925
1925 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1926
1926 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1927
1927 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1928
1928 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation. He would return yet again in 1935.-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr...
1929
1929 in paleontology
-Newly named crustacean taxa:-Newly named insect taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:-References:...
1930
1930 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1931
1931 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1932
1932 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1933
1933 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Barnum Brown prospected the Two Medicine Formation, but found nothing significant.* Lull published a mongraph wherein he discusses AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase.-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1934
1934 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1935
1935 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:* Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University...
1936
1936 in paleontology
-Insects:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1937
1937 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1938
1938 in paleontology
-Non-mammalian:-Mammals :...
1939
1939 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-New taxa:-References:* Riggs, Elmer Samuel; 1939a; A specimen of Elasmosaurus serpentinus; Geological Series of Field Museum of Natural History; VI pp. 385–391...
1940
1940 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1941
1941 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:* Brown, B. 1941. The last dinosaurs. – Natural History 48: 290–295....
1942
1942 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-Non-mammalian:...
1943
1943 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1944
1944 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* The only known fossils of Poekilopleuron are destroyed during the Allied liberation of Normandy.-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-New taxa:...
1945
1945 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database....
1946 1947
1947 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1948
1948 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1949
1949 in paleontology
-Non-mammalian:-References:* Welles, Samuel P. and Bump, J. D.; 1949; Alzadasaurus pembertoni, a new elasmosaur from the Late Cretaceous of South Dakota; Journal of Paleontology; 23 pp. 521–535...
1950
1950 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:-References:...
1951
1951 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1952
1952 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1953
1953 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1954
1954 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1955
1955 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Pteridophyta:-References:...
1956
1956 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1957
1957 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-Non-mammalian:...
1958
1958 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1959
1959 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:...
1960
1960 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1961
1961 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1962
1962 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1963
1963 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1964
1964 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1965
1965 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1966
1966 in paleontology
-Newly named mesosaurs:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1967
1967 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1968
1968 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:...
1969
1969 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1970
1970 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1971
1971 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1972
1972 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Non-mammalian:...
1973
1973 in paleontology
-Insects:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1974
1974 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...
1975
1975 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:...
1976
1976 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Newly named dinosaurs:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1977
1977 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Trexler found hadrosaur remains west of Choteau, Montana in Two Medicine Formation strata.-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr...
1978
1978 in paleontology
Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils...
1979
1979 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...
1980
1980 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...
1981
1981 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-Plesiosaurs:* Carroll, R. C., 1981, Plesiosaur ancestors from the Upper Permian of Madagascar: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London B, v. 293,...
1982
1982 in paleontology
-Pteridophyta:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-New taxa:...
1983
1983 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1984
1984 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1985
1985 in paleontology
-Insects:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...
1986
1986 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Pterosaurs:...
1987
1987 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Stokes suggested that sauropods recycled their gastroliths and chose them based on bright color.-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:...
1988
1988 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.* The dubious family, Ornitholestidae is named by Gregory Scott Paul.-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
1989
1989 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...
1990
1990 in paleontology
-newly named:-Newly named taxa:-Dinosaurs:* All Anatosaurus species except A. copei were moved to the previously existing genus Edmontosaurus by Brett-Surman* "Seismosaurus" gastroliths documented.-Newly named dinosaurs:...
1991
1991 in paleontology
-Birds:* Sankar Chatterjee's discovery of a possible Triassic bird, Protoavis, if genuine, would push avian origins back almost 70 million years. The find ignites controversy over the connection between dinosaurs and birds....
1992
1992 in paleontology
- Dinosaurs :* During the 1992 field season a concerted effort was undertaken by the Royal Tyrell Museum to recover the remains of young hadrosaurs. The researchers describe the acquisition that season of 43 specimens as being a success...
1993
1993 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:...
1994
1994 in paleontology
-Dinosaurs:* Aff. Rebbachisaurus gastroliths documented.* The "Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur" specimen was discovered in a quarry being excavated for road material. The quarry is near the Glenn Highway, approximately 150 miles northeast of Anchorage...
1995
1995 in paleontology
-Arachnids:-Insects:-Dinosaurs:* Fossil hunters working on behalf of the Royal Saskatchewan Museum discover a large coprolite from a theropod dinosaur in Maastrichtian strata. In 1997 it is sent to coprolite specialist Karen Chin, who determines that this specimen of fossilized feces was...
1996
1996 in paleontology
-Newly named crustaceans:-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:...
1997
1997 in paleontology
-newly named:-Newly named birds:-Dinosaurs:* Paleontologist Karen Chin receives a coprolite that was excavated during 1995 from strata dating back to the Maastrichtian in Saskatchewan, Canada. The specimen was about 17 inches long and contained fragments of bone...
1998
1998 in paleontology
-Amphibians:A. C. Henrici. 1998. A new pipoid anuran from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18:321-332-Dinosaurs:...
1999
1999 in paleontology
-Insects:-Newly named taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-References:...
2000s
20002000 in paleontology
-Newly named insects:-Newly named placoderms:-Amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr...
2001
2001 in paleontology
-Newly named insects:-Newly named bony fishes:-Newly named amphibians:-Newly named turtles:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named sphenodonts:-Newly named basal archosauromorphs:...
2002
2002 in paleontology
-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-Pterosaurs:In October, a partial Mesadacylus wing was discovered in the Kingsview Quarry of Colorado...
2003
2003 in paleontology
-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:-newly named:-Conifers:-Angiosperms:...
2004
2004 in paleontology
-New taxa:-newly named:-newly named:-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.-New taxa:-New taxa:-Non-mammalian:...
2005
2005 in paleontology
-New taxa:-New taxa:-Xiphosurans:* Fossils of Lunataspis, the earliest known xiphosuran, are discovered in Canada. It was not given a formal description until 2008, however.-New taxa:-Newly named dinosaurs:...
2006
2006 in paleontology
-Insects:-Tetrapodomorphs:-Newly named temnospondylians:-Newly named amphibians:-Ichthyosaurs:-Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs:-Newly named plesiosaurs:-Newly named squamates:-Newly named crurotarsans:-Newly named dinosaurs:...
2007
2007 in paleontology
-newly named:-New taxa:-Newly named non-avian dinosaurs:Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.-Newly named birds:-New papers:...
2008
2008 in paleontology
-Angiosperms:-Monocots:-New taxa:-Insects:-Xiphosurans:-Placoderms:-Amphibians:Jenkins, F. A., jr, Shubin, N. H., Gatesy, S. M., and Warren, A., 2008, Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland and a reassessment of head lifting in temnospondyl...
2009
2009 in paleontology
-Anomalocaridids:-Arachnids:-Insects:-Cephalopods:Three new species of extinct Octopoda discovered in 2009. The species - Keuppia hyperbolaris, Keuppia levante, and Styletoctopus annae - lived about 95 million years ago, and bear a strong resemblance to modern octopuses, suggesting that the...
2010
2010 in paleontology
-Anomalocaridids:-Newly named crustaceans:-Newly named insects:* A new family, Cascopleciidae, is published by Poinar Jr.* A new family of ceraphronoid Hymenopters, Radiophronidae, is published by Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn, and Delclòs....
2011
2011 in paleontology
-Lobopods:-Arachnids:-Insects:-Newly named jawless vertebrates:-Newly named acanthodian:-Newly named cartilaginous fishes:-Newly named bony fishes:-Newly named lepospondyls:-Newly named temnospondyls:-Newly named lissamphibians:...