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            List of years in paleontology       (table)
 1971 .  1972 .  1973 .  1974  . 1975  . 1976  . 1977 
1978 1979 1980 -1981- 1982 1983 1984
 1985 .  1986 .  1987 .  1988  . 1989  . 1990  . 1991 

Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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, coprolites, palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because mankind has 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 in the year 1981.

Dinosaurs[]

Newly named dinosaurs[]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list[1] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.[2]

Name Status Authors Notes Images
Avimimus[3] Valid taxon
  • Sergei Kurzanov
Ingenia yanshini profile1

"Ingenia"

Barsboldia[4] Valid taxon
Elmisaurus[5] Valid taxon
Garudimimus[6] Valid taxon
"Honghesaurus" Nomen nudum
  • Anonymous

Later renamed Yandusaurus.

"Ingenia"[6]

Preoccupied.

Name preoccupied by a nematode Gerlach 1957. Replacement name not yet published.

Muttaburrasaurus[7] Valid taxon
  • Bartholomai
Palaeopteryx[8] Valid taxon
  • Jim Jenson
Scutellosaurus[9] Valid taxon
  • Colbert

Plesiosaurs[]

  • Carroll, R. C., 1981, Plesiosaur ancestors from the Upper Permian of Madagascar: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London B, v. 293, p. 315- 383.


Name Status Authors Notes

Kimmerosaurus

Valid

Brown

References[]

  1. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-07. 
  2. ^ Montague, Jeremy. "Dr. Montague's Database". http://www.barry.edu/bio300/pdf/montague%20dino%20web%20data%2012-3-2005.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-10-29. 
  3. ^ Kurzanov, S.M. 1981. On the unusual theropods from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Sovm. Sov.-Mong. Paleontol. Eksped. Trudy 15: pp. 39-50.
  4. ^ Maryanska, T. and H. Osmólska. 1981. First lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26 (3-4): pp. 243-255.
  5. ^ Osmolska, H. 1981. Coosified tarsometatarsal in theropod dinosaurs and their bearing on the problem of bird origins. Paleontol. Polonica 42: pp. 79-95.
  6. ^ a b Barsbold, R. 1981. The toothless carnivorous dinosaurs of Mongolia. Sovm. Sov.-Mong. Paleontol. Eksped. Trudy 15: pp. 28-39.
  7. ^ Bartholomai, A., and R.E. Molnar. 1981. Muttaburrasaurus, a new iguanodontid (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland. Mem. Queensland Museum 20: pp. 319-149.
  8. ^ Jensen, J.A. 1981. Another look at Archaeopteryx as the world's oldest bird. Encyclia 58: pp. 109-128.
  9. ^ Colbert, E.H. 1981. A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Kayenta Formation of Arizona. Museum Northern Arizona Bull. 53: pp. 1-61.
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