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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.^[1] 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 1986.

Plants[edit]

Pinophytes[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type Strata	Location	Notes	Images
Abies milleri^[2]	sp nov	Valid	Schorn & Wehr	Eocene Ypresian	Eocene Okanagan Highlands Klondike Mountain Formation	USA	One of the oldest fir species	Abies milleri

Angiosperms[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type Strata	Location	Notes
Macginicarpa^[3]	Gen et sp nov	valid	Manchester	Middle Eocene	Clarno Formation	USA Oregon	A platanaceous infructescence genus. Type species M. glabra.
Macginistemon	Gen et comb nov	valid	(MacGinitie) Manchester	Middle Eocene	Clarno Formation	USA Oregon	A platanaceous stamen species. Moved from Calycites mikanoides 1941.
Macginitiea angustiloba^[3]	Comb nov	valid	(Lesquereux) Manchester	Middle Eocene	Clarno Formation	USA Oregon	A platanaceous species. Moved from Aralia angustiloba 1878.
Platananthus^[3]	Gen et sp nov	valid	Manchester	Middle Eocene	Clarno Formation	USA Oregon	A platanaceous staminate inflorescence genus. Type species P. synandrus.

Newly described insects[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type Strata	Location	Notes	Images
Stenolestes fischeri^[4]	Sp nov	Valid	Nel	Chattian		France	A Sieblosiid damselfly.	Stenolestes fischeri

Molluscs[edit]

Bivalves[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type Strata	Location	Notes	Images
Buluniella^[5]	gen et sp nov	nomen dubium	Jermak	Early Cambrian	"northern Siberia"	Russia	possible jr synonym of Pojetaia
Jellia^[5]	gen et sp nov	junior synonym	Li & Zhou	Early Cambrian	Henan province	China	jr synonym of Pojetaia runnegari

Fish[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type Strata	Location	Notes	Images
Dwykaselachus^[6]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Oelofsen	Permian	Prince Albert Formation (Ecca Group)	South Africa	A member of Symmoriida.^[7] The type species is D. oosthuizeni.

Dinosaurs[edit]

Newly named dinosaurs[edit]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[8]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Images
Avaceratops^[9]	Valid taxon	Dodson		USA ( Montana)	Avaceratops
Baryonyx^[10]	Valid taxon	Alan J. Charig	Angela C. Milner	Spain England	Baryonyx
Conchoraptor^[11]	Valid taxon	Rinchen Barsbold		Mongolia
Frenguellisaurus	Jr. synonym of Herrerasaurus	Fernando Novas		Argentina
Lapparentosaurus^[12]	Valid taxon	Jose Bonaparte		Madagascar
Siamosaurus^[13]	Valid taxon	Eric Buffetaut	Ingavat	Thailand	Siamosaurus
Xenotarsosaurus^[14]	Valid taxon	Martinez Gimenez	Rodriguez Bochatey	Argentina

Newly named birds[edit]

Name	Status	Novelty	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Asiavis ^[15]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Nessov	Middle Eocene		Uzbekistan	A Cygninae,^[16] type species A. phosphatica
Bubo insularis^[17]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Mourer-Chauviré & Weesie	Late Pleistocene		France: Corsica; Italy: Sardinia	A Strigidae.
Eopuffinus^[15]	Valid	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Nessov	Late Paleocene		Kazakhstan	A Procellariidae, type species E. kazachstanensis
Eurolimnornis^[18]	Valid	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Kessler & Jurcsák	Early Cretaceous		Romania	A Eurolimnornithidae, type species is E. corneti.
Gallirallus ripleyi^[19]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Steadman	Holocene	Mangaia	Cook Islands	A Rallidae.
Ichthyornis maltshevskyi ^[15]	jr synonym	Sp. nov.	Nessov	Coniacian	Bissekty Formation	Uzbekistan	Described as an Ichthyornithidae, transferred to Lenesornis maltshevskyi in Kurochkin, 1996.^[20]
Nanantius ^[21]	Valid	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Molnar	Albian	Toolebuc Formation	Australia: Queensland	A Gobipteryginae Alexornithid, type species N. eos
Palaeocursornis ^[18]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Kessler & Jurcsák	Early Cretaceous		Romania	A Eurolimnornithidae, type genus P. biharicus
Pliogyps charon ^[22]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Becker	Late Miocene	Alachua Formation	USA: Florida	A Cathartidae.
Porzana rua ^[19]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Steadman	Holocene	Mangaia	Cook Islands	A Rallidae.

Plesiosaurs[edit]

New taxa[edit]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Tuarangisaurus	Valid	Wiffen Moisley		Angola New Zealand	A Plesiosaur from New Zealand	Tuarangisaurus

Pterosaurs[edit]

Fossil jaw fragments containing multicusped teeth were found in Dockum Group rocks in western Texas.^[23] One fragment, apparently from a lower jaw, contained two teeth, each with five cusps.^[23] Another fragment, from an upper jaw, also contained several multi-cusped teeth.^[23] These finds are very similar to the pterosaur genus Eudimorphodon and may be attributable to this genus, although without better fossil remains it is impossible to be sure.^[23]

New taxa[edit]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Phobetor	Junior Synonym	Bakhurina		Synonym of Noripterus.

Synapsids[edit]

Mammals[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type Strata	Location	Notes	Images
Hulitherium tomasetti^[24]		Valid	Tomasetti & Plane	Pleistocene		Papua New Guinea	A Diprotodont Metatherian.
Rostriamynodon grangeri^[25]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Wall & Manning	Early late Eocene	Irdin Manha Formation	China	An amynodontid

References[edit]

^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
^ Schorn, H.E.; Wehr, W.C. (1986). "Abies milleri, sp. nov., from the middle Eocene Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Ferry County, Washington". Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History. 1: 1–7.
^ ^a ^b ^c Manchester, S. R. (1986). "Vegetative and reproductive morphology of an extinct plane tree (Platanaceae) from the Eocene of western North America". Botanical Gazette. 147 (2): 200–226. doi:10.1086/337587. S2CID 83715341.
^ Nel., A. (1986). "Révision du genre cénozoïque Stenolestes Scudder, 1895; description de deux espèces nouvelles (Insecta, Odonata, Lestidae)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section C. 8 (4): 447–461.
^ ^a ^b Elicki, O.; Gürsu, S. (2009). "First record of Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980 and Fordilla Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 83 (2): 267–291. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0021-9. S2CID 49380913. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
^ B.W. Oelofsen (1986). "A fossil shark neurocranium from the Permo-Carboniferous (lowermost Ecca Formation) of South Africa". In T. Uyeno; R. Arai; T. Taniuchi; K. Matsuura (eds.). Indo-Pacific Fish Biology: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Indo-Pacific Fishes. Ichthyological Society of Japan. pp. 107–124. ISBN 978-4930813121.
^ Michael I. Coates; Robert W. Gess; John A. Finarelli; Katharine E. Criswell; Kristen Tietjen (2017). "A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes". Nature. 541 (7636): 208–211. Bibcode:2017Natur.541..208C. doi:10.1038/nature20806. PMID 28052054. S2CID 4455946.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Dodson, P. 1986. Avaceratops lammersi: a new ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation of Montana. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 138: pp. 305-317.
^ Charig, A.J. and A.C. Milner. 1986. Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur. Nature 324 (6095): pp. 359-361.
^ Barsbold, R. 1986. [Raubdinosaurier Oviraptoren]. In: Vorobyeva, E. I. (ed.). Herpetologische Untersuchungen in der Mongolischen Volksrepublik. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. Inst. Evolyucionnoy Morfologii i Ekologil Zhivotnykh im. A. M. Severtsova, Moskva: pp.210-223.
^ Bonaparte, J.F. 1986. The early radiation and phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on vertebral anatomy. In: The beginnings of the age of dinosaurs (K. Padian, ed.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK: pp. 247-258.
^ Buffetaut, E. and R. Ingevat. 1986. Unusual theropod dinosaur teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Phu Wiang northeastern Thailand. Rev. Paleobiol. 5: pp. 217-220.
^ Martinez, R, O. Gimenez, J. Rodriguez, and G. Bochatey. 1985. Xenotarsosaurus bonapartei nov. gen. et sp. (Carnosauria, Abelisauridae) un nuevo Theropoda de la Formacion Bajo Barrel Chubut, Argentina. Actas IV Congreso Argentino de Paleontoloiga y Bioestratigraffa 2: pp. 23-31.
^ ^a ^b ^c Lev A. Nessov (1986). "Pervaya nakhodka pozdnemelovoy ptitsy-ikhtiornisa v starom svete i nekotoryye drugiye kosti ptits iz mela i paleogena Sredney Azii. [The first Find of the Late Cretaceous Bird, Ichthyornis, in the Old World, and Some Other Bird Bones from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Middle Asia.] [in Russian, with English summary]". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 147: 31–38.
^ Andrey V. Panteleyev (2000). "The Systematic Position of the Eocene Bird Asiavis phosphatica". Zoosystematica Rossica. 8 (2): 351–352.
^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré & Peter D. M. Weesie (1986). "Bubo insularis n. sp., Forme Endemique Inlaire de Grande-Duc (Aves, Strigiformes) du Pleistocene de Sardaigne et de Corse" (PDF). Revue de Paléobiologie. 5: 197–205. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
^ ^a ^b Jenö Kessler & Tibor Jurcsák (1986). "New Contributions to the Knowledge of the Lower Cretaceous Bird Remains from Cornet (Romania)" (PDF). Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa". 28: 289–295. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
^ ^a ^b David W. Steadman (1986). "Two New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia, Southern Cook Islands" (PDF). Pacific Science. 40 (1–4): 38–54.
^ Evgeny N. Kurochkin (1996). "A New Enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a General Appraisal of the Infraclass Enantiornithes". Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskou. 1996: 1–50.
^ Ralphe E. Molnar (1986). "An Enantiornithine Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia". Nature. 322 (6081): 736–738. Bibcode:1986Natur.322..736M. doi:10.1038/322736a0. S2CID 4311390.
^ Jonathan J. Becker (1986). "A New Vulture (Vulturidae: Pliogyps) from the Late Miocene of Florida" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 99 (3): 502–508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-27. Retrieved 2014-08-26.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Wellnhofer, Peter (1991). "Summary of Triassic Pterosaurs." The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs. London, UK: Salamander Books Limited. p. 67. ISBN 0-86101-566-5.
^ Flannery, T. F.; Plane, M. D. (1986). "A new late Pleistocene diprotodontid (Marsupialia) from Pureni, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea" (PDF). BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics. 10: 65–76.
^ Wall, William P.; Manning, Earl (1986). "Rostriamynodon grangeri n. gen., n. sp. of Amynodontid (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea) with Comments on the Phylogenetic History of Eocene Amynodontidae". Journal of Paleontology. 60 (4): 911–919. ISSN 0022-3360.

[1] Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.

[SchornWehr1986-2] Schorn, H.E.; Wehr, W.C. (1986). "Abies milleri, sp. nov., from the middle Eocene Klondike Mountain Formation, Republic, Ferry County, Washington". Burke Museum Contributions in Anthropology and Natural History. 1: 1–7.

[Macginitia1986-3] Manchester, S. R. (1986). "Vegetative and reproductive morphology of an extinct plane tree (Platanaceae) from the Eocene of western North America". Botanical Gazette. 147 (2): 200–226. doi:10.1086/337587. S2CID 83715341.

[Nel1986-4] Nel., A. (1986). "Révision du genre cénozoïque Stenolestes Scudder, 1895; description de deux espèces nouvelles (Insecta, Odonata, Lestidae)". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Section C. 8 (4): 447–461.

[Elicki2009-5] Elicki, O.; Gürsu, S. (2009). "First record of Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980 and Fordilla Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 83 (2): 267–291. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0021-9. S2CID 49380913. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-01-06.

[6] B.W. Oelofsen (1986). "A fossil shark neurocranium from the Permo-Carboniferous (lowermost Ecca Formation) of South Africa". In T. Uyeno; R. Arai; T. Taniuchi; K. Matsuura (eds.). Indo-Pacific Fish Biology: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Indo-Pacific Fishes. Ichthyological Society of Japan. pp. 107–124. ISBN 978-4930813121.

[7] Michael I. Coates; Robert W. Gess; John A. Finarelli; Katharine E. Criswell; Kristen Tietjen (2017). "A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes". Nature. 541 (7636): 208–211. Bibcode:2017Natur.541..208C. doi:10.1038/nature20806. PMID 28052054. S2CID 4455946.

[ddinogeorge-8] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[9] Dodson, P. 1986. Avaceratops lammersi: a new ceratopsid from the Judith River Formation of Montana. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 138: pp. 305-317.

[10] Charig, A.J. and A.C. Milner. 1986. Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod dinosaur. Nature 324 (6095): pp. 359-361.

[11] Barsbold, R. 1986. [Raubdinosaurier Oviraptoren]. In: Vorobyeva, E. I. (ed.). Herpetologische Untersuchungen in der Mongolischen Volksrepublik. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R. Inst. Evolyucionnoy Morfologii i Ekologil Zhivotnykh im. A. M. Severtsova, Moskva: pp.210-223.

[12] Bonaparte, J.F. 1986. The early radiation and phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on vertebral anatomy. In: The beginnings of the age of dinosaurs (K. Padian, ed.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK: pp. 247-258.

[13] Buffetaut, E. and R. Ingevat. 1986. Unusual theropod dinosaur teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Phu Wiang northeastern Thailand. Rev. Paleobiol. 5: pp. 217-220.

[14] Martinez, R, O. Gimenez, J. Rodriguez, and G. Bochatey. 1985. Xenotarsosaurus bonapartei nov. gen. et sp. (Carnosauria, Abelisauridae) un nuevo Theropoda de la Formacion Bajo Barrel Chubut, Argentina. Actas IV Congreso Argentino de Paleontoloiga y Bioestratigraffa 2: pp. 23-31.

[Ichthyornis-15] Lev A. Nessov (1986). "Pervaya nakhodka pozdnemelovoy ptitsy-ikhtiornisa v starom svete i nekotoryye drugiye kosti ptits iz mela i paleogena Sredney Azii. [The first Find of the Late Cretaceous Bird, Ichthyornis, in the Old World, and Some Other Bird Bones from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Middle Asia.] [in Russian, with English summary]". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 147: 31–38.

[Cygninae-16] Andrey V. Panteleyev (2000). "The Systematic Position of the Eocene Bird Asiavis phosphatica". Zoosystematica Rossica. 8 (2): 351–352.

[Bubo-17] Cécile Mourer-Chauviré & Peter D. M. Weesie (1986). "Bubo insularis n. sp., Forme Endemique Inlaire de Grande-Duc (Aves, Strigiformes) du Pleistocene de Sardaigne et de Corse" (PDF). Revue de Paléobiologie. 5: 197–205. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2022-05-16.

[KesslerJurcsak-18] Jenö Kessler & Tibor Jurcsák (1986). "New Contributions to the Knowledge of the Lower Cretaceous Bird Remains from Cornet (Romania)" (PDF). Travaux du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle "Grigore Antipa". 28: 289–295. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-04. Retrieved 2014-08-27.

[Porzana-19] David W. Steadman (1986). "Two New Species of Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from Mangaia, Southern Cook Islands" (PDF). Pacific Science. 40 (1–4): 38–54.

[Lenesornis-20] Evgeny N. Kurochkin (1996). "A New Enantiornithid of the Mongolian Late Cretaceous, and a General Appraisal of the Infraclass Enantiornithes". Palaeontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moskou. 1996: 1–50.

[Nanantius-21] Ralphe E. Molnar (1986). "An Enantiornithine Bird from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia". Nature. 322 (6081): 736–738. Bibcode:1986Natur.322..736M. doi:10.1038/322736a0. S2CID 4311390.

[Pliogyps-22] Jonathan J. Becker (1986). "A New Vulture (Vulturidae: Pliogyps) from the Late Miocene of Florida" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 99 (3): 502–508. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-27. Retrieved 2014-08-26.

[triptersum-23] Wellnhofer, Peter (1991). "Summary of Triassic Pterosaurs." The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Pterosaurs. London, UK: Salamander Books Limited. p. 67. ISBN 0-86101-566-5.

[Flannery1986-24] Flannery, T. F.; Plane, M. D. (1986). "A new late Pleistocene diprotodontid (Marsupialia) from Pureni, Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea" (PDF). BMR Journal of Australian Geology & Geophysics. 10: 65–76.

[25] Wall, William P.; Manning, Earl (1986). "Rostriamynodon grangeri n. gen., n. sp. of Amynodontid (Perissodactyla, Rhinocerotoidea) with Comments on the Phylogenetic History of Eocene Amynodontidae". Journal of Paleontology. 60 (4): 911–919. ISSN 0022-3360.

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