1982 in paleontology

Plants

Pteridophytes

Angiosperms

Fish

Ray-finned fish

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

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

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Pterosaurs

New taxa

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.

New taxa

References

References

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2. (1982). "Fossil woods from the Eocene Clarno Formation of Oregon". IAWA Journal.
3. (1982). "A new species of the fish ''Amia'' from the Middle Eocene of British Columbia". Palaeontology.
4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
5. Suslov 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.
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10. Carpenter, 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.
11. Young, 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.
12. 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.
13. Hou Lianhai. (1982). "Brief Report on "Avian Fossils of Pleistocene from Zhoukoudian, China"". Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
14. Evgeny N. Kurochkin. (1982). "New Order of Birds from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR.
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16. Peter D. M. Weesie. (1982). "A Pleistocene Endemic Island Form within the Genus ''Athene'': ''Athene cretensis'' n. sp. (Aves: Strigiformes) from Crete". Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B.
17. Evgeny N. Kurochkin. (1982). "[New Birds from the Middle Pliocene of Mongolia.]". Ornithologiya.
18. Nikita V. Zelenkov & Evgeny N. Kurochkin. (2009). "Neogene Phasianids (Aves: Phasianidae) of Central Asia: 2. Genera ''Perdix'', ''Plioperdix'', and ''Bantamyx''". Paleontological Journal.
19. 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.
20. Sevil M. Aslanova & Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich. (1999). "A Detailed Description of Caspiodontornis kobystanicus from the Oligocene of the Caspian Seashore". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia.
21. 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)". Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science.
22. Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker. (1982). "Fossil Birds from the Upper Miocene of Northern Pakistan". Tertiary Research.
23. Petr Švec. (1982). "Two New Species of Diving Birds from the Lower Miocene of Czechoslovakia". Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii.
24. Hou Lianhai. (1982). "New form of the Threskiornithidae from the Upper Eocene of the Minggang, Henan". Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
25. Jíří Mlikovský. (1982). "Early Miocene Birds of Skyrice, Czech Republic". Casopis Narodniho Muzea, Rada Prirodovedna.
26. Oscar Arredondo. (1982). "Los Strigiformes Fósiles del Pleistoceno Cubano". Boletin del Sociedad Venezolana de Ciencias Naturales.
27. Colin J. O. Harrison. (1982). "The Earliest Parrot: A New Species from the British Eocene". Ibis.
28. Colin J. O. Harrison. (1982). "A New Tiny Raptor from the Lower Eocene of England". Ardea.
29. Jíří Mlíkovský. (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe". Praha Ninox Press.
30. Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga. (1982). "Uma Gigantesca Ave Fóssil do Cenozóico Brasileiro: ''Physornis brasiliensis'' Sp. N.". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências.
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32. Storrs L. Olson. (1982). "A New Species of Palm Swift (''Tachornis'': Apodidae) from the Pleistocene of Puerto Rico". Auk.
33. (1982). "Pallimnarchus and other Cenozoic crocodiles in Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.
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35. Bonaparte, J.F. 1982. Classification of the Thecodontia. Geobios Mem. Spec. 6: pp. 99-112.