1983 in paleontology

Plants

Conifers

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Crustaceans

Crustacean research

• Albrecht (1983) reappraises the relationships of some fossil crustaceans and erects the family Protastacidae.

Insects

Fish

Cartilaginous fish

Cartilaginous fish research

• Duffin & Ward (1983) erect the family Anachronistidae for their new genus Anachronistes, which would later become a junior synonym of Cooleyella.

Reptiles

Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

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References

References

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2. (1993). "Fossil bananas (Musaceae): ''Ensete oregonense'' sp. nov. from the Eocene of western North America and its phytogeographic significance". American Journal of Botany.
3. Albrecht, von Henning. (1983). "Die Protastacidae n. fam., fossile Vorfahren der Flußkrebse?". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte.
4. (1983). "A New Fossil Species of Termite from Mexican Amber, ''Mastotermes electromexicus'' (Isoptera, Mastotermitidae)". American Museum Novitates.
5. (2012). "New Fossil Ants of the Subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Germany". Paleontological Journal.
6. (August 2018). ["New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships."](http://ants.csiro.au/Ant_Wiki/images/6/60/Grimaldi_Agosti_Carpenter_1997.pdf }}{{Dead link). American Museum Novitates.
7. (1983-01-01). "Neoselachian sharks' teeth from the Lower Carboniferous of Britain and the Lower Permian of the USA". Palaeontology.
8. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
9. Barsbold, R. 1983. Carnivorous Dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia: The Joint Soviet- Mongolian Palaeontological Expedition, Transactions (Volume 19), pp. 1-117.
10. Kurzanov, S. M., and A.F. Bannikov. 1983. A new sauropod from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontological Journal 17 (2): pp. 91-97.
11. Tumanova, T.A. 1983. The first ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Sovm. Sov.- Mong. Paleontol. Eksped. Trudy 24: pp. 110-120.
12. Peter Ballmann. (1983). "A New Species of Fossil Barbet (Aves: Piciformes) from the Late Miocene of the Nödlinger Ries (Southern Germany)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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14. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré. (1983). "Les Gruiformes (Aves) des Phosphorites du Quercy (France). 1. Sous-ordre Cariamae (Cariamidae et Phorusrhacide) Systématique et Biostratigraphie". Palaeovertebrata.
15. Jíří Mlíkovský. (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe". Praha Ninox Press.
16. Colin J. O. Harrison. (1983). "A New Wader, Recurvirostridae (Charadriiformes) from the Early Eocene of Portugal". Sciências da Terra.
17. Lev A. Nessov & L. J. Borkin. (1983). "[New Records of Bird Bones from Cretaceous of Mongolia and Middle Asia]". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR.
18. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré. (2002). "''Idiornis'' Oberholser, 1899 (Aves, Gruiformes, Cariamae, Idiornithidae): a Junior Synonym of ''Dynamopterus'' Milne-Edwards, 1892 (Paleogene, Phosphorites du Quercy, France)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie.
19. Karlheinz Fischer. (1983). "''Oligostrix rupelensis'' N. Gen., N. Sp., eine Neue Ureule (Protostrigidae, Srigiformes, Aves) aus de Mitteleozänen Braunkohle des Geiseltals des Weisselsterbeckens bei Leipzig (DDR)". Zeitschrift für Geologischen Wissenschaften.
20. Gerard F. van Tets & [[Sue O'Connor]]. (1983). "The Hunter Island Penguin, an Extinct New Genus and Species from a Tasmanian Midden". [[Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston]].
21. Ron J. Scarlett. (1983). "''Tereingaornis moisleyi'' - a New Pliocene Penguin". New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.