1995 in paleontology

Plants

Conifers

Conifer research

• Phipps, Osborne, & Stockey detail permineralized Pinus pollen cones from the Allenby Formations Princeton Chert site. The description is the first to include in-situ pollen ultrastructure and the cones are the oldest Pinus pollen cones that had been described to date. Affiliation with the Princeton chert organ taxa Pinus similkameenensis (leaves) and Pinus arnoldii (seed cones) was suggested.

Arthropods

Newly named arachnids

Newly named insects

Brachiopods

Molluscs

Bivalves

Fish

Newly named bony fish

Archosauromorphs

Newly named 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 attributable to Tyrannosaurus rex. One year later, in 1998, Karen Chin and others publish a joint paper in Nature announcing the finding.
• Paul Sereno lead an expedition to the Kem Kem region of southeastern Morocco. Among the fossils discovered is a partial skull of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus. Significantly, it preserves a "complete and undistorted braincase" which would later be described in detail along with the structure of the inner ear of C. saharicus by Hans C. E. Larsson in 2001.

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Mammals

New taxa

References

References

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2. (2004). "A redescription and family placement of ''Uintascorpio'' Perry, 1995 from the Parachute Creek Member of the Green River Formation (middle Eocene) of Colorado, USA (Scorpiones: Buthidae)". [[Revista Ibérica de Aracnología]].
3. (1995). "The ant genus ''Aphaenogaster'' in Dominican and Mexican amber (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. IX: Pheidolini)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie).
4. (2011). "On the systematic position of ''Baltimartyria'' Skalski, 1995 and description of a new species from Baltic amber (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae)". ZooKeys.
5. (2011). "Revision of fossil species of ''Dryinus'' belonging to ''lamellatus'' group, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae)". ZooKeys.
6. (1995). "A new fossil snake-fly species from Baltic amber (Raphidioptera: Inocelliidae)". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology.
7. (1995). "Nine new species and a new genus of Dominican amber ants of the tribe (Cephalotini Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Creation Research Society Quarterly.
8. (1999). "Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus ''Cephalotes'', past and present". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie).
9. Herrera, Zarela Angélica. (1995). "The first notanopliid brachiopod from the South American Devonian sequence". Geobios.
10. (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". Paläontologische Zeitschrift.
11. (1995). "Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology and palaeogeography ''(in Russian)''". University of Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg.
12. "Introduction," Chure (2001). Pg. 20.
13. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
14. (1995). "Two new horned dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana, with a phylogenetic analysis of the Centrosaurinae (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
15. (1995). "''Ampelosaurus atacis'' (nov. gen., nov. sp), un nouveau Titanosauridae (Dinosauria, Saurpoda) du Crétacé Supérieur de la haute vallée de l'Aude (France)". C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris.
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17. Long, R.A. and P.A. Murry. 1995. Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) tetrapods from the Southwestern United States. New Mexico Museum Nat. History Sci. Bull. 4: pp. 1-254.
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19. (1995). "A new giant carnivorous dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Patagonia". Nature.
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24. Chure, D.J. 1995. A reassessment of the gigantic theropod ''Saurophagus maximus'' from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Oklahoma, USA. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota: pp. 103-106.
25. Coombs, W.P. 1995. A nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Texas. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 15 (2):pp. 298-312.
26. Steven D. Emslie. (1995). "An Early Irvingtonian Avifauna from Leisey Shell Pit". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History.
27. Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga. (1995). "Um Primitivo Membro da Ordem Galliformes (Aves) do Terciário Médio da Bacia de Taubaté, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências.
28. Brian Mackness. (1995). "''Anhinga malagurala'', A New Pygmy Darter form the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, North- Eastern Queensland". Emu.
29. (1995). "A New Enantiornithine Bird from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
30. Zhou Zhonghe. (1995). "Discovery of a New Enantiornithine Bird from the Early Cretaceous of Liaoning, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
31. (1995). "''Confuciusornis sanctus'', a New Late Jurassic Sauriurine Bird from China". Chinese Science Bulletin.
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33. Kenneth E. Campbell, jr.. (1995). "A Review of the Cranes (Aves: Gruidae) of Rancho La Brea, with the Description of a New Species". Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science.
34. Claudia P. Tambussi. (1995). "The Fossil Rheiformes from Argentina". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
35. Dieter S. Peters. (1995). "''Idiornis tuberculata'' N. Spec. Ein Weiterer Ungewohnlicher Vogel aus der Grube Messel (Aves: Gruiformes: Cariamidae: Idiornithinae)". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
36. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré. (1995). "The Messelornithidae (Aves: Gruiformes) from the Palaeocene of France". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
37. Zlatozar N. Boev. (1995). "Middle Villafranchian Birds from Varshets (Western Balkan Range-Bulgaria)". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
38. Steven D. Emslie. (1995). "A Catastrophic Death Assemblage of a New Species of Cormorant and Other Seabirds from the Late Pliocene of Florida". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
39. Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga. (1995). "A Large and Probably Flightless Anhinga from the Miocene of Chile". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
40. Walter E. Boles. (1995). "A Preliminary Analysis of the Passeriformes from Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, Australia, with the description of a New Species of Lyrebird". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
41. Xue Xiangxu. (1995). "''Qinornis paleocenica'' - a Palaeocene Bird Discovered in China". Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.
42. (1995). "''Asiavorator altidens'' gen et sp. nov., un mammifere carnivore nouveau de l'Oligocene superieur de Mongolie". Annales de Paléontologie.