2008 in paleontology

Protozoa

New taxa

Plants

Ferns and fern allies

Angiosperms

Monocots

Arthropoda

Arachnomorphs

Crustaceans

Research

• Schram (2008) publishes an adjustment to the taxonomy of Paleozoic stomatopods, erecting the family Archaeocarididae.

Insects

Xiphosurans

Fishes

Bony fish

Cartilaginous fish

Placoderms

General research

• Hilton & Grande redescribe the fossil mooneyes of western North America synonymizing the genus Eohiodon with Hiodon.
• Cicimurri, Paris, & Everhart describe a partial dentition from a Holocephali chimaeroid fish found in the Niobrara Chalk.

Amphibians

Jenkins, F. A., jr, Shubin, N. H., Gatesy, S. M., and Warren, A., 2008, Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland and a reassessment of head lifting in temnospondyl feeding: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28, n. 4, p. 935-950.

Newly named amphibians

Archosaurs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Newly named pterosaurs

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Dinosaurs

• Oviraptorosaurian eggs with embryonic skeletons are discovered for the first time in China.
• Mongolian Late Jurassic theropod fossils are found for the first time.
• A new study on morphological variation in shed theropod teeth from the Mil River Formation is published.

Newly named dinosaurs

28 new dinosaur genera were erected in 2008. Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Other publications

• Hutchinson, J.R., Miller, C., Fritsch, G., and Hildebrandt, T. 2008. The anatomical foundation for multidisciplinary studies of animal limb function: examples from dinosaur and elephant limb imaging studies; pp. 23–38 in Endo, H. and Frey, R. (eds.), Anatomical Imaging: Towards a New Morphology. Springer Verlag, Tokyo.
• Witmer, L.M., Ridgely, R.C., Dufeau, D.L., and Semones, M.C. 2008. Using CR to peer into the past: 3D visualization of the brain and ear regions of birds, crocodiles, and nonavian dinosaurs; pp. 67–88 in Endo, H. and Frey, R. (eds.), Anatomical Imaging: Towards a New Morphology. Springer Verlag, Tokyo.

Turtles

Newly named turtles

Squamates

new taxa

New papers

• Everhart, M.J. 2008. The mosasaurs of George F. Sternberg, paleontologist and fossil photographer. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting, Fort Hays Studies Special Issue 3, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, pp. 37–46.
• Polcyn, M.J. and Everhart, M.J. 2008. Description and phylogenetic analysis of a new species of Selmasaurus (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae) from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting, Fort Hays Studies Special Issue 3, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, pp. 13–28.
• Polcyn, M.J., Bell, G.L., Jr., Shimada, K. and Everhart, M.J. 2008. The oldest North American mosasaurs (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas and Texas with comments on the radiation of major mosasaur clades. Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting, Fort Hays Studies Special Issue 3, Fort Hays State University, Hays, Kansas, pp. 137–155.
• Everhart, M.J. 2008. Rare occurrence of a Globidens sp. (Reptilia; Mosasauridae) dentary in the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale (Middle Campanian) of Western Kansas. p. 23-29 in Farley G. H. and Choate, J.R. (eds.), Unlocking the Unknown; Papers Honoring Dr. Richard Zakrzewski, Fort Hays Studies, Special Issue No. 2, 153 p., Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS.

Sauropterygians

New taxa

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Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Mammal

Related happenings in geology

Footnotes

Complete author list

As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.

References

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64. Canudo, José I.. (2008). "A new sauropod: ''Tastavinsaurus sanzi'' gen. et sp. nov. from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) of Spain". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
65. Salgado, Leonardo. (2008). "''Uberabatitan ribeiroi'', a new titanosaur from the Marília Formation (Bauru Group, Upper Cretaceous), Minas Gerais, Brazil". Palaeontology.
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69. Storrs L. Olson. (2008). "A New Species of Shearwater of the Genus ''Calonectris'' (Aves: Procellariidae) from a Middle Pleistocene Deposit of Bermuda". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
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91. Trevor H. Worthy. (2008). "Pliocene Waterfowl (Aves: Anseriformes) from South Australia and a New Genus and Species". Emu.
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93. Gerald Mayr. (2008). "Phylogenetic Affinities of the Enigmatic Avian Taxon ''Zygodactylus'' Based on New Material from the Early Oligocene of France". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
94. Sterli J. (2008). "A new, nearly complete stem turtle from the Jurassic of South America with implications for turtle evolution". Biology Letters.
95. (2008). "The description and phylogenetic position of a new nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
96. (2008). "An ancestral turtle from the Late Triassic of southwestern China". Nature.
97. Jean-Claude Rage. (2008). "Fossil snakes from the Palaeocene of São José de Itaboraí, Brazil Part III. Ungaliophiinae, Booids incertae sedis, and Caenophidia. Summary, update and discussion of the snake fauna from the locality". Palæovertebrata.
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99. Jozef Klembara. (2008). "A new anguimorph lizard from the Lower Miocene of north-west Bohemia, Czech Republic". Palaeontology.
100. Norell, M.A.. (2008). "A new platynotan lizard (Diapsida: Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous Gobi Desert (Ömnögov), Mongolia". American Museum Novitates.
101. (2008). "A new species of ''Prognathodon'' (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Maastrichtian of Angola, and the affinities of the mosasaur genus ''Liodon''". Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting.
102. (2008). "Description and phylogenetic analysis of a new species of ''Selmasaurus'' (Mosasauridae: Plioplatecarpinae) from the Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas". Proceedings of the Second Mosasaur Meeting.
103. (2008). "A New Species Of ''Taniwhasaurus'' (Mosasauridae, Tylosaurinae) From The Upper Santonian-Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Of Hokkaido, Japan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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109. Ivakhnenko, M.F.. (2008). "Cranial morphology and evolution of Permian Dinomorpha (Eotherapsida) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal.
110. Ivakhnenko, M.F.. (2008). "The first Whaitsiid (Therocephalia, Theromorpha) from the Terminal Permian of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal.
111. Lawrence G. Barnes. (2008). "Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Western and Southern North America. Contributions in Honor of David P. Whistler". Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
112. (2008). "New multituberculate mammals from the Hauterivian/Barremian transition of Europe (Iberian Peninsula)". Palaeontology.
113. (2008). "Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Western and Southern North America. Contributions in Honor of David P. Whistler". Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
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115. (2008). "New giant rhinoceros from the Arikareean (Oligocene-Miocene) of Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin.
116. (2008). "Late Miocene Carnivora from Chad: Lutrinae (Mustelidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
117. S. David Webb. (2008). "Revision of the extinct Pseudoceratinae (Artiodactyla: Ruminantia: Gelocidae)". Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History.
118. Matthew C. Mihlbachler. (2008). "Species taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the Brontotheriidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
119. (2008). "Mammalian Evolutionary Morphology". Springer.
120. Hanta, R.. (2008). "A New Species of Bothriodontinae, ''Merycopotamus thachangensis'' (Cetartiodactyla, Anthracotheriidae) from the Late Miocene of Nakhon Ratchasima, Northeastern Thailand". [[Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology]].
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126. Chaimanee, Y.. (2008). "First middle Miocene sivaladapid primate from Thailand". Journal of Human Evolution.
127. Michael Cassiliano. (2008). "''Stenomylus (Stenomylus) taylori'', sp. nov. (Stenomylinae, Camelidae), from the early Miocene (Hemingfordian) Blick Quarry in New Mexico". Rocky Mountain Geology.
128. K. Christopher Beard. (2008). "The oldest North American primate and mammalian biogeography during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
129. (2008). "U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Jurassic eolian and associated sandstones of the Colorado Plateau: evidence for transcontinental dispersal and intraregional recycling of sediment". Geological Society of America Bulletin.