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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 2017.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Whiteside, Duffin & Furrer | A basal member of Rhynchocephalia. The type species is D. elvetica. | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Whiteside & Duffin | Late Triassic (Rhaetian) | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Whiteside & Duffin | Late Triassic (Rhaetian) | A member of the family Gephyrosauridae. The type species is P. curtiscoppi. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Bever & Norell | A relative of pleurosaurids. The type species is V. herzogi. | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Albino | Late Miocene | A boa. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Otero et al. | Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) | A mosasaur. The type species is K. hervei. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | DeMar et al. | Late Cretaceous (Campanian) | A member of Iguanomorpha (the group containing crown and stem-iguanians) related to Saichangurvel davidsoni and Temujinia ellisoni. The type species is M. ovimonsensis. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Klein et al. | Cretaceous | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Codrea, Venczel & Solomon | A member of Teiioidea, possibly a relative of Barbatteius vremiri. Genus includes new species O. glyphis. | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Bochaton et al. | Late Pleistocene and Holocene | France | A member of Teiidae. | |||
Schoenesmahl [38] | Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Conrad | A relative of Ardeosaurus found in the abdominal cavity of the holotype specimen of Compsognathus longipes. The type species is S. dyspepsia. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Čerňanský & Smith | A lizard related to Eolacerta and the wall lizards. The type species is S. siderea. | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Ivanov et al. | Early Miocene | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Dong, Wang & Evans | Early Cretaceous | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Dong, Wang & Evans | Early Cretaceous | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Jasinski & Moscato | Late Hemphillian | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Paparella et al. | Late Jurassic | A member of Ophthalmosauridae. The type species is G. nicosiai. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Disputed | Delsett et al. | Early Cretaceous (early Berriasian) | A member of Ophthalmosauridae. The type species is K. nui. Zverkov & Prilepskaya (2019) considered Keilhauia to be a junior synonym of the genus Arthropterygius , and considered K. nui to be nomen dubium ; [51] Delsett et al. (2019) rejected this synonymy. [52] | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Lomax, Massare & Mistry | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Gómez-Pérez & Noè | A member of the family Pliosauridae. Genus includes new species A. pavachoquensis. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Marquez-Aliaga et al. | Cañete Formation | A marine reptile with nothosauroid affinities. The type species is H. cranioelongatus. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Sachs, Hornung & Kear | Early Cretaceous (probably late Hauterivian) | A member of Elasmosauridae. The type species is L. richterae. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Fischer et al. | A member of Pliosauridae. The type species is L. itilensis. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Frey et al. | Late Cretaceous | A member of Polycotylidae. The type species is M. fernandezi. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Serratos, Druckenmiller & Benson | Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) | A member of Elasmosauridae. The type species is N. bradti. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Wintrich et al. | An early plesiosaur, possibly a basal member of Pliosauridae. The type species is R. mertensi. | ||||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Smith & Araújo | A member of the family Rhomaleosauridae. The type species is T. wiedenrothi. | |||||
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Gen. et comb. nov | Valid | Pérez-García | A member of the family Podocnemididae belonging to the subfamily Erymnochelyinae; a new genus for "Stereogenys" libyca Andrews (1903). | |||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Valdes, Bourque & Vitek | A species of Apalone . | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Myers et al. | Early Paleocene | |||||
Sp. nov | Disputed | Turvey et al. | Late Quaternary | A tortoise, a species of Chelonoidis . Considered to be a nomen dubium by Albury et al. (2018). [117] | ||||
Gen. et comb. et 2 sp. nov | Valid | Pérez-García, de Lapparent de Broin & Murelaga | Eocene (middle Ypresian to Priabonian) | A member of Podocnemididae belonging to the subfamily Erymnochelyinae. The type species is "Erymnochelys" eremberti Broin (1977); genus also includes new species E. lacombianus and E. farresi. | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Lyson, Joyce & Sertich | A stem-kinosternoid. Genus includes new species L. warreni. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | De la Fuente et al. | Late Cretaceous (late Campanian–early Maastrichtian) | A member of Chelidae. The type species is M. wichmanni. | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Brinkman, Rabi & Zhao | A pan-trionychid. | |||||
Gen. et comb. nov | Valid | Vitek et al. | Early Cretaceous (Albian) | A member of Trionychidae; a new genus for "Trionyx" kyrgyzensis Nessov (1995). | ||||
Sp. nov | Valid | Püntener, Anquetin & Billon-Bruyat | A member of the family Plesiochelyidae. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | De la Fuente, Maniel & Jannello in De La Fuente et al. | A relative of members of the family Chelidae. The type species is R. caldieroi. | |||||
“Trionyx” onomatoplokos [127] | Nom. nov | Valid | Georgalis & Joyce | Late Cretaceous (Santonian–early Campanian) | A member of Pan-Trionychidae of uncertain phylogenetic placement; a replacement name for Palaeotrionyx riabinini Kuznetsov & Chkhikvadze (1987). | |||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Pritchard & Nesbitt | Late Triassic (late Norian or Rhaetian) | A member of the family Drepanosauridae. The type species is A. renestoi. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Li et al. | A long-necked archosauromorph reptile of uncertain phylogenetic placement, possibly a member of Protorosauria. The type species is P. zhenyuensis. | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Sengupta, Ezcurra & Bandyopadhyay | An archosauromorph reptile belonging to the group Allokotosauria and the family Azendohsauridae. The type species is S. indicus. | |||||
This timeline of plesiosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, taxonomic revisions, and cultural portrayals of plesiosaurs, an order of marine reptiles that flourished during the Mesozoic Era. The first scientifically documented plesiosaur fossils were discovered during the early 19th century by Mary Anning. Plesiosaurs were actually discovered and described before dinosaurs. They were also among the first animals to be featured in artistic reconstructions of the ancient world, and therefore among the earliest prehistoric creatures to attract the attention of the lay public. Plesiosaurs were originally thought to be a kind of primitive transitional form between marine life and terrestrial reptiles. However, now plesiosaurs are recognized as highly derived marine reptiles descended from terrestrial ancestors.
This list of fossil fishes described in 2017 is a list of new taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, acanthodians, fossil cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes and other fishes of every kind that are scheduled to be described during the year 2017, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of fishes that are scheduled to occur in the year 2017. The list only includes taxa at the level of genus or species.
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This article records new taxa of fossil archosaurs of every kind that are scheduled described during the year 2019, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of archosaurs that are scheduled to occur in the year 2019.
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This article records new taxa of fossil archosaurs of every kind that are scheduled described during the year 2020, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of archosaurs that are scheduled to occur in the year 2020.
This list of fossil reptiles described in 2020 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2020, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2020.
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This list of fossil amphibians described in 2018 is a list of new taxa of fossil amphibians that were described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to amphibian paleontology that occurred in 2018.
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This list of fossil reptiles described in 2022 is a list of new taxa of fossil reptiles that were described during the year 2022, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to reptile paleontology that occurred in 2022.
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