1977 in paleontology
Encyclopedia

Dinosaurs

  • Trexler found hadrosaur remains west of Choteau, Montana
    Choteau, Montana
    Choteau is a city in and the county seat of Teton County, Montana, United States. It lies along U.S. Routes 89 and 287 about east of the Rocky Mountains, near Flathead National Forest, the Rocky Mountain Division of Lewis and Clark National Forest, and Glacier National Park. The population was...

     in Two Medicine Formation
    Two Medicine Formation
    The Two Medicine Formation is a geologic formation, or rock body, that was deposited between 83.5 ± 0.7 Ma to 70.6 ± 0.6 Ma , during Campanian time, and is located in northwestern Montana...

     strata.

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky
George Olshevsky
George Olshevsky is a freelance editor, writer, publisher, amateur paleontologist, and mathematician living in San Diego, California.Olshevsky maintains the comprehensive online Dinosaur Genera List...

's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.
Name Status Authors Notes Images
Fulengia
Fulengia
Fulengia is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Jurassic. It was a prosauropod or other basal sauropodomorph. Its fossils were found in China....

Nomen dubium
Nomen dubium
In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application...

. Possible synonym of Lufengosaurus
Lufengosaurus
Lufengosaurus is a genus of prosauropod dinosaur which lived during the Early Jurassic period in what is now southwestern China.-Discovery and species:...

.
  • Carroll
  • Peter Galton
    Peter Galton
    Peter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article...


  • Opisthocoelicaudia
    Opisthocoelicaudia
    Opisthocoelicaudia was 12-metre-long sauropod dinosaur of the Late Cretaceous Period discovered in Mongolia in 1965 by Polish and Mongolian scientists in what is now the Gobi Desert...

    Valid taxon
    • Borsuk-Bialynicka
    Othnielia
    Othnielia
    Othnielia is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur, named after its original describer, Professor Othniel Charles Marsh, an American paleontologist of the 19th century...

    Valid taxon
  • Peter Galton
    Peter Galton
    Peter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article...

  • Piveteausaurus
    Piveteausaurus
    Piveteausaurus is a genus of theropod dinosaur known from a partial skull discovered in the Middle Jurassic Marnes de Dives formation of Calvados, in northern France.-History and description:...

    Valid taxon
  • Philippe Taquet
    Philippe Taquet
    Philippe Taquet is a French paleontologist who specializes in dinosaur systematics of finds primarily in northern Africa.He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since November 30, 2004...

  • Welles
  • Saichania
    Saichania
    Saichania is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period. It was found in the Barun Goyot Formation at Khulsan in the Nemegt Basin, southern Mongolia. It lived during the Campanian. The type species is Saichania chulsanensis.Saichania was described by Teresa Maryańska in 1977,...

    Valid taxon
  • Teresa Maryańska
    Teresa Maryanska
    Teresa Maryańska is a Polish paleontologist who has specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs, particularly pachycephalosaurians and ankylosaurians. A member of the 1964, 1965, 1970, and 1971 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert, she has described many finds from these rocks, often with...

  • "Shanshanosaurus" Junior synonym of Tarbosaurus
    Tarbosaurus
    Tarbosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that flourished in Asia about 70 million years ago, at the end of the Late Cretaceous Period. Fossils have been recovered in Mongolia, with more fragmentary remains found further afield in parts of China. Although many species have been...

    .
  • Dong Zhiming
    Dong Zhiming
    Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...

  • Tarchia
    Tarchia
    Tarchia is a genus of ankylosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia. It is currently the geologically youngest known of all the Asian ankylosaurid dinosaurs and is represented by five or more specimens, including two complete skulls and one nearly complete postcranial skeleton...

    Valid taxon
  • Teresa Maryańska
    Teresa Maryanska
    Teresa Maryańska is a Polish paleontologist who has specialized in Mongolian dinosaurs, particularly pachycephalosaurians and ankylosaurians. A member of the 1964, 1965, 1970, and 1971 Polish–Mongolian expeditions to the Gobi Desert, she has described many finds from these rocks, often with...

  • Tuojiangosaurus
    Tuojiangosaurus
    Tuojiangosaurus is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period, recovered from the Upper Shaximiao Formation of what is now Sichuan Province in China. Physically similar to the North American Stegosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus is the best understood of the Chinese stegosaurids...

    Valid taxon
  • Dong Zhiming
    Dong Zhiming
    Dong Zhiming , from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, is one of China's leading paleontologists. He began working at the IVPP in 1962, learning from Yang Zhongjian who was director at the time...

  • Li X. M.
  • Zhou S.
  • Zhang Y. H.
  • Valdosaurus
    Valdosaurus
    Valdosaurus is a genus of bipedal herbivorous iguanodont ornithopod dinosaur found on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere in England. It lived during the Early Cretaceous.-Discovery and naming:...

    Valid taxon
  • Peter Galton
    Peter Galton
    Peter M. Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.With Robert Bakker in a joint article...

  • Wannanosaurus
    Wannanosaurus
    Wannanosaurus is a genus of basal pachycephalosaurian dinosaur from the Campanian-age Upper Cretaceous Xiaoyan Formation, about 80 million years ago in what is now Anhui, China...

    Valid taxon
  • Hou
  • "Yezosaurus" Nomen nudum
    Nomen nudum
    The phrase nomen nudum is a Latin term, meaning "naked name", used in taxonomy...

    . Non-dinosaurian marine reptile
    Marine reptile
    Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semi-aquatic life in a marine environment.The earliest marine reptiles arose in the Permian period during the Paleozoic era...

    .
  • Obata
  • Muramoto

  • New taxa

    s="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%">
    Name Status Authors Notes

    Araripedactylus
    Araripedactylus
    Araripedactylus was a large genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur, known from a single wing bone found in the Early Cretaceous-age Santana Formation of Brazil....


    Valid

    Wellnhofer

    Nesodon
    Nesodon
    Nesodon is a genus of Miocene mammal belonging to the extinct order Notoungulata which inhabited southern South America during the Late Oligocene to Miocene living from 29.0—16.3 Ma and existed for approximately .-Taxonomy:...


    Valid

    Jensen
    Ostrom
    er="0" style= height:"100%" align="right" style="background:transparent;">

    Non-mammalian

    Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

    '

    Valid

    '

    Valid

    Angiospermae

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Nelumbo aureavallis
    Nelumbo aureavallis
    Nelumbo aureavallis is an extinct species of flowering plant in the lotus family known from Ypresian age Eocene fossils found in western North Dakota, USA.The species was described from two leaf specimens with reference to four others...


    Valid

    Hickey

    Ypresian
    Ypresian
    In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene. It spans the time between and , is preceded by the Thanetian age and is followed by the Eocene Lutetian age....


    Camels Butte Member, Golden Valley Formation

    North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

    , USA

     United States

    Peltandra primaeva
    Peltandra primaeva
    Peltandra primaeva is an extinct species of monocot in the Araceae family known from a Ypresian age Eocene fossil found in western North Dakota, USA....


    Valid

    Hickey

    Ypresian
    Ypresian
    In the geologic timescale the Ypresian is the oldest age or lowest stratigraphic stage of the Eocene. It spans the time between and , is preceded by the Thanetian age and is followed by the Eocene Lutetian age....


    Camels Butte Member, Golden Valley Formation

    North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

    , USA

     United States

    Pinophyta

    Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

    Pinus peregrinus
    Pinus peregrinus
    Pinus peregrinus is an extinct species of pine in the Pinaceae family known from Clarkforkian age Paleocene fossils found in western North Dakota, USA....


    Valid

    Hickey

    Clarkforkian
    Clarkforkian
    The Clarkforkian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology , typically set from 56,800,000 to 55,400,000 years BP lasting . It is usually considered to be within the Paleocene, more specifically the...


    Bear Den Member, Golden Valley Formation

    North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

    , USA

     United States
    The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
     
    x
    OK