1984 in paleontology explained

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Hooleya lata	Sp nov	Valid	Wing	Eocene	Clarno Formation		A Platycaryeae fruit morphospecies.
Platycarya bognorensis^[1]	Comb nov	valid	(Chandler) Wing & Hickey	Eocene	London Clay		Moved from Pterocaryopsis bognorensis (1961) Pterocaryopsis elliptica (1978) synonymized in.
Platycarya castaneopsis	Comb nov	valid	(Lesquereux) Wing & Hickey	Ypresian	Green River Formation		Moved from Quercus castaneopsis (1883)
Platycarya manchesterii	Sp nov	valid	Wing & Hickey	Eocene	Clarno Formation		A Platycarya fruit morphospecies.

Arthropods

Newly named crustaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Gorgonophontes^[3]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Schram	Kasimovian	Swope Formation Dennis Formation Oread Formation	( )	A mantis shrimp, type species is G. peleron
Peachocaris acanthouraea	Sp nov	Valid	Schram	Upper Pennsylvanian	Swope Formation	( )	A lophogastrid
Pseudarmadillo cristatus^[4]	Sp nov	Valid	Schmalfuss	Burdigalian	Dominican amber		A delatorreid isopod
Pseudarmadillo tuberculatus	Sp nov	Valid	Schmalfuss	Burdigalian	Dominican amber		A delatorreid isopod

Newly named eurypterids

Conodont paleozoology

Willi Ziegler and Charles A. Sandberg described the conodont genus Alternognathus.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[6]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chuandongocoelurus^[7]		Valid	He	Middle Jurassic	Lower Shaximiao Formation		A tetanuran theropod
Datousaurus^[8]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Dong & Tang	Middle Jurassic	Lower Shaximiao Formation		A Mamenchisaurid sauropod
Harpymimus^[9]	Fam., gen et sp nov	Valid	Barsbold & Perle	Hauterivian to Barremian	Shinekhudug Formation
Kaijiangosaurus	Gen et sp nov	Valid	He	Middle Jurassic	Xiashaximiao Formation		A tetanuran theropod
Liliensternus^[10]	Gen nov	Valid	Welles	Norian	Trossingen Formation		A coelophysoid
Longosaurus	Gen nov	Jr. synonym of Coelophysis.	Welles
Xuanhanosaurus^[11]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Dong	Middle Jurassic	Lower Shaximiao Formation		A megalosauroid. Before it was believed that this animal was a quadruped, but now it is known that this was a biped.

Newly named birds

Name	Status	Novelty	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anser thraceiensis ^[12]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich Ivan M. Nikolov	Late Miocene or Early Pliocene	MN 11-15	Bulgaria	An Anatidae.
Archaeopteryx recurva ^[13]	Disputed	Sp. nov.	Michael E. Howgate	Late Jura	Portlandian	Germany:	An Archaeopterygidae, the 5th specimen, this species becomes the type species of the new genus Jurapteryx Howgate, 1985.^[14]
Bubo leakeyae ^[15]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Pierce Brodkorb Cécile Mourer-Chauviré	Holocene	Olduvai Gorge		A Strigidae.
Cursoricoccyx geraldinae ^[16]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Larry D. Martin Robert M. Mengel	Early Miocene	Pawnee Creek Formation	: |A Cuculiformes, Neomorphidae, this is the type species of the new genus.||-|Cygnopterus alphonsi ^[17] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Jacques Cheneval|Early Miocene|MN 2a| France |An Anatidae.||-|Dromaius baudinianus ^[18] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Shane A. Parker|Holocene|Kangeroo Island| Australia: |A Dromaiidae.||-|Eocypselus vincenti ^[19] |Valid|Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.|Colin J. O. Harrison|Early Eocene|MP 8| : |An Apodiformes, Eocypselidae Harrison, 1984, this is the type species of the new genus.||-|Fulmarus miocaenus ^[20] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Hildegarde Howard|Middle Miocene|Round Mountain Silt, Barstovian| United States: |A Procellariidae.||-|Gansus yumenensis ^[21] |Valid|Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.|Hou Lianhai Liu Zhicheng|Early Cretaceous|Xiagou Formation| China|An Ornithuromorphae Chiappe, Ji, Ji et Norell, 1999, Gansuiformes Hou et Liu, 1984, Gansuidae Hou et Liu, 1984, this is the type species of the new genus.||-|Gavia moldavica ^[22] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Jenö Kessler|Late Miocene Early Pliocene|MN 9?| Romania United States: |A Gaviidae.||-|Kizylkumavis cretacea ^[23] |Valid|Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.|Lev A. Nessov|Late Cretaceous|Late Turonian-Coniacian| Uzbekistan|An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Alexornithiformes, Brodkorb, 1976, Alexornithidae Brodkorb, 1976, Alexornithinae Brodkorb, 1976, this is the type species of the new genus.||-|Larus udabnensis ^[24] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich E. G. Gabashvili|Late Miocene|| Georgia|A Laridae.||-|Mioaegypius gui ^[25] |Valid|Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.|Hou LianHai|Middle Miocene|Xiacaowan Formation| China |An Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus.||-|Otus guildayi ^[26] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Pierce Brodkorb Cécile Mourer-Chauviré|Pleistocene|Cave deposits| United States: |A Strigidae.||-|Parahesperornis alexi ^[27] |Valid|Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.|Larry D. Martin|Late Cretaceous|Niobrara Chalk Formation| United States: |A Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888, Hesperornithidae Marsh, 1872, this is the type species of the new genus.||-|Parvirallus bassetti ^[28] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Colin J. O. Harrison|Early Eocene|MP 8-9| : |A Rallidae.||-|Parvirallus gassoni |Valid|Sp. nov.|Colin J. O. Harrison|Early Eocene|MP 8-9| : |A Rallidae.||-|Parvirallus medius |Valid|Sp. nov.|Colin J. O. Harrison|Early Eocene|MP 8-9| : |A Rallidae.||-|Pediorallus hookeri ^[29] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Colin J. O. Harrison|Early Eocene|Ypresian, London Clay B MP 8-9| : |Described as a Rallidae, transferred to the genus Lithornis Owen, 1840 by Houde, 1988,^[30] a Palaeognathae, Lithornithiformes Houde, 1988, Lithornithidae Houde, 1988.||-|Pediorallus nasi |Valid|Sp. nov.|Colin J. O. Harrison|Early Eocene|Ypresian, London Clay A MP 8| : |Described as a Rallidae, transferred to the genus Lithornis Owen, 1840 by Houde, 1988, a Palaeognathae, Lithornithiformes Houde, 1988, Lithornithidae Houde, 1988.||-|Phalacrocorax owrei ^[31] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Pierce Brodkorb Cécile Mourer-Chauviré|Pleistocene|Douglas Leakey Korongo| |A Phalacrocoracidae.||-|Phalacrocorax serdicensis |Valid ?|Sp. nov.|Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich Ivan M. Nikolov|Late Miocene|MN 11-13| Bulgaria |A Phalacrocoracidae, possibly a synonym of Phalacrocorax aristotelis.||-|Phasianus yanshansis ^[32] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Huang Wanpo Hou Lianhai|Holocene|Cave deposits| China |A Phasianidae.||-|Podiceps miocenicus |Valid|Sp. nov.|Jenö Kessler|Late Miocene|MN 9| Romania |A Podicipedidae.||-|Scaniacypselus wardi |Valid|Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.|Colin J. O. Harrison|Early Eocene|MP 8| Denmark |An Apodidae, this is the type species of the new genus.||-|Scopus xenopus ^[33] |Valid|Sp. nov.|Storrs L. Olson|Early Pliocene|Varswater Formation| South Africa |A Scopidae||-|Stintonornis mitchelli |Valid|Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.|Colin J. O. Harrison|Early Eocene|MP 8-9| : |Described as a Falconidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Mlíkovský, 2002.^[34] ||-|Zhyraornis kashkarovi |Valid|Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.|Lev A. Nessov|Late Cretaceous|Coniacian, Bissekty Formation| : Uzbekistan|An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Alexornithiformes, Brodkorb, 1976, Alexornithidae Brodkorb, 1976, Zhyraornithinae Nessov, 1984, this is the type species of the new genus.||-|} Pterosaurs References ]

Notes and References

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4. Schmalfuss . H. . 1984 . Two new species of the terrestrial isopod genus Pseudarmadillo from Dominican amber (Amber-Collection Stuttgart: Crustacea, Isopoda, Pseudarmadillidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde (B) . 102 . 1–14.
5. Chatterjee . S . 1984 . A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Triassic of North America . Naturwissenschaften . 1 . 12 . 630–631 . 10.1007/bf00377897. 1984NW.....71..630C . 6993997 .
6. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
7. He, X. 1984. The Vertebrate Fossils of Sichuan. Sichuan Scientific and Technical Publishing House, Chengdu, Sichuan: 168 pages.
8. Dong, Z. and Z. Tang. 1984. Note on the mid Jurassic sauropod (Datousaurus bashanensis gen. et sp. nov.) from Suchuan Basin, China. Vertebr. Palasiatica 22: pp. 69-75.
9. Barsbold, R. and A. Perle. 1984. [On] The first finding of primitive ornithomimosaur from the Cretaceous of the [Mongolian People's Republic]. Paleontologischeskii Zhural 2: pp. 121-123
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12. Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich . Ivan M. Nikolov . amp . 1984 . Iskopayemmyye ptitsy Phalacrocorax serdicensis sp. n. i Anser thraceiensis sp. n. iz Bolgarii. [The fossil birds ''Phalacrocorax serdicensis'' sp. n. and ''Anser thraceiensis'' sp. n. from Bulgaria.] [in Russian, with English summ.] . Paleontologiya, Stratigrafiya I Litologiya . 19 . 23–34 .
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17. Jacques Cheneval . 1984 . The Les Oiseaux Aquataniques (Gaviiformes à Anseriformes) du Gisement Aquitanien de Saint-Gérard-Le-Puy (Allier, France). Révision Systématique . Palaeovertebrata . 14 . 2 . 33–115 .
18. Shane A. Parker . 1984 . The Extinct Kangaroo Island Emu, a Hitherto Unrecognized Species . Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . 104 . 1 . 19–22 .
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