1982 in paleontology

Plants

Pteridophytes

Angiosperms

Fish

Ray-finned fish

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Birds

Some remarks on newly named birds

• Hulsanpes perlei Osmolska, 1982 was described as a Troodontidae, it is sometimes seen as an Avialae because of having a ginglymoid metatarsal II.

Newly named birds

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Pseudosuchia

General pseudosuchian research

• Ralph Molnar publishes a revision of the genus Pallimnarchus, comparing it to various Australasian crocodilians and diagnosing it based on proportional differences.

New taxa

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