1996 in paleontology

Plants

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Newly named crustaceans

Newly named insects

Fish

Cartilaginous fish

Research

• Duffin et al (1996) describes chondrichthyan remains from the Itaituba Formation of the Amazon Basin of Brazil and deems Anachronistes to be a junior synonym of Cooleyella.

New taxa

Amphibians

Temnospondyls

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Dinosaurs

• In the summer excavation resumed on the Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur, discovered in a quarry near the Glenn Highway, approximately 150 miles northeast of Anchorage.

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Birds

Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Fossil eggs

New ootaxa

Synapsids

Mammals

New taxa

Footnotes

References

• Pasch, A. D., K. C. May. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska. In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Ed.s Tanke, D. H., Carpenter, K., Skrepnick, M. W. Indiana University Press. Pages 219–236.