Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoriclife 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 2005.
As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.
^Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN9780070887398. OCLC46769716.
^ abPoinar, G. (2005). "Triatoma dominicana sp. n. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae), and Trypanosoma antiquus sp. n. (Stercoraria: Trypanosomatidae), the First Fossil Evidence of a Triatomine-Trypanosomatid Vector Association". Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 5 (1): 72–81. doi:10.1089/vbz.2005.5.72. PMID15815152.
^Wolfe, A.; Edlund, M. (2005). "Taxonomy, phylogeny, and paleoecology of Eoseira wilsonii gen. et sp. nov., a Middle Eocene diatom (Bacillariophyceae: Aulacoseiraceae) from lake sediments at Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 42 (2): 243–257. doi:10.1139/e04-051.
^Hernandez-Castillo, G. R.; Stockey, R. A.; Beard, G. (2005). "Taxodiaceous pollen cones from the early Tertiary of British Columbia, Canada". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 166 (2): 339–346. doi:10.1086/427485. S2CID84144996.
^Bogner, J.; Hoffman, G. L; Aulenback, K. R (2005). "A fossilized aroid infructescence, Albertarum pueri gen. nov. et sp. nov., of Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) age from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of southern Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Botany. 83 (6): 591–598. doi:10.1139/B05-033.
^ abRadtke, M.G.; Pigg, K.B.; Wehr, W.C. (2005). "Fossil Corylopsis and Fothergilla Leaves (Hamamelidaceae) from the Lower Eocene Flora of Republic, Washington, U.S.A., and Their Evolutionary and Biogeographic Significance". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 166 (2): 347–356. doi:10.1086/427483. S2CID20215269.
^Pigg, K. B.; DeVore, M. L. (2005). "Shirleya grahamae gen. et sp. nov.(Lythraceae), Lagerstroemia-like fruits from the middle Miocene Yakima Canyon flora, central Washington State, USA". American Journal of Botany. 92 (2): 242–251. doi:10.3732/ajb.92.2.242. PMID21652401.
^Van der Ham, R. W. J. M.; Dortangs, R. W. (2005). "Structurally preserved ascomycetous fungi from the Maastrichtian type area (NE Belgium)". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 136 (1–2): 48–62. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2005.04.004.
^Rossi, W.; Kotrba, M.; Triebel, D. (2005). "A new species of Stigmatomyces from Baltic amber, the first fossil record of Laboulbeniomycetes". Mycological Research. 109 (3): 271–274. doi:10.1017/S0953756204001819. PMID15912943.
^LaPolla, J. S. (2005). "Ancient Trophophoresy: A Fossil Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Dominican Amber". Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 131 (1/2): 21–28. JSTOR25078875.
^Menon, F.; Martins-Neto, R.G.; Martill, D. (2005). "A new Lower Cretaceous nymphid (Insecta, Neuroptera, Nymphidae) from the Crato Formation of Brazil". Gaea: Journal of Geoscience. 1 (1): 11–15.
^Archibald, S.B. (2005). "New Dinopanorpidae (Insecta: Mecoptera) from the Eocene Okanogan Highlands (British Columbia, Canada and Washington State, USA)". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 42 (2): 119–136. Bibcode:2005CaJES..42..119A. doi:10.1139/e04-073.
^ abNel, A; Perrichot, V; Azar, D; Néraudeau, D (2005). "New Rhachiberothidae (Insecta: Neuroptera) in Early Cretaceous and Early Eocene ambers from France and Lebanon". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 235: 51–85.
^ abNel, A; Perrichot, V; Azar, D; Néraudeau, D (2005). "A replacement name for the neuropteran genus Eorhachiberotha Nel et al., 2005 (Neuroptera: Rhachiberothidae)". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 110 (2): 128. doi:10.3406/bsef.2005.16201. S2CID83179249.
^Nel, A.; Petrulevicius, J.F.; Jarzembowski, E.A. (2005). "New fossil Odonata from the European Cenozoic (Insecta : Odonata : Thaumatoneuridae, Aeshnidae, ?Idionychidae, Libellulidae". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 235 (3): 343–380. doi:10.1127/njgpa/235/2005/343.
^Carr T.D.; Williamson T.E.; Schwimmer D.R. (2005). "A new genus and species of tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous (Middle Campanian) Demopolis Formation of Alabama". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (1): 119–143. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0119:ANGASO]2.0.CO;2. S2CID86243316.
^Zan S.-Q.; Chen J.; Jin L.-Y.; Li T. (2005). "A primitive ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous Quantou Formation of central Jilin, China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 43: 182–193. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2005.03.003.
^Mahammed, F., E. Läng, L. Mami, L. Mekahl, M. Benhamou, B. Bouterfa, A. Kacemi, S.-A. Chérief, H. Chaouati, and P. Taquet. 2005. The ‘Giant of sour’, a Middle Jurassic sauropod dinosaur from Algeria. Systematic Palaeontology (Vertebrate Palaeontology) Paleovol/Elsevier.
^Sánchez-Hernández, B (2005). "Galveosaurus herreroi, a new sauropod dinosaur from Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Spain". Zootaxa. 1034: 1–20. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1034.1.1.
^Carpenter, K., C. Miles and K. Cloward. 2005. New small theropod from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming. In: the carnivorous dinosaurs (K. Carpenter, ed.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IA: pp. 23-48.
^Gao Chunling; Liu Jinyuan (2005). "A new avian taxon from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning". Global Geology. 24 (4): 313–316.
^Gerald Mayr (2005). "A Fluvioviridavis-like Bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel, Germany". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 42 (11): 2021–2037. Bibcode:2005CaJES..42.2021M. doi:10.1139/e05-060.
^Estelle Bourdon; Baâdi Bouya; Mohamed Iarochène (2005). "Earliest African Neornithine Bird: A New Prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (1): 157–170. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0157:eanban]2.0.co;2. S2CID86218884.
^Miquel McMinn; M. Palmer; Josep A. Alcover (2005). "A New Species of Rail (Aves: Rallidae) from the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene of Eivissa (Pityusic Islands, Western Mediterranean)". Ibis. 147 (4): 706–716. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.2005.00442.x. hdl:10261/85709.
^Ösi, A.; Weishampel, D.B.; Jianu, C.M. (2005). "First evidence of azhdarchid pterosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Hungary". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 50 (4): 777–787.
^Steel, L.; Martill, D.M.; Unwin, D.M.; Winch, J.D. (2005). "A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England". Cretaceous Research. 26 (4): 686–698. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2005.03.005.
^Pinheiro, F.L.; Fortier, D.C.; Schultz, C.L.; De Andrade, J.A.F.G.; Bantim, R.A.M. "New information on Tupandactylus imperator, with comments on the relationships of Tapejaridae (Pterosauria)". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. In press.
^Martinelli, A.G.; Bonaparte, J.F.; Schultz, C.L.; Rubert, R. (2005). "A new tritheledontid (Therapsid, Eucynodontia) from the Late Triassic Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and its phylogenetic relationships among carnivorous non-mammalian eucynodonts". Ameghiniana. 42 (1): 191–208.
^Tatarinov, L.P. (2005). "A new cynodont (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Magygen Formation (Triassic) of Fergana, Kyrgyzstan". Paleontological Journal. 39 (2): 192–198.
^Surkov, M.V. (2005). "The first dicynodont from the terminal Lower Triassic of European Russia, with special reference to the evolution of the masticatory apparatus of these therapsids". Paleontological Journal. 39 (1): 72–78.