Portal:Timeline of paleontology
This timeline of paleontology is a list of works relevant to the study of ancient life ordered by date of publication.
18th century
[edit]1760s
[edit]1764
[edit]- "An Attempt to Account for the Origin and the Formation of the Extraneous Fossil commonly called the Belemnite" by Joshua Platt in Philosophical Transactions Volume 54
19th century
[edit]1850s
[edit]1852
[edit]1858
[edit]- "On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection" by Charles Robert Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace
1859
[edit]1860s
[edit]1863
[edit]1864
[edit]1869
[edit]1870s
[edit]1871
[edit]1872
[edit]- "On the Animal-remains found by Colonel Lane Fox in the High- and Low-terrace Gravels at Acton and Turnham Green" by George Busk in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 28
- "On the Discovery of Palæolithic Implements in Association with Elephas primigenius in the Gravels of the Thames Valley at Acton" by Colonel A. Lane Fox in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 28
1873
[edit]- "Footprints in the Rocks" by Charles Henry Hitchcock in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3 August 1873
- "The Doctrine of Natural Selection" by Alfred Russel Wallace in Popular Science Monthly Volume 3 May 1873
1874
[edit]1875
[edit]- "New Species of Trilobite from the Trenton Limestone at Trenton Falls, N. Y. by Charles Doolittle Walcott in Cincinnati Quarterly Journal of Science, Vol. 2., pp. 347-349, fig. 27
- "On some Bone-caves in Creswell Crags" by John Magens Mello with an appendix by Professor G. Busk in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 31
- "On the Bone-Caves in the neighbourhood of Castleton, Derbyshire" by Rooke Pennington in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 31
1876
[edit]- "On the Mammalia and Traces of Man found in the Robin-Hood Cave" by William Boyd Dawkins in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 32
- "The Bone-caves of Creswell Crags—2nd Paper" by John Magens Mello in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 32
1877
[edit]- "A New Order of Extinct Reptilia (Stegosauria) from the Jurassic of the Rocky Mountains" (1877) by O. C. Marsh.
- "On the Mammal-fauna of the Caves of Creswell Crags" by William Boyd Dawkins in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 33
- "The Bone-caves of Creswell Crags—Third Paper" by John Magens Mello in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 33
- "The Cephalopoda-beds of Gloucester, Dorset, and Somerset" by James Buckman in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 33
- "The Exploration of the Ossiferous Deposit at Windy Knoll, Castleton, Derbyshire" by William Boyd Dawkins in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 33
1878
[edit]- "Notes on Fossil Plants discovered in Grinnell Land" by Oswald Heer in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 34
- "On Argillornis longipennis, Ow., a large Bird of flight, from the Eocene Clay of Sheppey" by Richard Owen in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 34
- "Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs; Part VI, Restoration of Brontosaurus" (1878) by O. C. Marsh.
- "The Gigantic Extinct Armadillos and their Peculiarities, with a Restoration" by John Adam Ryder in Popular Science Monthly Volume 13 June 1878
1879
[edit]- "A Problem in Human Evolution" by Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen in Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 June 1879
- "Further Discoveries in the Cresswell Caves" by William Boyd Dawkins and John Magens Mello in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35
- "History and Methods of Paleontological Discovery" by O. C. Marsh in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16 December 1879
- "On a Mammaliferous Deposit at Barrington, near Cambridge" by O. Fisher in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35
- "On a Section of Boulder-clay and Gravels near Ballygalley Head" by Thomas Mellard Reade in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35
- "On some Superficial Deposits in the Neighbourhood of Evesham" by Arthur Henry Winnington Ingram in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 35
- "Pleased with a Feather" by Charles Grant Blairfindie in Popular Science Monthly Volume 15 July 1879
- "The Beginning of Nerves in the Animal Kingdom" by George John Romanes in Popular Science Monthly Volume 14 January 1879
1880s
[edit]1880
[edit]- "History and Methods of Paleontological Discovery II" by O. C. Marsh in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16 January 1880
- "Saporta's World of Plants Before the Appearance of Man" by in Popular Science Monthly Volume 16 February 1880
1881
[edit]- "Aesthetic Evolution in Man" by Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen in Popular Science Monthly Volume 18 January 1881
- "Darwin on the Movements of Plants" by Eliza Ann Youmans in Popular Science Monthly Volume 18 February 1881
- "The Rise and Progress of Paleontology" by T. H. Huxley in Popular Science Monthly Volume 20 December 1881
1882
[edit]- "Description of a New Genus of the Order Eurypterida from the Utica Slate" by Charles Doolittle Walcott in The American Journal of Science. Third series, Vol. XXIII, No. 135, pages 213-216
- "Notice of the discovery of a Poecilopod in the Utica slate formation" by Charles Doolittle Walcott in The American Journal of Science. Third series, Vol. XXIII, No. 134, pages 151-152
- "The Development of the Senses" by Robert Williamson Lovett in Popular Science Monthly Volume 21 May 1882
1883
[edit]- "A Mastodon in an Old Beater-Meadow" by Samuel Lockwood in Popular Science Monthly Volume 22 January 1883
1884
[edit]- "The Ancestry of Birds" by Charles Grant Blairfindie in Popular Science Monthly Volume 24 March 1884
1885
[edit]- "Origin of Color in Animals" by George Howard Parker in Popular Science Monthly Volume 28 November 1885
- "The Darwinian Theory of Instinct" by George John Romanes in Popular Science Monthly Volume 26 March 1885
1886
[edit]- "External Form of the Man-Like Apes" by Robert Hartmann in Popular Science Monthly Volume 28 April 1886
1887
[edit]- "Animal-Plants and Plant-Animals" by Dr. Pfuhl in Popular Science Monthly Volume 30 March 1887
1888
[edit]- "Altruism Economically Considered" by Charles W. Smiley in Popular Science Monthly Volume 34 November 1888
- "Animals as Modified by Environment" by Joseph Beal Steere in Popular Science Monthly Volume 33 June 1888
1889
[edit]- "On the Causes of Variation" by Charles Valentine Riley in Popular Science Monthly Volume 34 February 1889
- "On the Causes of Variation II" by Charles Valentine Riley in Popular Science Monthly Volume 34 April 1889
1890s
[edit]1890
[edit]1893
[edit]- "The Inadequacy of Natural Selection" by Herbert Spencer in Popular Science Monthly Volume 42 April 1893
- "The Inadequacy of Natural Selection II" by Herbert Spencer in Popular Science Monthly Volume 43 May 1893
- "The Inadequacy of Natural Selection III" by Herbert Spencer in Popular Science Monthly Volume 43 June 1893
1894
[edit]- "New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: From Creation to Evolution" by Andrew Dickson White in Popular Science Monthly Volume 44 February 1894
- "New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: From Creation to Evolution II" by Andrew Dickson White in Popular Science Monthly Volume 44 April 1894
- "New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: From Creation to Evolution III" by Andrew Dickson White in Popular Science Monthly Volume 45 May 1894
- "New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: From Creation to Evolution IV" by Andrew Dickson White in Popular Science Monthly Volume 45 June 1894
1895
[edit]- "Brain Development as Related to Evolution" by Gilbert Hilton Scribner in Popular Science Monthly Volume 46 February 1895
- "Primigenial Skeletons, The Flood, and the Glacial Period" by Herbert Philip FitzGerald Marriott in Popular Science Monthly Volume 48 November 1895
1897
[edit]- "An Early American Evolutionist" by Charles Minor Blackford Jr. in Popular Science Monthly Volume 52 December 1897
- "The Animate World a Unity" by Jean Albert Gaudry in Popular Science Monthly Volume 50 February 1897
1898
[edit]- "Feet and Hands I" by Mrs. Henry Bernard in Popular Science Monthly Volume 52 January 1898
- "Feet and Hands II" by Mrs. Henry Bernard in Popular Science Monthly Volume 52 February 1898
- "The Evolution of the Mind" by David Starr Jordan in Popular Science Monthly Volume 52 February 1898
- "The Serpentlike Sea Saurians" by William Hosea Ballou in Popular Science Monthly Volume 53 June 1898
20th century
[edit]1900s
[edit]1901
[edit]- "Lucretius and the Evolution Idea" by William Louis Poteat in Popular Science Monthly Volume 60 December 1901
- "The Evolution of the Human Intellect" by Edward Lee Thorndike in Popular Science Monthly Volume 60 November 1901
- "The Scottish Silurian Scorpion" by Reginald Innes Pocock in The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science. N. S. Vol. 44. pp. 291–311
1902
[edit]- "Origin of the Fins of Fishes" by David Starr Jordan in Popular Science Monthly Volume 61 October 1902
1904
[edit]- "The Evolution of the Human Hand" by Robert Macdougall in Popular Science Monthly Volume 65 September 1904
1905
[edit]- "Anaximander, Earliest Precursor of Darwin" by Charles R. Eastman in Popular Science Monthly Volume 67 December 1905
- "Tyrannosaurus and Other Cretaceous Carnivorous Dinosaurs" (1905) by Henry Fairfield Osborn.
1906
[edit]- "Concerning Variations in Animals and Plants" by David Starr Jordan in Popular Science Monthly Volume 68 June 1906
- "Geological History of Cockroaches" by Elias Howard Sellards in Popular Science Monthly Volume 68 March 1906
- "Notes on Osteology of Baptanodon. With a Description of a New Species" (1906) by Charles Whitney Gilmore in Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum
- "North American Plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus" (1906) by Samuel Wendell Williston in American Journal of Science XXI.
1908
[edit]- "A Great Permian Delta and its Vertebrate Life, with Restorations by the Author" by Ermine Cowles Case in Popular Science Monthly Volume 73 December 1908
- "Florissant; a Miocene Pompeii" by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in Popular Science Monthly Volume 73 August 1908
1909
[edit]- "The Argument for Organic Evolution Before the Origin of Species" by Arthur O. Lovejoy in Popular Science Monthly Volume 75 November 1909
- "The Argument for Organic Evolution Before the Origin of Species II" by Arthur O. Lovejoy in Popular Science Monthly Volume 75 December 1909
- "The Origin of the Theory of Natural Selection" by Alfred Russel Wallace in Popular Science Monthly Volume 75 April 1909
1910s
[edit]1910
[edit]- "Paleontologic Evidences of Adaptive Radiation" by Henry Fairfield Osborn in Popular Science Monthly Volume 77 July 1910
- "The Paleontologic Record V: The Relation of Paleobotany to Phylogeny" by David Pearce Penhallow in Popular Science Monthly Volume 77 October 1910
1911
[edit]- "Cambrian Faunas of China" by Charles Doolittle Walcott in SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOLUME 57, NUMBER 4
- "Middle Cambrian Annelids" by Charles Doolittle Walcott in SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOLUME 57, NUMBER 5
- "Middle Cambrian Holothurians and Medusae" by Charles Doolittle Walcott in SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOLUME 57, NUMBER 3
- "Middle Cambrian Merostomata" by Charles Doolittle Walcott in SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOLUME 57, NUMBER 2
- "The Measurement of Natural Selection" by James Arthur Harris in Popular Science Monthly Volume 78 June 1911
1912
[edit]- "Ancient Portals of the Earth" by James Perrin Smith in Popular Science Monthly Volume 80 April 1912
- "Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita, and Merostomata" by Charles Doolittle Walcott in SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOLUME 57, NUMBER 6
1913
[edit]- "Bergson's View of Organic Evolution" by Hervey Woodburn Shimer in Popular Science Monthly Volume 82 February 1913
- "Natural Selection" by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in Popular Science Monthly Volume 82 April 1913
- "The Petrified Forest of Mississippi" by Calvin Smith Brown in Popular Science Monthly Volume 83 November 1913
1914
[edit]- "Carboniferous Eurypterids of Nebraska" by Erwin Hinckley Barbour in The American Journal of Science. Fourth series, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 228, pages 507-510
- "Darwin and Wallace on Sexual Selection and Warning Coloration" by Frank Henry Pike Popular Science Monthly Volume 84 April 1914
- "Current Progress in the Study of Natural Selection" by James Arthur Harris in Popular Science Monthly Volume 84 February 1914
1915
[edit]- "A New Ordovician Eurypterid" by Ellis William Shuler in The American Journal of Science. Fourth series, Vol. XXXIX, No. 233, pages 511-514
- "Extinct Faunas of the Mohave Desert" by John Campbell Merriam in Popular Science Monthly Volume 86 March 1915
1918
[edit]1920s
[edit]1922
[edit]- "A New Genus of Characeae and New Merostomata from the Coal Measures of Nova Scotia" by Walter Andrew Bell in Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Ser. 3, Vol. XVI, Sect. IV, 1922, pages 159-167
1925
[edit]- The Osteology of the Reptiles by Samuel Wendell Williston and edited by William King Gregory
1960s
[edit]1963
[edit]- Pennsylvanian invertebrates of the Mazon Creek Area, Illinois: Eurypterida by Erik Norman Kjellesvig-Waering in Fieldiana, Geology. Vol. 12, No. 6
21st century
[edit]2000s
[edit]2004
[edit]2010s
[edit]2011
[edit]- "A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin) Northwestern Argentina" by Cecilia Apaldetti, Ricardo N. Martinez, Oscar A. Alcober, Diego Pol in PLoS ONE
- "Evolution Insular Restriction and Extinction of Oceanic Land Crabs Exemplified by the Loss of an Endemic Geograpsus in the Hawaiian Islands" by Gustav Paulay and John Starmer in PLoS ONE
2014
[edit]- "A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur (Dinosauria Ornithopoda) with Transitional Features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province China" by Hai Xing, Deyou Wang, Fenglu Han, Corwin Sullivan, Qingyu Ma, Yiming He, David W. E. Hone, Ronghao Yan, Fuming Du, Xing Xu in PLoS ONE
- "Cenozoic Planktonic Marine Diatom Diversity and Correlation to Climate Change" by David Lazarus, John Barron, Johan Renaudie, Patrick Diver, Andreas Türke in PLoS ONE
- "Dendrogramma, New Genus, with Two New Non-Bilaterian Species from the Marine Bathyal of Southeastern Australia (Animalia, Metazoa incertae sedis) – with Similarities to Some Medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara" by Jean Just, Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen, Jørgen Olesen in PLoS ONE
- "Ecological Changes in Coyotes (Canis latrans) in Response to the Ice Age Megafaunal Extinctions" by Julie A. Meachen, Adrianna C. Janowicz, Jori E. Avery, Rudyard W. Sadleir in PLoS ONE
- "Endogenous Viral Elements in Animal Genomes" by Aris Katzourakis and Robert J. Gifford in PLoS Genetics
- "How Could Language Have Evolved?" by Johan J. Bolhuis, Ian Tattersall, Noam Chomsky, Robert C. Berwick in PLoS Genetics
- "Identification, Classification, and Growth of Moa Chicks (Aves Dinornithiformes) from the Genus Euryapteryx" by Leon Huynen, Brian J. Gill, Anthony Doyle, Craig D. Millar, David M. Lambert in PLoS ONE
- "Three dimensional digital reconstruction of the jaw adductor musculature of the extinct marsupial giant Diprotodon optatum" by Alana C. Sharp in PeerJ
2017
[edit]- "Countershading and Stripes in the Theropod Dinosaur Sinosauropteryx Reveal Heterogeneous Habitats in the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota" by Fiann M. Smithwick, Robert Nicholls , Innes C. Cuthill, and Jakob Vinther in Current Biology Volume 27, ISSUE 21, P3337-3343.e2, November 06, 2017