Earth:Timeline of Devonian research

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This timeline of Devonian research is a chronological listing of events in the history of geology and paleontology focused on the study of earth during the span of time lasting from 419.2 to 358.9 million years ago and the legacies of this period in the rock and fossil records.

19th century

Pterygotus.
Eusthenopteron.

1844

1859

1881

1889

1894

20th century

Ichthyostega.
Dunkleosteus.

1932

1937

1952

  • Jarvik described the new genus and species Acanthostega gunnari.[8]

1956

1968

21st century

Tiktaalik.

2006

2010

  • Gonez and Gerrienne emended genus Cooksonia described by W. H. Lang in 1937.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Pterygotus". https://www.mindat.org/taxon-9425058.html. 
  2. ↑ "Rotted wood-alga-fungus: the history and life of Prototaxites Dawson 1859". https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001RPaPa.116..123H/abstract. 
  3. ↑ Whiteaves, J.F. (August 1881). "On some remarkable fossil fishes from the Devonian rocks of Scaumenac Bay, in the Province of Quebec". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 (44): 159–162. doi:10.1080/00222938109487434. 
  4. ↑ "Stethacanthus". https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4824088.html. 
  5. ↑ Dean, Bashford (January 1894). "Contributions to the morphology of cladoselache ( Cladodus )". Journal of Morphology 9 (1): 87–114. doi:10.1002/jmor.1050090103. 
  6. ↑ "PRELIMINARY NOTE ON DEVONIAN STEGOCEPHALIANS FROM EAST GREENLAND". https://herba.msu.ru/shipunov/school/univ_110/papers/save_soderbergh_1932_ichthyostega_discovery_of_walking_fish.pdf. 
  7. ↑ "Cooksonia". https://www.mindat.org/taxon-3229205.html. 
  8. ↑ Coates, Michael (3 November 2011). "The Devonian tetrapodAcanthostega gunnariJarvik: postcranial anatomy, basal tetrapod interrelationships and patterns of skeletal evolution". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 87: 363–421. doi:10.1017/S0263593300006787. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/213770184_The_Devonian_tetrapodAcanthostega_gunnariJarvik_postcranial_anatomy_basal_tetrapod_interrelationships_and_patterns_of_skeletal_evolution. 
  9. ↑ "Dunkleosteus Lehman 1956". https://zenodo.org/records/10531043. 
  10. ↑ "25 Years of Fossil Collecting Yields Clearest Picture Yet of Extinct 12-Foot Aquatic Predator" (in en). 7 May 2018. https://delval.edu/news/25-years-of-fossil-collecting-yields-clearest-picture-yet-of-extinct-12-foot-aquatic-predator. 
  11. ↑ "The Discovery of Tiktaalik and its Impact on Evolutionary Biology". Hadron. https://sites.imsa.edu/hadron/2024/09/24/the-discovery-of-tiktaalik-and-its-impact-on-evolutionary-biology/. 
  12. ↑ Sherwin, Frank. "The Tiktaalik Missing Link Myth" (in en). https://www.icr.org/article/tiktaalik-missing-link-myth/. 
  13. ↑ Gonez, Paul; Gerrienne, Philippe (February 2010). "A New Definition and a Lectotypification of the Genus Cooksonia Lang 1937". International Journal of Plant Sciences 171 (2): 199–215. doi:10.1086/648988.