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
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1844
[edit | edit source]- Agassiz described the new genus Pterygotus.
1859
[edit | edit source]- Dawson described the new genus Prototaxites .
1881
[edit | edit source]- Whiteaves described the new genus Eusthenopteron.
1889
[edit | edit source]- Newberry described the new genus Stethacanthus.
1894
[edit | edit source]- Dean described the new genus Cladoselache.
20th century
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1932
[edit | edit source]- Säve-Söderbergh described the new genus Ichthyostega.
1937
[edit | edit source]- W. H. Lang described the new genus Cooksonia.
1952
[edit | edit source]- Jarvik described the new genus and species Acanthostega gunnari.
1956
[edit | edit source]- Lehman described the new genus Dunkleosteus.
1968
[edit | edit source]- Thomson described the new genus Hyneria.
21st century
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2006
[edit | edit source]- Daeschler, Shubin & Jenkins described the new genus Tiktaalik.
2010
[edit | edit source]- Gonez and Gerrienne emended genus Cooksonia described by W. H. Lang in 1937.
See also
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