1971 in paleontology
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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") is the study of prehistoric life 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 mankind has 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 1971.
Archosauromorphs
Newly named pseudosuchians
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bonaparte |
an ornithosuchid |
![]() Venaticosuchus rusconii |
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Nowinski |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
Lower Cretaceous |
Maniraptoran? |
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Newly named onithodirans
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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fam et gen et sp nov |
valid |
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Newly named birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Anser devjatkini [7] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin |
Late Miocene |
Hyargas Nuur Formation |
An Anatidae. |
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Antillovultur varonai [8] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Oscar Arredondo |
Late Quaternary |
Las Breas de San Felipe |
An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Gymnogyps by William Suarez et Steven D. Emslie, 2003.,[9] this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Bathornis minor [10] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Joel Cracraft |
Early Miocene |
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A Gruiformes, Bathornithidae Wetmore, 1933. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
J. Brunet |
Middle Miocene |
MN 7 |
A Bucorvidae. |
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Campephilus dalquesti [12] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pliocene |
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A Picidae. |
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Cerorhinca minor [13] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Alcidae. |
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Cygnus pristinus [7] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin |
Chirgiz-Nur Formation |
An Anatidae. |
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Dolichonyx kruegeri [14] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Karlheinz Fischer Burkhard Stephan |
Late Pleistocene |
Cave deposits |
An Icteridae. |
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Eutreptornis uintae [10] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Joel Cracraft |
Middle Eocene |
Uinta Formation |
|
A Gruiformes, Bathornithidae Wetmore, 1933. This is the type species of the new genus. |
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Fulica picapicensis [14] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Karlheinz Fischer Burkhard Stephan |
Cave deposits |
A flightless Rallidae, transferred to the genus Nesotrochis Wetmore, 1918 by Storrs L. Olson, 1974. |
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Grus cubensis [15] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Karlheinz Fischer Burkhard Stephan |
Late Pleistocene |
Cave deposits |
A flightless Gruidae. |
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Macrorhamphus finitimus [7] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin |
A Scolopacidae, transferred to the genus Limnodromus. |
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Mancalla cedrosensis [13] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene |
An Alcidae, Mancalinae. |
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Onychopteryx simpsoni [16] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Joel Cracraft |
Early Eocene |
Casamajor Formation |
Described in the Opisthocomiformes in a new family, Onychopterygidae, Cracraft, 1971. This is the type species o th new genus. |
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Phalacrocorax mongoliensis [7] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Evgeny N. Kurochkin |
A Phalacrocoracidae. |
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?Platydyptes marplesi [17] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
George G. Simpson |
Early or Middle Oligocene |
Duntroonian |
A Spheniscidae. |
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Progrus turanicus [18] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Oleg G. Bendukidze |
Middle-Late Eocene |
Kalmakpai River |
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A Gruiformes, Eogruidae Wetmore, 1934. This is the type species of the new genus, the pecies was transferred to the genus Eogrus Wetmore, 1934. |
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Proplegadis fisheri [19] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Colin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. Walker |
Early Eocene |
Sheppey, MP 8-9 |
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Described in the Threskiornithidae, placed in Aves Incerte Sedisby Storrs L. Olson, 1981. Mayr. 2009: it looks more like a Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Puffinus tedfordi [13] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Pliocene |
A Spheniscidae. |
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Spheniscus predemersus [20] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
George G. Simpson |
Late Pliocene |
A Spheniscidae, in 1975 Simpson created a new genus, Inguza for the species [21] |
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Spizaetus tanneri [22] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Larry D. Martin |
Early Pleistocene |
Broadwater Formation |
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An Accipitridae. |
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Struthio transcaucasicus [23] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich Abesalom K. Vekua |
Late Pliocene |
Akchagil age |
? |
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Wimanornis seymourensis [24] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
George G. Simpson |
A basal Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new species. |
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Newly named pterosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Price |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
possible rhamphorhynchid |
![]() Sordes pilosus | |||||
References
- ↑ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
- ↑ Bonaparte, J.F. 1970. Annotated list of the South American Triassic tetrapods. Second Gondwana Symposium South Africa, Proceedings and Papers: pp. 665-682.
- ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ↑ Nowinski, A. 1971. Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis n. gen., n. sp (Sauropoda) from the uppermost Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontol. Polonica 25: pp. 57-81.
- ↑ Galton, P.M. 1971. A primitive dome-headed dinosaur (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of England, and the function of the dome in pachycephalosaurids. J. Paleontol. 45: pp. 40-47.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Romer, A.S. 1971. The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. X. Two new but incompletely known long-limbed pseudosuchians. Breviora 378: pp. 1-10.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Evgeny N. Kurochkin (1971). "[On the Pliocene Avifauna of Mongolia]". Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Geological Expedition 3 (5): 58–69.
- ↑ Oscar Arredondo (1971). "Nuevo Género y Especie de Ave Fósil (Accipitriformes: Vulturidae) del Pleistoceno de Cuba". Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales La Salle 31 (90): 309–323.
- ↑ Suárez, W.; Emslie, S.D. (2003). "New fossil material with a redescription of the extinct condor Gymnogyps varonai (Arredondo, 1971) from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Vulturidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116 (1): 29–37.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Joel Cracraft (1971). "Systematics and Evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 2. Additional Comments on the Bathornithidae, with Descriptions of a New Species". Amerecan Museum Novitates 2449: 1–14.
- ↑ J. Brunet (1971). "Oiseaux Miocénes de Beni Mellal (Maroc), un Complément à Leur Étude". Notes et Mémoires, Service Géologique (Morocco) 31: 109–111.
- ↑ Pierce Brodkorb (1971). "The Paleospecies of Woodpeckers". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 33: 132–136.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Hildegarde Howard (1971). "Pliocene Avian Remains from Baja California". Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 217: 1–17.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Karlheinz Fischer & Burkhard Stephan (1971). "Weitere Vogelreste aus dem Pleistozän der Pio-Domingo-Höhle in Kuba Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Math.-Nat. R." 20. pp. 593–607.
- ↑ Karlheinz Fischer & Burkhard Stephan (1971). "Ein Flugunfahiger Kranich (Grus cubensis n.sp.) aus dem Pleitozän von Kuba - eine Osteologie der Familie der Kraniche (Gruidae)". In: Palaeontologische und Zoologische Forschungen in Kuba Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Math.-Nat. R. 20: 541–592.
- ↑ Joel Cracraft (1971). "A New Family of Hoatzin-like Birds (Order Opisthocomiformes) from the Eocene of South America". Ibis 113 (2): 229–233. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1971.tb05148.x.
- ↑ George G. Simpson (1971). "A Review of the Pre-Pliocene Penguins of New Zealand". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 144 (5): 319–378.
- ↑ Oleg G. Bendukidze (1971). "Novyj prestavitel’ semeistva Geranoididae (Aves, Gruiformes) iz eotsenovykh otlozhenij Zaisan". Soobtzhenija Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoj SSSR 63: 749–751.
- ↑ Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1971). "A New Ibis from the lower Eocene of Britain". Ibis 113 (3): 367–368. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1971.tb05169.x.
- ↑ George G. Simpson (1971). "Fossil Penguin from the Late Cenozoic of South Africa". Science 171: 1144–1145. doi:10.1126/science.171.3976.1144. PMID 17777603.
- ↑ George G. Simpson (1975). "Notes on Variation in Penguins and on Fossil Penguins from the Pliocene of Langebaanweg, Cape Province, South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum 69 (4): 59–72.
- ↑ Larry D. Martin (1971). "An Early Pleistocene Eagle from Nebraska". Condor 73 (2): 248–250. doi:10.2307/1365848.
- ↑ Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich & Abesalom K. Vekua (1971). "The Fossil Ostrich from the Akchagil Layers of Georgia". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 16 (1): 1–28.
- ↑ George G. Simpson (1971). "Review of the Fossil Penguins from Seymour Island". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 178: 357–387. doi:10.1098/rspb.1971.0070.