1973 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology 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 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 1973.
Plants
Conifers
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Pinus arnoldii[2] | Sp nov | valid | Miller | A 5-needle pine cone species | ||||
Pinus similkameenensis[2] | Sp nov | valid | Miller | A 5-needle pine needle species |
Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Eorhiza[3][4] | Gen et sp nov | valid | Robison & Person | A semi-aquatic flowering plant of uncertain affiliation |
Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp. nov | valid | Skalski | An Oecophoridae moth, type species E. obscurotrimaculatus | |||||
Tortricidrosis[6] | Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Skalski | A Tortricidae moth. The type species is T. inclusa. |
Conodonts
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov | valid | McTavish | Emanuel Formation |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named crurotarsins
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Lisboasaurus[8] | Gen. nov | valid | Seiffert | Guimarota lignite | Crocodylomorph |
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[9]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Efraasia[10] | gen nov | Valid | basal sauropodomorph | |||||
Kelmayisaurus[11] | gen et sp nov | Valid | ||||||
Phaedrolosaurus[11] | gen et sp nov | described from a single tooth | ||||||
Phyllodon[12] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Guimarota lignite | possible Hypsilophodontid | ||||
Shantungosaurus[13] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Hu | largest known ornithischian | ||||
Trimucrodon[12] | Gen et sp nov | Guimarota lignite | Ornithischian of uncertain placement | |||||
Tugulusaurus[11] | gen et sp nov | Valid | ||||||
Wuerhosaurus[11] | gen et sp nov | Valid | one of the last stegosaurians |
Newly named birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Atlantisia elpenor [14] | Sp. nov. | valid | Late Holocene-Subrecent | A Rallidae, transferred to the new genus Mundia by Bourne, Ashmole et Simmons, 2003,[15] it is the type species of the new genus. | ||||
Garganoaetus freudenthali [16] | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | valid | Peter Ballmann | MN 14-15 | An Accipitridae. | |||
Garganoaetus murivorus [16] | Sp. nov. | valid | Peter Ballmann | MN 14-15 | An Accipitridae. | |||
Gypaetus osseticus [17] | Sp. Nov. | Nomen Nudum | Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich |
| An Accipitridae. | |||
Ichthyophaga australis [18] | Sp. nov. | valid | Collin J. O. Harrison | An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Haliaeetus. | ||||
Idiornis gaillardi [19] | Sp. nov. | valid | A Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965, transferred to the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, 2013.[20] | |||||
Sp. nov. | valid | David T. Holyoak | Subrecent | A Psittacidae, transferred to the genus Psittacula by Julian P. Hume, 2007.[22] | ||||
Palaeoaramides minutus [19] | Sp. nov. | valid | Grive-St.-Alban | A Rallidae. | ||||
Palaeorallus brodkorbi [19] | Sp. nov. | valid | A Rallidae. | |||||
?Palaeospheniscus huxleyorum [23] | Sp. nov. | valid | Ysterplaats | A Spheniscidae, not for sure a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891. | ||||
Sp. nov. | valid | Late Holocene-Subrecent | A Rallidae. | |||||
"Primobucco" kestneri [24] | Sp. nov. | valid | Green River Formatie | A ?Galbulae the species does not belong in Prinobucco, nor in Neanis, it was transferred to by Feduaccia, 1976,[25] it needs a new genus. | ||||
Quercyrallus quercy [19] | Sp. nov. | valid | MP 16-28 | A Rallidae. | ||||
Tyto gigantea [26] | Sp. nov. | valid | Peter Ballmann | MN 14-15 | A Tytonidae. | |||
Tyto robusta [26] | Sp. nov. | valid | Peter Ballmann | MN 14-15 | A Tytonidae. | |||
Wyleyia valdensis [27] | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | valid | Colin J. O. Harrison | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Enantiornithidae Nessov & Borkin, 1983, known from a single humerus, this is the type species of the new genus. |
Newly named pterosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Zambelli | ||||||
Noripterus[28] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Yang (aka C.-C. Young) |
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.
- ^ a b Miller, C. N. Jr. (1973). "Silicified cones and vegetative remains of Pinus from the Eocene of British Columbia" (PDF). Contributions of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. 24: 101–118.
- ^ Robison, C.R.; Person, C.P. (1973). "A silicified semiaquatic dicotyledon from the Eocene Allenby Formation of British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Botany. 51 (7): 1373–1377. doi:10.1139/b73-172.
- ^ Stockey, R.A.; Pigg, K.B. (1994). "Vegetative growth of Eorhiza arnoldii Robison and Person from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert locality of British Columbia". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 155 (5): 606–616. doi:10.1086/297199.
- ^ Skalski, A.W. (1973). "Studies on the Lepidoptera from fossil resins. Part II. Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus gen. et sp. nov. (Oecophoridae) and a tineid-moth discovered in the Baltic amber" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 18 (1): 153–160. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
- ^ Maria Heikkilä; John W. Brown; Joaquin Baixeras; Wolfram Mey; Mikhail V. Kozlov (2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 4394 (1): 41–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.
- ^ Prioniodontacean conodonts from the Emanuel Formation (Lower Ordovician) of Western Australia. RA McTavish, Geologica et Palaeontologica, 1973
- ^ Seiffert, J. 1973. Upper Jurassic Lizards from Central Portugal. Contribuicao para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimeridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Servicox Geologicos de Portugal, Memoria 22 (new series): pp. 7-88.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Galton, P.M. (1973). "On the anatomy and relationships of Efraasia diagnostica (V. Huene) n. gen., a prosauropod dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from the Upper Triassic of Germany". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 47 (3–4): 229–255. doi:10.1007/bf02985709. S2CID 84931897.
- ^ a b c d Dong, Z.M. 1973. Dinosaurs from Wuerho. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II), Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memories of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academy of Science 11: pp. 45-52.
- ^ a b Thulborn, R.A. (1973). "Teeth of ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal, with a description of a hypsilophodontid (Phyllodon henkeli gen. et sp. nov.) from the Guimarota Lignite". Memória Serivoços Geológicos de Portugal. Nova Série. 22: 89–134.
- ^ Hu, C. 1973. A new hadrosaur from the Cretaceous of Chucheng. Shantung. Acta Geol. Sinica 2: pp. 179-202.
- ^ a b Storrs L. Olson (1973). "Evolution of the Rails of the South Atlantic Islands (Aves: Rallidae)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 152 (152): 1–53. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.152.
- ^ W. R. P. Bourne, N. P. Ashmole & K. E. L. Simmons (2003). "A New Subfossil Night Heron and a New Genus for the Extinct Rail for Ascension Island, Central Tropical Atlantic Ocean" (PDF). Ardea. 91 (1): 45–51.
- ^ a b Peter Ballmann (1973). "Fossile Vögel aus dem Neogen der Halbinsel Gargano (Italien)". Scripta Geologica. 17: 1–75.
- ^ Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich (1973). "?". Report Presented to the 5th Soviet Congress on the Quaternary Period.
- ^ Collin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1973). "An Undescribed Extinct Fish-Eagle from the Chatham Islands". Ibis. 115 (2): 274–277. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1973.tb02645.x.
- ^ a b c d Joel Cracraft (1973). "Systematics and Evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 3. Phylogeny of the Suborder Grui" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 151: 1–127.
- ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (2013). "Idiornis Oberholser, 1899 (Aves, Gruiformes, Cariamae, Idiornithidae): a Junior Synonym of Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 (Paleogene, Phosphorites du Quercy, France)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 270 (1): 13–22. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0355.
- ^ David T. Holyoak (1973). "An Undescribed Parrot from Mauritius". Ibis. 115 (3): 417–419. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1973.tb01980.x.
- ^ Julian P. Hume (1973). "Reappraisal of the Parrots (Aves: Psittacidae) from the Mascarene Islands, with Comments on Their Ecology, Morphology, and Affineties" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1513: 1–76.
- ^ George G. Simpson (1973). "Tertiary Penguins (Spenisciformes: Spheniscidae) from Ysterplaats, Cape Town, South Africa". South African Journal of Science. 69: 342–344.
- ^ Alan Feduccia (1973). "A New Eocene Zygodactyl Bird". Journal of Paleontology. 47 (3): 501–503.
- ^ Alan Feduccia (1976). "Neanis schucherti Restudied: Another Eocene Piciform Bird" (PDF). In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 27: 95–99.
- ^ a b Peter Ballmann (1973). "Fossile Vögel aus dem Neogen der Halbinsel Gargano (Italien)" (PDF). Scripta Geologica. 17: 1–75.
- ^ Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1973). "Wyleyia: a New Bird Humerus from the Lower Cretaceous of England" (PDF). Palaeontology. 16 (4): 721–728. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-06.
- ^ Young, Z. (1973). "[Pterosaurs from Wuerho]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang". Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica. 11: 18–35.