1970 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 1970.
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Arthropods
Newly named insects
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Sp nov |
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Fujiyama |
A myrmicin ant |
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Fam nov |
nomen nudum |
A scorpionfly family, type sp. H. maculosa |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named diapsids
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fam et gen et sp nov |
valid |
possible gliding reptile |
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid. |
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fam, gen et sp nov |
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Osmólska & Roniewicz |
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gen nov |
Valid |
Welles |
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gen et sp nov |
Ellenberger |
Misidentified non-dinosaurian archosaur. |
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gen et sp nov |
Chimera of Deinonychus and Microvenator. |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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gen et sp nov |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
an ornithopod |
Newly named birds
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
An Anatidae, jr synonym of Brantadorna robusta[14] |
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Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Cave deposits |
A Accipitridae, jr synonym of Buteogallus borrasi.[16] |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Miocene |
A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, 2007 transferred the species to the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891.[18] |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Pliocene |
An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Middle Pliocene |
An Alcidae, Mancallinae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Eocene |
Described as a Bucconidae, Feduccia et Martin, 1976 erected the family Primobucconidae for it,[21] this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Pliocene |
A Meleagridae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Miocene |
A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Miocene |
A Spheniscidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Pliocene |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Middle Pleistocene |
Miramar |
Newly named Pterosaurs
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Bonaparte |
a Ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid |
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References
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- ↑ Sharov, A.G. 1970. A peculiar reptile from the Lower Triassic of Fergana. Paleontologiceskij Zurnal 1: pp. 127-130.
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- ↑ Russell, D.A. 1970. Tyrannosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Western Canada. National Museum of Nat. Sci., Publ. Paleontology No. 1.
- ↑ Osmolska, H. and E. Roniewicz. 1970. Deinocheiridae, a new family of theropod dinosaurs. Palaeontol. Polonica 21: pp. 5-19.
- ↑ Welles, S.P. 1970. Dilophosaurus (Reptilia: Saurischia), a new name for a dinosaur. J. Paleontol. 44: p. 989.
- ↑ Ellenberger, P. 1970. Les niveaux Paleontologiques de premiere apparition des Mammiferes primordiaux ed afrique du sud et leur ichnologie, establissement de zones stratigaphiques detaillees dans le stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du sud) (Trias superieur a Jurassique). Proceedings Papers of the 2nd Gondwana Symposium in South Africa, 1970: pp. 343-370.
- ↑ Brown vide Ostrom, J.H. 1970. Terrestrial vertebrates as indicators of Mesozoic climates. Proc. North. Am. Paleontol. Convention D, 347-376.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Ostrom, J.H. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Nat. History Bull. 35: pp. 1-234.
- ↑ Colbert, E.H. 1970. A saurischian dinosaur from the Triassic of Brasil. Amer. Mus. Novitates 2405: pp. 1-39.
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