1979 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 1979.
Bryophytes[edit]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sp nov | Valid | Janssens | An aulacomniaceous moss. |
Fish[edit]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sp nov | Valid | A libotoniid sandroller relative. |  |
Archosauromorphs[edit]
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Non Avian Dinosaurs[edit]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saito | informal name created by phonetic translation of the crylic for hadrosaur ("gadrosavr") into Japanese. |  | ||||||
| Gen et comb nov | Valid | A hadrosauroid. |  | |||||
| Wall & Galton |
| A pachycephalosaur, possible Junior synonym of Stegoceras. |  | |||||
| Valid | Horner & Makela | Upper Two Medicine Formation | Publication of Maiasaura renewed interest in the Two Medicine Formation.[9] |  | ||||
| Gen et sp nov | Junior synonym | Described as a pachycephalosaur, now considered an abelisaurid. |  | |||||
| Gen et sp nov |
| A hadrosaurid. | ||||||
| Valid | Bonaparte & Vince |
| An anchisaurian. |  | ||||
| Valid |  | |||||||
| Valid |
| A sauropod. |  | |||||
| Valid |  | |||||||
| Valid | ||||||||
| Valid |
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| Gen et sp nov | Valid | A megalosaurid. |  | |||||
| Gen et sp nov | Valid |
| A possible Carcharodontosaurian. | |||||
| Valid | A sauropod. | |||||||
| Gen et sp nov | Valid | He | A basal neornithischian ornithopod. |
Birds[edit]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | Argentina: Centinale del Mar; | An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Callonetta Delacour, 1936 by Agnolin, 2006.[22] | |||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | Subrecent | 5000 YBP (Years Before Present) | A giant Ardeidae, not formally described but a photo is published which keeps it from being a Nomen Nudum. | ||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Middle Oligocene | Described in the Catharthidae, transferred to Aves Incertae Sedis. | |||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Charadriidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid |
| A Strigidae, transferred to the genus Asio Brisson, 1760 by Mlíkovský, 1998.[27] | |||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle-Late Miocene | A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Caprimulgidae-nightjar. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Corvidae, possibly a synonym of Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cuculidae. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cathartidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Glareolidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cathartidae. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Dromornithidae, not certainly an Ilbandornis Rich, 1979. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Described in the Phasianidae, but transferred by Mlíkovský, 2002.[33] to Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Falconidae. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Described as an Accipitridae, known only from a damaged distal end of a right tarsometatarsus, making it not possible to identify it, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Miocene Czech Republic; Middle Miocene Germany | A Glareolidae, it is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid |
| An Otididae, it is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Buteogallus Lesson, 1830 by Suárez et Olson, 2009,[35] this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Middle Oligocene | Described in the Catharthidae, but the holotype is too fragmentary for identification so best treated as Aves Incertae Sedis. | |||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Middle Oligocene |
| An Anseriformes Incertae Sedis. | ||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Greybullian, Middle Wasatchian, Willwood Formation | Described as a Cathartidae, Houde 1988 placed it in the Lithornithiformes, Houde, 1988, Lithornithidae Houde, 1988,[38] it is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid ? | Early Middle Oligocene | MP 21-23 | An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. | ||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | Described as a Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Talantatos Reichenbach, 1852 and placed in the Cariamidae door Mlíkovský, 2002.[33] | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Pleistocene | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Ardeidae, it is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid ? | Early Middle Oligocene | Described as an Eleutherornithidae, based on a fragment of a cervical vertebra, best treated as Aves Incertae Sedis, it is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cathartidae, not certain to be a Sarcoramphus Duméril, 1806. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | An Ardeidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Thinocoridae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
| Sp. nov. | Valid ? | The holotype is a heavily eroded proximal part of a left humerus, best placed in Passeriformes Incertae Sedis. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid ? | A Phalacrocoracidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
| Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Charadriidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
Plesiosaurs[edit]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen et sp nov | Valid | Yadagiri & Ayyasami | Either a Plesiosaur or Stegosaur |
Synapsids[edit]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen et sp nov | valid | Bown | An Omomyid primate | |||||
| Gen et sp nov | valid | Bown | An Omomyid primate | |||||
| Gen et sp nov | valid | Bown | An Omomyid primate |
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries[edit]
- While volunteering for field work on a team led by Philip Currie, Darren Tanke learned about the lost "Eoceratops" first excavated by William Edmund Cutler. Tanke would later rediscover the specimen in London's Natural History Museum.[43]
References[edit]
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- ^ Janssens, J.; Horton, D.G.; Basinger, J. (1979). "Aulacomnium heterostichoides sp. nov., an Eocene moss from south central British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Botany. 57 (20): 2150–2161. doi:10.1139/b79-268.
- ^ Wilson, M.V.H. (1979). "A second species of Libotonius (Pisces: Percopsidae) from the Eocene of Washington State". Copeia. 1979 (3): 400–405. doi:10.2307/1443214. JSTOR 1443214.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Saito, T. 1979. Wonder of the World's Dinosaurs. Kodansha Publishers, Tokyo (Plate 71).
- ^ Brett-Surman, M.K. 1979. Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of hadrosaurian dinosaurs. Nature 277: pp. 560-562.
- ^ Wall, W P. and P.M. Galton. 1979. Notes on pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Reptilla: Ornithischia) from North America, with comments on their status as ornithopods. Can. J. Earth Sci. 16: pp. 1176-1186.
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