1970 in paleontology
Template:Short description Template:Year topic navigation 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 Template:Show by date published in the year 1970.
Arthropods
Newly named insects
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Fujiyama |
A myrmicin ant |
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Fam nov |
nomen nudum |
A scorpionfly family, type sp. H. maculosa |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named diapsids
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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fam et gen et sp nov |
valid |
possible gliding reptile covered with Feather-like Scales. |
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
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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 |
An 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 |
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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 |
Bonaparte |
a Ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid. with a Flamingo-like feeding style. |
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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 Paléontologiques de première apparition des Mammifères primordiaux d'Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie, établissement de zones stratigaphiques detaillées dans le stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias supérieur à 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.
- ↑ a b c 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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