1971 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 1971.
Arthropods
Crustaceans
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Via |
Moved to the genus Delclosia |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Via |
A crayfish, moved to the genus Austropotamobius in 1997.[3] |
Plants
Angiosperms
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Mathewes & Brooke |
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada |
A mallow relative. |
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Conodonts
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
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gen nov |
valid |
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gen nov |
valid |
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gen nov |
valid |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named pseudosuchians
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
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Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Nowinski |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Newly named onithodirans
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A member of the lagerpetonidae. |
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fam et gen et sp nov |
valid |
Newly named birds
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Late Quaternary |
An accipitrid, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Brunet |
A bucorvid. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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A picid. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An alcid. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An anatid. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
"Cave deposits" |
An icterid. |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
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A bathornithid. Type species E. uintae |
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Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
"Cave deposits" |
A flightless rallid, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
"Cave deposits" |
A crane. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A scolopacid, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
An onychopterygid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early or Middle Oligocene (Duntroonian) |
A spheniscid. |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
An eogruid. |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
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A possible phaethontid, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A procellariid. |
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Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
A spheniscid, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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An accipitrid. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A struthionid. |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
A basal spheniscid |
Newly named pterosaurs
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Price |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
possible rhamphorhynchid |
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Other Animals
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chondroplon | Valid | Wade | Ediacaran | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia | Sometimes considered a synonym of Dickinsonia |
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References
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- ↑ Bonaparte, J.F. 1970. Annotated list of the South American Triassic tetrapods. Second Gondwana Symposium South Africa, Proceedings and Papers: pp. 665-682.
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- ↑ 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.
- ↑ a b Romer, A.S. 1971. The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. X. Two new but incompletely known long-limbed pseudosuchians. Breviora 378: pp. 1-10.
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