1973 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 1973.
Plants
Conifers
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Miller |
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A 5-needle pine cone species |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Miller |
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A 5-needle pine needle species |
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Angiosperms
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Robison & Person |
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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 |
An Oecophoridae moth, type species E. obscurotrimaculatus |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
A Tortricidae moth. The type species is T. inclusa. |
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Conodonts
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen. nov |
valid |
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Archosauromorphs
New pseudosuchian taxa
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen. nov |
valid |
Seiffert |
Guimarota lignite | Crocodylomorph |
Crocodylomorph research
- William Roger Hamilton describes a second specimen of Tomistoma dowsoni from the Siwa Oasis of Egypt.[9]
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[10]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen nov |
Valid |
basal sauropodomorph |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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gen et sp nov |
described from a single tooth; a dromaeosaurid |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
possible Hypsilophodontid |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Hu |
largest known ornithischian |
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Gen et sp nov |
Ornithischian of uncertain placement |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
one of the last stegosaurians |
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Newly named birds
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Rallidae, transferred to the new genus Mundia by Bourne, Ashmole et Simmons, 2003,[16] it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Accipitridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Accipitridae. |
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Sp. Nov. |
Nomen Nudum |
An Accipitridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Haliaeetus. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965, transferred to the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, 2013.[21] |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Psittacidae, transferred to the genus Psittacula by Julian P. Hume, 2007.[23] |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Spheniscidae, not for sure a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A ?Galbulae the species does not belong in Prinobucco, nor in Neanis, it was transferred to by Feduaccia, 1976,[26] it needs a new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Tytonidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Tytonidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eudimorphodon ranzii[29] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Zambelli | Norian | Zorzino Formation | File:Flag of Italy.svg Italy | File:Eudimorphodon ranzii.jpg | |
| Noripterus complicidens[30] | Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Yang | early Cretaceous | Lianmuqin Formation | File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China | File:Noripterus Clear.jpg |
References
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- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ 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.
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- ↑ Hu, C. 1973. A new hadrosaur from the Cretaceous of Chucheng. Shantung. Acta Geol. Sinica 2: pp. 179-202.
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