1979 in paleontology
Template:Short description Template:Year topic navigation Template:Sister project 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 1979.
Bryophytes
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Janssens |
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An aulacomniaceous moss. |
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Fish
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
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A libotoniid sandroller relative. |
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Archosauromorphs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Non Avian Dinosaurs
Birds
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Argentina: Centinale del Mar; |
An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Callonetta Delacour, 1936 by Agnolin, 2006.[22] |
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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. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Middle Oligocene |
Described in the Catharthidae, transferred to Aves Incertae Sedis. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Charadriidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Strigidae, transferred to the genus Asio Brisson, 1760 by Mlíkovský, 1998.[27] |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle-Late Miocene |
A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Caprimulgidae-nightjar. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Corvidae, possibly a synonym of Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cuculidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Glareolidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Dromornithidae, not certainly an Ilbandornis Rich, 1979. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae. |
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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. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Falconidae. |
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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. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Miocene Czech Republic; Middle Miocene Germany |
A Glareolidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Otididae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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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. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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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. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Middle Oligocene |
An Anseriformes Incertae Sedis. |
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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. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
Early Middle Oligocene |
MP 21-23 |
An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Described as a Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Talantatos Reichenbach, 1852 and placed in the Cariamidae door Mlíkovský, 2002.[33] |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early-Middle Pleistocene |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Ardeidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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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. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae, not certain to be a Sarcoramphus Duméril, 1806. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Ardeidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Thinocoridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
The holotype is a heavily eroded proximal part of a left humerus, best placed in Passeriformes Incertae Sedis. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
A Phalacrocoracidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Charadriidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Plesiosaurs
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Yadagiri & Ayyasami |
Either a Plesiosaur or Stegosaur |
Synapsids
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
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An Omomyid primate |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
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An Omomyid primate |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
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An Omomyid primate |
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
- 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
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- ↑ 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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- ↑ Galton, P.M. and J.A. Jensen. 1979. A new large theropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Colorado. Brigham Young University Geology Studies. 26 (2): pp. 1-12.
- ↑ Powell, J.E. 1979. Sobre una asociacion de dinosaurios y otras evidencias de vertebrados del Cretacico superior de la region de La Candelaria, Prov. de Salta, Argentina. Ameghiniana 16: pp. 191-204.
- ↑ He X. 1979. A newly discovered ornithopod dinosaur Yandusaurus from Zigong. Sichuan. In: Contribution to International Exchange of Geology. Part 2. Stratigraphy and paleontology. Geol. publishing House, Beijing: pp. 116-123.
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