1975 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 1975.
Paleozoology
Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Cretopone[2] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Dlussky | Beleutinskaya Formation | An ant of uncertain phylogenetic placement. | ![]() | ||
gen et sp nov | jr synonym | Ponomarenko | A dryinid wasp, genus synonymized with Deinodryinus | ![]() | ||||
Gen et sp nov. | Jr synonym | Dlussky | Taimyr amber | A Sphecomyrminae ant. homonym of Palaeomyrmex Heer. | ![]() |
Molluscs
Bivalves
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Fordillidae[5] | fam nov | Valid | Pojeta | Lower Devonian | worldwide | ![]() |
Conodonts
German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) and G.K. Merrill described the conodont genus Diplognathodus.[6]
Vertebrates
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen nov | Valid | Hopson | ![]() | |||||
Alocodon | Gen et sp nov | Valid | 194 Millions years ago. | |||||
Bagaceratops[9] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | ![]() | |||||
"Sinopliosaurus" fusuiensis[10] | Sp. Nov. | junior synonym? | Lian-Hai, Hsiang-K'uei, & Xi-Jin | Early Cretaceous | Xinlong Formation | Originally classified as a second species of the pliosauroid Sinopliosaurus,[10] and later as a spinosaurid dinosaur.[11] Now a possible junior synonym of the spinosaurid genus Siamosaurus.[12][13][14] | ![]() | |
Barapasaurus[15] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Jain, Kutty, Roy-Chowdhury, & Chatterjee | ![]() | ||||
Bradycneme[16] | Fam, gen, et sp nov | Harrison & C. A. Walker | Possibly synonymous with Elopteryx. | |||||
Heptasteornis[16] | gen et sp nov | Valid | Harrison & C. A. Walker | alvarezsaurid, originally described as an owl | ||||
Lanasaurus[17] | Gen nov | Valid | Gow | |||||
He | informal name for Yandusaurus. |
Newly named birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Anhinga grandis [18] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Larry D. Martin Robert M. Mengel | Kimball Formation | An Anhingidae. | |||
Botaurus hibbardi [19] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Carolyn Moseley | An Ardeidae. | ||||
Bulweria bifax [20] | Sp. nov. | Valid | A Procellariidae, Extinct after 1502 arrival of man | |||||
Dakotornis cooperi [21] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid |
| Described in the Dakornithidae, now placed in the Graculavidae, | ||||
Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Columbidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Falco antiquus [22] | Sp. nov. | Valid | MQ 2B | A Falconidae. | ||||
Nannococcyx spix [20] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cuculidae, this is the type species of the new genus. Extinct at the start of the 16th century BC | |||||
Primapus lacki [23] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Collin J. O. Harrison | MP 8-9 | An Apodiformes, Aegialornithidae Lydekker, 1891. | |||
Pterodroma rupinarum [20] | Sp. nov. | Valid | A Procellariidae, sometimes placed in the genus Pseudobulweria. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
Spizaetus schultzi [24] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Larry D. Martin | Kimballian | Kimball Formation | An Accipitridae. | ||
Upupa antaios [20] | Sp. nov. | Valid | An Upupidae. Extinct before or around 1502 |
Pterosaurs
New taxa
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Incertae sedis
New taxa
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References
- ^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
- ^ Dlussky G.M. 1975. Superfamily Formicoidea Latreille, 1802. Family Formicidae Latreille, 1802. In: Rasnitsyn A.P. (ed.), Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Trudy Paleontologiceskogo Instituta Akademija Nauk SSSR: 114-122 [in Russian].
- ^ Guglielmino, A.; Olmi, M. (2011). "Revision of fossil species of Deinodryinus, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae)". ZooKeys (130): 495–504. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1326. PMC 3260777. PMID 22259295.
- ^ Grimaldi, D.; Agosti, D.; Carpenter, J. M. (1997). "New and rediscovered primitive ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey, and their phylogenetic relationships". American Museum Novitates (3208): 1–43.
- ^ Elicki, O.; Gürsu, S. (2009). "First record of Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980 and Fordilla Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 83 (2): 267–291. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0021-9. S2CID 49380913. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-01-06.
- ^ Kozur, H. & Merrill, G.K. 1975. Genus Diplognathodus. In : Kozur, H. Beiträge zur Conodontenfauna des Perm. Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen, Innsbruck, pages 9-10
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Hopson, J.A. 1975. On the generic separation of the ornithischian dinosaurs Lycorhinus and Heterodontosaurus from the Stormberg Group (Upper Triassic) of South Africa. South African Journal of Science 71: pp. 302–305.
- ^ Maryanska, T. and H. Osmólska, H. 1975. Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia. Palaeontol. Polonica 33: pp. 133-182.
- ^ a b Hou, L.; Yeh, H.; Zhao, X. (1975). "Fossil reptiles from Fusui, Kwangshi". Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 13 (1): 24–33. ISSN 1000-3118.
- ^ Buffetaut, E.; Suteethorn, V.; Tong, H.; Amiot, R. (2008). "An Early Cretaceous spinosaur theropod from southern China". Geological Magazine. 145 (5): 745–748. Bibcode:2008GeoM..145..745B. doi:10.1017/S0016756808005360. S2CID 129921019.
- ^ Mortimer, M. "Megalosauroidea". theropoddatabase.com. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
- ^ Molina-Peréz & Larramendi (2016). Récords y curiosidades de los dinosaurios Terópodos y otros dinosauromorfos. Barcelona, Spain: Larousse. p. 275. ISBN 9780565094973.
- ^ Wongko, Kamonlak; Buffetaut, Eric; Khamha, Suchada; Lauprasert, Komsorn (2019). "Spinosaurid theropod teeth from the Red Beds of the Khok Kruat Formation (Early Cretaceous) in Northeastern Thailand". Tropical Natural History. 19 (1): 8–20. ISSN 2586-9892.
- ^ Jain, S.L., T.S. Kutty, T. Roychowdhury, S. Chatterjee. 1975. The sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Proc. R. Soc. London 2 A 188: pp. 221-228.
- ^ a b Harrison, C.J.O.; Walker, C.A. (1975). "The Bradycnemidae, a new family of owls from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania". Palaeontology. 18: 563–570.
- ^ Gow, C.E. 1975. A new heterodontosaurid from the Red Beds of South Africa showing evidence of tooth replacement. Zool. Linnaean Soc. London 57: pp. 335-339.
- ^ Larry D. Martin & Robert M. Mengel (1975). "A New Species of Anhinga (Anhingidae) from the Upper Pliocene of Nebraska" (PDF). Auk. 92 (1): 137–140. doi:10.2307/4084425. JSTOR 4084425.
- ^ Carolyn Moseley & Alan Feduccia (1975). "Upper Pliocene Herons and Ibises from North America". University Michigan Museum Paleontology, Papers on Paleontology. 12: 71–74.
- ^ a b c d e f Storrs L. Olson (1975). "Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 23 (23): 1–60. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.23.1.
- ^ Bruce R. Erickson (1975). "Dakotornis cooperi, a New Paleocene Bird from North Dakota". Scientific Publications of the Science Museum of Minnesota. New Series. 3: 1–7.
- ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (1975). "Les Oiseaux du Pléistocène Moyen et Supérieur de France". Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon. 64: 1–624.
- ^ Collin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1975). "A New Swift from the Lower Eocene of Britain". Ibis. 117 (2): 162–164. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1975.tb04203.x.
- ^ Larry D. Martin (1975). "A New Species of Spizaetus from the Pliocene of Nebraska" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin. 87 (3): 413–416.
- ^ Lawson, Douglas A (1975). "Pterosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of West Texas: Discovery of the Largest Flying Creature". Science. 187 (4180): 947–948. Bibcode:1975Sci...187..947L. doi:10.1126/science.187.4180.947. PMID 17745279. S2CID 46396417.
- ^ Richard Arnold Davis & Holmes A. Semken, Jr. (1975). "Fossils of uncertain affinity from the Upper Devonian of Iowa". Science. 187 (4173): 251–254. Bibcode:1975Sci...187..251A. doi:10.1126/science.187.4173.251. JSTOR 1739069. PMID 17838783. S2CID 39189634.