1975_in_paleontology
1975 in paleontology
Overview of the events of 1975 in paleontology
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.
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. |
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gen et sp nov |
jr synonym |
Ponomarenko |
A dryinid wasp, genus synonymized with Deinodryinus |
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Gen et sp nov. |
Jr synonym |
Dlussky |
Taimyr amber |
A Sphecomyrminae ant. homonym of Palaeomyrmex Heer. |
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Molluscs
Bivalves
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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fam nov |
Valid |
Pojeta |
Lower Devonian |
worldwide |
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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 |
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Alocodon | Gen et sp nov | Valid | 194 Millions years ago. | |||||
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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"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] | ||
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Jain, Kutty, Roy-Chowdhury, & Chatterjee |
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Fam, gen, et sp nov |
Harrison & C. A. Walker |
Possibly synonymous with Elopteryx. |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Harrison & C. A. Walker |
alvarezsaurid, originally described as an owl |
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Gen nov |
Valid |
Gow |
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He |
informal name for Yandusaurus. |
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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. |
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Botaurus hibbardi [19] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Carolyn Moseley |
An Ardeidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Procellariidae, Extinct after 1502 arrival of man |
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Dakotornis cooperi [21] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Described in the Dakornithidae, now placed in the Graculavidae, |
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Columbidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
MQ 2B |
A Falconidae. |
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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 |
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Primapus lacki [23] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Collin J. O. Harrison |
MP 8-9 |
An Apodiformes, Aegialornithidae Lydekker, 1891. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Procellariidae, sometimes placed in the genus Pseudobulweria. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Spizaetus schultzi [24] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Larry D. Martin |
Kimballian |
Kimball Formation |
An Accipitridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Upupidae. Extinct before or around 1502 |
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Pterosaurs
New taxa
Incertae sedis
New taxa
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.