1969 in paleontology

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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 1969.

Paleozoology

Molluscs

New bivalves

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Praenuculidae

Fam nov

Valid

McAlester

Ordovician - Devonian

extinct family of Nuculoidea bivalves

Conodont paleozoology

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Protognathodus

Gen. nov

Valid

Willi Ziegler

Patrognathus[2]

Gen nov

Valid

Rhodes, Austin & Druce

Carboniferous

Vertebrate paleozoology

Fish

New Actinopterygii ("ray-finned fish")
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Proaracana

gen et sp nov

Valid

Le Danois

Eocene

Monte Bolca

 Italy

Archosauromorphs

Newly named crurotarsans
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Riojasuchus[3]

gen et sp nov

valid

Bonaparte

Late Triassic

 Argentina

Ornithosuchid archosaur. originally misidentified as a dinosaur

Riojasuchus tenuiceps
Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Deinonychus[5]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Ostrom

Early Cretaceous

Cloverly Formation

 USA

"Strenusaurus"[3]

gen et sp nov

Junior synonym.

Bonaparte

Triassic

 Argentina

Junior synonym of Riojasaurus.

"Syntarsus"[6]

gen et sp nov

Preoccupied name.

Raath

Early Jurassic

 Zimbabwe

Preoccupied by Syntarsus Fairmaire, 1869. Renamed Megapnosaurus, now a junior synonym of Coelophysis.

Newly named birds
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Alectoris bavarica [7]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Ballmann

Early Miocene

 Germany

A Phasianidae.

Buteo pusillus [8]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Ballmann

Middle Miocene

 France

An Accipitridae.

Capitonides [7]

Gen. et Sp. nov.

jr synonym

Ballmann

Early Miocene

 Germany

A Lybiidae, jr syn of Trachyphonus europeus.[9]

Diomedea thyridata [10]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Wilkinson

Late Miocene

Black Rock Sandstone

 Australia

A Diomedeidae.

Eogeranoides [11]

Gen. et Sp. nov.

Valid

Cracraft

Early Eocene

Willwood Formation

 USA

A Geranoididae, type sp. E. campivagus.

Geranodornis [11]

Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.

Valid

Cracraft

Middle Eocene

Bridger Formation

 USA

A Geranoididae type sp. G. aenigma

Musophaga meini [8]

Sp. nov.

jr synonym

Ballmann

Middle Miocene

MN 8

 France

A Musophagidae
jr syn of Veflintornis meini[12]

Otus wintershofensis [7]

Sp. nov.

jr synonym

Ballmann

Early Miocene

 Germany

A Strigidae,
transferred Strix wintershofensis.[9]

Palaeonerpes [13]

Gen. et Sp. nov.

Valid

Cracraft & Morony

Early Pliocene

Valentine Formation

 USA

A Picidae, type sp P. shorti

Palaeophasianus incompletus [11]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Cracraft

Early Eocene

Willwood Formation

 USA

A Geranoididae

Paracygnus [14]

Gen. et Sp. nov.

Valid

Short

Late Pliocene

Kimbal Formation

 USA

An Anatidae, type sp P. plattensis

Paragrus shufeldti [11]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Cracraft

Early Eocene

Willwood Formation

 USA

A Geranoididae

Plotopterum [15]

Gen. et Sp. nov.

Valid

Howard

Early Miocene

Upper Walker Formation

 USA

A Plotopteridae, type sp P. joaquinensis

Pseudodontornis stirtoni [16]

Sp. nov.

jr synonym

Howard & Warter

Late Pliocene

 New Zealand

A Pseudodontornithidae
transferred to Neodontornis stirtoni[17]

Pulsatrix arredondoi [18]

Sp. nov.

valid

Brodkorb

Pleistocene

Caverna Paredones

 Cuba

A Strigidae.

Strix brevis [7]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Ballmann

Early Miocene

 Germany

A Strigidae,
transferred to Intulula brevis.[9]

Taoperdix miocaena [7]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Ballmann

Early Miocene

 Germany

A Cracidae.

Tetrao praeurogallus [19]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Dénes Jánossy

Early Pliocene - Early Pleistocene

 Bulgaria

A Phasianidae.

Zenaidura prior [20]

Sp. nov.

jr synonym

Brodkorb

Late Pliocene

Rexroad Formation

 USA

A Columbidae, transferred to Zenaida prior.

Zygodactylus [8]

Gen et Sp. nov.

Valid

Ballmann

Middle Miocene

 France
 Germany

A Zygodactylidae
two sp Z. grivensis & Z. ignotus.

New Pterosaurs

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Nesodactylus

gen et sp nov

Valid

Colbert

Late Jurassic

Jagua Formation

 Cuba

family placement uncertain

Paleontologists

References

  1. 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.
  2. British Avonian (Carboniferous) conodont faunas, and their value in local and intercontinental correlation. FHT Rhodes, RL Austin, EC Druce - 1969 - British Museum (Natural History)
  3. 1 2 Bonaparte, J.F. 1969. Dos nuevas "faunas" de reptiles Triasicos de Argentina. I Gondwana Symp. (IVGAS, 1967), Mar del Plata Ciencias Tierra 2: pp. 283-306
  4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. Ostrom, J. H. 1969. A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Postilia 128: pp. 1-17.
  6. Raath, M.A. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 4 (28): pp. 1-25.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Ballmann, P (1969). "Die Vögel aus der Altburdigalen Spaltenfüllung von Wintershof (West) bei Eichstätt in Bayern" (PDF). Zitteliana. 1: 5–60.
  8. 1 2 3 Ballmann, P (1969). "Les Oiseaux Miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère)". Géobios. 2: 157–204. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(69)80005-7.
  9. 1 2 3 Mlíkovský, J (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe" (PDF). Praha Ninox Press, 2002: 1–407.
  10. Wilkinson, HE (1969). "Descriptions of an Upper Miocene albatross from Beaumaris, Victoria, Australia, and a review of the fossil Diomedeidae" (PDF). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria. 29: 41–51.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Cracraft, J (1969). "Systematics and evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 1. The Eocene family Geranoididae and the early history of the Gruiformes" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2388: 1–41.
  12. Brodkorb, P (1971). "Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 4 (Columbiformes through Piciformes)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 15: 163–266.
  13. Cracraft, J; Morony, JJ jr. (1969). "A new pliocene woodpecker, with comments on the fossil Picidae" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2400: 1–41.
  14. Short, LL jr. (1969). "A new genus and species of goose like swan from the Pliocene of Nebraska" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2369: 1–7.
  15. Howard, H (1969). "A new avian fossil from Kern County, California" (PDF). Condor. 71 (1): 68–69. doi:10.2307/1366050.
  16. Howard, H; Warter, SL (1969). "A new species of bony-toothed bird (Family Pseudodontornithidae) from the Tertiary of New Zealand". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 8: 345–357.
  17. Harrison, CJO; Walker, CA (1976). "A review of the bony-toothed birds (Odontopterygiformes): with the description of some new species". Tertiary Research Special Papers. 2: 1–72.
  18. Brodkorb, P (1969). "An extinct Pleistocene owl from Cuba" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 31 (2): 112–114.
  19. Jánossy, D (1969). "Die Mittelpleistozäne Vogelfauna der Stránská Skála". Anthropos, Studia Musei Moraviae (N.S.), Brno. 20 (12): 35–64.
  20. Brodkorb, P (1969). "An ancestral mourning dove from Rexroad, Kansas" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 31 (3): 173–176.
  21. Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
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