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 |
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Fam nov |
Valid |
McAlester |
extinct family of Nuculoidea bivalves |
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Conodont paleozoology
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov |
Valid |
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Gen nov |
Valid |
Rhodes, Austin & Druce |
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Vertebrate paleozoology
Fish
New Actinopterygii ("ray-finned fish")
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Le Danois |
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Archosauromorphs
Newly named crurotarsans
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
Ornithosuchid archosaur. originally misidentified as a dinosaur |
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Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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gen et sp nov |
Junior synonym of Riojasaurus. |
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gen et sp nov |
Preoccupied name. |
Raath |
Preoccupied by Syntarsus Fairmaire, 1869. Renamed Megapnosaurus, now a junior synonym of Coelophysis. |
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Newly named birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Alectoris bavarica [7] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Ballmann |
Early Miocene |
A Phasianidae. |
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Buteo pusillus [8] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Ballmann |
Middle Miocene |
An Accipitridae. |
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Ballmann |
Early Miocene |
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Diomedea thyridata [10] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Wilkinson |
Late Miocene |
Black Rock Sandstone |
A Diomedeidae. |
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Eogeranoides [11] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cracraft |
Early Eocene |
A Geranoididae, type sp. E. campivagus. |
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Geranodornis [11] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cracraft |
Middle Eocene |
A Geranoididae type sp. G. aenigma |
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Musophaga meini [8] |
Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Ballmann |
Middle Miocene |
MN 8 |
A Musophagidae |
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Otus wintershofensis [7] |
Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Ballmann |
Early Miocene |
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Palaeonerpes [13] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cracraft & Morony |
Early Pliocene |
A Picidae, type sp P. shorti |
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Palaeophasianus incompletus [11] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cracraft |
Early Eocene |
Willwood Formation |
A Geranoididae |
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Paracygnus [14] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Short |
Late Pliocene |
Kimbal Formation |
An Anatidae, type sp P. plattensis |
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Paragrus shufeldti [11] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cracraft |
Early Eocene |
Willwood Formation |
A Geranoididae |
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Plotopterum [15] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Miocene |
Upper Walker Formation |
A Plotopteridae, type sp P. joaquinensis |
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Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Howard & Warter |
Late Pliocene |
A Pseudodontornithidae |
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Pulsatrix arredondoi [18] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
Pleistocene |
Caverna Paredones |
A Strigidae. |
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Strix brevis [7] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Ballmann |
Early Miocene |
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Taoperdix miocaena [7] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Ballmann |
Early Miocene |
A Cracidae. |
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Tetrao praeurogallus [19] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Dénes Jánossy |
Early Pliocene - Early Pleistocene |
A Phasianidae. |
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Zenaidura prior [20] |
Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Brodkorb |
Late Pliocene |
A Columbidae, transferred to Zenaida prior. |
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Zygodactylus [8] |
Gen et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Ballmann |
Middle Miocene |
A Zygodactylidae |
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New Pterosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Colbert |
family placement uncertain |
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Paleontologists
- Death of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.[21]
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.
- ↑ British Avonian (Carboniferous) conodont faunas, and their value in local and intercontinental correlation. FHT Rhodes, RL Austin, EC Druce - 1969 - British Museum (Natural History)
- 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
- ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ↑ Ostrom, J. H. 1969. A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Postilia 128: pp. 1-17.
- ↑ Raath, M.A. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 4 (28): pp. 1-25.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1 2 3 Mlíkovský, J (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe" (PDF). Praha Ninox Press, 2002: 1–407.
- ↑ 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.
- 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.
- ↑ Brodkorb, P (1971). "Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 4 (Columbiformes through Piciformes)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 15: 163–266.
- ↑ Cracraft, J; Morony, JJ jr. (1969). "A new pliocene woodpecker, with comments on the fossil Picidae" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2400: 1–41.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Howard, H (1969). "A new avian fossil from Kern County, California" (PDF). Condor. 71 (1): 68–69. doi:10.2307/1366050.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Brodkorb, P (1969). "An extinct Pleistocene owl from Cuba" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 31 (2): 112–114.
- ↑ Jánossy, D (1969). "Die Mittelpleistozäne Vogelfauna der Stránská Skála". Anthropos, Studia Musei Moraviae (N.S.), Brno. 20 (12): 35–64.
- ↑ Brodkorb, P (1969). "An ancestral mourning dove from Rexroad, Kansas" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 31 (3): 173–176.
- ↑ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.