1970 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 1970.

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aphaenogaster avita[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Fujiyama	early - middle Miocene	Chojabaru Formation	Japan	A myrmicin ant
"Holcorpidae"[3]	Fam nov	nomen nudum	Zherikhin	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA	A scorpionfly family, type sp. H. maculosa No formal description provided

Archosauromorphs

Newly named diapsids

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Longisquama[4]	fam et gen et sp nov	valid	Sharov	Middle to Late Triassic		Kyrgyzstan	possible gliding reptile	Longisquama insignis

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[5]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Daspletosaurus[6]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Russell	Late Cretaceous	Oldman Formation	USA	A tyrannosaurine tyrannosaurid.	Daspletosaurus
Deinocheirus[7]	fam, gen et sp nov	Valid	Osmólska & Roniewicz	late Cretaceous	Nemegt Formation	Mongolia		Deinocheirus
Dilophosaurus[8]	gen nov	Valid	Welles	Early Jurassic	Kayenta formation	USA		Dilophosaurus
"Likhoelesaurus"[9]	gen et sp nov	Nomen nudum.	Ellenberger	Late Triassic	Lower Elliot Formation	South Africa	Misidentified non-dinosaurian archosaur.
"Megadontosaurus"[10]	gen et sp nov	Nomen nudum	Brown vide: Ostrom	Early Cretaceous	Cloverly Formation	USA	Chimera of Deinonychus and Microvenator.
Microvenator[11]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ostrom	Early Cretaceous	Cloverly Formation	USA		Microvenator celer
Sauropelta[11]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ostrom	Early Cretaceous	Cloverly Formation	USA	a nodosaurid	Sauropelta
Staurikosaurus[12]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Colbert	Late Triassic	Santa Maria Formation	Brazil	a herrerasaurid	Staurikosaurus
Tenontosaurus[11]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ostrom	Early Cretaceous	Cloverly Formation	USA	an ornithopod	Tenontosaurus

Newly named birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anabernicula robusta [13]	Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Short	Early Pleistocene	Yarmouth Intergalcial	USA	An Anatidae, jr synonym of Brantadorna robusta[14]
Aquila borrasi [15]	Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Arredondo	Pleistocene	Cave deposits	Cuba	A Accipitridae, jr synonym of Buteogallus borrasi.[16]
Chubutodyptes biloculata [17]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid	George G. Simpson	Early Miocene	Patagonian	Argentina	A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, 2007 transferred the species to the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891.[18]
Heterochen pratensis [13]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid	Lester L. Short	Early Pliocene	Valentine Formation	USA  Nebraska	An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
Mancalla milleri [19]	Sp. nov.	valid	Hildegarde Howard	Middle Pliocene	Blancan, San Diego Formation	USA  California	An Alcidae, Mancallinae.
Primobucco mcgrewi [20]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid	Pierce Brodkorb	Early Eocene	Green River Formation	USA  Wyoming	Described as a Bucconidae, Feduccia et Martin, 1976 erected the family Primobucconidae for it,[21] this is the type species of the new genus.
Proagriocharis kimballensis [22]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid	Larry D. Martin James Tate, Jr.	Late Pliocene	Kimball Formation	USA  Nebraska	A Meleagridae, this is the type species of the new genus.
Pseudaptenodytes macraei [17]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid	George G. Simpson	Late Miocene	Cheltenhamian	Australia:  Victoria	A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
Pseudaptenodytes minor [17]	Sp. nov.	valid	George G. Simpson	Late Miocene	Cheltenhamian	Australia:  Victoria	A Spheniscidae.
Tringa antiqua [23]	Sp. nov.	valid	J. Alan Feduccia	Late Pliocene	Hemphillian	USA  Kansas	A Scolopacidae.
Zonotrichia robusta [24]	Sp. nov.	valid	Eduardo P. Tonni	Middle Pleistocene	Miramar	Argentina	A Passerellidae.

Newly named Pterosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Pterodaustro	gen et sp nov	Valid	Bonaparte	early Cretaceous	Lagarcito Formation	Argentina	a Ctenochasmatid pterodactyloid	Pterodaustro guinazui

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. Fujiyama, I. (1970). "Fossil insects from the Chojabaru Formation, Iki Island, Japan". Memoires of the Natural Science Museum, Tokyo. 3: 65–74.
3. Archibald, SB (2010). "Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1-2): 173–182. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697654.
4. Sharov, A.G. 1970. A peculiar reptile from the Lower Triassic of Fergana. Paleontologiceskij Zurnal 1: pp. 127-130.
5. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
6. Russell, D.A. 1970. Tyrannosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Western Canada. National Museum of Nat. Sci., Publ. Paleontology No. 1.
7. Osmolska, H. and E. Roniewicz. 1970. Deinocheiridae, a new family of theropod dinosaurs. Palaeontol. Polonica 21: pp. 5-19.
8. Welles, S.P. 1970. Dilophosaurus (Reptilia: Saurischia), a new name for a dinosaur. J. Paleontol. 44: p. 989.
9. Ellenberger, P. 1970. Les niveaux Paleontologiques de premiere apparition des Mammiferes primordiaux ed afrique du sud et leur ichnologie, establissement de zones stratigaphiques detaillees dans le stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du sud) (Trias superieur a Jurassique). Proceedings Papers of the 2nd Gondwana Symposium in South Africa, 1970: pp. 343-370.
10. Brown vide Ostrom, J.H. 1970. Terrestrial vertebrates as indicators of Mesozoic climates. Proc. North. Am. Paleontol. Convention D, 347-376.
11. Ostrom, J.H. 1970. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Bighorn Basin area, Wyoming and Montana. Peabody Museum Nat. History Bull. 35: pp. 1-234.
12. Colbert, E.H. 1970. A saurischian dinosaur from the Triassic of Brasil. Amer. Mus. Novitates 2405: pp. 1-39.
13. Short, LL (1970). "A New Anseriform Genus and Species from the Nebraska Pliocene" (PDF). Auk. 87 (3): 537–543. doi:10.2307/4083796.
14. Livezey; BC (1997). "A Phylogenetic Classification of Waterfowl (Aves: Anseriformes), including selected fossil species". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 66: 457–496.
15. Arredondo, O (1970). "Nueva Especie de Ave Pleistocénica del Orden Accipitriformes (Accipitridae) y Nuevo Género para las Antillas". Ciencias, series 4 (Ciencias Biológicas). 8: 1–8.
16. Duque, WS; Olson, SL (2007). "The Cuban Fossil Eagle Aquila borrasi Arredondo: A Scaled-up Version of the Great Black-hawk (Buteogallus urubitinga) (Gmelin)" (PDF). Journal of Raptor Research. 41 (4): 288–298. doi:10.3356/0892-1016(2007)41[288:tcfeab]2.0.co;2.
17. George G. Simpson (1970). "Miocene Penguins from Victoria, Australia, and Chubut, Argentina" (PDF). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria. 31: 17–23.
18. Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche (2007). "Revisión Sistematicá de Palaeospheniscus biloculata (Simpson) nov. comb. (Aves, Spheniscidae) de la Formación Gaiman (Mioceno Temprano), Chubut, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 44 (2): 417–426.
19. Hildegarde Howard (1970). "A Review of the Extinct Avian Genus Mancalla" (PDF). Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science. 203: 1–12.
20. Pierce Brodkorb (1970). "An Eocene Puffbird from Wyoming". Contributions to Geology University of Wyoming. 9 (1): 13–15.
21. J. Alan Feduccia & Larry D. Martin (1976). "The Eocene Zygodactyl Birds of North America (Aves: Piciformes)" (PDF). In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 27: 101–110.
22. Larry D. Martin & James Tate, Jr. (1970). "A New Turkey from the Pliocene of Nebraska" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin. 82 (2): 214–218.
23. J. Alan Feduccia (1970). "A New Shorebird from the Upper Pliocene" (PDF). Journal of the Graduate Research Center (Dallas, Texas). 38 (3-4): 58–60.
24. Eduardo P. Tonni (1970). "Zonotrichia robusta n. sp. (Aves, Passeriformes) del Pleistoceno Medio de la Provincia de Buenos Aires". Ameghiniana. 7 (2): 161–165.