1972 in paleontology
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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (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 mankind has 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 1972.
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Mollusca
New bivalves
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
Valid |
Babin & Melou |
new genus for Nucula ponderata |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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 nov |
Valid |
an ornithomimid |
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gen nov |
valid? |
an ornithomimid, possibly a synonym of Ornithomimus |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
an ornithomimid |
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informal name for undescribed ?prosauropod |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
a sauropod |
Newly named birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
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An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Spheniscidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Apodidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
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An Ardeidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
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An Strigiformes, Protostrigidae Wetmore, 1933. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
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A Corvidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
An Otididae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Synonym of Paraptenodytes robustus (Ameghino, 1895). |
A Spheniscidae, placed in synonymy with Paraptenodytes robustus (Ameghino, 1895) by Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche, 2005,[15] but Sara Bertelli, Norberto P. Giannini & Daniel T. Ksepka, 2006 disagree with her and say it needs another genus.[16] . |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
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A Gruidae, transferred to the genus Grus by Jíří Mlíkovský, 2002.[17] |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
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A Corvidae, sometimes placed in the genus Calocitta G. R. Gray, 1841. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Spheniscidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
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A Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Strigidae, transferred to and made the type species of the new genus Alasio by Jirí Mlíkovský, 1998.[20] |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Strigidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
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A Rallidae, transferred to the genus Palaeoaramides Lambrecht, 1933 by Storrs L. Olson, 1977.[22] Subsequently made the type species of a separate genus Mioporphyrula by Zelenkov (2015).[23] |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Cave deposits |
A Tytonidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Cave deposits |
A Tytonidae. |
Newly named onithodirans
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
a Silesaurid. |
synapsids
Newly named therapsids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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valid |
a regisaurid. |
References
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- ↑ Dutuit, J.M. 1972. Decouverte d'un dinosaure ornthischien dans le Trias supericur de l'Atlas occidental marocain. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris D275: pp. 2841-2844.
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Russell, D.A. 1972. Ostrich dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Western Canada. Can. J. Earth Sci. 9: pp. 375-402.
- ↑ Osmolska, H., E. Roniewicz, and R. Barsbold. 1972. A new dinosaur Gallimimus bullatus, n. gen. n. sp. (Ornithomimidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontol. Polonica 27: pp. 103-143.
- ↑ Ellenberger, P. 1972. Contribution a la classification des pistes de vertebres du Trias: les types du Stormberg d’Afrique du Sud (I). Palaeovertebrata Memories Extraord(1972): pp. 1-152.
- ↑ Raath, M.A. 1972. Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: a new dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from near the Trias-Jurassic Boundary. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 5 (30): 1-37.
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- ↑ Romer, A.S. 1972. The Chanares (Argentina) Triassic Reptile Fauna. XIV. Lewisuchus admixtus, gen. et sp. nov., a further Thecodont from the Chanares Beds. Breviora 390: pp. 1-13.
- ↑ C. H. Mendrez. 1972. On the skull of Regisaurus jacobi, a new genus and species of Bauriamorpha Watson and Romer 1956 (=Scaloposauria Boonstra 1953), from the Lystrosaurus-zone of South Africa.