1969 in paleontology
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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 1969.
Plants
Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Comb nov | jr synonym | Ione Formation | A dicot of uncertain affinity. | ![]() |
Molluscs
Bivalves
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Fam nov | Valid | McAlester | extinct family of Nuculoidea bivalves |
Fish
Actinopterygii
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov | Valid | Le Danois | ![]() |
Conodonts
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov | Valid | 351 Millions of years ago. | |||||
Patrognathus[6] | Gen nov | Valid | Rhodes, Austin & Druce |
Archosauromorphs
Crurotarsans
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Riojasuchus[7] | gen et sp nov | valid | Ornithosuchid archosaur. originally misidentified as a dinosaur | ![]() |
Non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Deinonychus[9] | gen et sp nov | Valid | An American dromeosaur, that has a name that means: Terrible Claw . | ![]() | ||||
Riojasaurus[7] | gen et sp nov | Valid. | A sauropod. | ![]() | ||||
"Strenusaurus"[7] | gen et sp nov | Junior synonym of Riojasaurus. | ||||||
"Syntarsus"[10] | gen et sp nov | Preoccupied name. | Raath | Preoccupied by Syntarsus Fairmaire, 1869. Renamed Megapnosaurus. | |
Birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Alectoris bavarica [11] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Ballmann | Early Miocene | A Phasianidae. | |||
Buteo pusillus [12] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Ballmann | Middle Miocene | An Accipitridae. | |||
Capitonides [11] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | jr synonym | Ballmann | Early Miocene | A Lybiidae, jr syn of Trachyphonus europeus.[13] | |||
Diomedea thyridata [14] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Wilkinson | Late Miocene | Black Rock Sandstone | A Diomedeidae. | ||
Eogeranoides [15] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Cracraft | Early Eocene | A Geranoididae, type sp. E. campivagus. | |||
Geranodornis [15] | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Cracraft | Middle Eocene | A Geranoididae type sp. G. aenigma | |||
Musophaga meini [12] | Sp. nov. | jr synonym | Ballmann | Middle Miocene (MN 8) | A Musophagidae | |||
Otus wintershofensis [11] | Sp. nov. | jr synonym | Ballmann | Early Miocene | A Strigidae, | |||
Palaeonerpes [17] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Cracraft & Morony | Early Pliocene | A Picidae, type sp P. shorti | |||
Palaeophasianus incompletus [15] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Cracraft | Early Eocene | Willwood Formation | |||
Paracygnus [18] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Short | Late Pliocene | Kimbal Formation | An Anatidae, type sp P. plattensis | ||
Paragrus shufeldti [15] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Cracraft | Early Eocene | Willwood Formation | |||
Plotopterum [19] | Gen et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Miocene | Upper Walker Formation | A Plotopteridae, type sp P. joaquinensis | ![]() | ||
Sp. nov. | jr synonym | Howard & Warter | Late Pliocene | A Pseudodontornithidae | ||||
Pulsatrix arredondoi [22] | Sp. nov. | valid | Pleistocene | Caverna Paredones | A Strigidae. | |||
Strix brevis [11] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Ballmann | Early Miocene | A Strigidae, | |||
Taoperdix miocaena [11] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Ballmann | Early Miocene | A Cracidae. | |||
Tetrao praeurogallus [23] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Dénes Jánossy | Early Pliocene - Early Pleistocene | A Phasianidae. | |||
Zenaidura prior [24] | Sp. nov. | jr synonym | Brodkorb | Late Pliocene | A Columbidae, transferred to Zenaida prior. | |||
Zygodactylus [12] | Gen et Sp. nov. | Valid | Ballmann | Middle Miocene | A Zygodactylidae |
Pterosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov | Valid | Colbert | family placement uncertain |
Synapsids
Mammals
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type Locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Crusafontia[25] | Gen et sp nov | valid | Henkel & Krebs | A dryolestid mammalian | ![]() | |||
Sivapardus[26] | Gen. et. sp. nov. | Valid | Bakr | Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene | Sar-Dhok | A felinae large cat. |
Paleontologists
- Death of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.[27]
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.
- ^ Wolfe, J.A. (1968). Paleogene Biostratigraphy of nonmarine rocks in King County, Washington (Report). Professional Paper. Vol. 571. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–29. doi:10.3133/pp571.
- ^ MacGinitie, H.D. (1941). A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada (Report). Contributions to Paleontology. Vol. 534. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington. p. 116.
- ^ MacGinitie, H. (1969). The Eocene green River flora of northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah. University of California Press.
- ^ Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). Middle Eocene dicotyledonous plants from Republic, northeastern Washington (Report). Bulletin. Vol. 1597. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–25. doi:10.3133/b1597.
- ^ British Avonian (Carboniferous) conodont faunas, and their value in local and intercontinental correlation. FHT Rhodes, RL Austin, EC Druce - 1969 - British Museum (Natural History)
- ^ a b c 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". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. 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.
- ^ a b c d e Ballmann, P (1969). "Die Vögel aus der Altburdigalen Spaltenfüllung von Wintershof (West) bei Eichstätt in Bayern" (PDF). Zitteliana. 1: 5–60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-30.
- ^ a b c Ballmann, P (1969). "Les Oiseaux Miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère)". Géobios. 2: 157–204. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(69)80005-7.
- ^ a b c Mlíkovský, J (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe" (PDF). Praha Ninox Press, 2002: 1–407. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
- ^ Wilkinson, HE (1969). "Descriptions of an Upper Miocene albatross from Beaumaris, Victoria, Australia, and a review of the fossil Diomedeidae". Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria. 29: 41–51. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.1969.29.04.
- ^ a b c d 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. JSTOR 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.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Jánossy, D (1969). "Die Mittelpleistozäne Vogelfauna der Stránská Skála". Anthropos, Studia Musei Moraviae, Brno. New Series. 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
- ^ Henkel, S. and Krebs, B., 1969. Zwei Säugetier-unterkiefer aus der unteren Kreide von uña (prov. Cuenca, Spanien). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 1969, pp.449-463.
- ^ Bakr, Abu (July 1969). "A new genus of large cat from Upper Siwaliks". Pakistan Journal of Zoology. 1 (2): 135–140.
- ^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.