1975 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 1975.

Scientific advances

Invertebrate paleozoology

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Electrodryinus areolatus[2]	gen et sp nov	jr synonym	Ponomarenko	Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe	A dryinid wasp, genus synonymized with Deinodryinus	Deinodryinus areolatus

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Fordillidae[3]	fam nov	Valid	Pojeta	Lower Devonian	worldwide		New family for Fordilla and Pojetaia	Fordilla

Vertebrate paleozoology

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

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Abrictosaurus[5]	gen nov	Valid	Hopson	Early Jurassic	Upper Elliot Formation	Lesotho		Abrictosaurus
Bagaceratops[6]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Maryańska & Osmólska	Late Cretaceous		Mongolia		Bagaceratops
Barapasaurus[7]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Jain, Kutty, Roy-Chowdhury, & Chatterjee	Lower Jurassic	Kota Formation	India		Barapasaurus
Bradycneme[8]	Fam, gen, et sp nov	Nomen dubium	Harrison & C. A. Walker	Maastrichtian	Sânpetru Formation	Romania	Possibly synonymous with Elopteryx.
Heptasteornis[8]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Harrison & C. A. Walker	Maastrichtian	Sânpetru Formation	Romania	alvarezsaurid, originally described as an owl
Lanasaurus[9]	Gen nov	Valid	Gow	Hettangian to Sinemurian	Elliot Formation	South Africa
"Yubasaurus"		Nomen nudum.	He				informal name for Yandusaurus.

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anhinga grandis [10]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Larry D. Martin Robert M. Mengel	Pliocene	Kimball Formation	USA:  Florida	An Anhingidae.
Botaurus hibbardi [11]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Carolyn Moseley Alan Feduccia	Late Pliocene	Rexroad Formation	USA:  Kansas	An Ardeidae.
Bulweria bifax [12]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Storrs L. Olson	Pleistocene		Saint Helena	A Procellariidae, Extinct after 1502 arrival of man
Dakotornis cooperi [13]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Bruce R. Erickson	Paleocene	Tongue River Formation	USA:   North Dakota	Described in the Dakornithidae, now placed in the Graculavidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos [12]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Storrs L. Olson	Middle Pleistocene		Saint Helena	A Columbidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
Falco antiquus [14]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Cécile Mourer-Chauviré	Middle Pleistocene	MQ 2B	France	A Falconidae.
Nannococcyx spix [12]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Storrs L. Olson	Holocene		Saint Helena	A Cuculidae, this is the type species of the new genus. Extinct at the start of the 16th century
Primapus lacki [15]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Collin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. Walker	Early Eocene	London Clay, MP 8-9	UK:  England	An Apodiformes, Aegialornithidae Lydekker, 1891.
Pterodroma rupinarum [12]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Storrs L. Olson	Pleistocene		Saint Helena	A Procellariidae, sometimes placed in the genus Pseudobulweria. Extinct after 1502 due to deforestation
Puffinus pacificoides [12]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Storrs L. Olson	Pleistocene		Saint Helena	A Procellariidae.
Spizaetus schultzi [16]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Larry D. Martin	Pliocene, Kimballian	Kimball Formation	USA:  Nebraska	An Accipitridae.
Upupa antaios [12]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Storrs L. Olson	Holocene		Saint Helena	An Upupidae. Extinct before or around 1502

Name Status Authors Notes Puntanipterus Valid Bonaparte Sanchez, T.M Quetzalcoatlus Valid Lawson, Douglas A.[17]

Name Status Authors Notes Gluteus minimus Valid Richard Arnold Davis & Holmes A. Semken, Jr.[18]

People

Awards and recognition

Popular culture

Literature

• Badlands by Robert Kroetsch was published. This novel portrayed an expedition of "eccentric" paleontologists seeking the remains of dinosaurs along the Red Deer River.^[19]

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. Guglielmino, A.; Olmi, M. (2011). "Revision of fossil species of Deinodryinus, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae)". ZooKeys 130: 495–504. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1326. PMC 3260777. PMID 22259295.
3. Elicki, O.; Gürsu, S. (2009). "First record of Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980 and Fordilla Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 83 (2): 267–291. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0021-9.
4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
5. Hopson, J.A. 1975. On the generic separation of the ornithischian dinosaurs Lycorhinus and Heterodontosaurus from the Stormberg Group (Upper Triassic) of South Africa. South African Journal of Science 71: pp. 302–305.
6. Maryanska, T. and H. Osmólska, H. 1975. Protoceratopsidae (Dinosauria) of Asia. Palaeontol. Polonica 33: pp. 133-182.
7. Jain, S.L., T.S. Kutty, T. Roychowdhury, S. Chatterjee. 1975. The sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Proc. R. Soc. London 2 A 188: pp. 221-228.
8. Harrison, C.J.O., C.A. Walker. 1975. The Bradycnemidae, a new family of owls from the Upper Cretaceous of Romania. Palaeontology 18: pp. 563-570.
9. Gow, C.E. 1975. A new heterodontosaurid from the Red Beds of South Africa showing evidence of tooth replacement. Zool. Linnaean Soc. London 57: pp. 335-339.
10. Larry D. Martin & Robert M. Mengel (1975). "A New Species of Anhinga (Anhingidae) from the Upper Pliocene of Nebraska" (PDF). Auk 92 (1): 137–140. doi:10.2307/4084425.
11. Carolyn Moseley & Alan Feduccia (1975). "Upper Pliocene Herons and Ibises from North America". University Michigan Museum Paleontology, Papers on Paleontology 12: 71–74.
12. Storrs L. Olson (1975). "Paleornithology of St. Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 23: 1–60. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.23.1.
13. Bruce R. Erickson (1975). "Dakotornis cooperi, a New Paleocene Bird from North Dakota". Scientific Publications of the Science Museum of Minnesota (new series) 3: 1–7.
14. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (1975). "Les Oiseaux du Pléistocène Moyen et Supérieur de France". Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon 64: 1–624.
15. Collin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1975). "A New Swift from the Lower Eocene of Britain". Ibis 117 (2): 162–164. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1975.tb04203.x.
16. Larry D. Martin (1975). "A New Species of Spizaetus from the Pliocene of Nebraska" (PDF). Wilson Bulletin 87 (3): 413–416.
17. Lawson, Douglas A. 1975. "Pterosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of West Texas: Discovery of the Largest Flying Creature." Science, 187: 947-948.
18. Richard Arnold Davis & Holmes A. Semken, Jr. (1975). "Fossils of uncertain affinity from the Upper Devonian of Iowa". Science 187 (4173): 251–254. doi:10.1126/science.187.4173.251. JSTOR 1739069. PMID 17838783.
19. Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 504-529.