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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 1979.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
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Janssens |
An aulacomniaceous moss. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
A libotoniid sandroller relative. |
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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Saito |
informal name created by phonetic translation of the crylic for hadrosaur ("gadrosavr") into Japanese. |
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Gen et comb nov |
Valid |
A hadrosauroid. |
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Wall & Galton |
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A pachycephalosaur, possible Junior synonym of Stegoceras. |
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Valid |
Horner & Makela |
Upper Two Medicine Formation |
Publication of Maiasaura renewed interest in the Two Medicine Formation.[9] |
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Gen et sp nov |
Junior synonym |
Described as a pachycephalosaur, now considered an abelisaurid. |
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Gen et sp nov |
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A hadrosaurid. |
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Valid |
Bonaparte & Vince |
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An anchisaurian. |
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Valid |
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A sauropod. |
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Valid |
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Valid |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A megalosaurid. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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A possible Carcharodontosaurian. |
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Valid |
A sauropod. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
He |
A basal neornithischian ornithopod. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Argentina: Centinale del Mar; |
An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Callonetta Delacour, 1936 by Agnolin, 2006.[22] |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Subrecent |
5000 YBP (Years Before Present) |
A giant Ardeidae, not formally described but a photo is published which keeps it from being a Nomen Nudum. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Middle Oligocene |
Described in the Catharthidae, transferred to Aves Incertae Sedis. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Charadriidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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A Strigidae, transferred to the genus Asio Brisson, 1760 by Mlíkovský, 1998.[27] |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle-Late Miocene |
A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Caprimulgidae-nightjar. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Corvidae, possibly a synonym of Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cuculidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Glareolidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Dromornithidae, not certainly an Ilbandornis Rich, 1979. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Described in the Phasianidae, but transferred by Mlíkovský, 2002.[33] to Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Falconidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Described as an Accipitridae, known only from a damaged distal end of a right tarsometatarsus, making it not possible to identify it, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Miocene Czech Republic; Middle Miocene Germany |
A Glareolidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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An Otididae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Buteogallus Lesson, 1830 by Suárez et Olson, 2009,[35] this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Middle Oligocene |
Described in the Catharthidae, but the holotype is too fragmentary for identification so best treated as Aves Incertae Sedis. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Middle Oligocene |
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An Anseriformes Incertae Sedis. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Greybullian, Middle Wasatchian, Willwood Formation |
Described as a Cathartidae, Houde 1988 placed it in the Lithornithiformes, Houde, 1988, Lithornithidae Houde, 1988,[38] it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
Early Middle Oligocene |
MP 21-23 |
An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Described as a Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Talantatos Reichenbach, 1852 and placed in the Cariamidae door Mlíkovský, 2002.[33] |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early-Middle Pleistocene |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Rallidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Ardeidae, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
Early Middle Oligocene |
Described as an Eleutherornithidae, based on a fragment of a cervical vertebra, best treated as Aves Incertae Sedis, it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Cathartidae, not certain to be a Sarcoramphus Duméril, 1806. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An Ardeidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Thinocoridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
The holotype is a heavily eroded proximal part of a left humerus, best placed in Passeriformes Incertae Sedis. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
A Phalacrocoracidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Charadriidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Yadagiri & Ayyasami |
Either a Plesiosaur or Stegosaur |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
An Omomyid primate |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
An Omomyid primate |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Bown |
An Omomyid primate |
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