1973 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 1973.

## Plants

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### Conifers

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Pinus arnoldii[2]

Sp nov

valid

Miller

Eocene
Ypresian

Okanogan Highlands
Allenby Formation
Princeton Chert

Canada
British Columbia

A 5-needle pine cone species

Pinus similkameenensis[2]

Sp nov

valid

Miller

Ypresian

Okanogan Highlands
Allenby Formation
Princeton Chert

Canada
British Columbia

A 5-needle pine needle species

### Angiosperms

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Eorhiza[3][4]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Robison & Person

Eocene
Ypresian

Okanogan Highlands
Allenby Formation
Princeton Chert

Canada
British Columbia

A semi-aquatic flowering plant of uncertain affiliation
The type species is E. arnoldii
Possibly a monocot related to Acorus

## Arthropods

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### Insects

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Epiborkhausenites[5]

Gen et sp. nov

valid

Skalski

Bartonian

Baltic amber

Lithuania

An Oecophoridae moth, type species E. obscurotrimaculatus

Tortricidrosis[6]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Skalski

Lutetian

Baltic amber

Europe

A Tortricidae moth. The type species is T. inclusa.

|  Tortricidrosis inclusa

## Conodonts

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Protoprioniodus[7]

Gen. nov

valid

McTavish

Lower Ordovician

Emanuel Formation

Australia

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## Archosauromorphs

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### New pseudosuchian taxa

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Lisboasaurus[8]

Gen. nov

valid

Seiffert

Middle Jurassic

| Guimarota lignite |

* Portugal

| Crocodylomorph |

### Crocodylomorph research

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* William Roger Hamilton describes a second specimen of Tomistoma dowsoni from the Siwa Oasis of Egypt.[9]

### Newly named dinosaurs

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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[10]

Name  | Novelty  | Status  | Authors  | Age  | Unit  | Location  | Notes  | Images

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Efraasia[11]

gen nov

Valid

Galton

Middle Norian

Löwenstein Formation

* Germany

basal sauropodomorph

Kelmayisaurus[12]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Dong

Early Cretaceous

Lianmugin Formation

* China

carcharodontosaurid

Phaedrolosaurus[12]

gen et sp nov

nomen dubium

Dong

Early Cretaceous

Lianmugin Formation

* China

described from a single tooth; a dromaeosaurid

Phyllodon[13]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Thulborn

Middle Jurassic

Guimarota lignite

* Portugal

possible Hypsilophodontid

Shantungosaurus[14]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Late Cretaceous

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* China

largest known ornithischian

|  Shantungosaurus

Trimucrodon[13]

Gen et sp nov

nomen dubium

Thulborn

Middle Jurassic

Guimarota lignite

* Portugal

Ornithischian of uncertain placement

Tugulusaurus[12]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Dong

Early Cretaceous

Tugulu Group

* China

alvarezsauroid

Wuerhosaurus[12]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Dong

Early Cretaceous

Tugulu Group

* China
* Mongolia

one of the last stegosaurians

|  Wuerhosaurus

### Newly named birds

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Atlantisia elpenor [15]

Sp. nov.

valid

Storrs L. Olson

Late Holocene-Subrecent

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* Ascension Island

A Rallidae, transferred to the new genus Mundia by Bourne, Ashmole et Simmons, 2003,[16] it is the type species of the new genus.

Garganoaetus freudenthali [17]

Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.

valid

Peter Ballmann

Early Pliocene

MN 14-15

* Italy

An Accipitridae.

Garganoaetus murivorus [17]

Sp. nov.

valid

Peter Ballmann

Early Pliocene

MN 14-15

* Italy

An Accipitridae.

Gypaetus osseticus [18]

Sp. Nov.

Nomen Nudum

Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich

Middle Pleistocene

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* Soviet Union (Now  Georgia (country))

An Accipitridae.

Ichthyophaga australis [19]

Sp. nov.

valid

Collin J. O. Harrison

Cyril A. Walker

Holocene

Chatham Island

* New Zealand

An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Haliaeetus.

Idiornis gaillardi [20]

Sp. nov.

valid

Joel Cracraft

Eocene or Oligocene

Phosphorites du Quercy

* France

A Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965, transferred to the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, 2013.[21]

Lophopsittacus bensoni [22]

Sp. nov.

valid

David T. Holyoak

Subrecent

Mauritius

* Mauritius

A Psittacidae, transferred to the genus Psittacula by Julian P. Hume, 2007.[23]

Palaeoaramides minutus [20]

Sp. nov.

valid

Joel Cracraft

Middle Miocene

Grive-St.-Alban

* France

A Rallidae.

Palaeorallus brodkorbi [20]

Sp. nov.

valid

Joel Cracraft

Early Eocene

Wasatch Formation

* United States ( Wyoming)

A Rallidae.

?Palaeospheniscus huxleyorum [24]

Sp. nov.

valid

George G. Simpson

Miocene

Ysterplaats

* South Africa

A Spheniscidae, not for sure a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891.

Porzana astrictocarpus [15]

Sp. nov.

valid

Storrs L. Olson

Late Holocene-Subrecent

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A Rallidae.

"Primobucco" kestneri [25]

Sp. nov.

valid

Alan Feduccia

Early Eocene

Wasatchian

Green River Formatie

* United States ( Wyoming)

A ?Galbulae the species does not belong in Prinobucco, nor in Neanis, it was transferred to by Feduaccia, 1976,[26] it needs a new genus.

Quercyrallus quercy [20]

Sp. nov.

valid

Joel Cracraft

Eocene or Early Oligocene

Phosphorites du Quercy,

MP 16-28

* France

A Rallidae.

Tyto gigantea [27]

Sp. nov.

valid

Peter Ballmann

Early Pliocene

MN 14-15

* Italy

A Tytonidae.

Tyto robusta [27]

Sp. nov.

valid

Peter Ballmann

Early Pliocene

MN 14-15

* Italy

A Tytonidae.

Wyleyia valdensis [28]

Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.

valid

Colin J. O. Harrison

Cyril A. Walker

Early Cretaceous

Weald Clay

* United Kingdom

An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Enantiornithidae Nessov & Borkin, 1983, known from a single humerus, this is the type species of the new genus.

### Newly named pterosaurs

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Eudimorphodon ranzii[29] | Gen. et sp. nov.  | Valid  | Zambelli | Norian | Zorzino Formation |  Italy |  |
Noripterus complicidens[30] | Gen. et sp. nov  | Valid  | Yang | early Cretaceous | Lianmuqin Formation |  China |  |

## References

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* Paleontology portal

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. ^ a b Miller, C. N. Jr. (1973). "Silicified cones and vegetative remains of Pinus from the Eocene of British Columbia" (PDF). Contributions of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology. 24: 101–118.
3. ^ Robison, C.R.; Person, C.P. (1973). "A silicified semiaquatic dicotyledon from the Eocene Allenby Formation of British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Botany. 51 (7): 1373–1377\. doi:10.1139/b73-172.
4. ^ Stockey, R.A.; Pigg, K.B. (1994). "Vegetative growth of Eorhiza arnoldii Robison and Person from the Middle Eocene Princeton chert locality of British Columbia". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 155 (5): 606–616\. doi:10.1086/297199.
5. ^ Skalski, A.W. (1973). "Studies on the Lepidoptera from fossil resins. Part II. Epiborkhausenites obscurotrimaculatus gen. et sp. nov. (Oecophoridae) and a tineid-moth discovered in the Baltic amber" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 18 (1): 153–160\. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2011.
6. ^ Maria Heikkilä; John W. Brown; Joaquin Baixeras; Wolfram Mey; Mikhail V. Kozlov (2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 4394 (1): 41–60\. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. hdl:10138/234022. PMID 29690381.
7. ^ Prioniodontacean conodonts from the Emanuel Formation (Lower Ordovician) of Western Australia. RA McTavish, Geologica et Palaeontologica, 1973
8. ^ Seiffert, J. 1973. Upper Jurassic Lizards from Central Portugal. Contribuicao para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimeridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Servicox Geologicos de Portugal, Memoria 22 (new series): pp. 7-88.
9. ^ Hamilton, W. R. (1973). "The lower Miocene ruminants of Gebel Zelten, Libya". British Museum. 21: 75–150.
10. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
11. ^ Galton, P.M. (1973). "On the anatomy and relationships of Efraasia diagnostica (V. Huene) n. gen., a prosauropod dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from the Upper Triassic of Germany". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 47 (3–4): 229–255\. doi:10.1007/bf02985709. S2CID 84931897.3–4&rft.pages=229-255&rft.date=1973&rft_id=info:doi/10.1007/bf02985709&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:84931897#id-name=S2CID&rft.aulast=Galton&rft.aufirst=P.M.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:1973+in+paleontology" class="Z3988">
12. ^ a b c d Dong, Z.M. 1973. Dinosaurs from Wuerho. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II), Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang. Memories of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academy of Science 11: pp. 45-52.
13. ^ a b Thulborn, R.A. (1973). "Teeth of ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal, with a description of a hypsilophodontid (Phyllodon henkeli gen. et sp. nov.) from the Guimarota Lignite". Memória Serivoços Geológicos de Portugal. Nova Série. 22: 89–134.
14. ^ Hu, C. 1973. A new hadrosaur from the Cretaceous of Chucheng. Shantung. Acta Geol. Sinica 2: pp. 179-202.
15. ^ a b Storrs L. Olson (1973). "Evolution of the Rails of the South Atlantic Islands (Aves: Rallidae)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 152 (152): 1–53\. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.152.
16. ^ W. R. P. Bourne, N. P. Ashmole & K. E. L. Simmons (2003). "A New Subfossil Night Heron and a New Genus for the Extinct Rail for Ascension Island, Central Tropical Atlantic Ocean" (PDF). Ardea. 91 (1): 45–51.
17. ^ a b Peter Ballmann (1973). "Fossile Vögel aus dem Neogen der Halbinsel Gargano (Italien)". Scripta Geologica. 17: 1–75.
18. ^ Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich (1973). "?". Report Presented to the 5th Soviet Congress on the Quaternary Period.
19. ^ Collin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1973). "An Undescribed Extinct Fish-Eagle from the Chatham Islands". Ibis. 115 (2): 274–277\. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1973.tb02645.x.
20. ^ a b c d Joel Cracraft (1973). "Systematics and Evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 3. Phylogeny of the Suborder Grui" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 151: 1–127.
21. ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (2013). "Idiornis Oberholser, 1899 (Aves, Gruiformes, Cariamae, Idiornithidae): a Junior Synonym of Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 (Paleogene, Phosphorites du Quercy, France)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 270 (1): 13–22\. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0355.
22. ^ David T. Holyoak (1973). "An Undescribed Parrot from Mauritius". Ibis. 115 (3): 417–419\. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1973.tb01980.x.
23. ^ Julian P. Hume (1973). "Reappraisal of the Parrots (Aves: Psittacidae) from the Mascarene Islands, with Comments on Their Ecology, Morphology, and Affineties" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1513: 1–76.
24. ^ George G. Simpson (1973). "Tertiary Penguins (Spenisciformes: Spheniscidae) from Ysterplaats, Cape Town, South Africa". South African Journal of Science. 69: 342–344.
25. ^ Alan Feduccia (1973). "A New Eocene Zygodactyl Bird". Journal of Paleontology. 47 (3): 501–503.
26. ^ Alan Feduccia (1976). "Neanis schucherti Restudied: Another Eocene Piciform Bird" (PDF). In Collected Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring the 90th Birthday of Alexander Wetmore Ed.: Storrs. L. Olson; Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 27: 95–99.
27. ^ a b Peter Ballmann (1973). "Fossile Vögel aus dem Neogen der Halbinsel Gargano (Italien)" (PDF). Scripta Geologica. 17: 1–75.
28. ^ Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1973). "Wyleyia: a New Bird Humerus from the Lower Cretaceous of England" (PDF). Palaeontology. 16 (4): 721–728\. Archived from the original on 2012-02-06.
29. ^ Zambelli, R. (1973). "Eudimorprodon ranzii gen. nov., sp. nov., uno pterosauro Triassico". Rendiconti. B, Scienze biologiche e mediche. 107: 27–32.
30. ^ Young, Z. (1973). "[Pterosaurs from Wuerho]. Reports of Paleontological Expedition to Sinkiang (II): Pterosaurian Fauna from Wuerho, Sinkiang". Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Academia Sinica. 11: 18–35.

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