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none 1971 paleontology science 1971 Arthropods Crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesOplophorus roselliVia Luis 1971 Crustáceos decápodos del Jurásico Superior de Montsech (Lérida) http://hdl.handle.net/10261/6397 Cuadernos de Geología Ibérica 2 607–612 10261/6397 Sp novjr synonymViaBarremianLas HoyasSpainMoved to the genus DelclosiaPseudastacus llopisiSp novjr synonymViaBarremianLas HoyasSpainA crayfish, moved to the genus Austropotamobius in 1997.Garassino Alessandro 1997 The macruran decapod crustaceans of the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Barremian) of Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain) https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/325138 Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 137 1–2 101–126 Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesHolmskioldia quilchenensisManchester S.R. 1992 Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America American Journal of Botany 79 9 996–1008 10.2307/2444909 2444909 Sp novjr synonymMathewes & BrookeYpresianColdwater BedsCanadaBritish ColumbiaA mallow relative. moved to Florissantia quilchenensis (1992) thumb|center|upright|Florissantia quilchenensis Conodonts Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageBaltoniodus 10.1007/BF02000464 60 Vom Anfang, Hochstand und Ende eines Epikontinentalmeeres 1971 Geologische Rundschau 419–438 Lindström Maurits 2 1971GeoRu..60..419L 128476116 gen nov valid Maurits LindströmSwedenParacordylodusgen nov valid Maurits LindströmSwedenMicrozarkodinagen nov valid Maurits LindströmSweden Archosauromorphs Newly named pseudosuchians Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageVenaticosuchusBonaparte, J.F. 1970. Annotated list of the South American Triassic tetrapods. Second Gondwana Symposium South Africa, Proceedings and Papers: pp. 665-682.gen et sp nov valid BonaparteLate Triassic Argentinaan ornithosuchidthumb|center|150px|Venaticosuchus rusconii Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageNemegtosaurusNowinski, A. 1971. Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis n. gen., n. sp (Sauropoda) from the uppermost Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontol. Polonica 25: pp. 57-81.gen et sp novValidNowinskiLate CretaceousNemegt BasinMongoliaYaverlandiaGalton, P.M. 1971. A primitive dome-headed dinosaur (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of England, and the function of the dome in pachycephalosaurids. J. Paleontol. 45: pp. 40-47.gen et sp novValidGaltonLower CretaceousWessex FormationEnglandManiraptoran? Newly named onithodirans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageLagerpetonRomer, A.S. 1971. The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. X. Two new but incompletely known long-limbed pseudosuchians. Breviora 378: pp. 1-10.gen et sp novValid RomerLadinianChañares FormationArgentinaA member of the lagerpetonidae.thumb|center|upright|LagerpetonLagosuchusfam et gen et sp novvalid RomerLadinianChañares FormationArgentina Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes ImageAnser devjatkiniSp. nov. ValidKurochkinLate MioceneHyargas Nuur FormationMongoliaAn Anatidae.AntillovulturOscar Arredondo 1971 Nuevo Género y Especie de Ave Fósil (Accipitriformes: Vulturidae) del Pleistoceno de Cuba Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales la Salle 31 90 309–323Gen. et sp. nov. jr synonymArredondoLate QuaternaryLas Breas de San FelipeCubaAn accipitrid, Type species A. varonai, moved to Gymnogyps varonai (2003),Suárez W. Emslie S.D. 2003 New fossil material with a redescription of the extinct condor Gymnogyps varonai (Arredondo, 1971) from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Vulturidae) http://people.uncw.edu/emslies/documents/SuarezandEmslie2003.pdf Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116 1 29–37Bathornis minorJoel Cracraft Joel Cracraft 1971 Systematics and Evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 2. Additional Comments on the Bathornithidae, with Descriptions of a New Species http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/2658//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2449.pdf?sequence=1 American Museum Novitates 2449 1–14Sp. nov. ValidCracraftEarly MioceneUSASouth DakotaA bathornithidBucorvus brailloniJ. Brunet 1971 Oiseaux Miocénes de Beni Mellal (Maroc), un Complément à Leur Étude Notes et Mémoires, Service Géologique (Morocco) 31 109–111Sp. nov. ValidBrunetMiddle MioceneMoroccoA bucorvid.Campephilus dalquestiPierce Brodkorb 1971 The Paleospecies of Woodpeckers http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/f9/9d/f2/f99df24f5b4c932a754d2827188436e5.pdf Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 33 132–136 2014-10-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20141030133556/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/f9/9d/f2/f99df24f5b4c932a754d2827188436e5.pdf 2014-10-30 Sp. nov. ValidBrodkorbLate Pliocene (Blancan)USATexasA picid.Cerorhinca minorHildegarde Howard 1971 Pliocene Avian Remains from Baja California http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS217.pdf Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 217 1–17 2014-10-28 2014-10-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20141028123012/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS217.pdf Sp. nov. ValidHowardLate Miocene - Late PlioceneAlmejas FormationMexicoAn alcid.Cygnus pristinusSp. nov. ValidKurochkinLate Miocene - Early PlioceneChirgiz-Nur FormationMongoliaAn anatid.Dolichonyx kruegeriKarlheinz Fischer Burkhard Stephan 1971 Weitere Vogelreste aus dem Pleistozän der Pio-Domingo-Höhle in Kuba Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Reihe 20 593–607Sp. nov. ValidFischer & StephanLate Pleistocene"Cave deposits"CubaAn icterid.EutreptornisGen. et sp. nov. ValidCracraftMiddle EoceneUinta FormationUSAUtahA bathornithid. Type species E. uintaeFulica picapicensisSp. nov. jr synonymFischer & StephanQuaternary"Cave deposits"CubaA flightless rallid, moved to Nesotrochis picapicensis (1974).Grus cubensisKarlheinz Fischer Burkhard Stephan 1971 Ein Flugunfahiger Kranich (Grus cubensis n.sp.) aus dem Pleitozän von Kuba - eine Osteologie der Familie der Kraniche (Gruidae) Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Reihe 20 541–592Sp. nov. ValidFischer & StephanLate Pleistocene"Cave deposits"CubaA crane. Moved to Antigone cubensis (2020).William Suárez 2020 The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba Zootaxa 4780 1 1–53 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1 33055754 219510089 thumb|center|upright|Antigone cubensis (top)Macrorhamphus finitimusEvgeny N. Kurochkin 1971 [On the Pliocene Avifauna of Mongolia] Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Geological Expedition 3 5 58–69Sp. nov. ValidKurochkinPlioceneMongoliaA scolopacid,Moved to Limnodromus finitimus.Mancalla cedrosensisSp. nov. ValidHowardEarly PlioceneAlmejas FormationMexicoA mancaline alcidOnychopteryxJoel Cracraft 1971 A New Family of Hoatzin-like Birds (Order Opisthocomiformes) from the Eocene of South America http://research.amnh.org/vz/ornithology/pdfs/1971f.Eocene%20hoatzin-like%20bird.pdf Ibis 113 2 229–233 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1971.tb05148.xGen. et sp. nov. ValidCracraftEarly EoceneCasamajor FormationArgentinaAn onychopterygid Type species O. simpsoniPhalacrocorax mongoliensisSp. nov. ValidKurochkinLate Miocene - PlioceneMongoliaA phalacrocoracid.?Platydyptes marplesiGeorge G. Simpson 1971 A Review of the Pre-Pliocene Penguins of New Zealand Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 144 5 319–378 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/1086//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B144a05.pdf?sequence=1 Sp. nov. ValidSimpsonEarly or Middle Oligocene (Duntroonian)New ZealandA spheniscid.ProgrusOleg G. Bendukidze 1971 Novyj prestavitel' semeistva Geranoididae (Aves, Gruiformes) iz eotsenovykh otlozhenij Zaisan Soobtzhenija Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoj SSSR 63 749–751Gen. et sp. nov. ValidBendukidzeMiddle - Late EoceneKalmakpai RiverKazakhstanAn eogruid. Type species P. turanicus Moved to Eogrus turanicus.ProplegadisColin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker 1971 A New Ibis from the lower Eocene of Britain Ibis 113 3 367–368 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1971.tb05169.xGen. et sp. nov. ValidHarrison & WalkerEarly EoceneUKEnglandA possible phaethontid, Type species P. fisheriPuffinus tedfordiSp. nov. ValidHowardEarly PlioceneAlmejas FormationMexicoA procellariid.Spheniscus predemersusGeorge G. Simpson 1971 Fossil Penguin from the Late Cenozoic of South Africa Science 171 3976 1144–1145 10.1126/science.171.3976.1144 17777603 1971Sci...171.1144G 35775139 Sp. nov. jr synonymSimpsonLate PlioceneLangebaanweg fossil siteSouth AfricaA spheniscid, Moved to Inguza predemersus (1975)George G. Simpson 1975 Notes on Variation in Penguins and on Fossil Penguins from the Pliocene of Langebaanweg, Cape Province, South Africa Annals of the South African Museum 69 4 59–72 Spizaetus tanneriLarry D. Martin 1971 An Early Pleistocene Eagle from Nebraska https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v073n02/p0248-p0250.pdf Condor 73 2 248–250 10.2307/1365848 1365848Sp. nov. ValidMartinEarly PleistoceneBroadwater FormationUSANebraskaAn accipitrid.Struthio transcaucasicusNikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich & Abesalom K. Vekua 1971 The Fossil Ostrich from the Akchagil Layers of Georgia Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 16 1 1–28Sp. nov. ValidBurchak-Abramovich & VekuaLate Pliocene (Akchagil age)GeorgiaA struthionid.WimanornisGeorge G. Simpson 1971 Review of the fossil penguins from Seymour Island Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 178 1053 357–387 10.1098/rspb.1971.0070 1971RSPSB.178..357S 84900109 http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/178/1053/357.full.pdf+html subscription Gen. et sp. nov. ValidSimpsonEoceneSeymour IslandAntarcticaA basal spheniscid Type species W. seymourensis Newly named pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes Image Araripesaurusgen et sp nov Valid PriceEarly Cretaceous Santana FormationBrazilan ornithocheiridthumb|center|upright|Araripesaurus. Sordesgen et sp nov Valid SharovLate JurassicKarabastau SvitaKazakhstanpossible rhamphorhynchidthumb|center|upright|Sordes pilosus Other Animals Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Chondroplon Valid Wade Ediacaran Australia Russia Sometimes considered a synonym of Dickinsonia References Paleontology 1