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none 1973 paleontology science 1973 Plants Conifers Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPinus arnoldiiMiller C. N. Jr. 1973 Silicified cones and vegetative remains of Pinus from the Eocene of British Columbia Contributions of the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology 24 101–118 https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48477/ID327.pdf?sequence=2Sp novvalidMillerEoceneYpresianOkanogan HighlandsAllenby FormationPrinceton ChertCanadaBritish ColumbiaA 5-needle pine cone speciesPinus similkameenensisSp novvalidMillerYpresianOkanogan HighlandsAllenby FormationPrinceton ChertCanadaBritish ColumbiaA 5-needle pine needle species Angiosperms NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType localityLocationNotesImagesEorhizaRobison 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 10.1139/b73-172 1973CaJB...51.1373R 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 10.1086/297199 1994IJPlS.155..606S Gen et sp novvalidRobison & PersonEoceneYpresianOkanogan HighlandsAllenby FormationPrinceton ChertCanadaBritish ColumbiaA semi-aquatic flowering plant of uncertain affiliation The type species is E. arnoldiiPossibly a monocot related to Acorus Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEpiborkhausenitesSkalski A.W. 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 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 1973 18 1 153–160 http://app.pan.pl/archive/published/app18/app18-153.pdf 10 August 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110723105830/http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app18/app18-153.pdf 23 July 2011 live Gen et sp. novvalidSkalskiBartonian Baltic amberLithuaniaAn Oecophoridae moth, type species E. obscurotrimaculatusTortricidrosisMaria 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 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2 29690381 free 10138/234022 free Gen. et sp. novValidSkalskiLutetianBaltic amberEuropeA Tortricidae moth. The type species is T. inclusa.thumb|center|upright|Tortricidrosis inclusa Conodonts Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ProtoprioniodusPrioniodontacean conodonts from the Emanuel Formation (Lower Ordovician) of Western Australia. RA McTavish, Geologica et Palaeontologica, 1973Gen. novvalid McTavishLower Ordovician Emanuel FormationAustralia Archosauromorphs New pseudosuchian taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images LisboasaurusSeiffert, 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.Gen. novvalidSeiffertMiddle JurassicGuimarota lignite PortugalCrocodylomorph Crocodylomorph research William Roger Hamilton describes a second specimen of Tomistoma dowsoni from the Siwa Oasis of Egypt.Hamilton, W. R. 1973 The lower Miocene ruminants of Gebel Zelten, Libya British Museum 21 75–150 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 dead Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEfraasiaGalton 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 10.1007/bf02985709 1973PalZ...47..229G 84931897 gen novValid GaltonMiddle NorianLöwenstein Formation Germanybasal sauropodomorphKelmayisaurusDong, 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.gen et sp novValid DongEarly CretaceousLianmugin Formation ChinacarcharodontosauridPhaedrolosaurusgen et sp novnomen dubium DongEarly CretaceousLianmugin Formation Chinadescribed from a single tooth; a dromaeosauridPhyllodon1973 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 Thulborn R.A.Gen et sp novValid ThulbornMiddle Jurassic Guimarota lignite Portugalpossible Hypsilophodontid ShantungosaurusHu, C. 1973. A new hadrosaur from the Cretaceous of Chucheng. Shantung. Acta Geol. Sinica 2: pp. 179-202.gen et sp novValid HuLate Cretaceous Chinalargest known ornithischian thumb|center|200px|ShantungosaurusTrimucrodonGen et sp novnomen dubium ThulbornMiddle Jurassic Guimarota lignite PortugalOrnithischian of uncertain placementTugulusaurusgen et sp novValidDongEarly CretaceousTugulu Group Chinaalvarezsauroid Wuerhosaurusgen et sp novValidDongEarly CretaceousTugulu Group China Mongoliaone of the last stegosauriansthumb|center|200px|Wuerhosaurus Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAtlantisia elpenor Storrs L. Olson 1973 Evolution of the Rails of the South Atlantic Islands (Aves: Rallidae) http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/zoology/pdf_hi/SCTZ-0152.pdf Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 152 152 1–53 10.5479/si.00810282.152 Sp. nov.valid Storrs L. OlsonLate Holocene-Subrecent Ascension IslandA Rallidae, transferred to the new genus Mundia by Bourne, Ashmole et Simmons, 2003,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 http://ardea.nou.nu/ardeapdf/a91-045-051.pdf Ardea 91 1 45–51 it is the type species of the new genus.Garganoaetus freudenthali Peter Ballmann 1973 Fossile Vögel aus dem Neogen der Halbinsel Gargano (Italien) Scripta Geologica 17 1–75 Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid Peter BallmannEarly PlioceneMN 14-15 ItalyAn Accipitridae.Garganoaetus murivorus Sp. nov.valid Peter BallmannEarly PlioceneMN 14-15 ItalyAn Accipitridae.Gypaetus osseticus Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich 1973 ? Report Presented to the 5th Soviet Congress on the Quaternary Period Sp. Nov.Nomen Nudum Nikolay I. Burchak-AbramovichMiddle Pleistocene Soviet Union (Now Georgia (country))An Accipitridae.Ichthyophaga australis Collin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker 1973 An Undescribed Extinct Fish-Eagle from the Chatham Islands Ibis 115 2 274–277 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1973.tb02645.x Sp. nov.valid Collin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. WalkerHoloceneChatham Island New ZealandAn Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Haliaeetus.Idiornis gaillardi Joel Cracraft 1973 Systematics and Evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 3. Phylogeny of the Suborder Grui http://research.amnh.org/vz/ornithology/pdfs/1973a.Grues%20Bulletin.pdf Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 151 1–127 Sp. nov.valid Joel CracraftEocene or OligocenePhosphorites du Quercy FranceA Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965, transferred to the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, 2013.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 10.1127/0077-7749/2013/0355 2013NJGPA.270...13M Lophopsittacus bensoni David T. Holyoak 1973 An Undescribed Parrot from Mauritius Ibis 115 3 417–419 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1973.tb01980.x Sp. nov.valid David T. HolyoakSubrecentMauritius MauritiusA Psittacidae, transferred to the genus Psittacula by Julian P. Hume, 2007.Julian P. Hume 1973 Reappraisal of the Parrots (Aves: Psittacidae) from the Mascarene Islands, with Comments on Their Ecology, Morphology, and Affineties http://julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Hume-Mascarene-Parrots.pdf Zootaxa 1513 1–76Palaeoaramides minutus Sp. nov.valid Joel CracraftMiddle MioceneGrive-St.-Alban FranceA Rallidae.Palaeorallus brodkorbi Sp. nov.valid Joel CracraftEarly EoceneWasatch Formation United States (Wyoming)A Rallidae.?Palaeospheniscus huxleyorum George G. Simpson 1973 Tertiary Penguins (Spenisciformes: Spheniscidae) from Ysterplaats, Cape Town, South Africa South African Journal of Science 69 342–344 Sp. nov.valid George G. SimpsonMioceneYsterplaats South AfricaA Spheniscidae, not for sure a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891.Porzana astrictocarpus Sp. nov.valid Storrs L. OlsonLate Holocene-Subrecent Saint HelenaA Rallidae."Primobucco" kestneri Alan Feduccia 1973 A New Eocene Zygodactyl Bird Journal of Paleontology 47 3 501–503 Sp. nov.valid Alan FeducciaEarly EoceneWasatchian 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,Alan Feduccia 1976 Neanis schucherti Restudied: Another Eocene Piciform Bird http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_hi/SCtP-0027.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 it needs a new genus.Quercyrallus quercy Sp. nov.valid Joel CracraftEocene or Early OligocenePhosphorites du Quercy, MP 16-28 FranceA Rallidae.Tyto gigantea Peter Ballmann 1973 Fossile Vögel aus dem Neogen der Halbinsel Gargano (Italien) http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Tyto%20gigantea%20(Ballmann)%201973.pdf Scripta Geologica 17 1–75 Sp. nov.valid Peter BallmannEarly PlioceneMN 14-15 ItalyA Tytonidae.Tyto robusta Sp. nov.valid Peter BallmannEarly PlioceneMN 14-15 ItalyA Tytonidae.Wyleyia valdensis Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker 1973 Wyleyia: a New Bird Humerus from the Lower Cretaceous of England. Palaeontology 16 4 721–728 http://palaeontology.palass-pubs.org/pdf/Vol%2016/Pages%20721-728.pdf usurped https://web.archive.org/web/20120206221040/http://palaeontology.palass-pubs.org/pdf/Vol%2016/Pages%20721-728.pdf 2012-02-06 Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid Colin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. WalkerEarly CretaceousWeald Clay United KingdomAn Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Enantiornithidae Nessov & Borkin, 1983, known from a single humerus, this is the type species of the new genus. Newly named pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Eudimorphodon ranziiZambelli R. 1973 Eudimorprodon ranzii gen. nov., sp. nov., uno pterosauro Triassico Rendiconti. B, Scienze Biologiche e Mediche 107 27–32 Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Zambelli Norian Zorzino Formation Italy 200px Noripterus complicidensYoung 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 Gen. et sp. nov Valid Yang early Cretaceous Lianmuqin Formation China 200px References Paleontology Paleontology 3