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none 1974 paleontology science 1974 Bryophytes Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDitrichitesKuc M. 1974 Fossil mosses from the bisaccate zone of the mid-Eocene Allenby Formation, British Columbia Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 11 3 409–421 10.1139/e74-037 1974CaJES..11..409K Gen et sp novvalidKucYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaA possible ditrichaceous moss. The type species is D. fylesiMuscites maycockiSp novvalidKucYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaA moss of uncertain placementMuscites ritchieiSp novvalidKucYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaA moss of uncertain placementPalaeohypnum jovet-astiSp novjr synonymKucYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaAn amblystegiaceous moss Moved to Hypnites jovet-astiae in 1980Miller N. G. 1980 Fossil mosses of North America and their significance The Mosses of North America 9–36Palaeohypnum steereiSp novjr synonymKucYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaAn amblystegiaceous moss Moved to Hypnites steerei in 1980 Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesQuercus paleocarpaManchester S.R. Fruits and Seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon 1994 Palaeontographica Americana 58 30–31Gen et sp novvalidManchesterMiddle EoceneClarno FormationUSOregonAn oak Archosauromorphs General research Massospondylus gastroliths are documented.Raath (1974). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. 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 ImagesChubutisaurusCorro, G. del. 1974. Un nuevo megalosaurio (Carnosaurio) del Cretacico de Chubut (Argentina). Communicaciones Mus. Argent. Ciencias Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia" Paleontol. 1:pp. 37-44.gen et sp novValid del CorroAlbianCerro Barcino FormationArgentinathumb|center|upright|ChubutisaurusHomalocephaleMaryanska, T. and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Paleontol. Polinica 30: pp. 45-102.gen et sp novValid Maryańska & Osmólskalate Cretaceous Mongoliathumb|center|upright|HomalocephaleLabocania Molnar R.E. 1974 A distinctive theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Baja California (Mexico) Journal of Paleontology 48 5 1009–1017 gen et sp novValid MolnarCampanianLa Bocana Roja Formation Mexicopossible tyrannosauroidthumb|center|upright|Labocania anomalaPrenocephalegen et sp novValid Maryańska & Osmólskalate Cretaceous Mongoliacenter|thumb|upright|Prenocephale StokesosaurusMadsen, J. H., Jr. 1974. A new theropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Utah. J. Paleontol. 48: pp. 27-31.gen et sp novValid MadsenLate JurassicMorrison Formation, Utah US Utah center|thumb|upright|Stokesosaurus langhamiTylocephalegen et sp novValid Maryańska & Osmólskalate Cretaceous Mongoliathumb|center|upright|Tylocephale Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesChunga incerta Eduardo P. Tonni 1974 Un Nuevo Cariámido (Aves, Gruiformes) del Plioceno Superior de la Provincia de Buenos Aires Ameghiniana 11 366–372 Sp. nov.ValidEduardo P. TonniLate PlioceneMonte Hermoso Formation ArgentinaA Cariamidae.Cryptociconia indica Colin J. O. Harrison 1974 A Re-examination of Material of the Extinct Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos falconeri, with Description of Some New Species http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/7d/4e/35/7d4e35663e49ef5f764f5f86e286858c.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20141018182218/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/7d/4e/35/7d4e35663e49ef5f764f5f86e286858c.pdf dead 2014-10-18 Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 94 42–49 Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonPlioceneSiwalik Series IndiaA Ciconiidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Dendrocopos praemedius Dénes Jánossy 1974 Die Mittelpleistozäne Vogelfauna von Hundsheim (Niederösterreich) http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/SBAWW_182_0211-0257.pdf Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Abteilung I 182 211–257 Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyLate PlioceneMN 17 AustriaA Picidae.Francolinus minor Dénes Jánossy 1974 Upper Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene Bird Remains from Poland Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 19 21 531–563 Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyLate PleistoceneVillafranchian PolandA Phasianidae.Francolinus villanyiensis Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyLate PlioceneMN 16 PolandA Phasianidae.Francolinus wenzensis Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyEarly PlioceneMN 15 PolandA Phasianidae.Gobipteryx minuta Andrzej Elzanowski 1974 Results of the Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expeditions-Part V: Preliminary Note on the Palaeognathous Bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia http://palaeontologia.pan.pl/Archive/1974_30_103-109_32-33.pdf Paleontologica Polonica 30 103–109 2014-10-11 2015-09-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20150924063419/http://www.palaeontologia.pan.pl/Archive/1974_30_103-109_32-33.pdf dead Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidAndrzej ElzanowskiLate Cretaceous?Campanian, Barun Goyot Formation MongoliaDescribed in the Palaeognathae, but transferred to the Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus.Leptoptilos richae Sp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonLate MioceneBelgia Formation TunisiaA Ciconiidae.Leptoptilos siwalikensis Sp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonPlioceneSiwalik Series IndiaA Ciconiidae.Neophrontops slaughteri Alan Feduccia 1974 Another Old World Vulture from the New World https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/wilson/v086n03/p0251-p0255.pdf Wilson Bulletin 86 3 251–255 Sp. nov.ValidAlan FeducciaLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formatie, Hagerman Local Fauna US (Idaho)An Accipitridae.Nesotrochis steganinos Storrs L. Olson 1974 A New Species of Nesotrochis from Hispaniola, with Notes on Other Fossil Rails from the West Indies (Aves: Rallidae) https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/8374/VZ_55_Nesotrochis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 87 38 439–450 Sp. nov.ValidStorrs L. OlsonQuaternaryCave deposits HaitiA flightless Rallidae.Pachydyptes simpsoni R. J. F. Jenkins 1974 A New Giant Penguin from the Eocene of Australia http://www.palass-pubs.org/palaeontology/pdf/Vol17/Pages%20291-310.pdf Palaeontology 17 2 291–310 2014-10-11 https://web.archive.org/web/20141016150620/http://www.palass-pubs.org/palaeontology/pdf/Vol17/Pages%20291-310.pdf 2014-10-16 usurped Sp. nov.ValidR. J. F JenkinsLate EoceneBlanche Point Marls, Aldingan Stage AustraliaA Spheniscidae.Tetrao conjugens Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyLate Pliocene?Campanian, Węże 1 PolandA Phasianidae.Tetrastes praebonasia Sp. nov.ValidDénes JánossyEarly PleistoceneTarkö - lagen 11, 12; Hundsheim; Montoussé Austria France HungaryA Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Bonasa Stephen, 1819 by Zygmunt Bocheński, 1991.Zygmunt Bocheński 1991 Pliocene Grouse of Genus Lagopus from Poland Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 34 2 563–577 Newly named pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Gallodactylusgen et sp nov subjective synonymFabreLate Jurassic Francesubjective synonym of Cycnorhamphusthumb|center|150px|Cycnorhamphus suevicus Herbstosaurusgen et sp nov ValidCasamiquelaTithonian Vaca Muerta Formation Argentina References Paleontology Raath, M.A. (1974). Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: further evidence of gastroliths in Prosauropod dinosaurs. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 7 (5): 1–7. Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180. Paleontology