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none 1980 paleontology science 1980 Bryophytes Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesHypnites jovetastiMiller N. G. 1980 Fossil mosses of North America and their significance The Mosses of North America 9–36Comb novValid(Kuc) MillerYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaAn amblystegiaceous moss moved from Palaeohypnum jovet-asti 1974Kuc 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 Hypnites steereiComb novValid(Kuc) MillerYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaAn amblystegiaceous moss moved from Palaeohypnum steerei 1974Plagiopodopsis eocenicus Comb novValid(Kuc) MillerYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaA bartramiaceous moss moved from Muscites eocenicus 1972Kuc M. 1972 Muscites eocenicus sp. nov.—a fossil moss from the Allenby Formation (middle Eocene), British Columbia Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 9 5 600–602 10.1139/e72-049 1972CaJES...9..600K Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnochetus corayi Baroni Urbani C. 1980 Anochetus corayi n. sp., the first fossil Odontomachiti ant. (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. II: Odontomachiti) Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 55 1–6Sp novValidBaroni UrbaniBurdigalianDominican amber Dominican RepublicA ponerin antthumb|center|upright|Anochetus corayiTrachymyrmex primaevusBaroni Urbani C. 1980 First description of fossil gardening ants (Amber collection Stuttgart and Natural History Museum Basel; Hymenoptera: Formicidae. I: Attini) Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 54 1–13Sp novValidBaroni UrbaniBurdigalianDominican amber Dominican RepublicA Myrmicin antthumb|center|upright|Trachymyrmex primaevus Molluscs Newly named bivalves Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPojetaiaElicki O. Gürsu S. 2009 First record of Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980 and Fordilla Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves Paläontologische Zeitschrift 83 2 267–291 10.1007/s12542-009-0021-9 2009PalZ...83..267E 49380913 http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/~elicki/ELICKI_GUERSU_2009_PalZ_CambrianBivalves.pdf 2012-01-06 2013-10-29 https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202640/http://www.geo.tu-freiberg.de/~elicki/ELICKI_GUERSU_2009_PalZ_CambrianBivalves.pdf dead Gen et sp novValidJellEarly CambrianParara Limestone Australiaearly Cambrian bivalve, type species P. runnegari Archosauromorphs 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 Note: the name LancangosaurusZhao, 1980. [Mesozoic vertebrate-bearing beds and stratigraphy of northern Xinjinag: Report of Paleontological Expedition to Xinjiang IV.] Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Academia Sinica A. 15, 1-119. is mistakenly treated as a nomen nudum synonymous with Datousaurus (because Dong et al. 1983 believed it to be conspecific with Datousaurus). However, it is actually an early spelling variant of another nomen nudum, Lancangjiangosaurus. Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCallovosaurusGalton P.M. 1980 European Jurassic ornithopod dinosaurs of the families Hypsilophodontidae and Camptosauridae N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 160 1 73–95 10.1127/njgpa/160/1980/73 1980NJGPA.160...73G Gen et sp novvalid GaltonCallovianOxford Clay FormationEnglandA dryosaurid, That its name means Reptile of Callovian. DracopeltaGalton P.M. 1980 Partial skeleton of Dracopelta zbyszewskii n.gen. and n.sp., an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal Géobios 13 3 451–457 10.1016/s0016-6995(80)80081-7 1980Geobi..13..451G Gen et sp novValid GaltonKimmeridgianPortugalA Primitive ankylosaurian ErlikosaurusPerle A. 1980 Segnosauria, a new infraorder of carnivorous dinosaurs Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 25 185–195Gen et sp novValid PerleCenomanian-SantonianBayan Shireh FormationMongoliaA therizinosauridthumb|center|200px|ErlikosaurusKakuruMolnar R.E. Pledge N.S. 1980 A new theropod dinosaur from South Australia Alcheringa 4 4 281–287 10.1080/03115518008558972 1980Alch....4..281M Gen et sp novValidMolnar & PledgeAptianMarree FormationAustraliaA Theropoda of uncertain phylogenetic classification. MinmiMolnar R.E. 1980 An ankylosaur (Ornithischia: Reptilia) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Queensland Mem. Queensland Mus. 20 77–87Gen et sp novValid MolnarAptianBungil FormationAustraliaAn Australian ankylosauridthumb|center|200px|MinmiNoasaurusBonaparte J.F. Powell J.E. 1980 A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwest Argentina (Sauropoda-Coelurosauria-Carnosauria-Aves) Mém. Soc. Géol. Fr. Nouvelle Série 139 19–28Gen et sp novValidBonaparte & PowellCampanian-MaastrichtianLecho FormationArgentinaA Noasauridcenter|thumb|200x200px|NoasaurusSaltasaurusGen et sp novValid Bonaparte & PowellCampanian-MaastrichtianLecho FormationArgentinaA Saltasaurid, a Sauropod with Ankylosaur-like armorthumb|center|200px|SaltasaurusZephyrosaurusSues, H.-D. 1980. Anatomy and relationships of a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of North America. Palaeontographica. Abt. (A) 169: pp. 51-72.Gen et sp novValidSuesAptian-AlbianCloverly FormationUSA (Montana Maryland VirginiaA thescelosaurid Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAlectoris baryosefiSp. nov.ValidEitan TchernovPleistoceneMQ 1bIsraelA Phasianidae.Anser thompsoniLarry D. Martin Robert M. Mengel 1980 A New Goose from the Late Pliocene of Nebraska with Notes on Variability and Proportions in Some Recent Geese http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Hildegarde Howard, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330 75–85 2014-09-05 2014-09-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906021613/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf dead Sp. nov.ValidLarry D. Martin Robert M. MengelLate PlioceneBlancan Broadwater FormationUSA: NebraskaAn Anatidae.Apopempsis africanusColin J. O. Harrison 1980 Fossil Birds from Afrotropical Africa in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History) Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology 51 2 92–98 10.1080/00306525.1980.9633549 1980Ostri..51...92H Sp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonEarly MioceneSonghorKenyaA Musophagidae, transferred to the genus Veflintornis Kashin, 1976, Apopempsis Brodkorb, 1971 preoccupied by Apopempsis Schenkling, 1903.Archaeotrogon hoffstetteriCécile Mourer-Chauviré 1980 The Archaeotrogonidae of the Eocene and Oligocene Phosphorites du Quercy (France) http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Hildegarde Howard, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330 17–31 2014-09-05 2014-09-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906021613/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf dead Sp. nov.ValidCécile Mourer-ChauviréEocene or OligocenePhosphorites du Quercy MP 16-28FranceAn Apodiformes, Archaeotrogonidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1980.Ardea howardaePierce Brodkorb 1980 A New Fossil Heron (Aves: Ardeidae) from the Omo Basin of Ethiopia, with Remarks on the Position of Some Other Species Assigned to the Ardeidae http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Hildegarde Howard, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330 87–92 2014-09-05 2014-09-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906021613/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf dead Sp. nov.ValidPierce BrodkorbLate PlioceneShungura Formation, 1.94 My BPEthiopiaAn Ardeidae.Argentavis magnificensKenneth E. Campbell, jr Eduado P. Tonni 1980 A New Genus of Teratorn from the Huayquerian of Argentina (Aves: Teratornithidae) http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Hildegarde Howard, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330 59–68 2014-09-05 2014-09-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906021613/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf dead Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidKenneth E. Campbell, jr. Eduado P. TonniLate MioceneSalinas Grandes de HidalgoArgentinaA Teratornithidae Miller, 1909, this is the type species of the new genus.thumb|ArgentavisBurhinus aquilonarisAlan Feduccia 1980 A Thick-Knee (Aves: Burhinidae) from the Pleistocene of North America and Its Bearing on Ice Age climates http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Hildegarde Howard, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330 115–118 2014-09-05 2014-09-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906021613/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf dead Sp. nov.ValidAlan FeducciaPleistoceneSanborn FormationUSA: KansasA Burhinidae.Ciconia minorSp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonEarly MioceneRusinga IslandKenyaA Ciconiidae.Crex zazhiginiEvgeny N. Kurochkin 1980 Middle Pliocene Rails from Western Mongolia http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Hildegarde Howard, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330 69–73 2014-09-05 2014-09-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906021613/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf deadSp. nov.ValidEvgeny N. KurochkinEarly PlioceneMN 14-15MongoliaA Rallidae, transferred to the genus Pastushkinia Zelenkov, 2013 as its type species.Nikita V. Zelenkov 2013 New Finds and Revised Taxa of Early Pliocene Birds from Western Mongolia http://verlag.nhm-wien.ac.at/buecher/2013_SAPE_Proceedings/12_Zelenkov.pdf Paleontological Research, Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution 153–170 Eostrix vincentiColin J. O. Harrison 1980 A Small Owl from the Lower Eocene of Britain Tertiary Research 3 2 83–87 Sp. nov.ValidColin J. O. HarrisonEarly EoceneYpresian, MP 7-10UK: EnglandA Strigiformes, Strigida, Protostrigidae Wetmore, 1933.Gallinula giganteaSp. nov.ValidEitan TchernovPleistoceneIsraelA Rallidae.Juncitarsus gracillimusStorrs L. Olson Alan Feduccia 1980 Relationships and Evolution of Flamingos (Aves: Phoenicopteridae) http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/zoology/pdf_hi/sctz-0316.pdf Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 316 316 1–84 10.5479/si.00810282.316Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidStorrs L. Olson Alan FeducciaEarly Middle EoceneBridger FormationUSA: WyomingA Phoenicopteriformes Fürbringer, 1888, Juncitarsidae Peters, 1987, this is the type species of the new genus.Larus dolnicensisPetr Švec 1980 Lower Miocene Birds from Dolnice (Cheb Basin), Western Bohemia Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii 25 377–387 Sp. nov.ValidPetr ŠvecEarly MioceneMN 4bCzechoslovakiaDescribed as a Laridae, transferred to the Glareolidae, genus Mioglareola Ballmann, 1979 by Mlíkovský, 2000.Jíří Mlikovský 2000 Early Miocene Pratincoles (Aves: Glareolidae) from Dolnice, Czech Republic http://www.nm.cz/download/pm/zoo/mlikovsky_lit/135-2000-MioceneGlareolidae.pdf Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, Casopis Narodniho Muzea, Rada Pritodovedna 64 93–96 2014-09-05 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906021023/http://www.nm.cz/download/pm/zoo/mlikovsky_lit/135-2000-MioceneGlareolidae.pdf 2014-09-06 dead Linquornis gigantisYeh Hsiang-k'uei 1980 [Fossil Birds from Linqu, Shandong] http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200904/W020090813375649972455.pdf Vertebrata PalAsiatica 18 2 116–125 Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidYeh Hsiang-k'ueiMiddle MioceneShanwang SeriesChinaA Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Milvus pygmeusEitan Tchernov 1980 The Pleistocene Birds of 'Ubeidiya, Jordan Valley Publications of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 1–83 Sp. nov.ValidEitan TchernovPleistoceneIsraelAn Accipitridae.Neophrontops ricardoensisPatricia Vickers Rich 1980 "New World Vultures" with Old World Affinities? A Review of Fossil and Recent Gypaetinae of Both the Old and the New World Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution 5 1–115 Sp. nov.ValidPatricia Vickers RichMiddle MioceneLate ClaredonianUSA; CaliforniaAn Accipitridae.Palaeoaramides tugarinoviSp. nov.ValidEvgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Middle PlioceneChirgis Nuur seriesMongoliaA Rallidae.Rallus risillusSp. nov.ValidEvgeny N. KurochkinMiocene-Middle PlioceneChirgis Nuur seriesMongoliaA Rallidae, transferred to the genus Porzana by Kurochkin, 1985.Evgeny N. Kurochkin 1985 [Birds of Central Asia in the Pliocene] Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Expedition 26 1–120 Sinanas diatomasGen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidYeh Hsiang-k'ueiMiddle MioceneShanwang bed sw2ChinaAn Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Sylviornis neocaledoniaeFrançois Poplin 1980 Sylviornis neocaledoniae n. g., n. sp. (Aves), Ratite Éteint de la Nouvelle-Calédonie Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D 290 691–694 Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidFrançois PoplinHoloceneCave depositsNew CaledoniaDescribed as a Ratitae, transferred to the Craciformes, Megapodiidae and placed in its own family SylviornithidaeCécile Mourer-Chauviré Jean Chr. Balouet 2005 Description of the Skull of the Genus Sylviornis Poplin, 1980 (Aves, Galliformes, Sylviornithidae New Family), a Giant Extinct Bird from the Holocene of New Caledonia Joseph Antoni Alcover Pere Bover Proceedings of the International Symposium "Insularertebrate Evolution: The Palaeontological Approach" Monographies de la Societat d'Historia Natural de les Balears 12 205–218 by Mourer-Chauviré & Balouet, 2005, this is the type species of the new genus.Tonsala hildegardaeStorrs L. Olson 1980 A New Genus of Penguin-like Pelecaniform Bird from the Oligocene of Washington (Pelecaniformes: Plotopteridae) http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Hildegarde Howard, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 330 51–57 2014-09-05 2014-09-06 https://web.archive.org/web/20140906021613/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS330.pdf dead Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidStorrs L. OlsonLate OligocenePysht FormationUSA: WashingtonA Pelecaniformes, Plotopteridae Howard, 1969, this is the type species of the new genus. Tyto balearicaCécile Mourer-Chauviré Josep A. Alcover Salvador Moya Juan Pons 1980 Une Nouvelle Forme Insulaire d'Efraie Geante, Tyto balearica N. Sp., (Aves, Strigiformes), du Plio-Pleistocene des Baleares http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Tyto%20balearica%20%28Mourer-Chauvire%2C%20Alcover%2C%20Moya%20%26%20Pons%29%201980.pdf Géobios 13 5 803–811 10.1016/s0016-6995(80)80060-x 1980Geobi..13..803M 2016-03-03 2014-09-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201017/http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Tyto%20balearica%20%28Mourer-Chauvire%2C%20Alcover%2C%20Moya%20%26%20Pons%29%201980.pdf dead Sp. nov.ValidCécile Mourer-Chauviré Josep A. Alcover Salvador Moya Juan PonsLate Miocene-PleistoceneMN 12-MN 18, MQ 2A-CSpain; Italy; France; Majorca; SardiniaA Tytonidae. Zhongyuanus xichuanensisHou Lainhai 1980 [New Form of Gastornithidae from the Lower Eocene of the Xichuan, Honan] http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200904/W020090813375657594507.pdf Vertebrata PalAsiatica 18 2 111–115 Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.ValidHou LainhaiEarly EoceneYuhuangding GroupChinaA Gastornithidae Fürbringer, 1888, transferred to the genus Gastornis Hébert, 1855 by Buffetaut, 2013.,Eric Buffetaut 2013 The Giant Bird Gastornis in Asia: A Revision of Zhongyuanus xichuanensis Hou, 1980, from the Early Eocene of China Paleontological Journal 47 11 1302–1307 10.1134/s0031030113110051 2013PalJ...47.1302B 84611178 this is the type species of the new genus. Pterosauria Newly named pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesSantanadactylusDe Buisonjé P.H. 1980 Santanadactylus brasilensis nov.gen. nov.sp. a longnecked, large pterosaur from the Aptian of Brazil Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B 83 2 145–172Gen et sp nov Valid de BuisonjéAptianSantana Formation BrazilA Pterodactyloid Lepidosauromorphs Plesiosaurs Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.Darby and Ojakangas (1980). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. Name Status AuthorsAgeLocation Notes Bishanopliosaurus Valid Dong 172 million yearsChina References Paleontology Darby, D. G. and Ojakangas, R. W.; 1980; Gastroliths from a Late Cretaceous Plesiosaur; Journal of Paleontology; 54(3) pp. 548–556 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 0