1969 in paleontology

none 1969 paleontology science 1969 Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDicotylophyllum litseafoliaWolfe J.A. 1968 Paleogene Biostratigraphy of nonmarine rocks in King County, Washington Professional Paper United States Geological Survey 571 1–29 10.3133/pp571 free Comb novjr synonym(MacGinitie) WolfeEoceneYpresianIone Formation"Chalk Bluff Flora" Loc P3324USACaliforniaA dicot of uncertain affinity. Moved from Lauropliyllum litseafolia (1941)MacGinitie H.D. 1941 A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada Contributions to Paleontology Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington, D.C. 534 116 http://sierrageology.org/documents/references/a-middle-eocene-flora-from-the-central-sierra-nevada/ Moved from Artocarpoides litseafolia (1968).MacGinitie H. 1969 The Eocene green River flora of northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah University of California Press Moved to Republica litseafolia (1987)Wolfe J.A. Wehr W.C. 1987 Middle Eocene dicotyledonous plants from Republic, northeastern Washington Bulletin United States Geological Survey 1597 1–25 10.3133/b1597 free thumb|center|upright Molluscs Bivalves Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPraenuculidaeFam novValid McAlesterOrdovician - Devonianextinct family of Nuculoidea bivalves Fish Actinopterygii Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesProaracanagen et sp novValid Le DanoisEoceneMonte Bolca Italythumb|center|150px|Proaracana dubia Conodonts Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesProtognathodusGen. novValid Willi Ziegler351 Millions of years ago. Austria China Germany UKPatrognathusBritish Avonian (Carboniferous) conodont faunas, and their value in local and intercontinental correlation. FHT Rhodes, RL Austin, EC Druce - 1969 - British Museum (Natural History)Gen novValid Rhodes, Austin & DruceCarboniferous Russia UK Archosauromorphs Crurotarsans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesRiojasuchusBonaparte, J.F. 1969. Dos nuevas "faunas" de reptiles Triasicos de Argentina. I Gondwana Symp. (IVGAS, 1967), Mar del Plata Ciencias Tierra 2: pp. 283-306gen et sp novvalidBonaparteLate Triassic ArgentinaOrnithosuchid archosaur. originally misidentified as a dinosaur thumb|center|150px|Riojasuchus tenuiceps Non-avian 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 ImagesDeinonychusOstrom, J. H. 1969. A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Postilia 128: pp. 1-17.gen et sp novValidOstromEarly CretaceousCloverly FormationUSAMontanaAn American dromeosaur, that has a name that means: Terrible Claw .center|thumb|upright|Deinonychus antirrhopusRiojasaurusgen et sp novValid.BonaparteTriassicA sauropod.The type species is R. incertusthumb|center|upright"Strenusaurus"gen et sp novJunior synonym.BonaparteTriassicJunior synonym of Riojasaurus."Syntarsus"Raath, M.A. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 4 (28): pp. 1-25.gen et sp novPreoccupied name.RaathEarly JurassicPreoccupied by Syntarsus Fairmaire, 1869. Renamed Megapnosaurus.thumb|center|upright|Megapnosaurus rhodesiensis Birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAlectoris bavarica Ballmann P 1969 Die Vögel aus der Altburdigalen Spaltenfüllung von Wintershof (West) bei Eichstätt in Bayern Zitteliana 1 5–60 http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/75/c8/7b/75c87b44bae5e30a9fccce67e9f5fee6.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20141030223957/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/75/c8/7b/75c87b44bae5e30a9fccce67e9f5fee6.pdf dead 2014-10-30 Sp. nov.Valid BallmannEarly MioceneGermanyA Phasianidae.Buteo pusillus Ballmann P 1969 Les Oiseaux Miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère) Géobios 2 157–204 10.1016/s0016-6995(69)80005-7 1969Geobi...2..157B Sp. nov.Valid BallmannMiddle MioceneFranceAn Accipitridae.Capitonides Gen. et Sp. nov.jr synonym BallmannEarly MioceneGermanyA Lybiidae, jr syn of Trachyphonus europeus.Mlíkovský J 2002 Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe Praha Ninox Press, 2002 1–407 http://www.nm.cz/download/JML-18-2002-CBE.pdf 2014-12-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20110520101755/http://www.nm.cz/download/JML-18-2002-CBE.pdf 2011-05-20 dead Diomedea thyridata Wilkinson HE 1969 Descriptions of an Upper Miocene albatross from Beaumaris, Victoria, Australia, and a review of the fossil Diomedeidae Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 29 41–51 10.24199/j.mmv.1969.29.04 free Sp. nov.Valid WilkinsonLate MioceneBlack Rock SandstoneAustraliaA Diomedeidae.Eogeranoides Cracraft J 1969 Systematics and evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 1. The Eocene family Geranoididae and the early history of the Gruiformes American Museum Novitates 2388 1–41 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/2598//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2388.pdf?sequence=1 Gen. et Sp. nov.Valid CracraftEarly EoceneWillwood FormationUSA (Wyoming)A Geranoididae, type sp. E. campivagus.Geranodornis Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.Valid CracraftMiddle EoceneBridger FormationUSA (Wyoming)A Geranoididae type sp. G. aenigmaMusophaga meini Sp. nov.jr synonym BallmannMiddle Miocene (MN 8)FranceA Musophagidae jr syn of Veflintornis meiniBrodkorb P 1971 Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 4 (Columbiformes through Piciformes) Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 15 163–266 http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/00/00/15/16/00001/UF00001516_00001pdf.pdf Otus wintershofensis Sp. nov.jr synonym BallmannEarly MioceneGermanyA Strigidae, transferred Strix wintershofensis.Palaeonerpes Cracraft J Morony JJ jr. 1969 A new pliocene woodpecker, with comments on the fossil Picidae American Museum Novitates 2400 1–41 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/2610//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2400.pdf?sequence=1 Gen. et Sp. nov.Valid Cracraft & MoronyEarly PlioceneValentine FormationUSA (Nebraska)A Picidae, type sp P. shortiPalaeophasianus incompletus Sp. nov.Valid CracraftEarly EoceneWillwood FormationUSA (Wyoming)A GeranoididaeParacygnus Short LL jr. 1969 A new genus and species of goose like swan from the Pliocene of Nebraska American Museum Novitates 2369 1–7 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/2579//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2369.pdf?sequence=1 Gen. et Sp. nov.Valid ShortLate PlioceneKimbal FormationUSA (Colorado)An Anatidae, type sp P. plattensisParagrus shufeldti Sp. nov.Valid CracraftEarly EoceneWillwood FormationUSA (Wyoming)A GeranoididaePlotopterum Howard H 1969 A new avian fossil from Kern County, California https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v071n01/p0068-p0069.pdf Condor 71 1 68–69 10.2307/1366050 1366050 Gen et Sp. nov.Valid HowardEarly MioceneUpper Walker FormationUSACaliforniaA Plotopteridae, type sp P. joaquinensisthumb|center|upright|Plotopterum joaquinensisPseudodontornis stirtoni Howard H Warter SL 1969 A new species of bony-toothed bird (Family Pseudodontornithidae) from the Tertiary of New Zealand Records of the Canterbury Museum 8 345–357 Sp. nov.jr synonym Howard & WarterLate PlioceneNew ZealandA Pseudodontornithidae transferred to Neodontornis stirtoniHarrison CJO Walker CA 1976 A review of the bony-toothed birds (Odontopterygiformes): with the description of some new species Tertiary Research Special Papers 2 1–72 Pulsatrix arredondoi Brodkorb P 1969 An extinct Pleistocene owl from Cuba Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 31 2 112–114 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/91555 Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbPleistoceneCaverna ParedonesCubaA Strigidae.Strix brevis Sp. nov.Valid BallmannEarly MioceneGermanyA Strigidae, transferred to Intulula brevis.Taoperdix miocaena Sp. nov.Valid BallmannEarly MioceneGermanyA Cracidae.Tetrao praeurogallus Jánossy D 1969 Die Mittelpleistozäne Vogelfauna der Stránská Skála Anthropos, Studia Musei Moraviae, Brno New Series 20 12 35–64 Sp. nov.Valid Dénes JánossyEarly Pliocene - Early PleistoceneBulgariaA Phasianidae.Zenaidura prior Brodkorb P 1969 An ancestral mourning dove from Rexroad, Kansas Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 31 3 173–176 http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/58/99/bb/5899bb1f6725d1e448f4c26db77d0c43.pdf 2014-10-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20141030224030/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/58/99/bb/5899bb1f6725d1e448f4c26db77d0c43.pdf 2014-10-30 dead Sp. nov.jr synonym BrodkorbLate PlioceneRexroad FormationUSA (Kansas)A Columbidae, transferred to Zenaida prior.Zygodactylus Gen et Sp. nov.Valid BallmannMiddle MioceneFrance GermanyA Zygodactylidae two sp Z. grivensis & Z. ignotus. Pterosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Nesodactylusgen et sp nov ValidColbertLate JurassicJagua Formation Cubafamily placement uncertain Synapsids Mammals NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType LocalityCountryNotesImagesCrusafontiaHenkel, S. and Krebs, B., 1969. Zwei Säugetier-unterkiefer aus der unteren Kreide von uña (prov. Cuenca, Spanien). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 1969, pp.449-463.Gen et sp novvalidHenkel & KrebsCretaceousBarremianSpainA dryolestid mammalianThe type species is C. cuencana.thumb|center|upright|Crusafontia cuencanaSivapardusBakr Abu July 1969 A new genus of large cat from Upper Siwaliks Pakistan Journal of Zoology 1 2 135–140Gen. et. sp. nov.ValidBakrLate Pliocene-Early PleistoceneSar-DhokPakistanA felinae large cat.The type species is S. punjabiensis Paleontologists Death of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist. Farlow James O. M. K. 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