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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils . [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks ( ichnites ), burrows , cast-off parts, fossilised feces ( coprolites ), palynomorphs and chemical residues . Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science . This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1979.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Valid | Janssens | An aulacomniaceous moss. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Valid | A libotoniid sandroller relative. | ![]() | |||||
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [4]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Saito | informal name created by phonetic translation of the crylic for hadrosaur ("gadrosavr") into Japanese. | ![]() | ||||||
Gen et comb nov | Valid | A hadrosauroid. | ![]() | |||||
Wall & Galton |
| A pachycephalosaur, possible Junior synonym of Stegoceras . | ![]() | |||||
Valid | Horner & Makela | Upper Two Medicine Formation | Publication of Maiasaura renewed interest in the Two Medicine Formation. [9] | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Junior synonym | Described as a pachycephalosaur, now considered an abelisaurid. | ![]() | |||||
Gen et sp nov |
| A hadrosaurid. | ||||||
Valid | Bonaparte & Vince |
| An anchisaurian. | ![]() | ||||
Valid | ![]() | |||||||
Valid |
| A sauropod. | ![]() | |||||
Valid | ![]() | |||||||
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Valid |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | A megalosaurid. | ![]() | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid |
| A possible Carcharodontosaurian. | |||||
Valid | A sauropod. | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | He | A basal neornithischian ornithopod. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Argentina: Centinale del Mar; | An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Callonetta Delacour, 1936 by Agnolin, 2006. [22] | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Subrecent | 5000 YBP (Years Before Present) | A giant Ardeidae, not formally described but a photo is published which keeps it from being a Nomen Nudum. | ||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Middle Oligocene | Described in the Catharthidae, transferred to Aves Incertae Sedis. | |||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Charadriidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid |
| A Strigidae, transferred to the genus Asio Brisson, 1760 by Mlíkovský, 1998. [27] | |||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle-Late Miocene | A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Caprimulgidae-nightjar. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Corvidae, possibly a synonym of Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cuculidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cathartidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Glareolidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cathartidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Dromornithidae, not certainly an Ilbandornis Rich, 1979. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Dromornithidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Described in the Phasianidae, but transferred by Mlíkovský, 2002. [33] to Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Falconidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Described as an Accipitridae, known only from a damaged distal end of a right tarsometatarsus, making it not possible to identify it, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Miocene Czech Republic; Middle Miocene Germany | A Glareolidae, it is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid |
| An Otididae, it is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Buteogallus Lesson, 1830 by Suárez et Olson, 2009, [35] this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Spheniscidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Middle Oligocene | Described in the Catharthidae, but the holotype is too fragmentary for identification so best treated as Aves Incertae Sedis. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Middle Oligocene |
| An Anseriformes Incertae Sedis. | ||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Greybullian, Middle Wasatchian, Willwood Formation | Described as a Cathartidae, Houde 1988 placed it in the Lithornithiformes, Houde, 1988, Lithornithidae Houde, 1988, [38] it is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid ? | Early Middle Oligocene | MP 21-23 | An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. | ||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Described as a Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Talantatos Reichenbach, 1852 and placed in the Cariamidae door Mlíkovský, 2002. [33] | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Pleistocene | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Anatidae, it is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Ardeidae, it is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid ? | Early Middle Oligocene | Described as an Eleutherornithidae, based on a fragment of a cervical vertebra, best treated as Aves Incertae Sedis, it is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Cathartidae, not certain to be a Sarcoramphus Duméril, 1806. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | An Ardeidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Thinocoridae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid ? | The holotype is a heavily eroded proximal part of a left humerus, best placed in Passeriformes Incertae Sedis. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid ? | A Phalacrocoracidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Charadriidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Yadagiri & Ayyasami | Either a Plesiosaur or Stegosaur | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | valid | Bown | An Omomyid primate | |||||
Gen et sp nov | valid | Bown | An Omomyid primate | |||||
Gen et sp nov | valid | Bown | An Omomyid primate | |||||
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