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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 1997.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | valid | Call & Dilcher | Species of Eucommia . | |||||
Sp nov | valid | Call & Dilcher | Species of Eucommia . | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Hibbett, Grimaldi, & Donoghue | A tricholomataceous fungi | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Hibbett, Grimaldi, & Donoghue | A mycenaceous fungi | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Valid | Grimaldi, Agosti, & Carpenter | An ant of uncertain subfamily placement. | |||||
Comb nov | valid | (Nel, Arillo, & Martínez-Delclòs) | An Aeshnid dragonfly. | ![]() | ||||
Gen et sp. nov | Valid | Grimaldi, Agosti, & Carpenter | Turonian | New Jersey amber | A stem group ant, type species B. clavata | ![]() | ||
Comb nov | valid | (Mayr, 1868) | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | ![]() | ||
Gen et comb nov | jr synonym | Martins-Neto | A Kalligrammatid lacewing, new genus for Panfilovia adamsi | |||||
Subfam nov | jr synonym | Martins-Neto | lacewing subfamily, syn of Kalligrammatidae | |||||
Currently Valid Plesiosaur Genera Named in 1997 | ||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Location | Images |
Augustasaurus | Valid taxon |
Rieppel Bucher | ![]() | |
Libonectes | Valid taxon |
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Maresaurus | Valid taxon |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Willis | Late Oligocene | White Hunter Site of the Riversleigh WHA | A mekosuchine crocodilian. Although named as a species of Baru, later research considers it to be a distinct genus. | ![]() | |||
Baru wickeni [10] | Sp. nov | Valid | Willis | Late Oligocene | White Hunter Site of the Riversleigh WHA | ![]() | A mekosuchine crocodilian. It was established based on new material from the Riversleigh as well as material previously assigned to Baru darrowi . | ![]() |
Sp. nov | Valid | Willis | Late Oligocene | White Hunter Site of the Riversleigh WHA | ![]() | A mekosuchine crocodilian. The first species of Mekosuchus to have been named from continental Australia. | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Willis & Molnar | Late Pleistocene | Terrace Site of the Riversleigh WHA | ![]() | A mekosuchine crocodilian and species of Pallimnarchus, described as having been more gracile than Pallimnarchus pollens. The species is valid, but now placed in the genus Paludirex . | ||
Sp. nov | Valid | Willis | Late Oligocene | White Hunter Site of the Riversleigh WHA | ![]() | A mekosuchine crocodilian. It was a smaller species of the genus Quinkana. | ||
Currently Valid Pterosaur Genera Named in 1997 | ||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Location | Images |
Eosipterus | Valid taxon |
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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [15]
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Archaeoceratops [16] | Valid taxon |
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Gojirasaurus [17] | Valid taxon | ![]() ![]() | ||||
Hudiesaurus [18] | Valid taxon | ![]() | ||||
Protarchaeopteryx [19] | Valid taxon |
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Rinchenia [20] | Valid taxon | |||||
Siluosaurus [21] | Nomen dubium . | ![]() | ||||
Unenlagia [22] | Valid taxon |
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Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. | Valid | An Aramidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle Pleistocene | A Strigidae. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A member of Enantiornithes Walker, 1981. Originally described as a species of Cathayornis ; [25] subsequently made the type species of a separate genus Houornis. [26] | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pliocene | A Phasianidae. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid ? | Lower Yixian Formation | A Confuciusornithidae Hou, Zhou, Gu et Zhang, 1995, possibly a synonym of Confuciusornis sanctus L. H. Hou, Zhou, Gu et Zhang, 1995. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid ? | Lower Yixian Formation | A Confuciusornithidae Hou, Zhou, Gu et Zhang, 1995, possibly a synonym of Confuciusornis sanctus L. H. Hou, Zhou, Gu et Zhang, 1995. | |||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Cuspirostrisornithidae Hou, 1997, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Paleocene | Described in the Cuculidae, transferred to the Gracilitarsidae Mayr, 2001 by Mayr. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Galbulidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pliocene | MN 15-16 | |||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | Valanginian, Jiufotang Formation | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Cuspirostrisornithidae Hou, 1997, this is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Liaoningornithiformes L. H. Hou, 1997, Liaoningornithidae Hou, 1997, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Cuspirostrisornithidae Hou, 1997, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888, Baptornithidae American Ornithologists’ Union, 1910, this is the type of the new genus. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888, Baptornithidae American Ornithologists’ Union, 1910. | ||||||
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Valid | A Rallidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pleistocene | Cave Deposits | A Psittacidae. | ||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle Oligocene | MP 23-24 | A Gruiformes, Parvigruidae G. Mayr, 2005. | ||||
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. | Valid | An Ornithuromorphae Chiappe, Ji, Ji et Norell, 1999, Songlingornithidae Hou, 1997, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | A Charadriidae. | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Miocene | Lower Tarkhanian-Burdigalian? | An Eogruidae Wetmore, 1934, perhaps should be transferred to the genus Amphipelargus Lydekker, 1891. | ||||
Name | Status | Authors | Discovery year | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
| 1997 | An astrapotherian, a species of Xenastrapotherium | |||||
Valid |
| 1997 | An astrapotherian, a species of Xenastrapotherium |