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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 1971.

Arthropods

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Crustaceans

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Oplophorus roselli[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Via

Barremian

Las Hoyas

 Spain

Moved to the genus Delclosia

Pseudastacus llopisi[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Via

Barremian

Las Hoyas

 Spain

A crayfish, moved to the genus Austropotamobius in 1997.[3]

Plants

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Angiosperms

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Holmskioldia quilchenensis[4]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Mathewes & Brooke

Ypresian

Coldwater Beds

 Canada
 British Columbia

A mallow relative.
moved to Florissantia quilchenensis (1992)

Florissantia quilchenensis

Conodonts

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes Image

Baltoniodus[5]

gen nov

valid

Maurits Lindström

 Sweden

Paracordylodus[5]

gen nov

valid

Maurits Lindström

 Sweden

Microzarkodina[5]

gen nov

valid

Maurits Lindström

 Sweden

Archosauromorphs

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Newly named pseudosuchians

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes Image

Venaticosuchus[6]

gen et sp nov

valid

Bonaparte

Late Triassic

 Argentina

an ornithosuchid

Venaticosuchus rusconii

Newly named dinosaurs

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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes Image

Nemegtosaurus[8]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Nowinski

Late Cretaceous

Nemegt Basin

 Mongolia

Yaverlandia[9]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Galton

Lower Cretaceous

Wessex Formation

 England

Maniraptoran?

Newly named onithodirans

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes Image

Lagerpeton[10]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Romer

Ladinian

Chañares Formation

 Argentina

A member of the lagerpetonidae.

Lagerpeton

Lagosuchus[10]

fam et gen et sp nov

valid

Romer

Ladinian

Chañares Formation

 Argentina

Newly named birds

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes Image

Anser devjatkini[11]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Kurochkin

Late Miocene

Hyargas Nuur Formation

 Mongolia

An Anatidae.

Antillovultur[12]

Gen. et sp. nov.

jr synonym

Arredondo

Late Quaternary

Las Breas de San Felipe

 Cuba

An accipitrid,
Type species A. varonai,
moved to Gymnogyps varonai (2003),[13]

Bathornis minor[14]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Cracraft

Early Miocene

 USA
 South Dakota

A bathornithid

Bucorvus brailloni[15]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Brunet

Middle Miocene

 Morocco

A bucorvid.

Campephilus dalquesti[16]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Brodkorb

Late Pliocene (Blancan)

 USA
 Texas

A picid.

Cerorhinca minor[17]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Howard

Late Miocene - Late Pliocene

Almejas Formation

 Mexico

An alcid.

Cygnus pristinus[11]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Kurochkin

Late Miocene - Early Pliocene

Chirgiz-Nur Formation

 Mongolia

An anatid.

Dolichonyx kruegeri[18]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Fischer & Stephan

Late Pleistocene

"Cave deposits"

 Cuba

An icterid.

Eutreptornis[14]

Gen. et sp. nov.

Valid

Cracraft

Middle Eocene

Uinta Formation

 USA
 Utah

A bathornithid. Type species E. uintae

Fulica picapicensis[18]

Sp. nov.

jr synonym

Fischer & Stephan

Quaternary

"Cave deposits"

 Cuba

A flightless rallid,
moved to Nesotrochis picapicensis (1974).

Grus cubensis[19]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Fischer & Stephan

Late Pleistocene

"Cave deposits"

 Cuba

A crane.
Moved to Antigone cubensis (2020).[20]

Antigone cubensis (top)

Macrorhamphus finitimus[11]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Kurochkin

Pliocene

 Mongolia

A scolopacid,
Moved to Limnodromus finitimus.

Mancalla cedrosensis[17]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Howard

Early Pliocene

Almejas Formation

 Mexico

A mancaline alcid

Onychopteryx[21]

Gen. et sp. nov.

Valid

Cracraft

Early Eocene

Casamajor Formation

 Argentina

An onychopterygid
Type species O. simpsoni

Phalacrocorax mongoliensis[11]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Kurochkin

Late Miocene - Pliocene

 Mongolia

A phalacrocoracid.

?Platydyptes marplesi[22]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Simpson

Early or Middle Oligocene (Duntroonian)

 New Zealand

A spheniscid.

Progrus[23]

Gen. et sp. nov.

Valid

Bendukidze

Middle - Late Eocene

Kalmakpai River

 Kazakhstan

An eogruid.
Type species P. turanicus
Moved to Eogrus turanicus.

Proplegadis[24]

Gen. et sp. nov.

Valid

Harrison & Walker

Early Eocene

 UK
 England

A possible phaethontid,
Type species P. fisheri

Puffinus tedfordi[17]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Howard

Early Pliocene

Almejas Formation

 Mexico

A procellariid.

Spheniscus predemersus[25]

Sp. nov.

jr synonym

Simpson

Late Pliocene

Langebaanweg fossil site

 South Africa

A spheniscid,
Moved to Inguza predemersus (1975)[26]

Spizaetus tanneri[27]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Martin

Early Pleistocene

Broadwater Formation

 USA
 Nebraska

An accipitrid.

Struthio transcaucasicus[28]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua

Late Pliocene (Akchagil age)

 Georgia

A struthionid.

Wimanornis[29]

Gen. et sp. nov.

Valid

Simpson

Eocene

Seymour Island

 Antarctica

A basal spheniscid
Type species W. seymourensis

Newly named pterosaurs

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/subdivision Notes Image

Araripesaurus

gen et sp nov

Valid

Price

Early Cretaceous

Santana Formation

 Brazil

an ornithocheirid

Araripesaurus.

Sordes

gen et sp nov

Valid

Sharov

Late Jurassic

Karabastau Svita

 Kazakhstan

possible rhamphorhynchid

Sordes pilosus

Other Animals

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Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Chondroplon Valid Wade Ediacaran  Australia  Russia Sometimes considered a synonym of Dickinsonia

References

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  1. ^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
  2. ^ a b Via, Luis (1971). "Crustáceos decápodos del Jurásico Superior de Montsech (Lérida)". Cuadernas Geología Ibérica. 2: 607–612.
  3. ^ Garassino, Alessandro (1997). "The macruran decapod crustaceans of the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Barremian) of Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain)". Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano. 137 (1–2): 101–126.
  4. ^ Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR 2444909.
  5. ^ a b c Lindström Maurits (1971). "Vom Anfang, Hochstand und Ende eines Epikontinentalmeeres". Geologische Rundschau. 60 (2): 419–438. Bibcode:1971GeoRu..60..419L. doi:10.1007/BF02000464. S2CID 128476116.
  6. ^ Bonaparte, J.F. 1970. Annotated list of the South American Triassic tetrapods. Second Gondwana Symposium South Africa, Proceedings and Papers: pp. 665-682.
  7. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  8. ^ Nowinski, A. 1971. Nemegtosaurus mongoliensis n. gen., n. sp (Sauropoda) from the uppermost Cretaceous of Mongolia. Palaeontol. Polonica 25: pp. 57-81.
  9. ^ Galton, P.M. 1971. A primitive dome-headed dinosaur (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of England, and the function of the dome in pachycephalosaurids. J. Paleontol. 45: pp. 40-47.
  10. ^ a b Romer, A.S. 1971. The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. X. Two new but incompletely known long-limbed pseudosuchians. Breviora 378: pp. 1-10.
  11. ^ a b c d Evgeny N. Kurochkin (1971). "[On the Pliocene Avifauna of Mongolia]". Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Geological Expedition. 3 (5): 58–69.
  12. ^ Oscar Arredondo (1971). "Nuevo Género y Especie de Ave Fósil (Accipitriformes: Vulturidae) del Pleistoceno de Cuba". Memoria de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales la Salle. 31 (90): 309–323.
  13. ^ Suárez, W.; Emslie, S.D. (2003). "New fossil material with a redescription of the extinct condor Gymnogyps varonai (Arredondo, 1971) from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Vulturidae)" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 29–37.
  14. ^ a b Joel Cracraft (1971). "Systematics and Evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 2. Additional Comments on the Bathornithidae, with Descriptions of a New Species" (PDF). American Museum Novitates (2449): 1–14.
  15. ^ J. Brunet (1971). "Oiseaux Miocénes de Beni Mellal (Maroc), un Complément à Leur Étude". Notes et Mémoires, Service Géologique (Morocco). 31: 109–111.
  16. ^ Pierce Brodkorb (1971). "The Paleospecies of Woodpeckers" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 33: 132–136. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-10-29.
  17. ^ a b c Hildegarde Howard (1971). "Pliocene Avian Remains from Baja California" (PDF). Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science. 217: 1–17. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-28. Retrieved 2014-10-28.
  18. ^ a b Karlheinz Fischer; Burkhard Stephan (1971). "Weitere Vogelreste aus dem Pleistozän der Pio-Domingo-Höhle in Kuba". Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Reihe. 20: 593–607.
  19. ^ Karlheinz Fischer; Burkhard Stephan (1971). "Ein Flugunfahiger Kranich (Grus cubensis n.sp.) aus dem Pleitozän von Kuba - eine Osteologie der Familie der Kraniche (Gruidae)". Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Reihe. 20: 541–592.
  20. ^ William Suárez (2020). "The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba". Zootaxa. 4780 (1): zootaxa.4780.1.1. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1. PMID 33055754. S2CID 219510089.
  21. ^ Joel Cracraft (1971). "A New Family of Hoatzin-like Birds (Order Opisthocomiformes) from the Eocene of South America" (PDF). Ibis. 113 (2): 229–233. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1971.tb05148.x.
  22. ^ George G. Simpson (1971). "A Review of the Pre-Pliocene Penguins of New Zealand" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 144 (5): 319–378.
  23. ^ Oleg G. Bendukidze (1971). "Novyj prestavitel' semeistva Geranoididae (Aves, Gruiformes) iz eotsenovykh otlozhenij Zaisan". Soobtzhenija Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoj SSSR. 63: 749–751.
  24. ^ Colin J. O. Harrison & Cyril A. Walker (1971). "A New Ibis from the lower Eocene of Britain". Ibis. 113 (3): 367–368. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x.1971.tb05169.x.
  25. ^ George G. Simpson (1971). "Fossil Penguin from the Late Cenozoic of South Africa". Science. 171 (3976): 1144–1145. Bibcode:1971Sci...171.1144G. doi:10.1126/science.171.3976.1144. PMID 17777603. S2CID 35775139.
  26. ^ George G. Simpson (1975). "Notes on Variation in Penguins and on Fossil Penguins from the Pliocene of Langebaanweg, Cape Province, South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum. 69 (4): 59–72.
  27. ^ Larry D. Martin (1971). "An Early Pleistocene Eagle from Nebraska" (PDF). Condor. 73 (2): 248–250. doi:10.2307/1365848. JSTOR 1365848.
  28. ^ Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich & Abesalom K. Vekua (1971). "The Fossil Ostrich from the Akchagil Layers of Georgia". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 16 (1): 1–28.
  29. ^ George G. Simpson (1971). "Review of the fossil penguins from Seymour Island". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 178 (1053): 357–387. Bibcode:1971RSPSB.178..357S. doi:10.1098/rspb.1971.0070. S2CID 84900109.