1969 in paleontology

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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 1969.

Paleozoology[]

Molluscs[]

New bivalves[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Praenuculidae	Fam nov	Valid	McAlester	Ordovician - Devonian			extinct family of Nuculoidea bivalves

Conodont paleozoology[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Protognathodus	Gen. nov	Valid	Willi Ziegler	351 Millions of years ago.	Austria China Germany UK
Patrognathus^[2]	Gen nov	Valid	Rhodes, &	Carboniferous	Russia UK

Vertebrate paleozoology[]

Fish[]

New Actinopterygii ("ray-finned fish")[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Proaracana	gen et sp nov	Valid	Le Danois	Eocene	Monte Bolca	Italy		Proaracana dubia

Archosauromorphs[]

Newly named crurotarsans[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Riojasuchus^[3]	gen et sp nov	valid	Bonaparte	Late Triassic	Argentina	Ornithosuchid archosaur. originally misidentified as a dinosaur

Newly named dinosaurs[]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Deinonychus^[5]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Ostrom	Early Cretaceous	Cloverly Formation	USA ( Maryland, Montana, Oklahoma, Utah and Wyoming)	An American dromeosaur, that has a name that means: Terrible Claw .	Deinonychus antirrhopus
Riojasaurus^[3]	gen et sp nov	Valid.	Bonaparte	Triassic			.
"Strenusaurus"^[3]	gen et sp nov	Junior synonym.	Bonaparte	Triassic			Junior synonym of Riojasaurus.
"Syntarsus"^[6]	gen et sp nov	Preoccupied name.	Raath	Early Jurassic			Preoccupied by Fairmaire, 1869. Renamed Megapnosaurus, now a junior synonym of Coelophysis.

Newly named birds[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
^[7]	Sp. nov.	Valid		Early Miocene		Germany	A Phasianidae.
^[8]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Ballmann	Middle Miocene		France	An Accipitridae.
Capitonides ^[7]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Ballmann	Early Miocene		Germany	A Lybiidae, jr syn of .^[9]
^[10]	Sp. nov.	Valid		Late Miocene		Australia	A Diomedeidae.
^[11]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Cracraft	Early Eocene	Willwood Formation	USA ( Wyoming)	A Geranoididae, type sp. E. campivagus.
^[11]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Cracraft	Middle Eocene	Bridger Formation	USA ( Wyoming)	A Geranoididae type sp. G. aenigma
^[8]	Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Ballmann	Middle Miocene	MN 8	France	A Musophagidae jr syn of ^[12]
^[7]	Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Ballmann	Early Miocene		Germany	A Strigidae, transferred .^[9]
^[13]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Cracraft &	Early Pliocene	Valentine Formation	USA ( Nebraska)	A Picidae, type sp P. shorti
^[11]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Cracraft	Early Eocene	Willwood Formation	USA ( Wyoming)	A Geranoididae
^[14]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Valid		Late Pliocene		USA ( Colorado)	An Anatidae, type sp P. plattensis
^[11]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Cracraft	Early Eocene	Willwood Formation	USA ( Wyoming)	A Geranoididae
^[15]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Howard	Early Miocene		USA	A Plotopteridae, type sp P. joaquinensis
Pseudodontornis stirtoni ^[16]	Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Howard &	Late Pliocene		New Zealand	A transferred to Neodontornis stirtoni^[17]
^[18]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Pleistocene		Cuba	A Strigidae.
^[7]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Ballmann	Early Miocene		Germany	A Strigidae, transferred to .^[9]
^[7]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Ballmann	Early Miocene		Germany	A Cracidae.
^[19]	Sp. nov.	Valid		Early Pliocene - Early Pleistocene		Bulgaria	A Phasianidae.
^[20]	Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Brodkorb	Late Pliocene	Rexroad Formation	USA ( Kansas)	A Columbidae, transferred to .
^[8]	Gen et Sp. nov.	Valid	Ballmann	Middle Miocene		France Germany	A Zygodactylidae two sp Z. grivensis & Z. ignotus.

New Pterosaurs[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Nesodactylus	gen et sp nov	Valid	Colbert	Late Jurassic	Jagua Formation	Cuba	family placement uncertain

Synapsid[]

Mammals[]

Name	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Crusafontia	Henkel and Krebs	127 Millions years ago	Spain

Paleontologists[]

Death of Friedrich von Huene, the well known German paleontologist.^[21]

References[]

^ 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.
^ British Avonian (Carboniferous) conodont faunas, and their value in local and intercontinental correlation. FHT Rhodes, RL Austin, EC Druce - 1969 - British Museum (Natural History)
^ ^a ^b ^c Bonaparte, J.F. 1969. Dos nuevas "faunas" de reptiles Triasicos de Argentina. I Gondwana Symp. (IVGAS, 1967), Mar del Plata Ciencias Tierra 2: pp. 283-306
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Ostrom, J. H. 1969. A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Postilia 128: pp. 1-17.
^ Raath, M.A. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 4 (28): pp. 1-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Ballmann, P (1969). "Die Vögel aus der Altburdigalen Spaltenfüllung von Wintershof (West) bei Eichstätt in Bayern" (PDF). Zitteliana. 1: 5–60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-30.
^ ^a ^b ^c Ballmann, P (1969). "Les Oiseaux Miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère)". Géobios. 2: 157–204. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(69)80005-7.
^ ^a ^b ^c Mlíkovský, J (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe" (PDF). Praha Ninox Press, 2002: 1–407. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2014-12-02.
^ 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. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.1969.29.04.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cracraft, J (1969). "Systematics and evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 1. The Eocene family Geranoididae and the early history of the Gruiformes" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2388: 1–41.
^ Brodkorb, P (1971). "Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 4 (Columbiformes through Piciformes)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 15: 163–266.
^ Cracraft, J; Morony, JJ jr. (1969). "A new pliocene woodpecker, with comments on the fossil Picidae" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2400: 1–41.
^ Short, LL jr. (1969). "A new genus and species of goose like swan from the Pliocene of Nebraska" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2369: 1–7.
^ Howard, H (1969). "A new avian fossil from Kern County, California" (PDF). Condor. 71 (1): 68–69. doi:10.2307/1366050. JSTOR 1366050.
^ 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.
^ Harrison, 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.
^ Brodkorb, P (1969). "An extinct Pleistocene owl from Cuba" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 31 (2): 112–114.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Jánossy, D (1969). "Die Mittelpleistozäne Vogelfauna der Stránská Skála". Anthropos, Studia Musei Moraviae, Brno. New Series. 20 (12): 35–64.
^ Brodkorb, P (1969). "An ancestral mourning dove from Rexroad, Kansas" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 31 (3): 173–176. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-10-30.
^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.

[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] British Avonian (Carboniferous) conodont faunas, and their value in local and intercontinental correlation. FHT Rhodes, RL Austin, EC Druce - 1969 - British Museum (Natural History)

[bonaparte69nuevas-3] Bonaparte, J.F. 1969. Dos nuevas "faunas" de reptiles Triasicos de Argentina. I Gondwana Symp. (IVGAS, 1967), Mar del Plata Ciencias Tierra 2: pp. 283-306

[ddinogeorge-4] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[5] Ostrom, J. H. 1969. A new theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. Postilia 128: pp. 1-17.

[6] Raath, M.A. 1969. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Forest Sandstone of Rhodesia. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 4 (28): pp. 1-25.

[Ballmann1969A-7] Ballmann, P (1969). "Die Vögel aus der Altburdigalen Spaltenfüllung von Wintershof (West) bei Eichstätt in Bayern" (PDF). Zitteliana. 1: 5–60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-30.

[Ballmann1969B-8] Ballmann, P (1969). "Les Oiseaux Miocènes de la Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère)". Géobios. 2: 157–204. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(69)80005-7.

[Mlíkovský2002-9] Mlíkovský, J (2002). "Cenozoic Birds of the World Part 1: Europe" (PDF). Praha Ninox Press, 2002: 1–407. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-03-07. Retrieved 2014-12-02.

[Wilkinson1969-10] 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. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.1969.29.04.

[Cracraft1969-11] Cracraft, J (1969). "Systematics and evolution of the Gruiformes (Class, Aves) 1. The Eocene family Geranoididae and the early history of the Gruiformes" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2388: 1–41.

[Brodkorb1971-12] Brodkorb, P (1971). "Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 4 (Columbiformes through Piciformes)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 15: 163–266.

[Cracraft1969B-13] Cracraft, J; Morony, JJ jr. (1969). "A new pliocene woodpecker, with comments on the fossil Picidae" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2400: 1–41.

[Short1969-14] Short, LL jr. (1969). "A new genus and species of goose like swan from the Pliocene of Nebraska" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2369: 1–7.

[Howard1969-15] Howard, H (1969). "A new avian fossil from Kern County, California" (PDF). Condor. 71 (1): 68–69. doi:10.2307/1366050. JSTOR 1366050.

[Howard1969B-16] 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.

[HarrisonWalker1976-17] Harrison, 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-18] Brodkorb, P (1969). "An extinct Pleistocene owl from Cuba" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 31 (2): 112–114.^{[permanent dead link]}

[Jánossy1969-19] Jánossy, D (1969). "Die Mittelpleistozäne Vogelfauna der Stránská Skála". Anthropos, Studia Musei Moraviae, Brno. New Series. 20 (12): 35–64.

[Zenaidura-20] Brodkorb, P (1969). "An ancestral mourning dove from Rexroad, Kansas" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 31 (3): 173–176. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-10-30. Retrieved 2014-10-30.

[21] Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.

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