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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 1973.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Pinus arnoldii[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Miller |
A 5-needle pine cone species |
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Pinus similkameenensis[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Miller |
A 5-needle pine needle species |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Robison & Person |
A semi-aquatic flowering plant of uncertain affiliation |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Skalski |
An Oecophoridae moth, type species E. obscurotrimaculatus |
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Tortricidrosis[6] |
Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Skalski |
A Tortricidae moth. The type species is T. inclusa. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov |
valid |
McTavish |
Emanuel Formation |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov |
valid |
Seiffert |
Guimarota lignite | Crocodylomorph |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[9]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen nov |
Valid |
basal sauropodomorph |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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gen et sp nov |
described from a single tooth |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Guimarota lignite |
possible Hypsilophodontid |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Hu |
largest known ornithischian |
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Gen et sp nov |
Guimarota lignite |
Ornithischian of uncertain placement |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
one of the last stegosaurians |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Holocene-Subrecent |
A Rallidae, transferred to the new genus Mundia by Bourne, Ashmole et Simmons, 2003,[15] it is the type species of the new genus. |
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Garganoaetus freudenthali [16] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Peter Ballmann |
MN 14-15 |
An Accipitridae. |
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Garganoaetus murivorus [16] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
Peter Ballmann |
MN 14-15 |
An Accipitridae. |
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Gypaetus osseticus [17] |
Sp. Nov. |
Nomen Nudum |
Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich |
An Accipitridae. |
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Ichthyophaga australis [18] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
Collin J. O. Harrison |
An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Haliaeetus. |
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Idiornis gaillardi [19] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965, transferred to the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, 2013.[20] |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
David T. Holyoak |
Subrecent |
A Psittacidae, transferred to the genus Psittacula by Julian P. Hume, 2007.[22] |
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Palaeoaramides minutus [19] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
Grive-St.-Alban |
A Rallidae. |
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Palaeorallus brodkorbi [19] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Rallidae. |
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?Palaeospheniscus huxleyorum [23] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
Ysterplaats |
A Spheniscidae, not for sure a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Late Holocene-Subrecent |
A Rallidae. |
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"Primobucco" kestneri [24] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
Green River Formatie |
A ?Galbulae the species does not belong in Prinobucco, nor in Neanis, it was transferred to by Feduaccia, 1976,[25] it needs a new genus. |
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Quercyrallus quercy [19] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
MP 16-28 |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Peter Ballmann |
MN 14-15 |
A Tytonidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Peter Ballmann |
MN 14-15 |
A Tytonidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Enantiornithidae Nessov & Borkin, 1983, known from a single humerus, this is the type species of the new genus. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Zambelli |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Yang (aka C.-C. Young) |