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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 faeces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because mankind has 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 in the year 1978.
Maurits Lindström, described the earliest known octocoral in Sweden shifting the first known appearance from the Cretaceous to the Ordovician.[3]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Schram & Horner |
An aeschronectid, type species is A. cornigerum |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Schram & Horner |
An early mantis shrimp |
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Dithyrocaris rolfei[4] |
Sp nov |
Valid |
Schram & Horner |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Schram & Horner |
An early mantis shrimp |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Schram & Horner |
A sairocaridid |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Wilson |
A mooneye, |
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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
Tumanova |
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Gen et sp nov |
jr homonym |
Preoccupied by Blake 1863. Renamed Coloradisaurus. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Possible junior synonym of Fabrosaurus. |
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Gen nov |
Valid |
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Valid |
Wild |
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van Heerden vide: Anderson & Cruickshank |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A North Polar Dromaeosaur. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Zhiming, Chang, Li, & Zhou |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aldabranas cabri [16] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
Aldabra Atoll |
An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Anser eldaricus [17] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Nikolaj I. Burchak-Abramovich D. V. Gadzyev |
Late Sarmantian |
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An Anatidae. |
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Apus baranensis [18] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Dénes Jánossy |
MN 16a; MN 17 |
An Apodidae. |
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Chaetura baconica [18] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Dénes Jánossy |
MN 11-12 |
An Apodidae. |
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"Gallus" europaeus [19] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid ? |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
MQ 2A |
A Phasianidae.The taxonomic status of this species should be reevaluated. There is no evidence, that it belongs to the genus Gallus Brisson. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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A Gaviidae. |
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Mergus miscellus [21] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Rafael Alvarez |
An Anatidae. |
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"Milvus" brachypterus [18] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Dénes Jánossy |
MQ 1b |
An Apodidae Incertae Sedis. |
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Morus magnus [20] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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A Sulidae. |
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Phalacrocorax anatolicus [22] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Phalacrocoracidae, transferred to the genus Nectornis Cheneval, 1984 by Mlíkovský, 1998.[23] |
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Pterodroma kurodai [16] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Colin J. O. Harrison |
Aldabra Atoll |
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Puffinus barnesi [20] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Recurvirostra sanctaneboulae [24] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A Recurvirostridae, most unlikely it is a Recurvirostra or even a Recurvirostridae. |
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Surnia robusta [18] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Dénes Jánossy |
MQ 1b |
A Strigidae. |
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | |
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Valid |
Miller |
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Valid |
Wild |
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Campylognathoides Indicus[25] |
Nomen Dubium |