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.
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Via |
Moved to the genus Delclosia |
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Pseudastacus llopisi[2] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Via |
A crayfish, moved to the genus Austropotamobius in 1997.[3] |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Mathewes & Brooke |
A mallow relative. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
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gen nov |
valid |
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gen nov |
valid |
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gen nov |
valid |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Nowinski |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A member of the lagerpetonidae. |
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fam et gen et sp nov |
valid |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
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Anser devjatkini[11] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Hyargas Nuur Formation |
An Anatidae. |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Late Quaternary |
Las Breas de San Felipe |
An accipitrid, |
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Bathornis minor[14] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Brunet |
A bucorvid. |
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Campephilus dalquesti[16] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A picid. |
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Cerorhinca minor[17] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
An alcid. |
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Cygnus pristinus[11] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Chirgiz-Nur Formation |
An anatid. |
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Dolichonyx kruegeri[18] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Fischer & Stephan |
"Cave deposits" |
An icterid. |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
A bathornithid. Type species E. uintae |
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Fulica picapicensis[18] |
Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
Fischer & Stephan |
"Cave deposits" |
A flightless rallid, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Fischer & Stephan |
"Cave deposits" |
A crane. |
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Macrorhamphus finitimus[11] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A scolopacid, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A mancaline alcid |
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Onychopteryx[21] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Casamajor Formation |
An onychopterygid |
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Phalacrocorax mongoliensis[11] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early or Middle Oligocene (Duntroonian) |
A spheniscid. |
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Progrus[23] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Bendukidze |
Kalmakpai River |
An eogruid. |
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Proplegadis[24] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Harrison & Walker |
A possible phaethontid, |
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Puffinus tedfordi[17] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
A procellariid. |
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Sp. nov. |
jr synonym |
A spheniscid, |
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Spizaetus tanneri[27] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Martin |
Broadwater Formation |
An accipitrid. |
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Struthio transcaucasicus[28] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Burchak-Abramovich & Vekua |
Late Pliocene (Akchagil age) |
A struthionid. |
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Wimanornis[29] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
A basal spheniscid |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/subdivision | Notes | Image |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Price |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
possible rhamphorhynchid |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Chondroplon | Valid | Wade | Ediacaran | Australia Russia | Sometimes considered a synonym of Dickinsonia |