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 1975.
Cretopone[2]
Gen et sp nov
Valid
Dlussky
Turonian
Beleutinskaya Formation
Kazakhstan
An ant of uncertain phylogenetic placement. Type species C. magna
Electrodryinus areolatus[3]
gen et sp nov
jr synonym
Ponomarenko
Eocene
Baltic amber
Russia
A dryinid wasp, genus synonymized with Deinodryinus
"Palaeomyrmex"[4]
Gen et sp nov.
Jr synonym
Santonian
Taimyr amber
A Sphecomyrminae ant. homonym of Palaeomyrmex Heer. Moved to Dlusskyidris zherichini
Fordillidae[5]
fam nov
Pojeta
Lower Devonian
worldwide
New family for Fordilla and Pojetaia
German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) and G.K. Merrill described the conodont genus Diplognathodus.[6]
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]
Abrictosaurus[8]
gen nov
Hopson
Early Jurassic
Upper Elliot Formation
Bagaceratops[9]
Maryańska & Osmólska
Late Cretaceous
Barapasaurus[15]
Jain, Kutty, Roy-Chowdhury, & Chatterjee
Lower Jurassic
Kota Formation
Bradycneme[16]
Fam, gen, et sp nov
Nomen dubium
Harrison & C. A. Walker
Maastrichtian
Sânpetru Formation
Possibly synonymous with Elopteryx.
Heptasteornis[16]
alvarezsaurid, originally described as an owl
Lanasaurus[17]
Gen nov
Gow
Hettangian to Sinemurian
Elliot Formation
"Yubasaurus"
Nomen nudum.
He
informal name for Yandusaurus.
Anhinga grandis [18]
Sp. nov.
Larry D. Martin
Robert M. Mengel
Pliocene
Kimball Formation
An Anhingidae.
Botaurus hibbardi [19]
Carolyn Moseley
Alan Feduccia
Late Pliocene
Rexroad Formation
An Ardeidae.
Bulweria bifax [20]
Storrs L. Olson
Holocene
A Procellariidae, Extinct after 1502 arrival of man
Dakotornis cooperi [21]
Gen. et Sp. nov.
Bruce R. Erickson
Paleocene
Tongue River Formation
Described in the Dakornithidae, now placed in the Graculavidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos [20]
Middle Pleistocene-Holocene
A Columbidae, this is the type species of the new genus.
Falco antiquus [22]
Cécile Mourer-Chauviré
Middle Pleistocene
MQ 2B
A Falconidae.
Nannococcyx spix [20]
A Cuculidae, this is the type species of the new genus. Extinct at the start of the 16th century BC
Primapus lacki [23]
Collin J. O. Harrison
Cyril A. Walker
Early Eocene
London Clay,
MP 8-9
An Apodiformes, Aegialornithidae Lydekker, 1891.
Pterodroma rupinarum [20]
Late Pleistocene-Holocene
A Procellariidae, sometimes placed in the genus Pseudobulweria. Extinct after 1502 due to deforestation
Puffinus pacificoides [20]
Pleistocene
A Procellariidae.
Spizaetus schultzi [24]
Pliocene,
Kimballian
An Accipitridae.
Upupa antaios [20]
An Upupidae. Extinct before or around 1502
Puntanipterus
Bonaparte Sanchez, T.M
Quetzalcoatlus
Lawson, Douglas A.[25]
Canada( Alberta)
Gluteus minimus
Richard Arnold Davis & Holmes A. Semken, Jr.[26]
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