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 1980.
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Bryophytes
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Comb nov |
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(Kuc) Miller |
An amblystegiaceous moss |
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Comb nov |
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(Kuc) Miller |
An amblystegiaceous moss |
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Comb nov |
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(Kuc) Miller |
A bartramiaceous moss |
Arthropods
editInsects
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Baroni Urbani |
A ponerin ant |
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Sp nov |
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Baroni Urbani |
A Myrmicin ant |
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Molluscs
editNewly named bivalves
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Jell |
Parara Limestone |
early Cambrian bivalve, type species P. runnegari |
Archosauromorphs
editNewly named dinosaurs
editData courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]
Note: the name Lancangosaurus[9] is mistakenly treated as a nomen nudum synonymous with Datousaurus (because Dong et al. 1983 believed it to be conspecific with Datousaurus). However, it is actually an early spelling variant of another nomen nudum, Lancangjiangosaurus.
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A dryosaurid, That its name means Reptile of Callovian. |
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Gen et sp nov |
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A Primitive ankylosaurian |
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Gen et sp nov |
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Molnar & Pledge |
A Theropoda of uncertain phylogenetic classification. |
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Gen et sp nov |
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Bonaparte & Powell |
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Gen et sp nov |
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A Saltasaurid, a Sauropod with Ankylosaur-like armor |
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Newly named birds
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A Phasianidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
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An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
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A Musophagidae, transferred to the genus Veflintornis Kashin, 1976, Apopempsis Brodkorb, 1971 preoccupied by Apopempsis Schenkling, 1903. |
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Sp. nov. |
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An Apodiformes, Archaeotrogonidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1980. |
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Sp. nov. |
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1.94 My BP |
An Ardeidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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A Teratornithidae Miller, 1909, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
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A Burhinidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
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A Ciconiidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
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A Rallidae, transferred to the genus Pastushkinia Zelenkov, 2013 as its type species.[25] |
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Sp. nov. |
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A Strigiformes, Strigida, Protostrigidae Wetmore, 1933. |
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Sp. nov. |
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A Rallidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Early Middle Eocene |
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A Phoenicopteriformes Fürbringer, 1888, Juncitarsidae Peters, 1987, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
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Described as a Laridae, transferred to the Glareolidae, genus Mioglareola Ballmann, 1979 by Mlíkovský, 2000.[29] |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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A Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
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An Accipitridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
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Late Claredonian |
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An Accipitridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
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A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
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A Rallidae, transferred to the genus Porzana by Kurochkin, 1985.[32] |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Shanwang bed sw2 |
An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cave deposits |
Described as a Ratitae, transferred to the Craciformes, Megapodiidae and placed in its own family Sylviornithidae[34] by Mourer-Chauviré & Balouet, 2005, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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A Pelecaniformes, Plotopteridae Howard, 1969, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Sp. nov. |
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Late Miocene-Pleistocene |
MN 12-MN 18, MQ 2A-C |
A Tytonidae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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A Gastornithidae Fürbringer, 1888, transferred to the genus Gastornis Hébert, 1855 by Buffetaut, 2013.,[38] this is the type species of the new genus. |
Pterosauria
editNewly named pterosaurs
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Gen et sp nov |
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de Buisonjé |
Lepidosauromorphs
editPlesiosaurs
edit- Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.[40]
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Dong |
172 million years |  China
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