Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoriclife 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.
Data 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.
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.
^Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN9780070887398. OCLC46769716.
^ abcMiller, N. G. (1980). "Fossil mosses of North America and their significance". The Mosses of North America. pp. 9–36.
^ abKuc, M. (1974). "Fossil mosses from the bisaccate zone of the mid-Eocene Allenby Formation, British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 11 (3): 409–421. Bibcode:1974CaJES..11..409K. doi:10.1139/e74-037.
^Kuc, M. (1972). "Muscites eocenicus sp. nov.—a fossil moss from the Allenby Formation (middle Eocene), British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 9 (5): 600–602. Bibcode:1972CaJES...9..600K. doi:10.1139/e72-049.
^Baroni Urbani, C. (1980). "Anochetus corayi n. sp., the first fossil Odontomachiti ant. (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. II: Odontomachiti)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 55: 1–6.
^Baroni Urbani, C. (1980). "First description of fossil gardening ants (Amber collection Stuttgart and Natural History Museum Basel; Hymenoptera: Formicidae. I: Attini)". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie). 54: 1–13.
^Zhao, 1980. [Mesozoic vertebrate-bearing beds and stratigraphy of northern Xinjinag: Report of Paleontological Expedition to Xinjiang IV.] Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology, Academia Sinica A. 15, 1-119.
^Galton, P.M. (1980). "European Jurassic ornithopod dinosaurs of the families Hypsilophodontidae and Camptosauridae". N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 160 (1): 73–95.
^Galton, P.M. (1980). "Partial skeleton of Dracopelta zbyszewskii n.gen. and n.sp., an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal". Géobios. 13 (3): 451–457. doi:10.1016/s0016-6995(80)80081-7.
^Perle, A. (1980). "Segnosauria, a new infraorder of carnivorous dinosaurs". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 25: 185–195.
^Molnar, R.E.; Pledge, N.S. (1980). "A new theropod dinosaur from South Australia". Alcheringa. 4 (4): 281–287. doi:10.1080/03115518008558972.
^Molnar, R.E. (1980). "An ankylosaur (Ornithischia: Reptilia) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern Queensland". Mem. Queensland Mus. 20: 77–87.
^ abBonaparte, J.F.; Powell, J.E. (1980). "A continental assemblage of tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous beds of El Brete, northwest Argentina (Sauropoda-Coelurosauria-Carnosauria-Aves)". Mém. Soc. Géol. Fr. Nouvelle Série. 139: 19–28.
^Sues, H.-D. 1980. Anatomy and relationships of a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of North America. Palaeontographica. Abt. (A) 169: pp. 51-72.
^ abcEitan Tchernov (1980). "The Pleistocene Birds of 'Ubeidiya, Jordan Valley". Publications of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities: 1–83.
^ abColin J. O. Harrison (1980). "Fossil Birds from Afrotropical Africa in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History)". Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology. 51 (2): 92–98. doi:10.1080/00306525.1980.9633549.
^ abcEvgeny N. Kurochkin (1980). "Middle Pliocene Rails from Western Mongolia"(PDF). Papers in Avian Paleontology Honoring Hildegarde Howard, Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science. 330: 69–73. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2014-09-06. Retrieved 2014-09-05.
^Patricia Vickers Rich (1980). ""New World Vultures" with Old World Affinities? A Review of Fossil and Recent Gypaetinae of Both the Old and the New World". Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution. 5: 1–115.
^Evgeny N. Kurochkin (1985). "[Birds of Central Asia in the Pliocene]". Transactions of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Expedition. 26: 1–120.
^François Poplin (1980). "Sylviornis neocaledoniae n. g., n. sp. (Aves), Ratite Éteint de la Nouvelle-Calédonie". Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Série D. 290: 691–694.
^Cécile Mourer-Chauviré; Jean Chr. Balouet (2005). Joseph Antoni Alcover; Pere Bover (eds.). "Description of the Skull of the Genus Sylviornis Poplin, 1980 (Aves, Galliformes, Sylviornithidae New Family), a Giant Extinct Bird from the Holocene of New Caledonia". Proceedings of the International Symposium "Insularertebrate Evolution: The Palaeontological Approach" Monographies de la Societat d'Historia Natural de les Balears. 12: 205–218.
^Eric Buffetaut (2013). "The Giant Bird Gastornis in Asia: A Revision of Zhongyuanus xichuanensis Hou, 1980, from the Early Eocene of China". Paleontological Journal. 47 (11): 1302–1307. doi:10.1134/s0031030113110051. S2CID84611178.
^De Buisonjé, P.H. (1980). "Santanadactylus brasilensis nov.gen. nov.sp. a longnecked, large pterosaur from the Aptian of Brazil". Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen B. 83 (2): 145–172.
^Darby and Ojakangas (1980). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
Darby, D. G. and Ojakangas, R. W.; 1980; Gastroliths from a Late Cretaceous Plesiosaur; Journal of Paleontology; 54(3) pp. 548–556
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
