1973 in paleontology explained

Plants

Conifers

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Pinus arnoldii^[1]	Sp nov	valid	Miller	Eocene Ypresian	Okanogan Highlands Allenby Formation Princeton Chert	Canada	A 5-needle pine cone species
Pinus similkameenensis	Sp nov	valid	Miller	Ypresian	Okanogan Highlands Allenby Formation Princeton Chert	Canada	A 5-needle pine needle species

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Epiborkhausenites^[4]	Gen et sp. nov	valid	Skalski	Bartonian	Baltic amber		An Oecophoridae moth, type species E. obscurotrimaculatus
Tortricidrosis^[5]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Skalski	Lutetian	Baltic amber		A Tortricidae moth. The type species is T. inclusa.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[8]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Efraasia^[9]	gen nov	Valid	Galton	Middle Norian	Löwenstein Formation		basal sauropodomorph
Kelmayisaurus^[10]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Zhiming	Early Cretaceous			carcharodontosaurid
Phaedrolosaurus	gen et sp nov	nomen dubium	Zhiming	Early Cretaceous			described from a single tooth
Phyllodon^[11]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Thulborn	Middle Jurassic	Guimarota lignite
Shantungosaurus^[12]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Hu	Late Cretaceous
Trimucrodon	Gen et sp nov	nomen dubium	Thulborn	Middle Jurassic	Guimarota lignite		Ornithischian of uncertain placement
Tugulusaurus	gen et sp nov	Valid	Zhiming	Early Cretaceous			coelurosaurian
Wuerhosaurus	gen et sp nov	Valid	Zhiming	Early Cretaceous			one of the last stegosaurians

Newly named birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Atlantisia elpenor ^[13]	Sp. nov.	valid	Storrs L. Olson	Late Holocene-Subrecent			A Rallidae, transferred to the new genus Mundia by Bourne, Ashmole et Simmons, 2003,^[14] it is the type species of the new genus.
Garganoaetus freudenthali ^[15]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid	Peter Ballmann	Early Pliocene	MN 14-15		An Accipitridae.
Garganoaetus murivorus	Sp. nov.	valid	Peter Ballmann	Early Pliocene	MN 14-15		An Accipitridae.
Gypaetus osseticus ^[16]	Sp. Nov.	Nomen Nudum	Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich	Middle Pleistocene		(Now)	An Accipitridae.
Ichthyophaga australis ^[17]	Sp. nov.	valid	Collin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. Walker	Holocene	Chatham Island		An Accipitridae, transferred to the genus Haliaeetus.
Idiornis gaillardi ^[18]	Sp. nov.	valid	Joel Cracraft	Eocene or Oligocene	Phosphorites du Quercy		A Gruiformes, Idiornithidae Brodkorb, 1965, transferred to the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Cécile Mourer-Chauviré, 2013.^[19]
Lophopsittacus bensoni ^[20]	Sp. nov.	valid	David T. Holyoak	Subrecent	Mauritius		A Psittacidae, transferred to the genus Psittacula by Julian P. Hume, 2007.^[21]
Palaeoaramides minutus	Sp. nov.	valid	Joel Cracraft	Middle Miocene	Grive-St.-Alban		A Rallidae.
Palaeorallus brodkorbi	Sp. nov.	valid	Joel Cracraft	Early Eocene	Wasatch Formation		A Rallidae.
?Palaeospheniscus huxleyorum ^[22]	Sp. nov.	valid	George G. Simpson	Miocene	Ysterplaats		A Spheniscidae, not for sure a member of the genus Palaeospheniscus Moreno et Mercerat, 1891.
Porzana astrictocarpus	Sp. nov.	valid	Storrs L. Olson	Late Holocene-Subrecent			A Rallidae.
"Primobucco" kestneri ^[23]	Sp. nov.	valid	Alan Feduccia	Early Eocene	Wasatchian Green River Formatie		A ?Galbulae the species does not belong in Prinobucco, nor in Neanis, it was transferred to by Feduaccia, 1976,^[24] it needs a new genus.
Quercyrallus quercy	Sp. nov.	valid	Joel Cracraft	Eocene or Early Oligocene	Phosphorites du Quercy, MP 16-28		A Rallidae.
Tyto gigantea ^[25]	Sp. nov.	valid	Peter Ballmann	Early Pliocene	MN 14-15		A Tytonidae.
Tyto robusta	Sp. nov.	valid	Peter Ballmann	Early Pliocene	MN 14-15		A Tytonidae.
Wyleyia valdensis ^[26]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid	Colin J. O. Harrison Cyril A. Walker	Early Cretaceous	Weald Clay		An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Enantiornithidae Nessov & Borkin, 1983, known from a single humerus, this is the type species of the new genus.

Newly named pterosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Eudimorphodon	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Zambelli	Norian
Noripterus^[27]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Yang (aka C.-C. Young)	early Cretaceous	Lianmuqin Formation

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