1974 in paleontology

Bryophytes

Plants

Angiosperms

Archosauromorphs

General research

• Massospondylus gastroliths are documented.

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Newly named pterosaurs

References

• Raath, M.A. (1974). Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: further evidence of gastroliths in Prosauropod dinosaurs. Arnoldia Rhodesia. 7 (5): 1–7.
• 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.

References

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4. Raath (1974). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
5. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
6. Corro, G. del. 1974. Un nuevo megalosaurio (Carnosaurio) del Cretacico de Chubut (Argentina). Communicaciones Mus. Argent. Ciencias Nat. "Bernardino Rivadavia" Paleontol. 1:pp. 37-44.
7. Maryanska, T. and H. Osmólska. 1974. Pachycephalosauria, a new suborder of ornithischian dinosaurs. Paleontol. Polinica 30: pp. 45-102.
8. Molnar R.E.. (1974). "A distinctive theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Baja California (Mexico)". Journal of Paleontology.
9. Madsen, J. H., Jr. 1974. A new theropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Utah. J. Paleontol. 48: pp. 27-31.
10. Eduardo P. Tonni. (1974). "Un Nuevo Cariámido (Aves, Gruiformes) del Plioceno Superior de la Provincia de Buenos Aires". Ameghiniana.
11. Colin J. O. Harrison. (1974). "A Re-examination of Material of the Extinct Marabou Stork, ''Leptoptilos falconeri'', with Description of Some New Species". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club.
12. Dénes Jánossy. (1974). "Die Mittelpleistozäne Vogelfauna von Hundsheim (Niederösterreich)". Sitzungsberichte der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch- Naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, Abteilung I.
13. Dénes Jánossy. (1974). "Upper Pliocene and Lower Pleistocene Bird Remains from Poland". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia.
14. Andrzej Elzanowski. (1974). "Results of the Polish-Mongolian Paleontological Expeditions-Part V: Preliminary Note on the Palaeognathous Bird from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia". Paleontologica Polonica.
15. Alan Feduccia. (1974). "Another Old World Vulture from the New World". Wilson Bulletin.
16. Storrs L. Olson. (1974). "A New Species of Nesotrochis from Hispaniola, with Notes on Other Fossil Rails from the West Indies (Aves: Rallidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
17. R. J. F. Jenkins. (1974). "A New Giant Penguin from the Eocene of Australia". Palaeontology.
18. Zygmunt Bocheński. (1991). "Pliocene Grouse of Genus Lagopus from Poland". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia.