1976 in paleontology

Flora

Cycads

Arthropods

Newly named crustaceans

Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named dinosaurs

Newly named birds

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Mammals

New taxa

Other Animals

References

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