1960 in paleontology

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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 1960.

Scientific advances

Paleobotany

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Eucommia brownii[2]

Species

jr synonym

Becker

Late Eocene

Passamari Formation

 USA

Eucommia species,
jr syn of Eucommia montana

Invertebrate paleozoology

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi.[3]

Sp nov

synonym

Soot-Reyn & Soot-Reyn

Late Ordovician

Upper Chasmops Shale

 Norway

transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Vertebrate paleozoology

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]

Name Status Authors Notes Images
Inosaurus[5] Nomen dubium.
Lophorhothon[6] Valid taxon.
  • Langston
Silvisaurus[7] Valid taxon.
  • Eaton
Name Status Authors Notes

Woolungasaurus

Valid

Persson

Valid

Newly named birds

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Anas pachyscelus [8]

Sp. nov.

valid

Wetmore

Pleistocene

H. Bernard Wilkinson Quarry

 Bermuda

and

 USA

An Anatidae.

Ergilornis rapidus [9]

Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.

valid

Kozlova

Early Oligocene

Hoyer-Dzan

 Inner Mongolia

A Gruiformes, Eogruidae Wetmore, 1934. This is the type of the genus.

Ergilornis minor [9]

Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.

valid

Kozlova

Early Oligocene

Hoyer-Dzan

 Inner Mongolia

A Gruiformes, Eogruidae Wetmore, 1934. Originally described as Proergilornis minor.

Grus latipes [8]

Sp. nov.

valid

Wetmore

Pleistocene

H. Bernard Wilkinson Quarry

 Bermuda

A Gruidae, originally described as Baeopteryx latipes.

Marplesornis novaezealandiae [10]

Sp. nov.

valid

Marples

Late Pliocene

Waitotaran

 New Zealand

A Spheniscidae, originally described as Palaeospheniscus novaezealandiae.

People

Awards and recognition


Popular culture

Literature

References

  1. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
  2. Call, V.B.; Dilcher, D.L. (1997). "The fossil record of Eucommia (Eucommiaceae) in North America" (PDF). American Journal of Botany. 84 (6): 798–814. doi:10.2307/2445816. PMID 21708632.
  3. Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.
  4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. Lapparent. A.F. de. 1960. Les dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Sahara central. Mem. Soc. Geol. France 88A: pp. 1-57.
  6. Langston, W. Jr. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV, the Dinosaurs. Fieldiana Geol. Mem. 3: pp. 313-360.
  7. Eaton, T.H. 1960. A new armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Kansas. University of Kansas Palaeontological Contributions, Vertebrata (Article 8): 24 pages.
  8. 1 2 Wetmore, Alexander (1960). "Pleistocene Birds in Bermuda". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 140 (2): 1–11.
  9. 1 2 Kozlova, E. V. (1960). "[New Fossil Birds from Southeastern Gobi]". Tr. Probl. Temat. Soveshch. Akad. Nak. SSSR, Zool. Inst. 9: 323–329.
  10. Marples, Brian John (1960). "A Fossil Penguin from the Late Tertiary of North Canterbury". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 7: 185–195.
  11. Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 504-529.
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