1959 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology 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 1959.
Arthropods
Newly named insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penthetria? fryi[2] | Sp nov | valid | Rice | _fryi_holotype_Rice_1959_pl1_fig2.png) | ||||
| Penthetria whipsawensis[2] | Sp nov | valid | Rice |  | ||||
| Plecia angustipennis[2] | Comb nov | valid | "Horsefly Shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Comb nov | valid | A bibionid fly |  | |||||
| Plecia cairnesi[2] | Sp nov | valid | Rice |  | ||||
| Comb nov | valid | A bibionid fly |  | |||||
| Plecia curtula[2] | Comb and syn nov | valid | "Horsefly Shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Plecia dilatata[2] | Comb nov | valid | "Horsefly Shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Plecia elatior[2] | Comb nov | valid | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Plecia intermedia[2] | Comb nov | jr synonym | (Scudder) | A bibionid fly | ||||
| Plecia kelownaensis[2] | Sp nov | valid | Rice |  | ||||
| Plecia minutula[2] | Sp nov | valid | Rice |  | ||||
| Plecia nana[2] | Comb nov | valid | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Plecia pictipennis[2] | Comb and syn nov | valid | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Plecia platyptera[2] | Comb nov | valid | "Horsefly Shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Plecia pulchra[2] | Comb nov | valid | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Plecia pulla[2] | Comb and syn nov | valid | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Plecia reducta[2] | Comb nov | valid | "Horsefly Shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Plecia transitoria[2] | Comb and syn nov | valid | "Horsefly Shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Plecia tulameenensis[2] | Sp nov | valid | Rice |  |
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Conodonts
German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.[6]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| valid | Carboniferous | Type species D. sagittula | ||||||
| Gen et sp nov. | valid | Cambrian | Type species F. furnishi | |||||
| valid | Cambrian | Type species H. bisulcata | ||||||
| Gen et sp nov | valid | Cambrian | Type species W. bicuspidata |
Archosauromorphs
Incertae sedis
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Late Triassic | Junior synonym of Palaeosaurus. | ||||||
Newly named pseudosuchians
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior synonym |
| Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | ||||||
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[10]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chialingosaurus[11] | Valid taxon. |
| A stegosaur. |  | ||||
| Disputed |
| Late Triassic (Norian) | Possible junior synonym of Plateosaurus. | |||||
Plesiosaurs
Newly named Plesiosaurs
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Birds
Newly named birds
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen. et Sp. nov. | valid | Middle Miocene, Balcombian Stage | A Spheniscidae, type species A. gilli | |||||
| Bathoceleus [13] | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | valid | Pleistocene-Late Holocene | Banana Hole, New Providence Island | A Picidae, type species B. hyphalus. | |||
| Burhinus nanus [13] | Sp. nov. | valid | Brodkorb | Pleistocene-Late Holocene | Banana Hole, New Providence Island | A Burhinidae. | ||
| Sp. nov. | valid | Brodkorb | Banana Hole, New Providence Island | A Falconidae. | ||||
| Colinus suilium [14] | Sp. nov. | valid | Brodkorb | Reddics beds, Arredondo clay | An Odontophoridae. | |||
| Cremaster tytthus [14] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | valid | Brodkorb | Arredondo clay | An Icteridae, type species C. tytthus. | |||
| Henocitta [15] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | valid | Arredondo clay | A Corvidae, type species H. brodkorbi. | ||||
| Sp. nov. | synonym | Brodkorb | Arredondo clay | A Falconidae, moved to Milvago readei. | ||||
| Pliogyps [16] | Gen. et Sp. nov. | valid | Rexroad Formation | A Cathartidae, type species P. fisheri | ||||
| Coltonia recurvirostra [17] | Sp. nov. | synonym | Hardy | A Presbyornithidae, moved to Presbyornis recurvirostrus. |
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Pterosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preoccupied | Arambourg | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | Phosphate deposits | Later renamed Arambourgiana Nesov, Kanznyshkina, and Cherepanov, 1987 | |||
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Rice, H. M. A (1959). "Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin. 55: 1–36.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Handlirsch, A. (1910). "Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe". Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2 (3): 93–129.
- ^ Scudder, S. H. (1892). "Some Insects of special interest from Florissant, Colorado and other points in the Tertiaries of Colorado and Utah". Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey. 93: 1–25.
- ^ Fitzgerald, S. J. (1999). "A new species of Plecia from the Green River Formation and new combinations of fossil Bibionidae (Diptera)". Great Basin Naturalist. 59: 182–187. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.15821.
- ^ a b c d Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 1959, volume 111, pages 434-485 (URL at Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany
- ^ Conodonts from the Chappel limestone of Texas. Wilbert H. Hass, 1959
- ^ a b Kuhn, O. 1959. Ein neuer Microsaurier aus dem deutschen Rotliegenden. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeontol. Mh. 1959: pp. 424-426;
- ^ Brink, A.S. 1959. A new small thecodont from the Red Beds of the Stormberg series. Palaeontologia Africana 6: pp. 109–115.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Young C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8.
- ^ Simpson, George Gaylord (1959). "A New Fossil Penguin from Australia". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 71 (4699): 113–119. Bibcode:1959Natur.184S1612.. doi:10.1038/1841612c0. S2CID 41339269.
- ^ a b c Pierce Brodkorb (1959). "Pleistocene Birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 4 (11): 349–371.
- ^ a b c Pierce Brodkorb (1959). "The Pleistocene Avifauna of Arredondo, Florida". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 4 (9): 269–291.
- ^ J. Alan Holman (1959). "Birds and Mammals from the Pleistocene of Williston, Florida". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 5: 1–24.
- ^ Harrison B. Tordoff (1959). "A Condor from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas". Condor. 61 (5): 338–343. doi:10.2307/1365126. JSTOR 1365126.
- ^ John William Hardy (1959). "A Previously Undescribed Recurvirostrid from the Eocene of Utah". Auk. 76 (9): 106–108. doi:10.2307/4081861. JSTOR 4081861.