1960_in_paleontology
1960 in paleontology
Overview of the events of 1960 in paleontology
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 1960.
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Species |
jr synonym |
Becker |
Eucommia species, |
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Crustaceans
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Kesling & Ploch |
An ostracod, type species is E. campbelli |
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| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Soot-Reyn & Soot-Reyn |
Upper Chasmops Shale |
transferred to Similodonta in 1964 |
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Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
| Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Inosaurus[6] | Nomen dubium. | A dubious Theropod. | ||||
| Lophorhothon[7] | Valid taxon. |
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| Silvisaurus[8] | Valid taxon. |
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A Nodosaur. | |||
Plesiosaurs
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Birds
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
H. Bernard Wilkinson Quarry |
An Anatidae. |
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Baeopteryx latipes [9] |
Sp. nov. |
synonym |
Wetmore |
H. Bernard Wilkinson Quarry |
A Gruid, moved to Grus latipes. |
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Ergilornis rapidus [10] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Kozlova |
Hoyer-Dzan |
An Eogruid, type species E. rapidus |
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Sp. nov. |
synonym |
A Spheniscidae, moved to Marplesornis novaezealandiae. |
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Proergilornis minor[10] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
synonym |
Kozlova |
Hoyer-Dzan |
An Eogruid, moved to Ergilornis minor. |
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Literature
- Pataud, le petit dinosaure was published. This was the first book about dinosaurs intended for an audience of children young enough to be new to reading. Paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant has called it a "charmin[g]" book and "remarkable" that the earliest dinosaur book aimed at children was French since "French children do not share North American children's fascination" with dinosaurs.[12]
- 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.
- Kesling, Robert; Ploch, Richard (1960-09-02). "New Upper Devonian Cypridinacean ostracod from southern Indiana" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan. 15 (12): 281–292.
- 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.
- Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- Lapparent. A.F. de. 1960. Les dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Sahara central. Mem. Soc. Geol. France 88A: pp. 1-57.
- Langston, W. Jr. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV, the Dinosaurs. Fieldiana Geol. Mem. 3: pp. 313-360.
- Eaton, T.H. 1960. A new armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Kansas. University of Kansas Palaeontological Contributions, Vertebrata (Article 8): 24 pages.
- Wetmore, Alexander (1960). "Pleistocene Birds in Bermuda". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 140 (2): 1–11.
- Kozlova, E. V. (1960). "[New Fossil Birds from Southeastern Gobi]". Tr. Probl. Temat. Soveshch. Akad. Nak. SSSR, Zool. Inst. 9: 323–329.
- Marples, Brian John (1960). "A Fossil Penguin from the Late Tertiary of North Canterbury". Records of the Canterbury Museum. 7: 185–195.
- 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.