1959 in paleontology
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Arthropods
Newly named insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A |
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Comb and syn nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb nov |
jr synonym |
(Scudder) |
A bibionid fly |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb and syn nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb and syn nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb and syn nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
Conodonts
German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.[6]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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valid |
Carboniferous |
Type species D. sagittula |
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Gen et sp nov. |
valid |
Cambrian |
Type species F. furnishi |
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valid |
Cambrian |
Type species H. bisulcata |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Cambrian |
Type species W. bicuspidata |
Archosauromorphs
Incertae sedis
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Junior synonym
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Late Triassic |
Junior synonym of Palaeosaurus. |
Newly named pseudosuchians
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Junior synonym |
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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 | |
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Chialingosaurus[11] | Valid taxon. |
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A stegosaur. |
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Junior synonym
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Late Triassic (Norian) |
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 |
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
A Spheniscidae , type species A. gilli
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Pleistocene-Late Holocene |
Banana Hole, New Providence Island |
A Picidae , type species B. hyphalus.
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Brodkorb |
Pleistocene-Late Holocene |
Banana Hole, New Providence Island |
A Burhinidae .
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Brodkorb |
Banana Hole, New Providence Island |
A Falconidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Brodkorb |
Middle Pleistocene
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Reddics beds, Arredondo clay |
An Odontophoridae .
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Brodkorb |
Middle Pleistocene
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Arredondo clay |
An Icteridae , type species C. tytthus.
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Arredondo clay |
A Corvidae, type species H. brodkorbi. |
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Sp. nov. |
synonym |
Brodkorb |
Arredondo clay |
A Milvago readei .
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Rexroad Formation |
A Cathartidae , type species P. fisheri
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Sp. nov. |
synonym |
Early Eocene
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A Presbyornithidae, moved to Presbyornis recurvirostrus. |
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
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Preoccupied |
Arambourg |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
Phosphate deposits |
Later renamed |
References
- OCLC 46769716.
- ^ 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.
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- ^ a b c d Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 1959, volume 111, pages 434-485 (URL[permanent dead link] 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.
- 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.
- JSTOR 1365126.
- JSTOR 4081861.