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Overview of the events of 1959 in paleontology From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Penthetria? fryi[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Penthetria whipsawensis[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Plecia angustipennis[2] |
Comb nov |
valid |
"Horsefly Shales" |
A bibionid fly |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia cairnesi[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia curtula[2] |
Comb and syn nov |
valid |
"Horsefly Shales" |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia dilatata[2] |
Comb nov |
valid |
"Horsefly Shales" |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia elatior[2] |
Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia intermedia[2] |
Comb nov |
jr synonym |
(Scudder) |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia kelownaensis[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Plecia minutula[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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Plecia nana[2] |
Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia pictipennis[2] |
Comb and syn nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia platyptera[2] |
Comb nov |
valid |
"Horsefly Shales" |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia pulchra[2] |
Comb nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia pulla[2] |
Comb and syn nov |
valid |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia reducta[2] |
Comb nov |
valid |
"Horsefly Shales" |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia transitoria[2] |
Comb and syn nov |
valid |
"Horsefly Shales" |
A bibionid fly |
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Plecia tulameenensis[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Rice |
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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 |
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Late Triassic |
Junior synonym of Palaeosaurus. |
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Junior synonym |
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Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
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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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Late Triassic (Norian) |
Junior synonym of Plateosaurus. |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Middle Miocene, Balcombian Stage |
A Spheniscidae, type species A. gilli |
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Bathoceleus [13] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Pleistocene-Late Holocene |
Banana Hole, New Providence Island |
A Picidae, type species B. hyphalus. |
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Burhinus nanus [13] |
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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Colinus suilium [14] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
Brodkorb |
Reddics beds, Arredondo clay |
An Odontophoridae. |
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Cremaster tytthus [14] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Brodkorb |
Arredondo clay |
An Icteridae, type species C. tytthus. |
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Henocitta [15] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Arredondo clay |
A Corvidae, type species H. brodkorbi. |
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Sp. nov. |
synonym |
Brodkorb |
Arredondo clay |
A Falconidae, moved to Milvago readei. |
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Pliogyps [16] |
Gen. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Rexroad Formation |
A Cathartidae, type species P. fisheri |
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Coltonia recurvirostra [17] |
Sp. nov. |
synonym |
Hardy |
A Presbyornithidae, moved to Presbyornis recurvirostrus. |
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
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Preoccupied |
Arambourg |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
Phosphate deposits |
Later renamed Arambourgiana Nesov, Kanznyshkina, and Cherepanov, 1987 | |||
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