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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (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 mankind has 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.

Archosauromorphs

Incertae sedis

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Palaeosauriscus[2]

Junior synonym
  • Kuhn

Late Triassic

Fissure fill deposits

 England

Junior synonym of Palaeosaurus.

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Clarencea[3]

Junior synonym
  • Brink

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Upper Elliot Formation

 South Africa

Junior synonym of non-dinosaurian Sphenosuchus.

Newly named dinosaurs

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

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Chialingosaurus[5] Valid taxon.

Late Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian)

Shangshaximiao Formation

 China

A stegosaur.
Chialingosaurus

Pachysauriscus[2]

Junior synonym
  • Kuhn

Late Triassic (Norian)

Trossingen Formation

 Germany

Junior synonym of Plateosaurus.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Stretosaurus

Nomen dubium

Tarlo

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)

Kimmeridge Clay Formation

 UK

A dubious pliosaurid belonging to Thalassophonea.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Titanopteryx

Preoccupied

Arambourg

Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)

Phosphate deposits

 Jordan

Later renamed Arambourgiana Nesov, Kanznyshkina, and Cherepanov, 1987

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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kuhn, O. 1959. Ein neuer Microsaurier aus dem deutschen Rotliegenden. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeontol. Mh. 1959: pp. 424-426;
  3. ↑ Brink, A.S. 1959. A new small thecodont from the Red Beds of the Stormberg series. Palaeontologia Africana 6: pp. 109–115.
  4. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. ↑ Young C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8.