1960 in paleontology

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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 1960.

Plants

Angiosperms

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Eucommia brownii[2]

Species

jr synonym

Becker

Late Eocene

Passamari Formation

 USA

Eucommia species,
jr syn of Eucommia montana

Mollusca

Newly named bivalves

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi.[3]

Sp nov

synonym

Soot-Reyn & Soot-Reyn

Late Ordovician

Upper Chasmops Shale

 Norway

transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

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

Name Status Authors Notes Images
Inosaurus[5] Nomen dubium.
Lophorhothon[6] Valid taxon.
  • Langston
Silvisaurus[7] Valid taxon.
  • Eaton

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes

Woolungasaurus

Valid

Persson

Valid

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. ↑ Call, V.B.; Dilcher, D.L. (1997). "The fossil record of Eucommia (Eucommiaceae) in North America" (PDF). American Journal of Botany 84 (6): 798–814. doi:10.2307/2445816. PMID 21708632.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. ↑ Lapparent. A.F. de. 1960. Les dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Sahara central. Mem. Soc. Geol. France 88A: pp. 1-57.
  6. ↑ Langston, W. Jr. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV, the Dinosaurs. Fieldiana Geol. Mem. 3: pp. 313-360.
  7. ↑ Eaton, T.H. 1960. A new armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Kansas. University of Kansas Palaeontological Contributions, Vertebrata (Article 8): 24 pages.