1960 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology (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 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.
Scientific advances
Paleobotany
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Species |
jr synonym |
Becker |
Eucommia species, |
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Invertebrate paleozoology
| 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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Vertebrate paleozoology
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
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| Inosaurus[5] | Nomen dubium. | ||||
| Lophorhothon[6] | Valid taxon. |
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| Silvisaurus[7] | Valid taxon. |
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Newly named birds
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
H. Bernard Wilkinson Quarry |
and |
An Anatidae. |
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Ergilornis rapidus [9] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Kozlova |
Hoyer-Dzan |
A Gruiformes, Eogruidae Wetmore, 1934. This is the type of the genus. |
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Ergilornis minor [9] |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Kozlova |
Hoyer-Dzan |
A Gruiformes, Eogruidae Wetmore, 1934. Originally described as Proergilornis minor. |
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Grus latipes [8] |
Sp. nov. |
valid |
H. Bernard Wilkinson Quarry |
A Gruidae, originally described as Baeopteryx latipes. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Waitotaran |
A Spheniscidae, originally described as Palaeospheniscus novaezealandiae. | |||||
People
Awards and recognition
Popular culture
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.[11]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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 2010-01-18. 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.
- 1 2 Wetmore, Alexander (1960). "Pleistocene Birds in Bermuda". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 140 (2): 1–11.
- 1 2 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.