1959 in paleontology

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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.

Conodonts

German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.[2]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Type location
Furnishina[2]	valid	Klaus J. Müller	Cambrian	Canada ( Newfoundland and Labrador) China Kazakhstan Russia USA ( Vermont)
Hertzina[2]	valid	Klaus J. Müller	Cambrian	Canada ( Nova Scotia) China Kazakhstan Mexico Russia USA ( New York)
Westergaardodina[2]	valid	Klaus J. Müller	Cambrian	Canada ( Newfoundland and Labrador) China Denmark USA ( Alaska, Montana and Vermont)
Dollymae[3]	valid	Wilbert H. Hass	Carboniferous

Archosauromorphs

Incertae sedis

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Palaeosauriscus[4]	Junior synonym	Kuhn		Late Triassic			Junior synonym of Palaeosaurus.

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Clarencea[5]	Junior synonym	Brink		Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[6]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chialingosaurus[7]	Valid taxon.	Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)		Late Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian)		China	A stegosaur.	Chialingosaurus
Pachysauriscus[4]	Junior synonym	Kuhn		Late Triassic (Norian)			Junior synonym of Plateosaurus.

Plesiosaurs

Newly named Plesiosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Stretosaurus	Nomen dubium	Tarlo		Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)			A dubious pliosaurid belonging to Thalassophonea.

Birds

Newly named birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Anthropodyptes [8]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid	Simpson	Middle Miocene, Balcombian Stage		Australia	A Spheniscidae, type species A. gilli
Bathoceleus [9]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Pleistocene-Late Holocene	Banana Hole, New Providence Island	Bahamas	A Picidae, type species B. hyphalus.
Burhinus nanus [9]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Pleistocene-Late Holocene	Banana Hole, New Providence Island	Bahamas	A Burhinidae.
Caracara creightoni [9]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Pleistocene	Banana Hole, New Providence Island	Bahamas	A Falconidae.
Colinus suilium [10]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Middle Pleistocene	Reddics beds, Arredondo clay	USA Florida	An Odontophoridae.
Cremaster tytthus [10]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Middle Pleistocene	Arredondo clay	USA Florida	An Icteridae, type species C. tytthus.
Henocitta [11]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid	Holman	Pleistocene	Arredondo clay	USA Florida	A Corvidae, type species H. brodkorbi.
Falco readei [10]	Sp. nov.	synonym	Brodkorb	Pleistocene	Arredondo clay	USA Florida	A Falconidae, moved to Milvago readei.
Pliogyps [12]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid	Tordoff	Pliocene	Rexroad Formation	USA Kansas	A Cathartidae, type species P. fisheri
Coltonia recurvirostra [13]	Sp. nov.	synonym	Hardy	Early Eocene	Colton Formation	USA Utah	A Presbyornithidae, moved to Presbyornis recurvirostrus.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Titanopteryx	Preoccupied	Arambourg		Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Phosphate deposits	Israel Senegal USA ( New Jersey)	Later renamed Arambourgiana Nesov, Kanznyshkina, and Cherepanov, 1987

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.
Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 1959, volume 111, pages 434-485 (URL at Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany
Conodonts from the Chappel limestone of Texas. Wilbert H. Hass, 1959
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". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
Young C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8.
Simpson, George Gaylord (1959). "A New Fossil Penguin from Australia". Proceedings of the Royal Society Victoria. 71: 113–119.
Pierce Brodkorb (1959). "Pleistocene Birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 4 (11): 349–371.
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.
Harrison B. Tordoff (1959). "A Condor from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas". Condor. 61: 338–343. doi:10.2307/1365126.
John William Hardy (1959). "A Previously Undescribed Recurvirostrid from the Eocene of Utah". Auk. 76 (9): 106–108.

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[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.

[Muller-2] Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 1959, volume 111, pages 434-485 (URL at Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany

[3] Conodonts from the Chappel limestone of Texas. Wilbert H. Hass, 1959

[kuhn59microsaurier-4] Kuhn, O. 1959. Ein neuer Microsaurier aus dem deutschen Rotliegenden. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeontol. Mh. 1959: pp. 424-426;

[5] Brink, A.S. 1959. A new small thecodont from the Red Beds of the Stormberg series. Palaeontologia Africana 6: pp. 109–115.

[ddinogeorge-6] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[7] Young C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8.

[Simpson1959-8] Simpson, George Gaylord (1959). "A New Fossil Penguin from Australia". Proceedings of the Royal Society Victoria. 71: 113–119.

[Brodkorb1959-9] Pierce Brodkorb (1959). "Pleistocene Birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 4 (11): 349–371.

[Colinus1959-10] Pierce Brodkorb (1959). "The Pleistocene Avifauna of Arredondo, Florida". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 4 (9): 269–291.

[Holman1959-11] J. Alan Holman (1959). "Birds and Mammals from the Pleistocene of Williston, Florida". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 5: 1–24.

[Tordoff1959-12] Harrison B. Tordoff (1959). "A Condor from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas". Condor. 61: 338–343. doi:10.2307/1365126.

[Hardy1959-13] John William Hardy (1959). "A Previously Undescribed Recurvirostrid from the Eocene of Utah". Auk. 76 (9): 106–108.