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none 1958 paleontology science 1958 Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesParastylotermes calicoPierce W.D. 1958 Fossil arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico Mountains nodules Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 575 1 13–24 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/42488 Sp. novvalidPierceMiocene USAA Stylotermitid termite. Archosauromorphs Dinosaurs NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType localityLocationNotesImages Chingkankousaurus fragilisYang Z. 1958 The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 42 16 1–138 Gen et sp nov Nomen dubium Yang Campanian Jingangkou Formation China A tyrannosauroid Tanius chingkankouensis Sp. nov. Valid? Yang Campanian Jingangkou Formation China A species of Tanius Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Yang Campanian Jingangkou Formation China A hadrosaurid 150px Birds Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnas apscheronica Burchak-Abramovisch Nikolaj Iosifovich 1958 Tertiary Birds of the USSR Tertiary Birds of the USSR Uchenie Zapiski Azerbaijan State University, Serie Biology 1 81–88 Sp. nov.valid Burchak-AbramovischLate PlioceneApscherionAzerbaijanAn Anatidae.Bartramia umatilla Pierce Brodkorb 1958 Birds from the Middle Pliocene of McKay, Oregon Condor 60 4 252–255 10.2307/1365194 1365194 Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbMiddle PlioceneUSA OregonA Scolopacidae.Callipepla shotwelli Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbMiddle PlioceneUSA OregonAn Odontophoridae.Cygnus hibbardi Pierce Brodkorb 1958 Fossil Birds from Idaho Wilson Bulletin 70 237–242 Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbEarly PleistoceneIrvingtonian, Hagerman Lake BedsUSA IdahoAn Anatidae.Morus humeralis Loye Holmes Miller & Robert I. Bowman 1958 Further Bird Remains from the San Diego Pliocene Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science 20 1–15 Sp. nov.valid Miller BowmanLate PlioceneUSA CaliforniaA Sulidae.Ornimegalonyx Oscar Arredondo 1958 Aves Gigantes de Nuestro Pasado Prehistórico, El Cartero Cubana La Habana XVII 7 10–12 Gen. et Sp. nov.valid ArredondoLate PleistoceneCubaA Strigidae, the types species of the new genus is Ornimegalonyx oteroi.Pardirallus lacustris Sp. nov.valid (Brodkorb)Late Pliocene-Early PleistoceneHagerman and Rexroad Local FaunaUSA IdahoA Rallidae, described as Porzana lacustris but transferred by Storrs L. Olson in 1977 to Pardirallus Bonaparte, 1856.Phalacrocorax macer Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbLate PlioceneIrvingtonian, Glenns Ferry Formation, Hagerman Lake BedsUSA IdahoA Phalacrocoracidae.Podiceps subparvus Sp. nov.valid (Miller Bowman)Middle PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA CaliforniaA Podicipedidae, described as Colymbus subparvus.Promilio epileus Alexander Wetmore 1958 Miscellaneous Notes on Fossil Birds Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 135 8 1–11 Sp. nov.valid WetmoreEarly MioceneThomas Farm BedsUSA FloridaAn Accipitridae, the type species of the genus is Proictinia effera Wetmore, 1923.Promilio brodkorbi Sp. nov.valid WetmoreEarly MioceneThomas Farm BedsUSA FloridaAn Accipitridae, the type species of the genus is Proictinia effera Wetmore, 1923.Ptychoramphus tenuis Sp. nov.valid Miller BowmanMiddle PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA CaliforniaAn Alcidae.Querandiornis Carlos Rusconi 1958 Ave Fósil del Plioceno de Buenos Aires Revista del Museo del Historia Natural de Mendoza 11 157–160 Gen. et Sp. nov.valid RusconiLate PlioceneEnsenada FormationArgentinaA Furnariidae, Dendrocolaptinae, The type species is Querandiornis romani, described in the Tinamiidae, transferred by Tonni & Tambussi, 1986 to Aves Incertae Sedis, transferred by Agnolin, 2016 to DendrocolaptinaeSula pohli Hildegarde Howard 1958 Miocene Sulids of Southern California Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science 25 3–15 Sp. nov.valid HowardLate MioceneUSA CaliforniaA Sulidae.Troglodytes gracilis G. Brunner 1958 Nachtrag zur Breitenberghöhle bei Gösswenstein Ofr Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1958 500–517 Sp. nov.valid? BrunnerLate PleistoceneGermanyA Troglodytidae, better seen as a Passeriformes Incertae Sedis. Synapsids Non-mammalian Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Basicranodon Junior synonym Vaughn Early Permian US A junior synonym of the varanopid Mycterosaurus. Diarthrognathus Valid Crompton Early Jurassic Elliot Formation South Africa A member of Trithelodontidae. Other Animals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Charnia Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Ford Ediacaran Maplewell Group United Kingdom The type species is C. masoni. 150px Charniodiscus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Ford Ediacaran Maplewell Group United Kingdom The type species is C. concentricus. 150px Parvancorina Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Glaessner Ediacaran Australia The type species is P. minchami. 150px Spriggina Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Glaessner Ediacaran Australia The type species is S. floundersi. 150px References Paleontology Category:1950s in paleontology Paleontology 8