1959 in paleontology

none 1959 paleontology science 1959 Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPenthetria? fryiRice H. M. A 1959 Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 55 1–36Sp novvalidRiceYpresianDriftwood ShalesCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly thumb|center|upright|Penthetria (?) fryiPenthetria whipsawensisSp novvalidRiceYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly thumb|center|upright|Penthetria whipsawensisPlecia angustipennisComb novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales"CanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria angustipennis (1910)Handlirsch A. 1910 Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 2 3 93–129 thumb|center|upright|Plecia angustipennisPlecia avusComb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria avus (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia avusPlecia cairnesiSp novvalidRiceYpresianDriftwood ShalesCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly thumb|center|upright|Plecia cairnesiPlecia canadensisComb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria canadensis (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia canadensisPlecia curtulaComb and syn novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales"CanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria curtula (1910) Senior synonym of Penthetria avunculus (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia curtulaPlecia dilatataComb novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales"CanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria dilatata (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia dilatataPlecia elatiorComb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria elatior (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia elatiorPlecia intermediaComb novjr synonym(Scudder)PriabonianFlorissant FormationUnited StatesColorado A bibionid fly Moved from Mycetophaetus intermedius (1892)Scudder S. H. 1892 Some Insects of special interest from Florissant, Colorado and other points in the Tertiaries of Colorado and Utah Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 93 1–25 Moved to Penthetria intermedia (1999)Fitzgerald S. J. 1999 A new species of Plecia from the Green River Formation and new combinations of fossil Bibionidae (Diptera). Great Basin Naturalist 59 182–187 10.5962/bhl.part.15821 free Plecia kelownaensisSp novvalidRiceYpresianColdwater BedsCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly thumb|center|upright|Plecia kelownaensisPlecia minutulaSp novvalidRiceYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly thumb|center|upright|Plecia minutulaPlecia nanaComb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria nana (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia nanaPlecia pictipennisComb and syn novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria pictipennis (1910) Senior synonym of Penthetria lambei, Pe. ovalis, & Pe. separanda (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia pictipennisPlecia platypteraComb novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales"CanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria platyptera (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia platypteraPlecia pulchra Comb novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria pulchra (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia pulchraPlecia pullaComb and syn novvalid(Handlirsch)YpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria pulla (1910) Senior synonym of Penthetria brevipes (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia pullaPlecia reducta Comb novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales"CanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria reducta (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia reductaPlecia transitoriaComb and syn novvalid(Handlirsch)Ypresian"Horsefly Shales"CanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly Moved from Penthetria transitoria (1910) Senior synonym of Penthetria falcatula & Pe. fragmentum (1910) thumb|center|upright|Plecia transitoriaPlecia tulameenensisSp novvalidRiceYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish Columbia A bibionid fly thumb|center|upright|Plecia tulameenensis Conodonts German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 1959, volume 111, pages 434-485 (URLJune 2023 InternetArchiveBot yes at Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDollymaeConodonts from the Chappel limestone of Texas. Wilbert H. Hass, 1959 validHassCarboniferousType species D. sagittulaFurnishinaGen et sp nov. valid MüllerCambrianType species F. furnishiHertzina validMüllerCambrianType species H. bisulcataWestergaardodinaGen et sp nov validMüllerCambrianType species W. bicuspidata Archosauromorphs Incertae sedis Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPalaeosauriscus Junior synonym KuhnLate TriassicJunior synonym of Palaeosaurus. Newly named pseudosuchians Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ClarenceaBrink, A.S. 1959. A new small thecodont from the Red Beds of the Stormberg series. Palaeontologia Africana 6: pp. 109–115. Junior synonym BrinkEarly Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html dead Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages ChialingosaurusYoung C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8. Valid taxon. Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)Late Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian) ChinaA stegosaur.thumb|center|200px|Chialingosaurus PachysauriscusKuhn, O. 1959. Ein neuer Microsaurier aus dem deutschen Rotliegenden. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeontol. Mh. 1959: pp. 424-426; Disputed KuhnLate Triassic (Norian)Possible 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 ImagesAnthropodyptes Simpson George Gaylord 1959 A New Fossil Penguin from Australia Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 71 4699 113–119 10.1038/1841612c0 1959Natur.184S1612. 41339269 free Gen. et Sp. nov.valid SimpsonMiddle Miocene, Balcombian StageAustraliaA Spheniscidae, type species A. gilliBathoceleus Pierce Brodkorb 1959 Pleistocene Birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 4 11 349–371 Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbPleistocene-Late HoloceneBanana Hole, New Providence Island BahamasA Picidae, type species B. hyphalus.Burhinus nanus Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbPleistocene-Late HoloceneBanana Hole, New Providence IslandBahamasA Burhinidae.Caracara creightoni Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbPleistoceneBanana Hole, New Providence IslandBahamasA Falconidae.Colinus suilium Pierce Brodkorb 1959 The Pleistocene Avifauna of Arredondo, Florida Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 4 9 269–291 Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbMiddle PleistoceneReddics beds, Arredondo clayUSAFloridaAn Odontophoridae.Cremaster tytthus Gen. et Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbMiddle PleistoceneArredondo clayUSAFloridaAn Icteridae, type species C. tytthus.Henocitta J. Alan Holman 1959 Birds and Mammals from the Pleistocene of Williston, Florida Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 5 1–24 Gen. et Sp. nov.valid HolmanPleistoceneArredondo clayUSAFloridaA Corvidae, type species H. brodkorbi.Falco readei Sp. nov.synonym BrodkorbPleistoceneArredondo clayUSAFloridaA Falconidae, moved to Milvago readei.Pliogyps Harrison B. Tordoff 1959 A Condor from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas Condor 61 5 338–343 10.2307/1365126 1365126 free Gen. et Sp. nov.valid TordoffPlioceneRexroad FormationUSA KansasA Cathartidae, type species P. fisheriColtonia recurvirostra John William Hardy 1959 A Previously Undescribed Recurvirostrid from the Eocene of Utah Auk 76 9 106–108 10.2307/4081861 4081861 Sp. nov.synonym HardyEarly EoceneColton FormationUSAUtahA 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 Paleontology Category:1950s in paleontology Paleontology 9