1962 in paleontology

none 1962 paleontology science 1962 Paleozoology Conodont paleozoology German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923–2010) described the conodont order Paraconodontida.Supplement to systematics of conodonts. KJ Müller and RC Moore, in Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part W: Miscellanea : Conodonts Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils, and Problema, 1962 - Geological Society of America Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images HistiodellaNew conodonts from Joins (Ordovician) Formation of Oklahoma. RW Harris, Oklahoma Geology Notes, 1962 Valid taxonRW HarrisMiddle OrdovicianArbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, USA Canada (Northwest Territories) China Russia Vertebrates Dinosaurs 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 Notes Images Heterodontosaurus Crompton A.W. Charig A. 1962 A new ornithischian from the Upper Iriassic of South Africa Nature 196 4859 1074–1077 10.1038/1961074a0 1962Natur.196.1074C 4198113 Valid taxon Alfred W. Crompton Alan CharigEarly Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)Upper Elliot Formation South AfricaA heterodontosaurid. thumb|Heterodontosaurus Birds Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnas ogallalae Brodkorb Pierce 1962 A Teal from the Lower Pliocene of Kansas Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 25 2 157–160 Sp. nov.valid Brodkorb Early PlioceneOgallala Formation USA (California)An Anatidae, first described as Nettion ogallalae Brodkorb, 1962.Corvus betfianus Kretzoi Miklós 1962 Vogelreste aus der Altpleistozänen Fauna von Betfia Aquila 67–68 167–174 Sp. nov.valid Kretzoi Early PleistoceneBetfia 5 RomaniaA Corvidae.Diomedea californica Miller Loye Holmes 1962 A New Albatross from the Miocene of California Condor 64 6 471–472 10.2307/1365470 1365470 free Sp. nov.valid Miller Middle MioceneTemblor Formation USA (California)A Diomedeidae, perhaps better placed in Phoebastria Reichenbach, 1853.Passer predomesticus Tchernov Eitan 1962 Paleolithic Avifauna in Palestine Bull. Research Counc. Israel 11 Section B Zoology 11 3 95–131 Sp. nov.valid Tchernov Middle PleistoceneAcheulian IsraelA Passeridae.Pelargosteon tothi Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid Kretzoi Early PleistoceneBetfia 5 RomaniaAn Aves Incertae Sedis, described in the Ciconiidae.Perdix jurcsaki Sp. nov.valid Kretzoi Early PleistoceneBetfia 5 RomaniaA Phasiandae.Tetrao partium Sp. nov.valid Kretzoi Early PleistoceneBetfia 5 RomaniaA Phasiandae, a synonym is Lyrurus partium Kretzoi, 1962.Turdicus tenuis Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid Kretzoi Early PleistoceneBetfia 5 RomaniaA Turdidae. References Paleontology