1960 in paleontology

none 1960 paleontology science 1960 Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEucommia browniiCall V.B. Dilcher D.L. 1997 The fossil record of Eucommia (Eucommiaceae) in North America American Journal of Botany 84 6 798–814 10.2307/2445816 21708632 2445816 20464075 Speciesjr synonymBeckerLate EocenePassamari Formation USA (Montana)Eucommia species, jr syn of Eucommia montana Arthropods Crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEocypridinaKesling Robert Ploch Richard 1960-09-02 New Upper Devonian Cypridinacean ostracod from southern Indiana https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/48340/ID181.pdf?sequence=2 Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan 15 12 281–292Gen et sp novValid Kesling & PlochUpper DevonianBlackiston FormationUSIndianaAn ostracod, type species is E. campbelli Molluscs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCtenodonta spjeldnaesi.Cope J.C.W. 1999 Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland Palaeontology 42 3 467–499 10.1111/1475-4983.00081 free Sp novsynonym Soot-Reyn & Soot-ReynLate OrdovicianUpper Chasmops Shale Norwaytransferred to Similodonta in 1964 Archosaurmopha 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2011-07-15 live Name Status AuthorsLocation Notes Images InosaurusLapparent. A.F. de. 1960. Les dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Sahara central. Mem. Soc. Geol. France 88A: pp. 1-57. Nomen dubium. Albert-Félix de Lapparent EgyptA dubious Theropod. LophorhothonLangston, W. Jr. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV, the Dinosaurs. Fieldiana Geol. Mem. 3: pp. 313-360. Valid taxon. Langston USA (Alabama) SilvisaurusEaton, T.H. 1960. A new armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Kansas. University of Kansas Palaeontological Contributions, Vertebrata (Article 8): 24 pages. Valid taxon. Eaton USA (Kansas)A Nodosaur. Plesiosaurs Name Status Authors NotesWoolungasaurusValidPersson Birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnas pachyscelus Wetmore Alexander 1960 Pleistocene Birds in Bermuda Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 140 2 1–11 Sp. nov.valid Wetmore PleistoceneH. Bernard Wilkinson QuarryUSABermudaAn Anatidae.Baeopteryx latipes Sp. nov.synonym Wetmore PleistoceneH. Bernard Wilkinson QuarryUSA BermudaA Gruid, moved to Grus latipes.Ergilornis rapidus Kozlova E. V. 1960 [New Fossil Birds from Southeastern Gobi] Tr. Probl. Temat. Soveshch. Akad. Nak. SSSR, Zool. Inst 9 323–329 Gen. et Sp. nov.valid Kozlova Early OligoceneHoyer-DzanInner MongoliaAn Eogruid, type species E. rapidusPalaeospheniscus novaezealandiae Marples Brian John 1960 A Fossil Penguin from the Late Tertiary of North Canterbury Records of the Canterbury Museum 7 185–195 Sp. nov.synonym Marples Late Pliocene - WaitotaranNew ZealandA Spheniscidae, moved to Marplesornis novaezealandiae.Proergilornis minor Gen. et Sp. nov.synonym KozlovaEarly OligoceneHoyer-DzanInner MongoliaAn Eogruid, moved to Ergilornis minor. 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. References 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.