1961 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 1961.
Plants
Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Valid | Prakash & Barghoorn | USA | A maple, described from petrified wood | ||||
sp nov | Valid | Tanai & Onoe | Ningyo-toge Formation | |||||
Davisicarpum[4] | Gen et sp nov | valid | A moon seed relative. |
Archosauromorphs
Phytosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Rileyasuchus[5] | Gen et comb nov | Kuhn | A dubious phytosaur, possibly a chimera; |
Pseudosuchians
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Avalonianus[5] | Gen et comb nov | Kuhn | Late Triassic (Rhaetian) | Dubious non-dinosaurian archosaur; | ||||
"Dasygnathoides"[5] | Gen et comb nov | Kuhn | Late Triassic (Carnian) | A pseudosuchian of uncertain affinity.[6] |
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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"Astrodonius"[5] | Gen et comb nov | Kuhn | Junior synonym of Astrodon. | |||||
Gen et comb nov | Kuhn | A possible titanosaur | ||||||
"Pachysaurops"[8] | Gen et sp nov | Junior synonym of Plateosaurus. |
Birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Anas pullulans[9] | Sp nov. | valid | An Anatidae. | |||||
Eremochen[9] | Gen et Sp nov. | valid | Brodkorb | An Anatidae, type species E. russelli. | ||||
Fulica infelix[9] | Sp. nov. | valid | Brodkorb | A Rallidae. | ||||
Ocyplonessa shotwelli[9] | Sp. nov. | jr synonym | Brodkorb | Late Miocene - Early Pliocene | An Anatidae, | |||
Megapaloelodus opsigonus[9] | Sp. nov. | valid | Brodkorb | A Palaelodidae. | ||||
Neortyx[11] | Gen et Sp. nov. | valid | An Odontophoridae | |||||
Phalacrocorax leptopus[9] | Sp. nov. | valid | Brodkorb | |||||
Puffinus mitchelli[12] | Sp. nov. | valid | USA | |||||
Puffinus priscus[12] | Sp. nov. | valid | Miller | USA |
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.
- ^ Prakash, U.; Barghoorn, E. S. (1961). "Miocene fossil woods from the Columbia Basalts of central Washington". Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. 42 (2): 165–203. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.19013. S2CID 127699009.
- ^ Wolfe, J.A.; Tanai, T. (1987). "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of Western North America". Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy. 22 (1): 1–246.
- ^ Manchester, S.R. (1994). "Fruits and Seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon". Palaeontographica Americana. 58: 30–31.
- ^ a b c d e Kuhn, O. 1961. Die Familien der rezenten und fossilen Amphibien und Reptilien. Meisenbach, Bamberg: 79 pages.
- ^ von Baczko, M; Ezcurra, Martin (2016-10-17). "Taxonomy of the archosaur Ornithosuchus: reassessing Ornithosuchus woodwardi Newton, 1894 and Dasygnathoides longidens (Huxley 1877)". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 106 (3): 199–205. doi:10.1017/S1755691016000104. hdl:11336/49897. S2CID 88658892.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Huene, F. von. 1961. Palaontologie und Phylogenie der Niederen Tetrapoden. Nachtrage und Erganzungen. Fischer, Jena: 58 pages.
- ^ a b c d e f Brodkorb, Pierce (1961). "Birds from the Pliocene of Juntura, Oregon". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 24 (3): 169–184.
- ^ Olson, Storrs L.; Rasmussen, Pamela C. (2001). "Miocene and Pliocene Birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 90: 233–365.
- ^ Holman, J. Alan (1961). "Osteology of Living and Fossil New World Quails". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 6 (2): 131–233.
- ^ a b Miller, Loye Holmes (1961). "Birds from the Miocene of Sharktooth Hill, California". Condor. 63 (5): 399–402. doi:10.2307/1365299. JSTOR 1365299.