1958 in paleontology

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Paleontology, palaeontology or [palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 mankind has 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 1958.

Arthropods

Insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Parastylotermes calico[2]

Sp. nov

valid

Pierce

Miocene

 USA

A Stylotermitid termite.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Chingkankousaurus

Nomen dubium

  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)

Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)

Jingangkou Formation

 China

A tyrannosauroid.

Tsintaosaurus[4]

Valid taxon

Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)

Jingangkou Formation

 China

A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid.

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

Late Triassic to Early Jurassic

Elliot Formation

 South Africa

A member of Trithelodontidae.

References

  1. 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.
  2. Pierce, W.D. (1958). "Fossil arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico Mountains nodules" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 575 (1): 13-24.
  3. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  4. Young C.-C. 1958. The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shanrung. Palaeontol. Sinica (ser. C) 16: pp. 1-138.
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