1959 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 1959.

Archosauromorphs

Incertae sedis

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Palaeosauriscus[2]	Junior synonym	Kuhn		Late Triassic	Fissure fill deposits	England	Junior synonym of Palaeosaurus.

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Clarencea[3]	Junior synonym	Brink		Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)	Upper Elliot Formation	South Africa	Junior synonym of non-dinosaurian Sphenosuchus.

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chialingosaurus[5]	Valid taxon.	Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)		Late Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian)	Shangshaximiao Formation	China	A stegosaur.	Chialingosaurus
Pachysauriscus[2]	Junior synonym	Kuhn		Late Triassic (Norian)	Trossingen Formation	Germany	Junior synonym of Plateosaurus.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Stretosaurus Nomen dubium Tarlo Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) Kimmeridge Clay Formation  UK A dubious pliosaurid belonging to Thalassophonea.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Titanopteryx	Preoccupied	Arambourg		Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Phosphate deposits	Jordan	Later renamed Arambourgiana Nesov, Kanznyshkina, and Cherepanov, 1987

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. Kuhn, O. 1959. Ein neuer Microsaurier aus dem deutschen Rotliegenden. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeontol. Mh. 1959: pp. 424-426;
3. Brink, A.S. 1959. A new small thecodont from the Red Beds of the Stormberg series. Palaeontologia Africana 6: pp. 109–115.
4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
5. Young C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8.