1960 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 1960.

Scientific advances

Paleobotany

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Eucommia brownii[2]	Species	jr synonym	Becker	Late Eocene	Passamari Formation	USA	Eucommia species, jr syn of Eucommia montana

Invertebrate paleozoology

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi.[3]	Sp nov	synonym	Soot-Reyn & Soot-Reyn	Late Ordovician	Upper Chasmops Shale	Norway	transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Vertebrate paleozoology

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

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Inosaurus[5]	Nomen dubium.	Albert-Félix de Lapparent
Lophorhothon[6]	Valid taxon.	Langston
Silvisaurus[7]	Valid taxon.	Eaton

Name Status Authors Notes Woolungasaurus Valid Persson Valid

People

Awards and recognition

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.^[8]

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. Call, V.B.; Dilcher, D.L. (1997). "The fossil record of Eucommia (Eucommiaceae) in North America" (PDF). American Journal of Botany 84 (6): 798–814. doi:10.2307/2445816. PMID 21708632.
3. Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology 42 (3): 467–499. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.
4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2010-01-18. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
5. Lapparent. A.F. de. 1960. Les dinosauriens du "Continental intercalaire" du Sahara central. Mem. Soc. Geol. France 88A: pp. 1-57.
6. Langston, W. Jr. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV, the Dinosaurs. Fieldiana Geol. Mem. 3: pp. 313-360.
7. Eaton, T.H. 1960. A new armored dinosaur from the Cretaceous of Kansas. University of Kansas Palaeontological Contributions, Vertebrata (Article 8): 24 pages.
8. 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.