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- Conodonts
- Archosauromorphs Incertae sedis Newly named pseudosuchians Newly named dinosaurs
- Plesiosaurs Newly named Plesiosaurs
- Birds Newly named birds
- Pterosaurs New taxa
- References
{{Year nav topic5|1959|paleontology|science}}{{Year in paleontology header|1959}} Conodonts German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.[1] Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Type location | Notes | Images |
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Furnishina[1]valid Klaus J. Müller | | Cambrian- {{Flag|Canada}} ({{Flag|Newfoundland and Labrador}})
- {{Flag|China}}
- {{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
- {{Flag|Russia}}
- {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|Vermont}})
| Hertzina[1]valid Klaus J. Müller | | Cambrian- {{Flag|Canada}} ({{Flag|Nova Scotia}})
- {{Flag|China}}
- {{Flag|Kazakhstan}}
- {{Flag|Mexico}}
- {{Flag|Russia}}
- {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|New York}})
| Westergaardodina[1]valid Klaus J. Müller | | Cambrian- {{Flag|Canada}} ({{Flag|Newfoundland and Labrador}})
- {{Flag|China}}
- {{Flag|Denmark}}
- {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|Alaska}}, {{Flag|Montana}} and {{Flag|Vermont}})
| Dollymae[2]valid Wilbert H. Hass | Carboniferous | |
Archosauromorphs Incertae sedis Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Palaeosauriscus[6]Junior synonym | Late Triassic Junior synonym of Palaeosaurus. | |
Newly named pseudosuchians Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Clarencea[3]Junior synonym | Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | |
Newly named dinosaursData courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4] Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Chialingosaurus[5] | Valid taxon. | - Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)
| Late Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian) A stegosaur. | Pachysauriscus[6]Junior synonym | Late Triassic (Norian) Junior synonym of Plateosaurus. | |
PlesiosaursNewly named Plesiosaurs | | |
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
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StretosaurusNomen dubiumTarlo | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) A dubious pliosaurid belonging to Thalassophonea. | |
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BirdsNewly named birds Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Anthropodyptes [7]Gen. et Sp. nov. valid SimpsonMiddle Miocene, Balcombian Stage{{Flag|Australia}}A Spheniscidae, type species A. gilli Bathoceleus [8]Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. valid BrodkorbPleistocene-Late HoloceneBanana Hole, New Providence Island {{Flag|Bahamas}}A Picidae, type species B. hyphalus. Burhinus nanus [8]Sp. nov. valid Brodkorb Pleistocene-Late HoloceneBanana Hole, New Providence Island {{Flag|Bahamas}}A Burhinidae. Caracara creightoni [8]Sp. nov. valid Brodkorb PleistoceneBanana Hole, New Providence Island {{Flag|Bahamas}}A Falconidae. Colinus suilium [9]Sp. nov. valid Brodkorb Middle PleistoceneReddics beds, Arredondo clay {{Flag|USA}}{{Flag|Florida}}An Odontophoridae. Cremaster tytthus [9]Gen. et Sp. nov. valid Brodkorb Middle PleistoceneArredondo clay {{Flag|USA}}{{Flag|Florida}}An Icteridae, type species C. tytthus. Henocitta [10]Gen. et Sp. nov. valid HolmanPleistoceneArredondo clay {{Flag|USA}}{{Flag|Florida}}A Corvidae, type species H. brodkorbi. Falco readei [9]Sp. nov. synonym Brodkorb PleistoceneArredondo clay {{Flag|USA}}{{Flag|Florida}}A Falconidae, moved to Milvago readei. Pliogyps [11]Gen. et Sp. nov. valid TordoffPlioceneRexroad Formation {{Flag|USA}} {{Flag|Kansas}}A Cathartidae, type species P. fisheri Coltonia recurvirostra [12]Sp. nov. synonym HardyEarly EoceneColton Formation{{Flag|USA}}{{Flag|Utah}}A Presbyornithidae, moved to Presbyornis recurvirostrus. |
PterosaursNew taxa Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
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TitanopteryxPreoccupied Arambourg | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Phosphate deposits - {{Flag|Israel}}
- {{Flag|Senegal}}
- {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|New Jersey}})
Later renamed Arambourgiana Nesov, Kanznyshkina, and Cherepanov, 1987 | |
References{{portal|Paleontology}}1. ^1 2 3 Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 1959, volume 111, pages 434-485 (URL at Schweizerbart Science Publishers, Stuttgart, Germany 2. ^Conodonts from the Chappel limestone of Texas. Wilbert H. Hass, 1959 3. ^Brink, A.S. 1959. A new small thecodont from the Red Beds of the Stormberg series. Palaeontologia Africana 6: pp. 109–115. 4. ^{{cite web| last = Olshevsky| first = George | title = Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List | url = http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html| accessdate = 2008-08-07 }} 5. ^Young C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8. 6. ^1 Kuhn, O. 1959. Ein neuer Microsaurier aus dem deutschen Rotliegenden. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeontol. Mh. 1959: pp. 424-426; 7. ^{{cite journal |last1=Simpson |first1=George Gaylord |year=1959 |title=A New Fossil Penguin from Australia |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society Victoria |volume=71 |issue= |pages=113-119 }} 8. ^1 2 {{cite journal |author=Pierce Brodkorb |year=1959 |title=Pleistocene Birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas |journal=Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences |volume=4 |issue=11 |pages=349-371 }} 9. ^1 2 {{cite journal |author=Pierce Brodkorb |year=1959 |title=The Pleistocene Avifauna of Arredondo, Florida |journal=Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences |volume=4 |issue=9 |pages=269-291 }} 10. ^{{cite journal |author=J. Alan Holman |year=1959 |title=Birds and Mammals from the Pleistocene of Williston, Florida |journal=Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences |volume=5 |issue= |pages=1-24 }} 11. ^{{cite journal |author=Harrison B. Tordoff |year=1959 |title=A Condor from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas |journal=Condor |volume=61 |issue= |pages=338–343 |doi=10.2307/1365126}} 12. ^{{cite journal |author=John William Hardy |year=1959 |title=A Previously Undescribed Recurvirostrid from the Eocene of Utah |journal=Auk |volume=76 |issue=9 |pages=106-108 }}
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