1962 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 1962.
Paleozoology[]
Conodont paleozoology[]
German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont order Paraconodontida.[2]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Histiodella[3] | Valid taxon |
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Middle Ordovician |
Arbuckle Mountains, Oklahoma, USA |
Vertebrates[]
Dinosaurs[]
Newly named dinosaurs[]
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Heterodontosaurus[5] | Valid taxon |
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Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
Upper Elliot Formation |
A heterodontosaurid. |
Birds[]
Newly named birds[]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Pliocene |
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An Anatidae, first described as Nettion ogallalae Brodkorb, 1962. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Pleistocene |
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A Corvidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Miller |
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A Diomedeidae, perhaps better placed in Phoebastria Reichenbach, 1853. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
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Acheulian |
A Passeridae. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Pleistocene |
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An , described in the Ciconiidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Pleistocene |
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A . |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Pleistocene |
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A , a synonym is Lyrurus partium Kretzoi, 1962. |
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Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
valid |
Early Pleistocene |
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A Turdidae. |
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.
- ^ Supplement to systematics of conodonts. KJ Müller and RC Moore, in Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part W: Miscellanea : Conodonts Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils, and Problema, 1962 - Geological Society of America
- ^ New conodonts from Joins (Ordovician) Formation of Oklahoma. RW Harris, Oklahoma Geology Notes, 1962
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Crompton, A.W.; Charig, A. (1962). "A new ornithischian from the Upper Iriassic of South Africa". Nature. 196: 1074–1077. doi:10.1038/1961074a0.
- ^ Brodkorb, Pierce (1962). "A Teal from the Lower Pliocene of Kansas". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 25 (2): 157–160.
- ^ a b c d e Kretzoi, Miklós (1962). "Vogelreste aus der Altpleistozänen Fauna von Betfia". Aquila. 67–68: 167–174.
- ^ Miller, Loye Holmes (1962). "A New Albatross from the Miocene of California". Condor. 64: 471–472. doi:10.2307/1365470.
- ^ Tchernov, Eitan (1962). "Paleolithic Avifauna in Palestine". Bull. Research Counc. Israel 11 section B Zoology. 11 (3): 95–131.
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