1960 in paleontology explained

Arthropods

Crustaceans

Archosaurmopha

Dinosaurs

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

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

Birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anas pachyscelus ^[8]	Sp. nov.	valid		Pleistocene	H. Bernard Wilkinson Quarry		An Anatidae.
Baeopteryx latipes	Sp. nov.	synonym	Wetmore	Pleistocene	H. Bernard Wilkinson Quarry		A Gruid, moved to Grus latipes.
Ergilornis rapidus ^[9]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid		Early Oligocene	Hoyer-Dzan		An Eogruid, type species E. rapidus
Palaeospheniscus novaezealandiae ^[10]	Sp. nov.	synonym		Late Pliocene - Waitotaran			A Spheniscidae, moved to Marplesornis novaezealandiae.
Proergilornis minor	Gen. et Sp. nov.	synonym	Kozlova	Early Oligocene	Hoyer-Dzan		An Eogruid, moved to Ergilornis minor.

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.

Notes and References

1. Call . V.B. . Dilcher . D.L. . 1997 . The fossil record of Eucommia (Eucommiaceae) in North America . American Journal of Botany . 84 . 6 . 798–814 . 10.2307/2445816 . 21708632 . 2445816 . 20464075 .
2. Kesling . Robert . Ploch . Richard . 1960-09-02 . New Upper Devonian Cypridinacean ostracod from southern Indiana . Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan . 15 . 12 . 281–292.
3. Cope . J.C.W. . 1999 . Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland . Palaeontology . 42 . 3 . 467–499 . 10.1111/1475-4983.00081. free .
4. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . 2011-07-15 . live .
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 ofthe Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV, theDinosaurs. Fieldiana Geol. Mem. 3: pp. 313-360.
7. Eaton, T.H. 1960. A new armored dinosaur fromthe Cretaceous of Kansas. University of KansasPalaeontological Contributions, Vertebrata (Article8): 24 pages.
8. Wetmore . Alexander . 1960 . Pleistocene Birds in Bermuda . Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 140 . 2 . 1–11 .
9. Kozlova . E. V. . 1960 . [New Fossil Birds from Southeastern Gobi] . Tr. Probl. Temat. Soveshch. Akad. Nak. SSSR, Zool. Inst . 9 . 323–329 .
10. Marples . Brian John . 1960 . A Fossil Penguin from the Late Tertiary of North Canterbury . Records of the Canterbury Museum . 7 . 185–195 .