1963 in paleontology explained

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Vertebrates

Dinosauria

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[2]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Herrerasaurus^[3]	Valid taxon	Osvaldo Reig		Late Triassic (Carnian)	Ischigualasto Formation		A herrerasaurid. This was an early flesh-eating dinosaur.
"Ischisaurus"	Junior synonym of Herrerasaurus	Osvaldo Reig		Late Triassic (Carnian)			A herrerasaurid.
"Tanystrosuchus"^[4]	Nomen dubium.	Kuhn		Late Triassic (Norian)	Stubensandstein		Either a theropod or shuvosaurid.

Birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Agriocharis anza	Sp. nov.	synonym	Howard	Middle Pleistocene	Palm Spring Formation		A Phasianidae, a synonym of Meleagris anza
Anas itchtucknee^[5]	Sp. nov.	valid		Late Pleistocene			An Anatidae.
Aphanocrex podarces^[6]	Gen. nov et Sp. nov.	valid		Holocene	St. Helena		A Rallidae.
Brantadorna downsi^[7]	Gen. Nov. et Sp. nov.	valid		Middle Pleistocene	Palm Spring Formation		An Anatidae.
Bucephala fossilis	Sp. nov.	valid		Middle Pleistocene	Palm Spring Formation		An Anatidae.
Calidris rayi^[8]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Early Pliocene			A Scolopacidae.
Ceramornis major^[9]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid		Late Maastrichtian	Lance Formation		A Cimolopterygidae Brodkporb, 1963.
Cimolopteryx maxima	Sp. nov.	valid		Late Maastrichtian	Lance Formation		A Cimolopterygidae Brodkporb, 1963.
Cimolopteryx rara	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	valid		Late Maastrichtian	Lance Formation		A Cimolopterygidae Brodkporb, 1963.
Dromiceius ocypus^[10]	Synonym	valid	Holmes Miller	Early Pliocene	Mampuwordu Sands		A Dromaiidae, transferred to the genus Dromaius.
Fulica hesterna	Sp. nov.	valid	Howard	Middle Pleistocene	Palm Spring Formation		A Rallidae.
Gallinula brodkorbi^[11]	Sp. nov.	valid		Late Pleistocene			A Rallidae.
Lonchodytes	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid		Late Maastrichtian	Lance Formation		A Gaviiformes, type sp. L. estesi
Lonchodytes pterygius	Sp. nov.	valid		Late Maastrichtian	Lance Formation
Nanortyx^[12]	Gen et sp. nov.	valid		Early Oligocene	Cypress Hills Formation		An Odontophoridae, type sp. N. inexpectatus
Neococcyx	Gen et sp. nov.	valid	Weigel	Early Oligocene	Cypress Hills Formation		A Coccyzid, type sp. N. mccorquodalei
Neophrontops vallecitoensis	Sp. nov.	valid	Howard	Middle Pleistocene	Palm Spring Formation		An Accipitridae.
Nycticorax fidens	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Early Pliocene			An Ardeidae.
Oxyura bessomi	Sp. nov.	valid	Howard	Middle Pleistocene	Palm Spring Formation		An Anatidae.
Palaeeudyptes marplesi^[13]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Late Eocene	Burnside Marl		A Spheniscidae.
Palaeostruthus eurius^[14]	Sp. nov.	valid		Late Miocene			A Passerellidae.
Paractitis	Gen et sp. nov.	valid	Weigel	Early Oligocene	Cypress Hills Formation		A Scolopacidae, type sp. P. bardi
Phalacrocorax ibericum^[15]	Sp. nov.	valid?	de Villalta Comella	Late Miocene			A Phalacrocoracidae
Phoeniconotius^[16]	Gen. et Sp. nov.	valid	Holmes Miller	Early Miocene	Etadunna Formation		A Phoenicopteridae, type sp. P. eyrensis
Phoenicopterus novaehollandiae	Sp. nov.	valid	Holmes Miller	Early Miocene	Etadunna Formation		A Phoenicopteridae
Podiceps dixi^[17]	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Middle Pleistocene			A Podicipedidae
Probalearica crataegensis	Gen. et Sp. nov.	synonym	Brodkorb	Early Miocene	Hawthorne Formation		A Gruidae, syn of Balearica crataegensis
Propelargus olseni^[18]	Sp. nov.	synonym	Brodkorb	Early Miocene	Hawthorne Formation		A Ciconiidae, syn of Grallavis olseni.
Puffinus micraulax	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Early Miocene	Hawthorne Formation		A Sulidae.
Sula universitatis	Sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Early Miocene	Hawthorne Formation		A Sulidae.
Titanis^[19]	Gen et sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Late Blancan-Early Irvingtonian			A Phorusrhacidae. Type sp. T. walleri
Torotix clemensi^[20]	Gen et sp. nov.	valid	Brodkorb	Late Cretaceous	Lance Formation		Possibly a Pelecaniform, currently Aves Incertae Sedis.
Totanus teruelensis^[21]	Sp. nov.	synonym	de Villalta Comella	Late Miocene			A Laridae, syn of Larus teruelensis

Popular culture

Literature

• Savage Pellucidar, the last of the seven novels about Pellucidar, an underground world inhabited by dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, by Edgar Rice Burroughs was published.^[22]

Notes and References

1. Gibson . G . The extinct Baltic amber genus Propelma Trjapitzin, a valid genus of Neanastatinae (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae) . ZooKeys . 2013 . 283 . 59–69 . 10.3897/zookeys.283.4665 . 3677364 . 23794842. free .
2. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
3. Reig, O.A. 1963. La presencia de dinosauriossaurisquios en los "Estrados de Ischigualasto"(Mesotriasico superior) de las provincias de SanJuan y La Rioja (Republica Argentina).Ameghiniana 3: pp. 3-20.
4. Kuhn, O. 1963. Ichnia Tetrapodorum. In: Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia, part 101 (Westphal, F., ed.). W. Junk, The Hague, Netherlands: 176 pages.
5. McCoy . J. J. . 1963 . The Fossil Avifauna of Itchtucknee River, Florida . The Auk . 80 . 3 . 335–351 . 10.2307/4082892 . 4082892 . free .
6. Wetmore . Alexander . 1963 . An Extinct Rail from the Island of St. Helena . The Ibis . 103B . 3 . 379–381 . 10.1111/j.1474-919X.1963.tb06760.x .
7. Howard . Hildegarde . 1963 . Fossil Birds from the Anza-Borrego Desert . Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science . 73 . 1–33 . 2015-09-05 . 2015-09-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150912012901/http://www.nhm.org/site/sites/default/files/pdf/contrib_science/CS73.pdf . dead.
8. Brodkorb . Pierce . 1963 . Fossil Birds from the Alachua Clay of Florida . Florida Geological Survey, Special Publication 2 . 4 . 1–17 .
9. Brodkorb . Pierce . 1963 . Birds from the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming . Proceedings of the XIIIth International Ornithologists Congress . 13 . 55–70.
10. Miller . Alden Holmes . 1963 . Fossil Ratite Birds from the Late Tertiary of South Australia . Records of the South Australian Museum . 14 . 413–420 .
11. McCoy . John J. . 1963 . The Fossil Avifauna of Itchtucknee River, Florida . The Auk . 80 . 3 . 335–351 . 10.2307/4082892. 4082892 .
12. Weigel . Robert D. . 1963 . Oligocene Birds from Saskatchewan . Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences . 26 . 3 . 257–262 .
13. Brodkorb . P . 1963 . Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 1 (Archaeopterygiformes through Ardeiformes) . Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences . 7 . 4 . 179–293 .
14. Brodkorb . Pierce . 1963 . Fossil Birds from the Alachua Clay of Florida . Florida Geological Survey, Special Publication . 2 . 1–17 .
15. de Villalta Comella . JF . 1963 . Las Aves Fósiles del Mioceno Espańol . Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (Sección Geológica) . 6 . 263–285.
16. Miller . Alden Holmes . 1963 . The Fossil Flamingos of Australia . The Condor . 65 . 4 . 289–299 . 10.2307/1365355. 1365355 .
17. Brodkorb . P . 1963 . A New Pleistocene Grebe from Florida . Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences . 26 . 1 . 53–55 . 2015-02-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150222125013/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/69/27/3e/69273ecd67b723d5233e23eccaffe829.pdf . 2015-02-22 . dead.
18. Brodkorb . Pierce . 1963 . Miocene Birds from the Hawthorne Formation in Florida . Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences . 26 . 2 . 159–167 .
19. Brodkorb . P . 1963 . A Giant Flightless Bird from the Pleistocene of Florida . Auk . 80 . 2 . 111–115 . 10.2307/4082556 . 4082556 .
20. Brodkorb . P . 1963 . Birds from the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming . Proceedings of the XIIIth International Ornithologists Congress . 13 . 55–70 .
21. de Villalta Comella . J. F. . 1963 . Las Aves Fósiles del Mioceno Espańol . Boletin de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (Sección Geológica) . 61 . 263–285.
22. 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.