1963 in paleontology

Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPropelmaGen et sp. novvalidTrjapitzinEoceneBaltic amber A eupelmid wasp. Type species P. rohdendorfi

Vertebrates

Archosauromorphs

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images "Triassolestes"Gen et sp nov preoccupied ReigCarnianA Crocodylomorph, Preoccupied by Triassolestes Tillyard 1918. Renamed Trialestes.

Dinosauria Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages HerrerasaurusReig, O.A. 1963. La presencia de dinosaurios saurisquios en los "Estrados de Ischigualasto" (Mesotriasico superior) de las provincias de San Juan y La Rioja (Republica Argentina). Ameghiniana 3: pp. 3-20. Valid taxon Osvaldo ReigLate Triassic (Carnian)Ischigualasto Formation A herrerasaurid. This was an early flesh-eating dinosaur. "Ischisaurus" Junior synonym of Herrerasaurus Osvaldo ReigLate Triassic (Carnian)A herrerasaurid. "Tanystrosuchus"Kuhn, O. 1963. Ichnia Tetrapodorum. In: Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia, part 101 (Westphal, F., ed.). W. Junk, The Hague, Netherlands: 176 pages. Nomen dubium. KuhnLate Triassic (Norian)StubensandsteinEither a theropod or shuvosaurid.

Birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAgriocharis anza Sp. nov.synonym HowardMiddle PleistocenePalm Spring Formation ()A Phasianidae, a synonym of Meleagris anzaAnas itchtucknee Sp. nov.valid McCoy Late PleistoceneAn Anatidae.Aphanocrex podarces Gen. nov et Sp. nov.valid Wetmore HoloceneSt. Helena A Rallidae.Brantadorna downsi Gen. Nov. et Sp. nov.valid Howard Middle PleistocenePalm Spring Formation ()An Anatidae.Bucephala fossilis Sp. nov.valid Howard Middle PleistocenePalm Spring Formation ()An Anatidae.Calidris rayi Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbEarly PlioceneA Scolopacidae.Ceramornis major Gen. et Sp. nov.valid Brodkorb Late MaastrichtianLance Formation ()A Cimolopterygidae Brodkorb, 1963.Cimolopteryx maxima Sp. nov.valid Brodkorb Late MaastrichtianLance Formation ()A Cimolopterygidae Brodkorb, 1963.Cimolopteryx rara Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.valid Brodkorb Late MaastrichtianLance Formation ()A Cimolopterygidae Brodkorb, 1963.Dromiceius ocypus Synonymvalid Holmes MillerEarly PlioceneMampuwordu Sands A Dromaiidae, transferred to the genus Dromaius.Fulica hesterna Sp. nov.valid HowardMiddle PleistocenePalm Spring Formation ()A Rallidae.Gallinula brodkorbi Sp. nov.valid McCoy Late PleistoceneA Rallidae.Lonchodytes Gen. et Sp. nov.valid Brodkorb Late MaastrichtianLance Formation ()A Gaviiformes, type sp. L. estesiLonchodytes pterygius Sp. nov.valid Brodkorb Late MaastrichtianLance Formation ()A Gaviiformes Nanortyx Gen et sp. nov.valid Weigel Early OligoceneCypress Hills Formation ()An Odontophoridae, type sp. N. inexpectatusNeococcyx Gen et sp. nov.valid WeigelEarly OligoceneCypress Hills Formation ()A Coccyzid, type sp. N. mccorquodaleiNeophrontops vallecitoensis Sp. nov.valid Howard Middle PleistocenePalm Spring Formation ()An Accipitridae.Nycticorax fidens Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbEarly PlioceneAn Ardeidae.Oxyura bessomi Sp. nov.valid Howard Middle PleistocenePalm Spring Formation ()An Anatidae.Palaeeudyptes marplesi Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbLate EoceneBurnside Marl A Spheniscidae.Palaeostruthus eurius Sp. nov.valid Brodkorb Late MioceneA Passerellidae.Paractitis Gen et sp. nov.valid WeigelEarly OligoceneCypress Hills Formation ()A Scolopacidae, type sp. P. bardiPhalacrocorax ibericum Sp. nov.valid? de Villalta ComellaLate Miocene A PhalacrocoracidaePhoeniconotius Gen. et Sp. nov.valid Holmes MillerEarly MioceneEtadunna Formation A Phoenicopteridae, type sp. P. eyrensisPhoenicopterus novaehollandiae Sp. nov.valid Holmes MillerEarly MioceneEtadunna Formation A PhoenicopteridaePodiceps dixi Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbMiddle PleistoceneA PodicipedidaeProbalearica crataegensis Gen. et Sp. nov.synonym BrodkorbEarly MioceneHawthorne Formation ()A Gruidae, syn of Balearica crataegensisPropelargus olseni Sp. nov.synonym BrodkorbEarly MioceneHawthorne Formation ()A Ciconiidae, syn of Grallavis olseni.Puffinus micraulax Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbEarly MioceneHawthorne Formation () A Sulidae.Sula universitatis Sp. nov.valid BrodkorbEarly MioceneHawthorne Formation ()A Sulidae.Titanis Gen et sp. nov.valid BrodkorbLate Blancan-Early Irvingtonian ()A Phorusrhacidae. Type sp. T. walleri Torotix clemensi Gen et sp. nov.valid BrodkorbLate CretaceousLance Formation ()Possibly a Pelecaniform, currently Aves Incertae Sedis.Totanus teruelensis Sp. nov.synonym de Villalta ComellaLate 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.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.

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