1959 in paleontology

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Conodonts

German paleontologist Klaus J. Müller (1923-2010) described the conodont family Westergaardodinidae.

Archosauromorphs

''Incertae sedis''

Newly named pseudosuchians

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Plesiosaurs

Newly named Plesiosaurs

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Birds

Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

References

References

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2. (1910). "Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe". Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology.
3. (1892). "Some Insects of special interest from Florissant, Colorado and other points in the Tertiaries of Colorado and Utah". Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey.
4. (1999). "A new species of ''Plecia'' from the Green River Formation and new combinations of fossil Bibionidae (Diptera).". Great Basin Naturalist.
5. Kambrische conodonten. KJ Müller, Zeitschrift der deutschen geologischen Gesellschaft, 1959, volume 111, pages 434-485 ([http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/zdgg_alt/detail/111/50893 URL]{{Dead link. (June 2023)
6. Conodonts from the Chappel limestone of Texas. Wilbert H. Hass, 1959
7. Brink, A.S. 1959. A new small thecodont from the Red Beds of the Stormberg series. Palaeontologia Africana 6: pp. 109–115.
8. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
9. Young C.-C. 1959. On a new Stegosauria from Szechuan, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 3: pp. 1-8.
10. Kuhn, O. 1959. Ein neuer Microsaurier aus dem deutschen Rotliegenden. N. Jb. Geol. Palaeontol. Mh. 1959: pp. 424-426;
11. (1959). "A New Fossil Penguin from Australia". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria.
12. Pierce Brodkorb. (1959). "Pleistocene Birds from New Providence Island, Bahamas". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences.
13. Pierce Brodkorb. (1959). "The Pleistocene Avifauna of Arredondo, Florida". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences.
14. J. Alan Holman. (1959). "Birds and Mammals from the Pleistocene of Williston, Florida". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences.
15. Harrison B. Tordoff. (1959). "A Condor from the Upper Pliocene of Kansas". Condor.
16. John William Hardy. (1959). "A Previously Undescribed Recurvirostrid from the Eocene of Utah". Auk.