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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1958.

Arthropods

Insects

Archosauromorphs

Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chingkankousaurus	Gen et sp nov	Nomen dubium	Yang (as Young C. C.)	Late Campanian	Jingangkou Formation	China	A tyrannosauroid.
Tsintaosaurus	Gen et sp nov	Valid taxon	Yang (as Young C. C.)	Late Campanian	Jingangkou Formation	China	A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid.

Birds

Newly named birds

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Basicranodon	Junior synonym	Vaughn	Early Permian		US	A junior synonym of the varanopid Mycterosaurus.
Diarthrognathus	Valid	Crompton	Early Jurassic	Elliot Formation	South Africa	A member of Trithelodontidae.

Other Animals

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Charnia	Valid	Ford	Ediacaran	Maplewell Group	United Kingdom
Charniodiscus	Valid	Ford	Ediacaran	Maplewell Group	United Kingdom
Spriggina	Valid	Glaessner	Ediacaran		Australia

References

1. 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.
2. Pierce, W.D. (1958). "Fossil arthropods of California. No. 21. Termites from Calico Mountains nodules" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 575 (1): 13–24.
3. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
4. Young C.-C. 1958. The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shanrung. Palaeontol. Sinica (ser. C) 16: pp. 1-138.
5. Burchak-Abramovisch, Nikolaj Iosifovich (1958). "Tertiary Birds of the USSR Tertiary Birds of the USSR". Uchenie Zapiski Azerbaijan State University, Serie Biology. 1: 81–88.
6. ^ Pierce Brodkorb (1958). "Birds from the Middle Pliocene of McKay, Oregon". Condor. 60 (4): 252–255. doi:10.2307/1365194. JSTOR 1365194.
7. ^ Pierce Brodkorb (1958). "Fossil Birds from Idaho". Wilson Bulletin. 70: 237–242.
8. ^ Loye Holmes Miller & Robert I. Bowman (1958). "Further Bird Remains from the San Diego Pliocene". Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science. 20: 1–15.
9. Oscar Arredondo (1958). "Aves Gigantes de Nuestro Pasado Prehistórico, El Cartero Cubana". La Habana. XVII (7): 10–12.
10. ^ Alexander Wetmore (1958). "Miscellaneous Notes on Fossil Birds". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 135 (8): 1–11.
11. Carlos Rusconi (1958). "Ave Fósil del Plioceno de Buenos Aires". Revista del Museo del Historia Natural de Mendoza. 11: 157–160.
12. Hildegarde Howard (1958). "Miocene Sulids of Southern California". Los Angeles County Museum Contributions in Science. 25: 3–15.
13. G. Brunner (1958). "Nachtrag zur Breitenberghöhle bei Gösswenstein Ofr". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte. 1958: 500–517.

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