1965 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.[1] 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 1965.
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Archosauromorphs
    
    Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
    
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | 
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| Tatisaurus[3] | 
 Gen. et sp. nov  | 
 Valid taxon  | 
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 Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)  | 
 A basal thyreophoran.  | 
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Newly named birds
    
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | 
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 Bubo binagadensis [4]  | 
 Sp. nov.  | 
 Valid  | 
 Burchak-Abramovich  | 
 Binagade  | 
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 Sp. nov.  | 
 nomen dubium  | 
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 Sp. nov.  | 
 Valid  | 
 Brodkorb  | 
 Late Pleistocene  | 
 An Anatidae.  | 
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 Phalacrocorax goletensis [7]  | 
 Sp. nov.  | 
 Valid  | 
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 Protostrix californiensis [8]  | 
 Sp. nov.  | 
 jr synonym  | 
 Howard  | 
 A Protostrigidae, transferred to the genus Minerva.[9]  | 
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Plesiosaurs
    
    New taxa
    
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | 
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 Gen et sp nov  | 
 Valid  | 
 Young  | 
 upper Middle Triassic  | 
 A basal pistosauroidean  | 
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References
    
- 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.
 - Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
 - Simmons, D.J. 1965. The non-therapsid reptiles. Fieldiana: Geology 15 (1): pp. 1-92.
 - Burchak-Abramovich, NI (1965). "Une Nouvelle Espèce de Grand-Duc Fossile de Binagade" (PDF). Ornithologiya. 7: 452–454.
 - Brodkorb, P (1965). "Fossil Birds from Barbados, West Indies". Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. 31 (1): 3–10.
 - Storrs Olson: A synopsis on the fossil Rallidae In: Sidney Dillon Ripley: Rails of the World - A Monograph of the Family Rallidae. Codline. Boston, 1977. ISBN 0-87474-804-6
 - Howard, H (1965). "A New Species of Cormorant from the Pliocene of Mexico" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 64: 50–55. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-14. Retrieved 2014-12-05.
 - Hildegarde, H (1965). "First Record of Avian Fossils from the Eocene of California" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology. 39 (3): 350–354.
 - Mourer-Chauviré, C (1983). "Minerva antiquus (Aves: Strigiformes), an Owl Mistaken for an Edentate Mammal" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2773: 1–11.