1963 in paleontology



Vertebrates

Archosauromorphs

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

"Triassolestes"

Gen et sp nov

preoccupied

Reig

Carnian

A Crocodylomorph,
Preoccupied by Triassolestes Tillyard 1918.
Renamed Trialestes.

Dinosauria

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

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.