1926 in paleontology

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Paleontology, palaeontology or [palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 mankind has 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 1926.

Angiosperms

Newly described angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Acer chaneyi[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Knowlton	Oligocene to Miocene	John Day Formation	USA	Acer

Newly named basal diapsids

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Coelurosauravus[3]	Valid taxon	Piveteau		A weigeltisaurid.

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Proceratosaurus	Valid	Friedrich von Huene		Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)	Forest Marble Formation	England	A proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid theropod.
Rhoetosaurus	Valid	Longman		Middle Jurassic (Aalenian-Bajocian)		Australia	A basal gravisaurian sauropod.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chiwetasaurus	Junior synonym	Haughton	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	Malawi	A junior synonym of Gorgonops.
Dixeya	Junior synonym	Haughton	Late Permian	Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone	Malawi	A junior synonym of Aelurognathus.

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. Wolfe, J.A.; Tanai, T. (1987). "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of Western North America". Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and mineralogy 22 (1): 1–246.
3. Piveteau, J. 1926. Contribution to the Study of the Lagoonal Formations of Northwest Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr. (4), XXVI: p. 3.
4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.