1929 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 1929.

Arthropoda

Newly named crustacean taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Cycloprosopon		Lorenthey	Beurlen

Newly named insect taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Permotipula[2]	Valid	Tillyard	Late Permian	Newcastle Coal Measures, between Belmont and Warners Bay, New South Wales	Australia	Possibly the oldest known dipteran

Archosauromorphs

• Barosaurus gastroliths documented.^[3]

Newly named dinosaurs

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

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anodontosaurus[5]	Valid	Charles M. Sternberg		Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian)	Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Canada	An ankylosaurid.
Antarctosaurus	Valid	Friedrich von Huene		Late Cretaceous (early Campanian)	Anacleto Formation	Argentina	A titanosaur.
Campylodon[6]	Preoccupied.	Friedrich von Huene		Late Cretaceous	unknown	Argentina	Preoccupied by Dumeril, 1852. Renamed Campylodoniscus.
"Helopus"[7]	Preoccupied.	Wiman		Early Cretaceous (Barremian-Aptian)	Mengyin Formation	China	Preoccupied by Wagler, renamed Euhelopus.
Laplatasaurus[6]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian)	Allen Formation	Argentina	A titanosaur related to members of Lognkosauria.
Loricosaurus[6]	Nomen dubium	Friedrich von Huene		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian)	Allen Formation	Argentina	A titanosaur.
Paranthodon[8]	Valid taxon	Franz Nopcsa		Early Cretaceous (Berriasian)	Kirkwood Formation	South Africa	A stegosaur.
Rhodanosaurus[8]	Nomen dubium	Nopcsa		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian)	Gres a Reptiles	France	A dubious nodosaurid.
Tanius[7]	Valid taxon	Wiman		Late Cretaceous	Jingangkou Formation	China	A derived hadrosauroid.
Teinurosaurus	Nomen dubium.	Nopcsa		Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)	unknown	Portugal	A neotheropod.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Eoarctops	Valid
Hipposaurus	Valid
Lycaenodontoides	Valid
Scullya	Valid
Styracocephalus	Valid

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. Willmann, R. (1989). "Rediscovered: Permotipula patricia, the oldest known fly". Naturwissenschaften 76 (8): 375–377. doi:10.1007/BF00366210.
3. Janensch, W. (1929). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
5. Sternberg, C.H. 1929. A toothless armored dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull. Natl. Mus. Can. 54: pp. 28-33.
6. Huene, F. von. 1929. Los Saurisquios y Ornithisquios de Cretaceo Argentino. An. Mus. La Plata (ser. 2) 3:pp. 1-196.
7. Wiman, C. 1929. Die Kreide-dinosaurier aus Shantung. Pal. Sin. C 1: pp. 1-67.
8. Nopcsa, F. 1929. Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenburgen. V. Geol. Hungarica Set. Paleontol. 4: pp. 1-76.

• Janensch, W. (1929). Magensteine bei Sauropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten. Palaeontographica (Suppl. 7) 2:135-144.
• Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.