1931 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 1931.

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Elephantomyia baltica[2]	Sp. nov	valid	Alexander	Middle Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe	A Limoniid cranefly
Stylotermes washingtonensis[3]	sp. nov	Synonym	Snyder	Miocene	Latah Formation	USA	A Stylotermitid termite. synonym of Parastylotermes washingtonensis

Archosauromorphs

Newly named archosauromorphs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Brasileosaurus[4]	Gen et sp nov	nomen vanum	von Huene	Turonian	Adamantina Formation	Brazil	A indeterminate archosauromorph

Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[5]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Carcharodontosaurus[6]	Valid taxon	Stromer		Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kem Kem Formation Echkar Formation Bahariya Formation	Egypt  Morocco  Niger	A carcharodontosaurid.
Embasaurus[7]		Riabinin		Early Cretaceous Berriasian	Unnamed unit (aka Neocomian sands)	Kazakhstan	An indeterminate tetanuran.
Orthogoniosaurus[8]	Nomen dubium.	Das-Gupta		Late Cretaceous		India	An indeterminate theropod.
Tetragonosaurus[9]	Junior synonym	Parks		Late Cretaceous (middle-late Campanian)	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	A junior synonym of Lambeosaurus.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cerataelurus	Valid
Ericiolacerta	Valid
Euchambersia	Valid
Ictidostoma	Valid
Ictidosuchoides	Valid
Keratocephalus	Valid
Lycideops	Valid
Megacyclops	Valid
Neomegacyclops	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. Kania, I (2015). "Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic Amber (Eocene): The Genus Elephantomyia Osten Sacken, 1860". PLoS ONE 10 (2): 1–25. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117434.
3. Emerson, A.E. (1971). "Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 146 (3): 243–304.
4. Huene, F. 1931. Die fossilien Faehrten in Rhaet von Ischigualasto in Nordwest Argentinien. Paleob. 4 (2) Viena.
5. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
6. Stromer, E. 1931. Vertebrate animal remainders of the Baharije stage (lowest Cenoman). 10. A skeleton remainder of Carcharodontosaurus Nov. towards. Abh. Bavarian Akad. Wissensch. Math. natutwiss. Abbott. 9: pp. 1 23.
7. Riabinin, A.N. 1931. Two dinosaurian vertebrae from the Lower Cretaceous of Transcaspian Steppes. Zapiski Russkogo Min. Obshchestva (ser. 2) 60: pp. 110-113.
8. Dasgupta, H.C. 1931. On a new theropod dinosaur (Orthogoniosaurus matleyi, n. gen. et. n. sp.) from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 26: pp. 367-369.
9. Parks, W.A. 1931. A new genus and two new species of trachodont dinosaurs from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 31: pp. 1-11.