1951 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 1951.

Archosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Montanoceratops[3]

Valid

Charles M. Sternberg

Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian)

St. Mary River Formation

 Canada

A leptoceratopsid.

Pachysuchus

Nomen dubium

Young

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Lufeng Formation

 China

A dubious basal sauropodomorph.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Baurocynodon

Junior synonym

Brink

Late Permian

Dicynodon Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A junior synonym of Nanictosaurus.

Gomphodontoides

Jr. synonym

Brink and Kitching

Middle Triassic

Burgersdorp Formation

 South Africa

A junior synonym of Diademodon.

Proalopecopsis

Valid

Brink and Kitching

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A therocephalian.

Silphedocynodon

Junior synonym

Brink

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A junior synonym of Procynosuchus.

Walteria

Preoccupied

Brink and Kitching

Middle Permian

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A junior homonym of Walteria Schulze, 1885; renamed Karrowalteria Kuhn, 1938

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. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  3. Sternberg, C. M. 1951. Complete skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis Brown from the Upper Edmonton member on Red Deer River, Alberta. Bull. Nail. Museum Can. 123: pp. 225-255.
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