1941 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology (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 humans have 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 1941.

Paleozoology

Arthropods

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Proraphidia[2]	Valid	Martynova	Jurassic		Kazakhstan	*P. turkestanica named as type species

Conodont paleozoology

Vertebrate paleozoology

Dinosaurs

• Psittacosaurus gastroliths documented.^[4]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.^[5]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Lufengosaurus[6]	Valid taxon	Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)			Lufengosaurus
Saurophagus[7]	Valid taxon	Stovall vide: Ray, 1941		Preoccupied by Swainson 1831.
"Succinodon"[8]	Original fossil was petrified wood with mollusc borings that was misidentified as a jaw bone with tooth sockets.	Friedrich von Huene

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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. ↑ Jepson, J.E.; Jarzembowski, E.A. (2008). "Two new species of snakefly (Insecta:Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Spain with a review of other fossil raphidiopterans from the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition" (PDF). Alavesia. 2: 193–201. 
3. 1 2 3 4 5 New and Little Known Carboniferous Conodont Genera. E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Mar., 1941), pages 97-106 (Stable URL, retrieved 29 April 2015)
4. ↑ Brown (1941). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
5. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
6. ↑ Young, C.-C. 1941. A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Paleontol Sinica (N.S.) Ser. C7: pp. 1-53.
7. ↑ Stovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat. Hist. 48: pp. 36-39.
8. ↑ Huene, F. von. 1941. Die Tetrapoden-Fahrten im toskanischen Verrucano und ihre Bedeutung. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. 1941B: pp. 1-34.

• Brown, B. 1941. The last dinosaurs. – Natural History 48: 290–295.
• 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.