1951 in paleontology
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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 1951.
Archosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian) |
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Young |
Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
A dubious basal sauropodomorph. | |||||
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Baurocynodon |
Junior synonym |
Brink |
Late Permian |
A junior synonym of Nanictosaurus. |
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Jr. synonym |
Brink and Kitching |
Middle Triassic |
Burgersdorp Formation |
A junior synonym of Diademodon. | |||
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Proalopecopsis |
Valid |
Brink and Kitching |
Late Permian |
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Junior synonym |
Brink |
A junior synonym of Procynosuchus. | |||||
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Preoccupied |
Brink and Kitching |
A junior homonym of Walteria Schulze, 1885; renamed Karrowalteria Kuhn, 1938 | |||||
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ↑ 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.