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Paleontology or palaeontology 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 1948.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov | valid | Aczél | A big-headed fly; new genus for Protonephrocerus collini | |||||
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [3]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Lukousaurus | Valid taxon |
| Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | May be a crocodylomorph rather than a theropod. [4] | ||||
Sinosaurus [5] | Valid taxon |
| Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | A dilophosaurid. (Formerly Dilophosaurus sinensis) | ![]() |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
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Valid | Rjabinin | Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian) | An anurognathid. |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | A gorgonopsid. | |||||
Valid | Broom and Robinson | Late Permian | For a time considered a junior synonym, its validity was reinstated in 2015. | ||||
Valid | A dicynodont. | ||||||
Junior synonym | Broom | Late Permian | A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus | ||||
Valid | Boonstra | Middle Permian | Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone | A pylaecephalid. Like Diictodon , it was also a burrower. | ![]() | ||
Valid | Broom | Late Permian | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus. | |||
Valid | Broom and Robinson | Late Permian-Early Triassic | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | ||||