1948 in paleontology

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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.

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Arthropods

Newly named insects

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Metanephrocerus [2]

Gen nov

valid

Aczél

Priabonian

Baltic Amber

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A big-headed fly; new genus for Protonephrocerus collini

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [3]

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Lukousaurus Valid taxon

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Lower Lufeng Series

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May be a crocodylomorph rather than a theropod. [4]

Sinosaurus [5] Valid taxon

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Lower Lufeng Series

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A dilophosaurid. (Formerly Dilophosaurus sinensis)

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Sinosaurus

Pterosaurs

New taxa

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotes

Batrachognathus

Valid

Rjabinin

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian)

Karabastau Svita

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An anurognathid.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Clelandina

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone
Dicynodon Assemblage Zone
Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone

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A gorgonopsid.

Digalodon

Valid

Broom and Robinson

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

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For a time considered a junior synonym, its validity was reinstated in 2015.

Koupia

Valid

Boonstra

Middle Permian

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

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A dicynodont.

Pardocephalus

Junior synonym

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

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A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus

Robertia

Valid

Boonstra

Middle Permian

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

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A pylaecephalid. Like Diictodon , it was also a burrower.

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Robertia

Smilesaurus

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

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A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus.

Tetracynodon

Valid

Broom and Robinson

Late Permian-Early Triassic

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone
Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone

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A lycideopid therocephalian.

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. Kehlmaier, C; Dierick, M; Skevington, JH (2014). "Micro-CT studies of amber inclusions reveal internal genitalic features of big-headed flies, enabling a systematic placement of Metanephrocerus Aczel, 1948 (Insecta: Diptera: Pipunculidae)". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 72 (1): 23–36.
  3. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  4. R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18
  5. Young C.-C. 1948. On two new saurischians from Lufeng, Yunnan. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 28: pp. 75-90.