1949 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 1949.

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Arthropods

Insects

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Parastylotermes [2] Gen. 4 comb novvalidSnyder & Emerson Ypresian-Miocene Latah Formation Flag of the United States.svg  USA
Flag of Washington.svg  Washington
A Stylotermitid termite genus.
The type species is Stylotermes washingtonensis
Also includes S. calico, S. frazieri, & S. robustus.
Parastylotermes krishnai ZooKeys-148-105-g001 Parastylotermes krishnai.jpg
Parastylotermes krishnai
Ulmeriella latahensis [3] Sp nov.ValidSnyder Miocene Latah Formation Flag of the United States.svg  USA
Flag of Washington.svg  Washington
A harvester termite

Archosauromorphs

Archosauromorphs

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeLocationNotesImages
Elachistosuchus Gen et sp novvalid Janensch Late Triassic (Norian)* Flag of Germany.svg  Germany A neodiapsid reptile.

Plesiosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

NameStatusAuthorsAgeLocationNotesImages

Aneugomphius

Jr. Synonym of Theriognathus. Broom and Robinson Wuchiapingian Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa

Homodontosaurus

ValidBroom Wuchiapingian Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa A therocephalian
Lemurosaurus ValidBroomWuchiapingian* Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa A biarmosuchian
Lemurosaurus Lemurosaurus.jpg
Lemurosaurus

Myosauroides

ValidBroomWuchiapingianFlag of South Africa.svg  South Africa A dicynodont

Other Animals

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeLocationNotesImages
Dickinsonia minima [5] Sp novSynonym of Dickinsonia costata Sprigg Ediacaran Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia

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. Emerson, A.E. (1971). "Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 146 (3): 243–304.
  3. Snyder, T. (1949). "A new Miocene Ulmeriella (fossil Isoptera, Hodotermitidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 51 (4): 164–165.
  4. Welles and Bump (1949). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  5. Sprigg, R.C. (1949). "Early Cambrian "jellyfishes" of Ediacara, South Australia, and Mount John, Kimberley District, Western Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 73: 72–99.