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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 1952.

Plants

Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes
Saurolophus angustirostris ^[2]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Rozhdestvensky	Maastrichtian	Nemegt Formation	Mongolia	A species of Saurolophus
Syrmosaurus viminocaudus ^[3]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Jr. synonym	Maleev	Campanian	Djadochta Formation	Mongolia	Junior synonym of Pinacosaurus
Talarurus plicatospineus ^[4]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Maleev	Cenomanian-Santonian	Bayan Shireh Formation	Mongolia	An ankylosaurid

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alzadasaurus kansasensis ^[5]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Welles	Late Cretaceous Early Campanian	Niobrara Formation	USA Kansas	A long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur. Synonymized with Styxosaurus snowii in 1999	Styxosaurus snowii
Styxosaurus browni ^[5]	Sp nov	valid	Welles	Late Cretaceous Early Campanian	Pierre Shale	USA Wyoming	A long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur. Synonymized with Hydralmosaurus serpentinus in 1999 Removed from synonymy in 2016	Styxosaurus browni

Synapsids

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.
↑ Rozhdestvensky, A.K. (1952). "A new representative of the duck-billed dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 86 (2): 405–408.
↑ Maleev, E. A. (1952). "Новое семейство бронированные динозавры из верхнего производство мела Монголии" [A new family of armored dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR . 87: 131–134.
↑ Maleev, E. A. (1952). "Новый анкилозавр из верхнего мела Монголии" [A new ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 87: 273–276.
1 2 Carpenter, K. (1999). "Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173.

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[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.

[rozhdestvensky1952-2] Rozhdestvensky, A.K. (1952). "A new representative of the duck-billed dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia". Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 86 (2): 405–408.

[3] Maleev, E. A. (1952). "Новое семейство бронированные динозавры из верхнего производство мела Монголии" [A new family of armored dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR . 87: 131–134.

[4] Maleev, E. A. (1952). "Новый анкилозавр из верхнего мела Монголии" [A new ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 87: 273–276.

[Carpenter1999-5] 1 2 Carpenter, K. (1999). "Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173.

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