1952 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 1952.
Plants
[edit]Archosauromorphs
[edit]Dinosaurs
[edit]Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) |
Junior synonym of Pinacosaurus. |
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Valid |
Late Cretaceous |
An ankylosaurid. |
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Plesiosaurs
[edit]New taxa
[edit]Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Welles |
A long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur. |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Welles |
A long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur. |
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Synapsids
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Carpenter, K. (1999). "Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173.