1952 in paleontology

List of years in paleontology (table)
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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

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Syrmosaurus[3]

Junior synonym

Maleev

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)

Junior synonym of Pinacosaurus.

Pinacosaurus

Talarurus[4]

Valid

Maleev

Late Cretaceous
(Cenomanian-Turonian)

Bayan Shireh Formation

 Mongolia

An ankylosaurid.

Talarurus

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

  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. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  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.
  5. ^ a b Carpenter, K. (1999). "Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173.