1931 in paleontology

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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 mankind has 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 1931.

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Stylotermes washingtonensis^[2]	sp. nov	Synonym	Snyder	Miocene	Latah Formation	USA	A Stylotermitid termite. synonym of Parastylotermes washingtonensis

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Brasileosaurus^[3]	nomen dubium	Friedrich von Huene		Late Cretaceous (Turonian)	Adamantina Formation	Brazil	A notosuchid

Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Carcharodontosaurus^[5]	Valid taxon	Stromer	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Kem Kem Formation Echkar Formation Bahariya Formation	Egypt Morocco Niger	A carcharodontosaurid.
Embasaurus^[6]		Riabinin	Early Cretaceous Berriasian	Unnamed unit (aka Neocomian sands)	Kazakhstan	An indeterminate tetanuran.
Orthogoniosaurus^[7]	Nomen dubium.	Das-Gupta	Late Cretaceous		India	An indeterminate theropod.
"Tetragonosaurus"^[8]	Nomen rejectum that was discarded in favor of the name Procheneosaurus	Parks	Late Cretaceous (middle-late Campanian)	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	A junior synonym of Lambeosaurus.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cerataelurus	Valid
Ericiolacerta	Valid
Euchambersia	Valid
Ictidostoma	Valid
Ictidosuchoides	Valid
Keratocephalus	Valid
Lycideops	Valid
Megacyclops	Valid
Neomegacyclops	Valid

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.
↑ 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.
↑ Huene, F. 1931. Die fossilien Faehrten in Rhaet von Ischigualasto in Nordwest Argentinien. Paleob. 4 (2) Viena.
↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
↑ Stromer, E. 1931. Vertebrate animal remainders of the Baharije stage (lowest Cenoman). 10. A skeleton remainder of Carcharodontosaurus Nov. towards. Abh. Bavarian Akad. Wissensch. Math. natutwiss. Abbott. 9: pp. 1 23.
↑ Riabinin, A.N. 1931. Two dinosaurian vertebrae from the Lower Cretaceous of Transcaspian Steppes. Zapiski Russkogo Min. Obshchestva (ser. 2) 60: pp. 110-113.
↑ Dasgupta, H.C. 1931. On a new theropod dinosaur (Orthogoniosaurus matleyi, n. gen. et. n. sp.) from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. J. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 26: pp. 367-369.
↑ Parks, W.A. 1931. A new genus and two new species of trachodont dinosaurs from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 31: pp. 1-11.