1941 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 1941.

Arthropoda

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Valid
  • Martynova
 Jurassic  Kazakhstan *P. turkestanica named as type species

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[4]

Name Status Authors Notes Images
Lufengosaurus[5] Valid taxon
  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
Lufengosaurus
Saurophagus[6] Valid taxon

Stovall vide:

  • Ray, 1941

Preoccupied by Swainson 1831.

"Succinodon"[7] Original fossil was petrified wood with mollusc borings that was misidentified as a jaw bone with tooth sockets.

Friedrich von Huene

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes

Aristonectes

Valid

Cabrera

Valid

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

Bayloria

Valid

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. ↑ Jepson, J.E.; Jarzembowski, E.A. (2008). "Two new species of snakefly (Insecta:Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Spain with a review of other fossil raphidiopterans from the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition". Alavesia 2: 193–201.
  3. ↑ Brown (1941). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  4. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. ↑ Young, C.-C. 1941. A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Paleontol Sinica (N.S.) Ser. C7: pp. 1-53.
  6. ↑ Stovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat. Hist. 48: pp. 36-39.
  7. ↑ Huene, F. von. 1941. Die Tetrapoden-Fahrten im toskanischen Verrucano und ihre Bedeutung. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. 1941B: pp. 1-34.