1948 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 1948.

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Metanephrocerus[2]

Gen nov

valid

Aczél

Priabonian

Baltic Amber

 Europe

A big-headed fly; new genus for Protonephrocerus collini

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Lukousaurus Valid taxon

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Lower Lufeng Series

 China

May be a crocodylomorph rather than a theropod.[4]

Sinosaurus[5] Valid taxon

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Lower Lufeng Series

 China

A dilophosaurid.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Batrachognathus

Valid

Rjabinin

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian)

Karabastau Svita

 Kazakhstan

An anurognathid.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Clelandina

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone
Dicynodon Assemblage Zone
Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A gorgonopsid.

Digalodon

Junior synonym

Broom and Robinson

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa
 Zambia

A junior synonym of the geikiid Aulacephalodon

Koupia

Valid

Boonstra

Middle Permian

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A dicynodont.

Pardocephalus

Junior synonym

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus

Robertia

Valid

Boonstra

Middle Permian

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A pylaecephalid

Smilesaurus

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus.

Tetracynodon

Valid

Broom and Robinson

Late Permian-Early Triassic

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone
Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A lycideopid therocephalian.

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. Kehlmaier, C; Dierick, M; Skevington, JH (2014). "Micro-CT studies of amber inclusions reveal internal genitalic features of big-headed flies, enabling a systematic placement of Metanephrocerus Aczel, 1948 (Insecta: Diptera: Pipunculidae)". Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 72 (1): 23–36.
  3. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  4. R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18
  5. Young C.-C. 1948. On two new saurischians from Lufeng, Yunnan. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 28: pp. 75-90.