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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	Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)		Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)	Lower Lufeng Series	China	May be a crocodylomorph rather than a theropod.^[4]
Sinosaurus^[5]	Valid taxon	Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)		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
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

↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
↑ R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18
↑ Young C.-C. 1948. On two new saurischians from Lufeng, Yunnan. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 28: pp. 75-90.

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