1949 in paleontology

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 1949.

List of years in paleontology (table)
In science
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Arthropods

Insects
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Parastylotermes[2] Gen. 4 comb nov valid Snyder & Emerson Ypresian-Miocene Latah Formation  USA
 Washington		 A Stylotermitid termite genus.
The type species is Stylotermes washingtonensis
Also includes S. calico, S. frazieri, & S. robustus.
Parastylotermes krishnai
Ulmeriella latahensis[3] Sp nov. Valid Snyder Miocene Latah Formation  USA
 Washington		 A harvester termite

Archosauromorphs

Archosauromorphs
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes Images
Elachistosuchus Gen et sp nov valid Janensch Late Triassic (Norian) *  Germany A neodiapsid reptile.

Plesiosaurs
  • Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.[4]

Synapsids

Non-mammalian
Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Aneugomphius

 Jr. Synonym of Theriognathus. Broom and Robinson Wuchiapingian  South Africa

Homodontosaurus

 Valid Broom Wuchiapingian  South Africa A therocephalian
Lemurosaurus Valid Broom Wuchiapingian *  South Africa A biarmosuchian
Lemurosaurus

Myosauroides

 Valid Broom Wuchiapingian  South Africa A dicynodont

Other Animals
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes Images
Dickinsonia minima[5] Sp nov Synonym of Dickinsonia costata Sprigg Ediacaran  Australia

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. 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.
  3. Snyder, T. (1949). "A new Miocene Ulmeriella (fossil Isoptera, Hodotermitidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 51 (4): 164–165.
  4. Welles and Bump (1949). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  5. Sprigg, R.C. (1949). "Early Cambrian "jellyfishes" of Ediacara, South Australia, and Mount John, Kimberley District, Western Australia" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 73: 72–99.
  • Welles, Samuel P. and Bump, J. D.; 1949; Alzadasaurus pembertoni, a new elasmosaur from the Late Cretaceous of South Dakota; Journal of Paleontology; 23(5) pp. 521–535
  • Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
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