1934 in paleontology
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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 1934.
Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Lestes incertus[2] | Sp. nov | synonym | Piton | Lake Chambon | A Lestid damselfly, |
Conodonts
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Valid taxon | Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri | |||||||
Valid taxon | Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri |
Vertebrates
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Valid taxon | Late Cretaceous I (Cenomanian) | |||||||
Brachypodosaurus[6] |
| An ornithischian. |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Jr. synonym | Boonstra | A junior synonym of Arctognathus. | |||||
Valid | van Hoepen | Late Permian | A member of Emydopoidea. | ||||
Valid | van Hoepen | Late Permian | A member of Dicynodontoidea. | ||||
Jr. synonym | van Hoepen | Late Permian | A junior synonym of Emydops. | ||||
Jr. synonym | Broili and Schroeder | Middle Abrahamskraal Formation | A junior synonym of Gorgonops. | ||||
Jr. synonym | van Hoepen | Late Permian | A junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus. |
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.
- ^ Nel, A.; Paicheler, J.-C. (1994). "Les Lestoidea (Odonata, Zygoptera) fossiles : un inventaire critique". Annales de Paléontologie. 80 (1): 1–59.
- ^ a b Conodonts from Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri. EB Branson and MG Mehl, Univ. Missouri Studies, 1934
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Stromer, E. 1934. Vertebrate animal remainders of the Baharije stage (lowest Cenoman). 13. Dinosauria. Abh. Bavarian. Akad. Wissensch. Math. naturwiss. Abbott. 22: pp. 1 79.
- ^ Chakravarti, D.K. 1934. On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Q. I Mineral. Metallurg. Soc. India 30: pp. 75-79.