1928 in paleontology
Template:Short description Template:Year topic navigation 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 Template:Show by date published in the year 1928.
Plants
Angiosperms
Superrosids - Fabids
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Sp nov |
valid? |
Latah Formation |
File:Flag of the United States.svg USA |
A Paliurus species |
Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs
| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edmontonia longiceps[5] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Sternberg | Maastrichtian | Horseshoe Canyon Formation | File:Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta | A nodosaurid | |
| Polacanthoides ponderosus[6] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Nopcsa | Early Cretaceous | File:Flag of England.svg England | A chimera of Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus.[7] | ||
| Scolosaurus cutleri[6] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Nopcsa | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | File:Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta | An ankylosaurid | File:Scolosaurus mummy.jpg |
| Teinurosaurus[8] | Gen. nov. | Nomen dubium | Nopcsa | Tithonian | Mont-Lambert Formation | File:Flag of France.svg France | Lacking a type species until material named Caudocoelus sauvagei |
Pterosaurs
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen nov |
Valid |
Strand |
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Field work
Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation.[9] He would return yet again in 1935.[9]
Synapsids
Therapsids
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen nov |
Simpson |
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Gen et sp nov |
Huene |
A Plant-Eating Cynodont. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Broom |
Footnotes
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- ↑ Sternberg, C.H. 1928. A new armored dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Can. Field-Nat. 22: pp. 93-106.
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- ↑ a b "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
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References
- Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.