1937 in paleontology
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Template:Redirect category shell 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 1937.
Plants
Ferns and fern allies
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Sp nov |
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A horsetail species. |
Flowering plants
Magnoliids
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
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A Machilus species. |
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Sp nov |
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A Machilus species. |
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Comb nov |
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A Magnolia species. |
Monocots
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Syn nov |
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A greenbriar species. |
Basal Eudicots and unplaced core Eudicots
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Brown |
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First described as a Tetracera species. |
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Comb nov |
(Knowlton) Brown |
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A grape species |
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Superasterids - basal
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Comb nov |
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Phyllites peculiaris |
A Philadelphus species. |
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Comb nov |
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A Vaccinium species. |
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Superasterids
Superrosids
Angiosperms - other
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Comb nov |
valid? |
Latah Formation |
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A fruit or seed of uncertain affinity |
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Arthropods
Insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
A Trogossitid bark gnawing beetle |
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Vertebrates
Dinosaurs
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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| "Bactrosaurus prynadai"[6] | Nomen nudum | Riabinin | Santonian | Dabrazinskaya Svita | File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan | A species of Bactrosaurus, formally described in 1939 | ||
| "Jaxartosaurus"[6] | Nomen nudum | Riabinin | Santonian | Dabrazinskaya Svita | File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan | A hadrosaurid, formally described in 1939 | ||
| Parksosaurus[7] | Gen. nov. | Valid | Sternberg | Maastrichtian | Horseshoe Canyon Formation | File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada | A new genus name for Thescelosaurus warreni | File:Parksosaurus Steveoc86.jpg |
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Synapsids
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Olson | 255 Millions of years ago | A Gorgonopsian. | |||
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Junior Synonym |
Junior Synonym of Thrinaxodon. | |||||
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Broom | 255 Millions of years ago | One of the Earliest-Known Cynodonts. | |||
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Young | 245 Millions of years ago | A Chinese Kannemeyerid Dicynodont. |
Popular culture
Amusement parks and attractions
- August 28th: The Calgary Zoo's Prehistoric Park opened. Paleontologist Darren Tanke has described Prehistoric Park as "an extensive treed park and pathways containing numerous life-sized concrete dinosaurs and other prehistoric life". It also had "two long, walkthrough display buildings containing a Corythosaurus skeleton and individual dinosaur bones", as well as exhibits of paleozoic invertebrates and prehistoric plants. It became a popular attraction among visitors to the zoo.[8]
Literature
- In 1937, Morant imagined a feathered dinosaur-like animal that lived during the Triassic and glided about on four wings. This portrayal reflected contemporary scientific speculations attempting to reconstruct the hypothetical ancestor of birds. Fossils from China later revealed the existence of just this sort of animal.[9]
References
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- ↑ Sternberg, C.H. 1937. Classification of Thescelosaurus: A description of a new species. Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer. 1936: p. 375.
- ↑ D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541–550.
- ↑ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 504–529.
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