1947 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 1947.
Mosses
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Steere |
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A moss genus. |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amygdalodon[5] | Nomen dubium | Cabrera | Middle Jurassic Toarcian | * File:Flag of Argentina.svg Argentina | A sauropod known from some vertebrae, ribs, four complete and three partial teeth, and a partial pelvis and shoulder-blade. |
Newly named pseudosuchians
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizonasaurus[6] | Valid | Welles | Middle Triassic (Anisian) | File:Flag of the United States.svg USA (File:Flag of Arizona.svg Arizona and File:Flag of New Mexico.svg New Mexico) | A poposaurid. |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kunminia | Valid | Young | Sinemurian | * File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China |
Other Animals
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beltanella[7] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Sprigg | Ediacaran | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | The type species is B. gilesi. | |
| Cyclomedusa[7] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Sprigg | Ediacaran | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | The type species is C. davidii. | File:Cyclomedusa.jpg |
| Dickinsonia[7] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Sprigg | Ediacaran | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia and File:Flag of Ukraine.svg Ukraine | A bilaterian of uncertain affinities. The type species is D. costata. | File:DickinsoniaCostata.jpg |
| Ediacaria[7] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Sprigg | Ediacaran | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | The type species is E. flindersi. | File:Ediacaria (35159560925).jpg |
| Papilionata[7] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Synonym of Dickinsonia | Sprigg | Ediacaran | File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia | The type species is P. eyrei. |
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References
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- ↑ Cabrera, A. 1947. Un sauropodo nuevo del Jurasico de Patagonia. Motas Mus. La Plata 12 Paleontol. 95: pp. 1-17.
- ↑ Welles, S.P. 1947. Vertebrates from the upper Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. University of California Publications Geol. Sci. 27: pp. 241-294.
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