1953 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 1953.
Plants
[edit]Angiosperms
[edit]Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Comb nov |
jr synonym |
(Lesquereux) MacGinitie |
A mallow relative. |
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Dinosaurs
[edit]Newly named dinosaurs
[edit]Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Brachylophosaurus[4] | Valid taxon |
Late Cretaceous (Judithian) |
A saurolophine hadrosaurid. |
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Chiayusaurus[5] | Nomen dubium. |
Late Jurassic |
An indeterminate eusauropod. |
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Heishansaurus[5] | Nomen dubium. |
Late Cretaceous (Djadokhtan) |
An ankylosaurid ankylosaur. |
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Microceratops[5] |
Preoccupied. |
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Late Cretaceous (Djadokhtan) |
Preoccupied by Seyrig 1952. Renamed Microceratus in 2008. |
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Peishansaurus[5] | Nomen dubium. | |||||||
Sauroplites[5] | Valid taxon. |
A member of Nodosauridae. |
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Stegosaurides[5] | Nomen dubium. |
Early Cretaceous |
Synapsids
[edit]Non-mammalian
[edit]Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Brink and Kitching |
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junior synonym |
Brink and Kitching |
Late Permian |
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR 2444909.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Sternberg, C.H. 1953. A new hadrosaur from the Oldman Formation of Alberta: Discussion of nomenclature. Bull. Dept. Res. Dev. Can. 128: pp. 1-12.
- ^ a b c d e f Bohlin, B. 1953. Fossil reptiles from Mongolia and Kansu. Sino-Swedish Exped. Publ. 37: pp. 1- 113 (Statens Etnografiska Museum, Stockholm);