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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 1926.

Angiosperms[]

Newly described angiosperms[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Acer chaneyi^[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Knowlton	Oligocene to Miocene	John Day Formation		Acer

Conodonts[]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Images
Ancyrodella^[3]	Valid taxon	Ulrich Bassler		Algeria Australia Belgium Canada ( Ontario) China France Morocco Poland Russia Spain Vietnam

Amphibians[]

Name	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Crassigyrinus	Watson	322 Million years ago	Scotland USA ( West Virginia)	The thick Tadpole.	Crassigyrinus

Newly named basal diapsids[]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Coelurosauravus^[4]	Valid taxon	Piveteau		Germany Madagascar UK	A weigeltisaurid. an gliding Reptile.	Coelurosauravus

Dinosaurs[]

Newly named dinosaurs[]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[5]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Proceratosaurus^[6]	Gen. nov.	Valid	Friedrich von Huene	Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)	Forest Marble Formation	England	A proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid theropod. The type species is Megalosaurus bradleyi.
Rhoetosaurus^[7]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Albert Heber Longman	Middle Jurassic (Aalenian-Bajocian)	Unknown	Australia	A basal gravisaurian sauropod. The type species is Rhoetosaurus brownei.

Synapsids[]

Non-mammalian[]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chiwetasaurus	Junior synonym	Haughton	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Gorgonops.
Dixeya	Junior synonym	Haughton	Late Permian	Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Aelurognathus.

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.
^ Wolfe, J.A.; Tanai, T. (1987). "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of Western North America". Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy. 22 (1): 1–246.
^ A classification of the toothlike fossils, conodonts, with descriptions of American Devonian and Mississippian species. EO Ulrich and RS Bassler, 1926
^ Piveteau, J. 1926. Contribution to the Study of the Lagoonal Formations of Northwest Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr. (4), XXVI: p. 3.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Huene, F. (1926a). "On several known and unknown reptiles of the order Saurischia from England and France". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 17 (9): 473–489.
^ Longman, H.A. (1926). "A giant dinosaur from Durham Downs, Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 8: 183–194.

[1] 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.

[Wolfe1987-2] Wolfe, J.A.; Tanai, T. (1987). "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of Western North America". Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy. 22 (1): 1–246.

[3] A classification of the toothlike fossils, conodonts, with descriptions of American Devonian and Mississippian species. EO Ulrich and RS Bassler, 1926

[4] Piveteau, J. 1926. Contribution to the Study of the Lagoonal Formations of Northwest Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr. (4), XXVI: p. 3.

[ddinogeorge-5] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[huene-6] Huene, F. (1926a). "On several known and unknown reptiles of the order Saurischia from England and France". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 17 (9): 473–489.

[longman-7] Longman, H.A. (1926). "A giant dinosaur from Durham Downs, Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 8: 183–194.

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