1936 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 1936.
Arthropods[]
Insects[]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Micropterix proavitella[2] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Early Eocene |
Recombined as Baltimartyria proavitella in 1995 |
Archosauromorphs[]
Newly named dinosaurs[]
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Nipponosaurus[4] | Valid taxon |
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Late Cretaceous (late Santonian-early Campanian |
upper Yezo Group |
A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid. |
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Segisaurus[5] | Valid taxon |
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Early Jurassic (Pliensbachian) |
A coelophysoid theropod. |
Pterosaurs[]
New taxa[]
Name | Status | Authors | Notes | Images | |
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Odontorhynchus |
Valid taxon |
Stolley |
Junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus. |
Synapsids[]
Non-mammalian[]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Belesodon |
Junior synonym |
von Huene |
Middle Triassic (Ladinian) |
Junior synonym of Chiniquodon. |
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Valid |
Broom |
Middle Permian |
Middle Abrahamskraal Formation |
A gorgonopsian. | |||
Valid |
von Huene |
Middle Triassic (Ladinian) |
A member of Chiniquodontidae. | ||||
Valid |
Broom |
A gorgonopsian. | |||||
Preoccupied |
Broom |
Middle Permian |
A member of Dinocephalia. | ||||
Galerhynchus |
Valid |
Broom |
Late Permian |
A gorgonopsian. | |||
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Valid |
Broom |
Late Permian |
Dicynodon Assemblage Zone |
A member of Thrinaxodontidae. | ||
Notaelurops |
Junior synonym |
Broom |
Late Permian |
Dicynodon Assemblage Zone |
A junior synonym of Theriognathus. | ||
Parathrinaxodon |
Parrington |
Late Permian |
Kawinga Formation |
A junior synonym of Procynosuchus. | |||
Sysphinctostoma |
Junior synonym |
Broili and Schroeder |
Early Triassic |
A junior synonym of Diademodon. | |||
Valid |
von Huene |
Middle Triassic (Ladinian) |
A traversodontid. |
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.
- ^ Mey, Wolfram (2011). "On the systematic position of Baltimartyria Skalski, 1995 and description of a new species from Baltic amber (Lepidoptera, Micropterigidae)". ZooKeys (130): 331–342. doi:10.3897/zookeys.130.1480. PMC 3260770. PMID 22259287.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Nagao, T. 1936. Nipponosaurus sachalinensis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from Japanese Saghalien. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Hokkaido, Geology and Minerals 3 (2): pp. 185-220.
- ^ Camp, C.L. (1936). "A new type of small bipedal dinosaur from the Navajo Sandstone of Arizona". Univ. California Publ. Geol. Sci. 24: 39–56.
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