1946 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 1946.

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries[]

Institutions and organizations[]

Natural history museums[]

The director of the Allied Art Centre, which had taken over the Coste House where the former collections of the defunct Calgary Public Museum were stored, ordered most of the items- including dinosaur fossils- to be incinerated.^[2]

Scientific organizations[]

Scientific advances[]

Paleoanthropology[]

Paleobotany[]

Evolutionary biology[]

Exopaleontology[]

Extinction research[]

Micropaleontology[]

Invertebrate paleozoology[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi.^[3]	Sp nov	synonym	Reed	Ashgillian		Scotland	transferred to Similodonta in 1964
Nucula magna.^[3]	Sp nov	synonym	Lamont	Ashgillian		Scotland	transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Trace fossils[]

Vertebrate paleozoology[]

Research techniques[]

Fossil trade[]

Law and politics[]

Regulation of fossil collection, transport, or sale[]

Fossil-related crime[]

Official symbols[]

Protected areas[]

Ethics and practice[]

Hoaxes[]

Scandals[]

Unethical practice[]

People[]

Births[]

Awards and recognition[]

Deaths[]

Historiography and anthropology of paleontology[]

Pseudoscience[]

Popular culture[]

Amusement parks and attractions[]

Art[]

Comics[]

Film[]

Gaming[]

Literature[]

Philately[]

Television[]

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.
^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.

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[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.

[cutler-2] 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.

[Cope1999-3] Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.

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