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1944 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 1944.

Plants

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Cornus republicensis[2]

Nom nov

jr synonym

LaMotte

Ypresian

Tom Thumb Tuff
Klondike Mountain Formation

 USA
 Washington

A replacement name for Cornus acuminata Berry, 1929
Moved to Schoepfia republicensis in 1987

Schoepfia republicensis

Arthropods

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Newly named crustaceans

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Palaeophoberus portlandicus[3]

Sp nov

Valid

Roger & Lapparent

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

Hannaches

 France

A stenochirid

Conodonts

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Name Status Authors Location Images

Siphonodella[4]

valid

Dinosaurs

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  • The only known fossils of Poekilopleuron are destroyed during the Allied liberation of Normandy.[5]

Newly named dinosaurs

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Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[6]

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Sanpasaurus[7]

Nomen dubium.

  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
It has been argued that his remains were ornithopods or sauropods. They are now the remains of a sauropod.

Plesiosaurs

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New taxa

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Name Status Authors Location Notes

Sinopliosaurus

Valid

Young

References

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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.
  2. ^ Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). "Middle Eocene Dicotyledonous Plants from Republic, Northeastern Washington". United States Geological Survey Bulletin. 1597: 1–25.
  3. ^ Roger, J.; Lapparent, A.F. (1944). "Une nouvelle espèce de crustacé décapode Palaeophoberus portlandicus, découverte dans le Portlandien du Pays de Bray". Bulletin de la Société géologique de France. 14: 365–374.
  4. ^ Conodonts. EB Branson and MG Mehl, in HW Shimer and RR Shrock, Index Fossils of North America. 1944
  5. ^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
  6. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  7. ^ Young C.-C. 1944. On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 24: pp. 187-209.