1947 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 1947.

Mosses[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Palaeohypnum^[2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Steere	Eocene Pribonian	Florissant Formation	United States Colorado		A moss genus. The type species is P. patens Also included P. arnoldianum, P. brittoniae, P. brownii, & P. knowltoni Species moved to Archaeomnium in 1952 Moved to Hypnites in 1980^[3]

Archosauromorphs[edit]

Newly named dinosaurs[edit]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Amygdalodon^[5]	Nomen dubium	Cabrera	Middle Jurassic Toarcian	* Argentina	A sauropod known from some vertebrae, ribs, four complete and three partial teeth, and a partial pelvis and shoulder-blade.	Amygdalodon

Newly named pseudosuchians[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Notes	Images
Arizonasaurus^[6]	Valid	Welles	Middle Triassic (Anisian)	USA ( Arizona and New Mexico)	A poposaurid.	Arizonasaurus

Synapsids[edit]

Non-mammalian[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Kunminia	Valid	Young	Sinemurian	* China

Other Animals[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Dickinsonia^[7]	Valid	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia Russia and Ukraine	A bilaterian of uncertain affinities
Papilionata	Synonym of Dickinsonia	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia

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.
^ LaMotte, R.S. (1952). Catalogue of the Cenozoic plants of North America through 1950. Geological Society of America Memoirs. Vol. 51. Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/MEM51.
^ Miller, N. G. (1980). "Fossil mosses of North America and their significance". The Mosses of North America. pp. 9–36.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Cabrera, A. 1947. Un sauropodo nuevo del Jurasico de Patagonia. Motas Mus. La Plata 12 Paleontol. 95: pp. 1-17.
^ Welles, S.P. 1947. Vertebrates from the upper Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. University of California Publications Geol. Sci. 27: pp. 241-294.
^ Sprigg, Reg C. (1947). "Early Cambrian (?) jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia" (PDF). Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 71: 212–24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-29.

[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.

[LaMotte52-2] LaMotte, R.S. (1952). Catalogue of the Cenozoic plants of North America through 1950. Geological Society of America Memoirs. Vol. 51. Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/MEM51.

[Miller1980-3] Miller, N. G. (1980). "Fossil mosses of North America and their significance". The Mosses of North America. pp. 9–36.

[ddinogeorge-4] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[5] Cabrera, A. 1947. Un sauropodo nuevo del Jurasico de Patagonia. Motas Mus. La Plata 12 Paleontol. 95: pp. 1-17.

[6] Welles, S.P. 1947. Vertebrates from the upper Moenkopi Formation of northern Arizona. University of California Publications Geol. Sci. 27: pp. 241-294.

[Sprigg1947-7] Sprigg, Reg C. (1947). "Early Cambrian (?) jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia" (PDF). Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 71: 212–24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-29.

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