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1941 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 1941.

Angiosperms

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images

Laurophyllum litseafolia[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

MacGinitie

Eocene
Ypresian

Ione Formation
Chalk Bluffs flora

 USA
 California

A dicot of uncertain affinity.
Moved to Artocarpoides litseafolia (1968)[3]
Moved to Dicotylophyllum litseafolia (1969)[4]
Moved to Republica litseafolia (1987)[5]

Arthropods

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Insects

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Type Location Notes Images

Electresia[6]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Kuznetsov

Holocene

 Tanzania

A Tortricidae moth in copal.
The type species is E. zalesskii.

Electresia zalesskii

Proraphidia[7]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Martynova

Jurassic

 Kazakhstan

P. turkestanica named as type species

Conodonts

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Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Bactrognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Doliognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Scaliognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Staurognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Taphrognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Dinosaurs

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  • Psittacosaurus gastroliths documented.[9]

Newly named dinosaurs

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Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[10]

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images
Lufengosaurus[11] Valid taxon
  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
Lufengosaurus
Saurophagus[12] Preoccupied

Stovall vide:

  • Ray, 1941

Now Saurophaganax.

"Succinodon"[13] Original fossil was petrified wood with mollusc borings that was misidentified as a jaw bone with tooth sockets.

Friedrich von Huene

Plesiosaurs

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New taxa

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Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Aristonectes

Valid

Cabrera

A Long-Necked Plesiosaur.
Aristonectes

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Bayloria

Junior Synonym

Synonym of Captorhinus.

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. ^ MacGinitie, H. D. (1941). "A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada". Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 534: 1–178.
  3. ^ Wolfe, J.A. (1968). Paleogene Biostratigraphy of nonmarine rocks in King County, Washington (Report). Professional Paper. Vol. 571. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–29. doi:10.3133/pp571.
  4. ^ Wolfe, J.A. (1977). Paleogene floras from the Gulf of Alaska region (Report). Professional Paper. Vol. 997. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–108. doi:10.3133/pp997.
  5. ^ Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). Middle Eocene dicotyledonous plants from Republic, northeastern Washington (Report). Bulletin. Vol. 1597. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–25. doi:10.3133/b1597.
  6. ^ Maria Heikkilä; John W. Brown; Joaquin Baixeras; Wolfram Mey; Mikhail V. Kozlov (2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 4394 (1): 41–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.
  7. ^ Jepson, J.E.; Jarzembowski, E.A. (2008). "Two new species of snakefly (Insecta:Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Spain with a review of other fossil raphidiopterans from the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition" (PDF). Alavesia. 2: 193–201. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18.
  8. ^ a b c d e New and Little Known Carboniferous Conodont Genera. E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Mar., 1941), pages 97-106 (Stable URL, retrieved 29 April 2015)
  9. ^ Brown (1941). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  10. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  11. ^ Young, C.-C. 1941. A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Paleontol Sinica (N.S.) Ser. C7: pp. 1-53.
  12. ^ Stovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat. Hist. 48: pp. 36-39.
  13. ^ Huene, F. von. 1941. Die Tetrapoden-Fahrten im toskanischen Verrucano und ihre Bedeutung. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. 1941B: pp. 1-34.
  • Brown, B. 1941. The last dinosaurs. – Natural History 48: 290–295.
  • Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.