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1951 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 1951.

Archosaurs

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Newly named dinosaurs

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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Montanoceratops[3]

Valid

Charles M. Sternberg

Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian)

St. Mary River Formation

A leptoceratopsid.

Montanoceratops

Pachysuchus

Nomen dubium

Young

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Lufeng Formation

A dubious basal sauropodomorph.

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Baurocynodon

Junior synonym

Brink

Late Permian

Dicynodon Assemblage Zone

A junior synonym of Nanictosaurus.

Gomphodontoides

Jr. synonym

Brink and Kitching

Middle Triassic

Burgersdorp Formation

A junior synonym of Diademodon.

Silphedocynodon

Junior synonym

Brink

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

A junior synonym of Procynosuchus.

Walteria

Preoccupied

Brink and Kitching

Middle Permian

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A junior homonym of Walteria Schulze, 1885; renamed Karroowalteria Kuhn, 1938

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. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  3. ^ Sternberg, C. M. 1951. Complete skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis Brown from the Upper Edmonton member on Red Deer River, Alberta. Bull. Nail. Museum Can. 123: pp. 225-255.