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

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

Newly named dinosaurs

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

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

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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

Other Animals

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

^ 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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