1927 in paleontology

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 1927.

List of years in paleontology (table)
In science
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1925
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1930

Mollusks

Gastropods

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Condonella[2]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

McLellan

Campanian

Cedar District Formation

A Urocoptid land snail

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Cetiosauriscus[4]

Gen. nov.

Valid

Huene

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Oxford Clay Formation

Cambridgeshire,
 UK

A non-neosauropod eusauropod known from a forelimb and rear half of a skeleton. The type species is Cetiosauriscus stewarti.

Newly named birds

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Phasmagyps[5]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Wetmore

Chadronian

Chadron Formation

A New World vulture.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Anningia

Gen et sp nov

Nomen dubium

Broom

Middle Permian

An indeterminate synapsid.

Cynosaurus

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Schmidt

Late Permian

Dicynodon Assemblage Zone

A member of Galesauridae.

Permocynodon

Gen et sp nov

Junior synonym

Sushkin

Late Permian

Vyatkian Horizon

A junior synonym of Dvinia.

Mammals

Name Authors Age Location Notes Images
Alphadon Simpson 70 Million years ago A Cretaceous Marsupial.

Cetaceans

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Aulophyseter

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Kellogg

Middle Miocene (Langhian)

Temblor Formation

 US ( California)

A close relative of the sperm whale.

Stenodelphis sternbergi

Sp. nov

Valid

Gregory & Kellogg

Late Pliocene (Piacenzian)

San Diego Formation

 US ( California

A close relative of the baiji; now referred to Parapontoporia

References

  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. Roth, B. (2000). "Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) land snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) from Washington and California". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 66 (3): 373–381. doi:10.1093/mollus/66.3.373.
  3. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  4. Huene, F. von (1927). "Sichtung der Grundlagen der jetzigen Kenntnis der Sauropoden" (PDF). Eclogae Geologica Helveticae. 20: 444–470.
  5. Wetmore, A. (1927). "Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of Colorado" (PDF). Proceedings of the Colorado Museum of Natural History. 7 (2): 1–14.
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