1928 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 1928.
Plants
Angiosperms
Superrosids - Fabids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Paliurus hesperius[2] | Sp nov | valid? | Latah Formation |
| A Paliurus species |
Archosauromorphs
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Edmontonia[6] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | A panoplosaurine nodosaur. | ![]() | |||||
Gen et sp nov | First named as a polacanthine nodosaur | ||||||||
Scolosaurus[7] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | A ankylosaurine ankylosaurid. | ![]() |
Pterosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov | Valid | Strand | ![]() |
Field work
Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation.[9] He would return yet again in 1935.[9]
Synapsids
Therapsids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov | Simpson | ||||||||
Gen et sp nov | Huene | A Plant-Eating Cynodont. | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Broom |
Footnotes
- ^ 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.
- ^ Berry, E.W. (1928). "A Miocene Paliurus from the state of Washington". American Journal of Science. 5 (91): 39–44.
- ^ Burge, D.O.; Manchester, S.R. (2008). "Fruit morphology, fossil history, and biogeography of Paliurus (Rhamnaceae)". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 169 (8): 1066–1085.
- ^ Li, X.; Wang, H.; Leng, Q.; Xiao, L.; Guo, J.; He, W. (2014). "Paliurus (Paliureae, Rhamnaceae) from the Miocene of East China and its Macrofossil-based Phylogenetic and Phytogeographical History". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 88 (5): 1364–1377. doi:10.1111/1755-6724.12304. S2CID 129463506.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Sternberg, C.H. 1928. A new armored dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Can. Field-Nat. 22: pp. 93-106.
- ^ a b Nopcsa, F. (1928). "Paleontological notes on reptiles". Geol. Hungarica, Set. Palaeontol. 1: 1–84.
- ^ Raven, T.J.; Barrett, P.M.; Pond, S.B.; Maidment, S.C. (2020). "Osteology and Taxonomy of British Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–Aptian) Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (4). doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1826956.
- ^ a b "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
References
- Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.