1957 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 1957.
Arthropoda
Crustaceans
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Enoplocytia tenuidigitata[2] | Sp nov | Valid | Woods | Roma Formation | An erymid | |||
Glyphea oculata[2] | Sp nov | Valid | Woods | Upper Albian | Tambo Formation | A glypheid | ||
Tillocheles[2] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Woods | Upper Albian | Tambo Formation | A stenochirid, type species is T. shannonae |
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Ameghinoia[3] | Gen et sp nov | jr synonym | Viana & Haedo Rossi | Ventana Formation | A Myrmeciine ant |
Molluscs
Gastropods
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aplexa ricei[4] | Sp nov | valid | Russell | An aplexine physid bladder snail | ||||
Ferrissia arionoides[4] | Sp nov | valid | Russell | An ancyline planorbid ramshorn snail | ||||
Micropyrgus camselli[4] | Sp nov | valid | Russell | |||||
Physa saxarubrensis[4] | Sp nov | valid | Russell | A physine physid bladder snail | ||||
Stagnicola tulameenensis[4] | Sp nov | valid | Russell | A lymnaeine lymnaeid pond snail |
Archosauromorpha
Newly named dinosaurs
Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Lexovisaurus[6] | Valid | Middle Jurassic (Callovian) | A stegosaurid. | |||||
Lusitanosaurus[7] | Valid |
| Early Jurassic | Unnamed unit | A basal thyreophoran. |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Valid |
| Middle Triassic | Potrereillos Formation | A traversodontid; a replacement name for Colbertia Minoprio (1954) | ||||
Valid |
| A traversodontid. |
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.
- ^ a b c Woods, James T. (1957). "Macrurous Decapods from the Cretaceous of Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 13 (3): 155–175.
- ^ Dlussky, G.M. (2012). "New Fossil Ants of the Subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Germany". Paleontological Journal. 46 (3): 288–292. doi:10.1134/s0031030111050054. S2CID 83891156.
- ^ a b c d e Russell, L. S. (1957). "Mollusca from the Tertiary of Princeton, British Columbia". National Museum of Canada Bulletin. 147: 84–95.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Hoffstetter, R. 1957. Quelques observations sur le Stegosaurines. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (2nd series) 29: pp. 537- 547.
- ^ Lapparent, A.F. de and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal. Mémoires du Service géologique du Portugal 2: pp. 1-63.
- ^ Mionoprio, J. L., 1957, Nota aclaratoria sobre Colberta muralis: Ameghiniana, v. 1, p. 144.
- ^ A. W. Crompton and F. Ellenberger. 1957. On a new cynodont from the Molteno Beds and the origin of the tritylodontids. Annals of the South African Museum 44:1-14