List of years in paleontology (table)
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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 1955.

Plants

Pteridophyta

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Azolla primaeva[2]

Comb nov

Valid

(Penhallow) Arnold

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada

A waterfern, moved from Azollophyllum primaevum Penhallow, 1890
Azolla primaeva


Dinosaurs

  • Massospondylus gastroliths are documented.[3]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Majungasaurus[5] Valid taxon René Lavocat Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Maevarano Formation  Madagascar A majungasaurine abelisaurid.
Majungasaurus
Tarbosaurus[6] Valid taxon Evgeny Maleev Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian) Nemegt Formation

Subashi Formation

  Mongolia  China An Asian Tyrannosaurus-looking tyrannosaurid.
Tarbosaurus

Synapsids

Theriodonts

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Sauroctonus Valid Bystrow Late Permian Semen Formation
Teekloof Formation		  Russia A gorgonopsian.
Sauroctonus
Scalenodon Valid Crompton and Parrington Middle Triassic Manda Formation  Tanzania A traversodontid cynodont.

Mammals

Eutherians

Cetaceans
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Lophocetus pappus Now renamed Miminiacetus. Kellogg Middle Miocene (Langhian)
Pelodelphis Valid Kellogg Middle Miocene (Langhian) Calvert Formation *  US ( Maryland) An odontocete of uncertain position.
Tretosphys Valid Kellogg Middle Miocene (Langhian) Calvert Formation  Czech Republic  US ( Maryland,  New Jersey,  North Carolina and  Virginia) An odontocete of uncertain position; new genus for "Delphinapterus" gabbi Cope (1868).

Other Animals

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Dickinsonia spriggi[7] Synonym of Dickinsonia costata Harrington & Moore Ediacaran  Australia

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. ↑ Arnold, C.A. (1955). "A Tertiary Azolla from British Columbia" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of. Paleontology, University of Michigan. 12 (4): 37–45.
  3. ↑ Bond (1955). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  4. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. ↑ Lavocat, R. 1955. Sur une portion de mandibule de thérepode provenant de Crétace supérieur de Madagascar. Bull. Musee Natl. d’Histoire Nat. (ser. 2) 27: pp. 256-259.
  6. ↑ Maleev, E. A. (1955). "Гигантских плотоядных динозавров Монголии" [Gigantic carnivorous dinosaurs of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 104: 634–637.
  7. ↑ Harrington, N.J.; Moore, R.C. (1955). "Kansas Pennsylvanian and other jellyfishes". Bull. Kansas Geol. Surv. 114 (5): 153–163.
  • Bond, G. 1955. A note on dinosaur remains from the Forest Sandstone (Upper Karoo). Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Rhodesia 2: 795–800.
  • Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
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