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1927 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 1927.

Mollusks

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Gastropods

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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

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Newly named dinosaurs

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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

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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

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Non-mammalian

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Anningia

Gen et sp nov

Nomen dubium

Broom

Middle Permian

A member of Varanopidae.

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

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

Cetaceans

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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

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  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". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. 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.