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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

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Angiosperms

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Superrosids - Fabids

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images

Paliurus hesperius[2]

Sp nov

valid?

Berry

Miocene
Langhian

Latah Formation
Grand Coulee florule

 USA
 Washington

A Paliurus species
Synonymized into Paliurus favonii (2008)[3]
But contested in 2014[4]

Archosauromorphs

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Dinosaurs

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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images

Edmontonia[6]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Sternberg

Cretaceous
Campanian - Maastrichtian

Horseshoe Canyon Formation

 Canada
 Alberta

A panoplosaurine nodosaur.
The type species is E. longiceps

Edmontonia rugosidens

Polacanthoides[7]

Gen et sp nov

junior synonym

Nopcsa

Early Cretaceous

 England

First named as a polacanthine nodosaur
The type species is P. ponderosus
A chimera of Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus.[8]

Scolosaurus[7]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Nopcsa

Cretaceous
Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation

 Canada
 Alberta

A ankylosaurine ankylosaurid.
The type species is S. cutleri

Scolosaurus cutleri

Pterosaurs

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images

Campylognathoides

Gen nov

Valid

Strand

Jurassic
Toarcian

Sachrang Formation
Posidonia Shale

 Germany
 Baden-Württemberg

A campylognathoidid pterosaur

Campylognathoides

Field work

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Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation.[9] He would return yet again in 1935.[9]

Synapsids

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Therapsids

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images

Chalepotherium

Gen nov

Simpson

Gomphodontosuchus

Gen et sp nov

Huene

Triassic
Carnian

 Brazil

A Plant-Eating Cynodont.
The type species is G. brasiliensis

Taurocephalus

Gen et sp nov

Broom

 South Africa

Footnotes

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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. ^ Berry, E.W. (1928). "A Miocene Paliurus from the state of Washington". American Journal of Science. 5 (91): 39–44.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  6. ^ Sternberg, C.H. 1928. A new armored dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Can. Field-Nat. 22: pp. 93-106.
  7. ^ a b Nopcsa, F. (1928). "Paleontological notes on reptiles". Geol. Hungarica, Set. Palaeontol. 1: 1–84.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ a b "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.

References

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  • 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.