1941 in paleontology

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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 1941.

Angiosperms

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images

Laurophyllum litseafolia[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

MacGinitie

Eocene
Ypresian

Ione Formation
Chalk Bluffs flora

 USA
 California

A dicot of uncertain affinity.
Moved to Artocarpoides litseafolia (1968)[3]
Moved to Dicotylophyllum litseafolia (1969)[4]
Moved to Republica litseafolia (1987)[5]

Arthropods

Insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Type Location Notes Images

Electresia[6]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Kuznetsov

Holocene

 Tanzania

A Tortricidae moth in copal.
The type species is E. zalesskii.

Electresia zalesskii

Proraphidia[7]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Martynova

Jurassic

 Kazakhstan

P. turkestanica named as type species

Conodonts

Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Bactrognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Doliognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Scaliognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Staurognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Taphrognathus[8]

Valid Carboniferous

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[10]

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images
Lufengosaurus[11] Valid taxon
  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
Lufengosaurus
Saurophagus[12]
 Preoccupied

Stovall vide:

  • Ray, 1941

Now Saurophaganax.

"Succinodon"[13] Original fossil was petrified wood with mollusc borings that was misidentified as a jaw bone with tooth sockets.

Friedrich von Huene

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Aristonectes

Valid

Cabrera

A Long-Necked
Plesiosaur.
Aristonectes

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Bayloria

Junior Synonym

Synonym of Captorhinus.

References

  1. OCLC 46769716
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  2. ^ MacGinitie, H. D. (1941). "A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada". Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 534: 1–178.
  3. doi:10.3133/pp571
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  4. doi:10.3133/pp997
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  5. doi:10.3133/b1597
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  6. PMID 29690381
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  7. ^ Jepson, J.E.; Jarzembowski, E.A. (2008). "Two new species of snakefly (Insecta:Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Spain with a review of other fossil raphidiopterans from the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition" (PDF). Alavesia. 2: 193–201. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18.
  8. ^ a b c d e New and Little Known Carboniferous Conodont Genera. E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Mar., 1941), pages 97-106 (Stable URL, retrieved 29 April 2015)
  9. ^ Brown (1941). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  10. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  11. ^ Young, C.-C. 1941. A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Paleontol Sinica (N.S.) Ser. C7: pp. 1-53.
  12. ^ Stovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat. Hist. 48: pp. 36-39.
  13. ^ Huene, F. von. 1941. Die Tetrapoden-Fahrten im toskanischen Verrucano und ihre Bedeutung. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. 1941B: pp. 1-34.
  • Brown, B. 1941. The last dinosaurs. – Natural History 48: 290–295.
  • 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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