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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1944.

Plants

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Cornus republicensis

Nom nov

jr synonym

LaMotte

Ypresian

Tom Thumb Tuff
Klondike Mountain Formation

 USA
 Washington

A replacement name for Cornus acuminata Berry, 1929
Moved to Schoepfia republicensis in 1987

Schoepfia republicensis

Arthropods

Newly named crustaceans

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Palaeophoberus portlandicus

Sp nov

Valid

Roger & Lapparent

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

Hannaches

 France

A stenochirid

Conodonts

Name Status Authors Location Images

Siphonodella

valid

Dinosaurs

  • The only known fossils of Poekilopleuron are destroyed during the Allied liberation of Normandy.

Newly named dinosaurs

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

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Sanpasaurus

Nomen dubium.

  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
 It has been argued that his remains were ornithopods or sauropods. They are now the remains of a sauropod.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Location Notes

Sinopliosaurus

Valid

Young

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. Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). "Middle Eocene Dicotyledonous Plants from Republic, Northeastern Washington". United States Geological Survey Bulletin. 1597: 1–25.
  3. Roger, J.; Lapparent, A.F. (1944). "Une nouvelle espèce de crustacé décapode Palaeophoberus portlandicus, découverte dans le Portlandien du Pays de Bray". Bulletin de la Société géologique de France. 14: 365–374.
  4. Conodonts. EB Branson and MG Mehl, in HW Shimer and RR Shrock, Index Fossils of North America. 1944
  5. Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
  6. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  7. Young C.-C. 1944. On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 24: pp. 187-209.
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