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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 1952.

Plants

Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Syrmosaurus		Junior synonym	Maleev	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)			Junior synonym of Pinacosaurus.
Talarurus		Valid	Maleev	Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian)	Bayan Shireh Formation	Mongolia	An ankylosaurid.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alzadasaurus kansasensis	Sp nov	jr synonym	Welles	Late Cretaceous Early Campanian	Niobrara Formation	USA  Kansas	A long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur. Synonymized with Styxosaurus snowii in 1999
Styxosaurus browni	Sp nov	valid	Welles	Late Cretaceous Early Campanian	Pierre Shale	USA  Wyoming	A long-necked elasmosaurid plesiosaur. Synonymized with Hydralmosaurus serpentinus in 1999 Removed from synonymy in 2016

Synapsids

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. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
3. Maleev, E. A. (1952). "Новое семейство бронированные динозавры из верхнего производство мела Монголии" [A new family of armored dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 87: 131–134.
4. Maleev, E. A. (1952). "Новый анкилозавр из верхнего мела Монголии" [A new ankylosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia]. Doklady Akademii Nauk SSSR. 87: 273–276.
5. ^ Carpenter, K. (1999). "Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173.

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