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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 1951.
Archosaurs
[edit]Newly named dinosaurs
[edit]Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]
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Valid |
Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian) |
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Young |
Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
A dubious basal sauropodomorph. |
Synapsids
[edit]Non-mammalian
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Junior synonym |
Brink |
Late Permian |
A junior synonym of Nanictosaurus. |
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Jr. synonym |
Brink and Kitching |
Middle Triassic |
A junior synonym of Diademodon. | ||||
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Junior synonym |
Brink |
A junior synonym of Procynosuchus. | |||||
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Preoccupied |
Brink and Kitching |
A junior homonym of Walteria Schulze, 1885; renamed Karroowalteria Kuhn, 1938 |
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Sternberg, C. M. 1951. Complete skeleton of Leptoceratops gracilis Brown from the Upper Edmonton member on Red Deer River, Alberta. Bull. Nail. Museum Can. 123: pp. 225-255.
Well, that’s interesting to know that Psilotum nudum are known as whisk ferns. Psilotum nudum is the commoner species of the two. While the P. flaccidum is a rare species and is found in the tropical islands. Both the species are usually epiphytic in habit and grow upon tree ferns. These species may also be terrestrial and grow in humus or in the crevices of the rocks.
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