1951 in paleontology

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.

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Archosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[2]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Montanoceratops[3]	Valid	Charles M. Sternberg	Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian)	St. Mary River Formation	Canada ( Alberta)  USA ( Montana)	A leptoceratopsid.	Montanoceratops
Pachysuchus	Nomen dubium	Young	Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)	Lufeng Formation	China	A dubious basal sauropodomorph.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Baurocynodon	Junior synonym	Brink	Late Permian	Dicynodon Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Nanictosaurus.
Gomphodontoides	Jr. synonym	Brink and Kitching	Middle Triassic	Burgersdorp Formation		A junior synonym of Diademodon.
Silphedocynodon	Junior synonym	Brink	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Procynosuchus.
Walteria	Preoccupied	Brink and Kitching	Middle Permian	Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A junior homonym of Walteria Schulze, 1885; renamed Karroowalteria Kuhn, 1938

References

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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. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
3. 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.