1941 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 1941.

List of years in paleontology (table)
In science
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944

Arthropods

New taxa
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Type Location Notes Images

Electresia[2]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Kuznetsov

Holocene

 Tanzania

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

Proraphidia[3]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Martynova

Jurassic

 Kazakhstan

P. turkestanica named as type species

Conodonts
Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Bactrognathus[4]

 Valid Carboniferous

Doliognathus[4]

 Valid Carboniferous

Scaliognathus[4]

 Valid Carboniferous

Staurognathus[4]

 Valid Carboniferous

Taphrognathus[4]

 Valid Carboniferous

Dinosaurs
  • Psittacosaurus gastroliths documented.[5]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[6]

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images
Lufengosaurus[7] Valid taxon
  • Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)
Lufengosaurus
Saurophagus[8] Preoccupied

Stovall vide:

  • Ray, 1941

Now Saurophaganax.

"Succinodon"[9] 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 Synonim

 Synonim of Captorhinus.

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. Maria Heikkilä; John W. Brown; Joaquin Baixeras; Wolfram Mey; Mikhail V. Kozlov (2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 4394 (1): 41–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.
  3. 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.
  4. 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)
  5. Brown (1941). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  6. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  7. 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.
  8. Stovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat. Hist. 48: pp. 36-39.
  9. 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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