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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 1932.

Paleobotany

Newly described angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Viburnum whitebirdensis[2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Ashlee	Middle Micene	White Bird Flora	USA	Synonym of Acer whitebirdense

Condonts

Newly named conodonts

Stauffer & Plummer described the condont genus Gondolella.^[3]

Archosauromorphs

Newly named basal archosauromorphs

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Spinosuchus[4]	Valid	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (late Carnian)	Tecovas Formation	US	A member of Trilophosauridae.

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Basutodon[4]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene		Probable rauisuchian.

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[5]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aegyptosaurus[6]	Valid taxon	Stromer		Middle Cretaceous (early Cenomanian)	Bahariya Formation	Egypt	A titanosaur.	Magnosaurus
Betasuchus[4]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene		Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Maastrichtian Beds	Netherlands	A possible abelisauroid.
Caudocoelus[4]		Friedrich von Huene		Late Jurassic {Kimmeridgian)	Unnamed unit	France	Junior objective synonym of Teinurosaurus.
Dolichosuchus[4]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene
Fulgurotherium[4]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Middle Cretaceous (late Albian)	Griman Creek Formation	Australia	A dubious ornithopod.
Iliosuchus[4]	Nomen dubium	Friedrich von Huene		Middle Jurassic (Bathonian	Taynton Limestone Formation	UK	A dubious tetanuran.
"Macrophalangia"[7]		C. M. Sternberg		Late Cretaceous (middle to late Campanian)	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	Junior subjective synonym of Chirostenotes.
Magnosaurus[4]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Middle Jurassic (Bajocian)	Inferior Oolite	UK	A megalosaurid.
Magyarosaurus[4]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)	Sanpetru Formation	Romania	A titanosaur.
Plateosauravus[4]		Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (possibly late Norian to Rhaetian)	Lower Elliot Formation	South Africa	A basal sauropodomorph.
Polyodontosaurus[8]		Gilmore		Late Cretaceous (middle to late Campanian)	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	Junior subjective synonym of Troodon.
Rapator[4]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene		Middle Cretaceous (late Albian)	Griman Creek Formation	Australia	A megaraptoran neovenatorid.
Stenonychosaurus[7]		C. M. Sternberg		Late Cretaceous (middle to late Campanian)	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	Junior subjective synonym of Troodon.
Walgettosuchus[4]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene		Middle Cretaceous (late Albian)	Griman Creek Formation	Australia	A dubious theropod.
Yaleosaurus[4]		Friedrich von Huene		Early Jurassic	Portland Formation	US	Junior subjective synonym of Anchisaurus.

Other diapsids

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Avipes[4]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene
Velocipes[4]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Delphaciognathus	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Gorgonopsia.
Endogomphodon	Junior synonym	Broom	Late Permian	Middle Teekloof Formation	South Africa	A junior synonym of Endothiodon.
Pachytegos	Valid	Sidney Haughton	Late Permian	Kawinga Formation	Tanzania	A member of Endothiodontidae.
Platycyclops	Junior synonym	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus assemblage zone	South Africa	A junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus.
Trirachodontoides	Junior synonym	Broom	Early to Middle Triassic	Cynognathus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A junior synonym of Trirachodon.

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.; Tanai, T. (1987). "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of Western North America". Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and mineralogy. 22 (1): 1–246.
3. Texas Pennsylvanian conodonts and their stratigraphic relations. CR Stauffer, HJ Plummer - University of Texas Bulletin, 1932
4. Huene, F. von. 1932. Die fossile Reptile- Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monogr. Geol. Palaeontol. (Pt. I and II, Ser. I) 4: pp. 1-361.
5. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
6. Stromer, E. 1932. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wusten Agyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 11. Sauropoda: Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematischnaturwissenschafiliche Abteilung, Neue Folge 10, pp. 3-21.
7. Sternberg, C.H. 1932. Two new theropod dinosaurs from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. Can. Field-Nat. 46: pp. 99-105.
8. Gilmore, C.W. 1932. A new fossil lizard from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. (ser. 3) 26: pp. 117-120.