1951 in paleontology

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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 1951.

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	A leptoceratopsid.
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	South Africa	A junior synonym of Nanictosaurus.
Gomphodontoides	Jr. synonym	Brink and Kitching	Middle Triassic	Burgersdorp Formation	South Africa	A junior synonym of Diademodon.
Proalopecopsis	Valid	Brink and Kitching	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A therocephalian.
Silphedocynodon	Junior synonym	Brink	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	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 Karrowalteria Kuhn, 1938

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". 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.