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 1934.

List of years in paleontology (table)
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Arthropods

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Insects

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Lestes incertus[2]

Sp. nov

synonym

Piton

Piacenzian

Lake Chambon

  France

A Lestid damselfly,
moved to Sympecma incerta in 1994

 
Sympecma incerta

Conodonts

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Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Ancyrognathus[3]

Valid taxon

Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri

  USA

Pseudopolygnathus[3]

Valid taxon

Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri

  USA

Vertebrates

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Dinosaurs

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Newly named dinosaurs

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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Bahariasaurus[5]

Valid taxon

Late Cretaceous I (Cenomanian)

Bahariya Formation

A Megaraptorian.

 
Bahariasaurus
Brachypodosaurus[6]

Nomen dubium.

  • Chakravarti

Maastrichtian

Lameta Formation

An ornithischian.

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Arctognathoides

Jr. synonym

Boonstra

Late Permian

Dicynodon Assemblage Zone

A junior synonym of Arctognathus.

Compsodon

Valid

van Hoepen

Late Permian

Dicynodon Assemblage Zone

A member of Emydopoidea.

Daptocephalus

Valid

van Hoepen

Late Permian

Dicynodon Assemblage Zone

A member of Dicynodontoidea.

 
Daptocephalus

Emydopsoides

Jr. synonym

van Hoepen

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

A junior synonym of Emydops.

Pachyrhinos

Jr. synonym

Broili and Schroeder

Middle Permian

Middle Abrahamskraal Formation

A junior synonym of Gorgonops.

Pelorocyclops

Jr. synonym

van Hoepen

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

A junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus.

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. ^ Nel, A.; Paicheler, J.-C. (1994). "Les Lestoidea (Odonata, Zygoptera) fossiles : un inventaire critique". Annales de Paléontologie. 80 (1): 1–59.
  3. ^ a b Conodonts from Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri. EB Branson and MG Mehl, Univ. Missouri Studies, 1934
  4. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. ^ Stromer, E. 1934. Vertebrate animal remainders of the Baharije stage (lowest Cenoman). 13. Dinosauria. Abh. Bavarian. Akad. Wissensch. Math. naturwiss. Abbott. 22: pp. 1 79.
  6. ^ Chakravarti, D.K. 1934. On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Q. I Mineral. Metallurg. Soc. India 30: pp. 75-79.