1946 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 1946.

List of years in paleontology (table)
In science
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949

Institutions and organizations

Natural history museums

  • The director of the Allied Art Centre, which had taken over the Coste House where the former collections of the defunct Calgary Public Museum were stored, ordered most of the items- including dinosaur fossils- to be incinerated.[2]

Scientific advances

Invertebrate paleozoology

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi.[3]

Sp nov

synonym

Reed

Ashgillian

 Scotland

transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Nucula magna.[3]

Sp nov

synonym

Lamont

Ashgillian

 Scotland

transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Law and politics

Ethics and practice

People

Awards and recognition


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. D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550.
  3. Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.


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