1938 in paleontology

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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 1938.

Dinosaurs

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New taxa

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images
"Antarctosaurus jaxarticus"[2] Nomen nudum Riabinin Santonian Dabrazinskaya Svita  Kazakhstan An informal species of Antarctosaurus
"Bactrosaurus prynadai"[2] Nomen nudum Riabinin Santonian Dabrazinskaya Svita  Kazakhstan A species of Bactrosaurus, formally described in 1939
"Jaxartosaurus aralensis"[2] Nomen nudum Riabinin Santonian Dabrazinskaya Svita  Kazakhstan A hadrosaurid, formally described in 1939

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type strata Location Notes Images

Dinanomodon[3]

Valid

Broom

 South Africa

Dinanomodon

Haughtoniana

Valid

Boonstra

Ictidosuchops

Valid

Broom

 South Africa

Pelanomodon[3]

Valid

Broom

 South Africa

Pelanomodon

Rubidgea[4]

Valid

Broom

 South Africa

Rubidgea

Titanophoneus

Valid

Efremov

 Russia

Titanophoneus

Ulemosaurus

Valid

Riabinin

 Russia

Ulemosaurus

Mammals

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type Strata Location Notes Images

Cooperia[5]

Gen. et. sp. nov.

Jr Homonym

Wood

Eocene

Irdin Manha Formation

 China

The type species is C. totadentata.
A replacement name Forstercooperia given in 1939.
Genus a jr homonym of the nematode Cooperia Ransom

Forstercooperia totadentata

Pachycrocuta[6]

Valid

Kretzoi

Pachycrocuta

Panthera gombaszoegensis[6]

Sp nov

Valid

Kretzoi

Pleistocene

 Italy

Panthera gombaszoegensis

Sarkastodon[7]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Granger

Eocene

Irdin Manha Formation

 China

The type species is S. mongoliensis

Sarkastodon mongoliensis

Xenocyon[6]

Valid

Kretzoi

Xenocyon

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. ^ a b c Riabinin, A.N. (1938). "Некоторые Результаты Изучения Верхнемеловой Динозавровой Фауны Из Окрестностей Ст. Сары-агач В Южном Казахстане" [Some results of the studies of the Upper Cretaceous dinosaurian fauna from the vicinity of the station Sary-Agach, South Kazakhstan]. Problems of Paleontology. 4: 125–135.
  3. ^ a b Broom, R. (1938). "On two new anomodont genera" (PDF). Annals of the Transvaal Museum: 247–250.
  4. ^ Broom, R. (October 1938). "20. On a New Family of Carnivorous Therapsids from the Karroo Beds of South Africa". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. B108 (3): 527–533. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1938.tb08528.x. ISSN 0370-2774.
  5. ^ Wood, Horace Elmer (December 30, 1938). "Cooperia totadentata, a remarkable rhinoceros from the Eocene of Mongolia". American Museum Novitates (1012): 1–20. hdl:2246/2209.
  6. ^ a b c Kretzoi, M. (1938). "Die Raubtiere von Gombaszög nebst einer Übersicht der Gesamtfauna (Ein Beitrag zur Stratigraphie des Altquartärs)". Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici. 31. Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum: 88–157.
  7. ^ Granger, Walter (April 21, 1938). "A giant oxyaenid from the Upper Eocene of Mongolia. American Museum novitates; no. 969". American Museum Novitates (969): 1–5. hdl:2246/2199.