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 1951.
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Archosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Late Cretaceous (Edmontonian) | ||||||
Young | Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | A dubious basal sauropodomorph. |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Baurocynodon | Junior synonym | Brink | Late Permian | A junior synonym of Nanictosaurus. | |||
Jr. synonym | Brink and Kitching | Middle Triassic | A junior synonym of Diademodon. | ||||
Junior synonym | Brink | A junior synonym of Procynosuchus. | |||||
Preoccupied | Brink and Kitching | A junior homonym of Walteria Schulze, 1885; renamed Karroowalteria Kuhn, 1938 |