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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 1941.

Angiosperms[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images
Laurophyllum litseafolia^[2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	MacGinitie	Eocene Ypresian	Ione Formation Chalk Bluffs flora	USA California		A dicot of uncertain affinity. Moved to Artocarpoides litseafolia (1968)^[3] Moved to Dicotylophyllum litseafolia (1969)^[4] Moved to Republica litseafolia (1987)^[5]

Arthropods[edit]

Insects[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Type Location	Notes	Images
Electresia^[6]	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Kuznetsov	Holocene		Tanzania	A Tortricidae moth in copal. The type species is E. zalesskii.	Electresia zalesskii
Proraphidia^[7]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Martynova	Jurassic		Kazakhstan	P. turkestanica named as type species

Conodonts[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location
Bactrognathus^[8]	Valid	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson	Carboniferous
Doliognathus^[8]	Valid	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson	Carboniferous
Scaliognathus^[8]	Valid	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson	Carboniferous	UK
Staurognathus^[8]	Valid	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson	Carboniferous
Taphrognathus^[8]	Valid	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson	Carboniferous

Dinosaurs[edit]

Psittacosaurus gastroliths documented.^[9]

Newly named dinosaurs[edit]

Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.^[10]

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes	Images
Lufengosaurus^[11]	Valid taxon	Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.)	China		Lufengosaurus
Saurophagus^[12]	Preoccupied	Stovall vide: Ray, 1941		Now Saurophaganax.
"Succinodon"^[13]	Original fossil was petrified wood with mollusc borings that was misidentified as a jaw bone with tooth sockets.	Friedrich von Huene	Poland

Plesiosaurs[edit]

New taxa[edit]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Aristonectes	Valid	Cabrera		Antarctica Argentina Chile	A Long-Necked Plesiosaur.	Aristonectes

Synapsids[edit]

Non-mammalian[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Bayloria	Junior Synonym				Synonym of Captorhinus.

References[edit]

^ 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.
^ MacGinitie, H. D. (1941). "A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada". Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 534: 1–178.
^ Wolfe, J.A. (1968). Paleogene Biostratigraphy of nonmarine rocks in King County, Washington (Report). Professional Paper. Vol. 571. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–29. doi:10.3133/pp571.
^ Wolfe, J.A. (1977). Paleogene floras from the Gulf of Alaska region (Report). Professional Paper. Vol. 997. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–108. doi:10.3133/pp997.
^ Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). Middle Eocene dicotyledonous plants from Republic, northeastern Washington (Report). Bulletin. Vol. 1597. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–25. doi:10.3133/b1597.
^ Maria Heikkilä; John W. Brown; Joaquin Baixeras; Wolfram Mey; Mikhail V. Kozlov (2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 4394 (1): 41–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.
^ Jepson, J.E.; Jarzembowski, E.A. (2008). "Two new species of snakefly (Insecta:Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Spain with a review of other fossil raphidiopterans from the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition" (PDF). Alavesia. 2: 193–201. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e New and Little Known Carboniferous Conodont Genera. E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Mar., 1941), pages 97-106 (Stable URL, retrieved 29 April 2015)
^ Brown (1941). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Young, C.-C. 1941. A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Paleontol Sinica (N.S.) Ser. C7: pp. 1-53.
^ Stovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat. Hist. 48: pp. 36-39.
^ Huene, F. von. 1941. Die Tetrapoden-Fahrten im toskanischen Verrucano und ihre Bedeutung. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. 1941B: pp. 1-34.

Brown, B. 1941. The last dinosaurs. – Natural History 48: 290–295.
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.

[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.

[MacGinitie1941-2] MacGinitie, H. D. (1941). "A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada". Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 534: 1–178.

[Wolfe1968-3] Wolfe, J.A. (1968). Paleogene Biostratigraphy of nonmarine rocks in King County, Washington (Report). Professional Paper. Vol. 571. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–29. doi:10.3133/pp571.

[Wolfe1977-4] Wolfe, J.A. (1977). Paleogene floras from the Gulf of Alaska region (Report). Professional Paper. Vol. 997. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–108. doi:10.3133/pp997.

[WandW87-5] Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). Middle Eocene dicotyledonous plants from Republic, northeastern Washington (Report). Bulletin. Vol. 1597. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–25. doi:10.3133/b1597.

[ZT43941-6] Maria Heikkilä; John W. Brown; Joaquin Baixeras; Wolfram Mey; Mikhail V. Kozlov (2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 4394 (1): 41–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.

[Jepson2008-7] Jepson, J.E.; Jarzembowski, E.A. (2008). "Two new species of snakefly (Insecta:Raphidioptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Spain with a review of other fossil raphidiopterans from the Jurassic/Cretaceous transition" (PDF). Alavesia. 2: 193–201. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18.

[Branson&Mehl1941-8] New and Little Known Carboniferous Conodont Genera. E. B. Branson and M. G. Mehl, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Mar., 1941), pages 97-106 (Stable URL, retrieved 29 April 2015)

[brown-sanders-9] Brown (1941). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.

[ddinogeorge-10] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[11] Young, C.-C. 1941. A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) from Lufeng, Yunnan, China. Paleontol Sinica (N.S.) Ser. C7: pp. 1-53.

[12] Stovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat. Hist. 48: pp. 36-39.

[13] Huene, F. von. 1941. Die Tetrapoden-Fahrten im toskanischen Verrucano und ihre Bedeutung. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. 1941B: pp. 1-34.

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1941 in paleontology

Angiosperms[edit]

Arthropods[edit]

Insects[edit]

Conodonts[edit]

Dinosaurs[edit]

Newly named dinosaurs[edit]

Plesiosaurs[edit]

New taxa[edit]

Synapsids[edit]

Non-mammalian[edit]

References[edit]

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