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1941 in paleontology

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Summary

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Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Type Location	Notes	Images

Conodonts

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
	Valid		Carboniferous
	Valid		Carboniferous
	Valid		Carboniferous
	Valid		Carboniferous
	Valid		Carboniferous

Dinosaurs

Psittacosaurus gastroliths documented.

Newly named dinosaurs

Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes	Images
LufengosaurusYoung, C.-C. 1941. A complete osteology of	Valid taxon
SaurophagusStovall vide Ray, G.E. 1941. Big for his day. Nat.	Preoccupied
"Succinodon"Huene, F. von. 1941. Die Tetrapoden-Fahrten im	Original fossil was petrified wood with mollusc borings that was misidentified as a jaw bone with tooth sockets.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes	Images
					A Long-Necked Plesiosaur.

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Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
					Synonym of Captorhinus.

References

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.

References

(1941). "A Middle Eocene Flora from the Central Sierra Nevada". Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.
(1968). "Paleogene Biostratigraphy of nonmarine rocks in King County, Washington". United States Geological Survey.
(1977). "Paleogene floras from the Gulf of Alaska region". United States Geological Survey.
(1987). "Middle Eocene dicotyledonous plants from Republic, northeastern Washington". United States Geological Survey.
(2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa.
(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". Alavesia.
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 ([https://www.jstor.org/stable/1298937 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".

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