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1944 in paleontology

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Summary

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Plants

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Synonymized taxa	Notes	Images

Arthropods

Newly named crustaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images

Conodonts

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Images

Dinosaurs

The only known fossils of Poekilopleuron are destroyed during the Allied liberation of Normandy.

Newly named dinosaurs

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

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes	Images
					It has been argued that the remains were ornithopods or sauropods. They are now the remains of a sauropod.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes

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References

(1946). "Alterations in some fossil and living floras". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
(1987). "Middle Eocene Dicotyledonous Plants from Republic, Northeastern Washington.". United States Geological Survey Bulletin.
(2013). "Fruits of ''Koelreuteria'' (Sapindaceae) from the Cenozoic throughout the northern hemisphere: their ecological, evolutionary, and biogeographic implications". American Journal of Botany.
Roger, J.. (1944). "Une nouvelle espèce de crustacé décapode ''Palaeophoberus portlandicus'', découverte dans le Portlandien du Pays de Bray". Bulletin de la Société géologique de France.
Conodonts. EB Branson and MG Mehl, in HW Shimer and RR Shrock, Index Fossils of North America. 1944
Farlow, James O.. (1999). "The Complete Dinosaur". Indiana University Press.
Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".

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