1924 in paleontology

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 1924.

List of years in paleontology (table)
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Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Asiatosaurus[3] Nomen dubium

?Barremian-earliest Aptian

Öösh Formation

An indeterminate sauropod.

Chirostenotes[4] Valid taxon

middle-late Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation

An Oviraptorosaur.
Chirostenotes
Dyoplosaurus[5] Valid taxon

middle-late Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation

An ankylosaurid.

"Fenestrosaurus"[6] Nomen nudum.

Same as Oviraptor.

Lycorhinus[7] Valid taxon
  • Haughton

Hettangian-Sinemurian

Elliot Formation

A heterodontosaurid.

Melanorosaurus[7] Valid taxon
  • Haughton

late Norian-Rhaetian

Elliot Formation

A melanorosaurid.
Melanorosaurus
"Ornithoides"[8] Nomen nudum.

Same as Saurornithoides
Oviraptor[8] Valid taxon

middle-late Campanian

Djadochta Formation

An oviraptorid.
"Ovoraptor"[6] Nomen nudum.

Same as Velociraptor

Prodeinodon Nomen dubium.

?Barremian-early Aptian

Öösh Formation

An indeterminate theropod.

Saurornithoides[6] Valid taxon

middle-late Campanian

Djadochta Formation


A troodontid.
Saurornithoides
Velociraptor[8] Valid taxon

middle-late Campanian

Djadochta Formation

A velociraptorine dromaeosaurid.
Velociraptor

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian
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gollark: So I guess it's a bit lower since that silver is out of circulation?
gollark: *But*, the RNG probably doesn't have memory of which ones were dropped, so it has just as much chance of dropping another silver as it usually would, except the system is weird and picks a new set every hour or so, so I don't really know.
gollark: See, from a perspective of having not seen *any* of the drops yet, the probability of two rares is lower than the probability of one, probably.
gollark: It'll be horrible, I tell you.

References
  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. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  3. Osborn, H.F. 1924. Sauropoda and Theropoda of the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Amer. Mus. Novitates 128: pp. 1-7.
  4. Gilmore, C.W. 1924. A new coelurid dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull. Can. Dept. Mines Geol. Surv. 38: pp. 1-12.
  5. Parks, W.A. 1924. Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus, a new genus and species of armored dinosaur; with notes on a skeleton of Prosaurolophus maximus. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 18: pp. 1-35.
  6. Osborn, H.F. 1924. The discovery of an unknown continent. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 133-149.
  7. Haughton, S.H. 1924. The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg series. Ann. South Africa Museum 12: pp. 323-497.
  8. Osborn, H.F. 1924. Three new Theropoda, Protoceratops zone, central Mongolia. Amer. Mus. Novitates 144: pp. 1-12.
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