1953 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 1953.

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Plants

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Holmskioldia speirii^[2]	Comb nov	jr synonym	(Lesquereux) MacGinitie	Late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States   Colorado	A mallow relative. moved from Porana speirii (1883) Moved to Florissantia speirii (1992)	Florissantia speirii

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Brachylophosaurus^[4]	Valid taxon	C. M. Sternberg		Late Cretaceous (Judithian)	Judith River Formation Oldman Formation	Canada (  Alberta)   US (  Montana)	A saurolophine hadrosaurid.
Chiayusaurus^[5]	Nomen dubium.	Birger Bohlin		Late Jurassic	Kalazha Formation	China	An indeterminate eusauropod.
Heishansaurus^[5]	Nomen dubium.	Birger Bohlin		Late Cretaceous (Djadokhtan)	Minhe Formation	China	An ankylosaurid ankylosaur.
Microceratops^[5]	Preoccupied.	Bohlin		Late Cretaceous (Djadokhtan)	Minhe Formation	China	Preoccupied by Seyrig 1952. Renamed Microceratus in 2008.
Peishansaurus^[5]	Nomen dubium.	Birger Bohlin				China
Sauroplites^[5]	Valid taxon.	Birger Bohlin		Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian)	Zhidan Group	China	A member of Nodosauridae.
Stegosaurides^[5]	Nomen dubium.	Birger Bohlin		Early Cretaceous	Xinminbao Group	China

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Aloposauroides	Valid	Brink and Kitching	Late Permian	South Africa
Sycocephalus	junior synonym	Brink and Kitching	Late Permian	South Africa   Zambia

References

•  Paleontology portal

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. Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR 2444909.
3. Olshevsky, George. . Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
4. Sternberg, C.H. 1953. A new hadrosaur from the Oldman Formation of Alberta: Discussion of nomenclature. Bull. Dept. Res. Dev. Can. 128: pp. 1-12.
5. Bohlin, B. 1953. Fossil reptiles from Mongolia and Kansu. Sino-Swedish Exped. Publ. 37: pp. 1- 113 (Statens Etnografiska Museum, Stockholm);