1946 in paleontology

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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 1946.

## Dinosaurs

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Orthomerus weberi[2] | Sp. nov.  | Valid  | Riabinin | Maastrichtian | Unnamed, Crimea |  Ukraine | A species of Orthomerus now named Riabininohadros |

## Charophytes

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### Trochiliscales

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Trochiliscus greeni[3]

Comb & syn nov

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(Ulrich) Brown

Devonian

Onondaga Limestone

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Indiana

* Trochiliscus devonicus (1934)

A trochiliscaceous Charophycean green algae.
Moved from Moellerina greeni (1886)

## Mollusca

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### Bivalves

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Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi.[4]

Sp nov

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Reed

Ashgillian

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Scotland

transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Nucula magna.[4]

Sp nov

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Lamont

Ashgillian

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Scotland

transferred to Similodonta in 1964

## References

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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. ^ Riabinin, A.N. (1946). "Новые Находки Ископаемых Рептилий В Крыму" [New finds of fossil reptiles in Crimea]. Природа. 1946 (11): 65–66.
3. ^ Brown, R.W. (1946). "Alterations in some fossil and living floras". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 36 (10): 344–355.
4. ^ a b Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499\. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.

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