1957 in paleontology
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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 mankind has 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 1957.
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Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
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Institutions and organizations
Natural history museums
Scientific organizations
Scientific advances
Paleoanthropology
Paleobotany
Evolutionary biology
Exopaleontology
Extinction research
Micropaleontology
Invertebrate paleozoology
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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jr synonym |
Viana & Haedo Rossi, 1957 |
Extinct Myrmeciin ant genus, |
Trace fossils
Vertebrate paleozoology
Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Lexovisaurus[4] | Nomen dubium |
Middle Jurassic (Callovian) |
A stegosaurid. |
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Lusitanosaurus[5] | Nomen dubium |
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Early Jurassic |
Unnamed unit |
A basal thyreophoran. |
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Middle Triassic |
A traversodontid; a replacement name for Colbertia Minoprio (1954) |
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A traversodontid. |
Research techniques
Fossil trade
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Law and politics
Regulation of fossil collection, transport, or sale
Official symbols
Protected areas
Ethics and practice
Hoaxes
Scandals
Unethical practice
People
Births
Awards and recognition
Deaths
Historiography and anthropology of paleontology
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Pseudoscience
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Popular culture
Amusement parks and attractions
Art
Comics
Film
Gaming
Literature
- Plutonia: An Adventure Through Prehistory by Russian geologist Vladimir Obruchev was published. The novel depicts a team of scientists, who find an arctic entry to a subterranean realm populated by dinosaurs. Other forms of prehistoric life and giant tortoises also made an appearance in Obruchev's underworld. Paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant describes this novel's ending as "blea[k]" because after returning to the surface all of the scientists become involved in World War I and "all their trophies and even their lives are lost." The novel's portrayal of sauropods as being able to move about effectively on land was notable because at the time most scientists believed that sauropods relied on buoyancy in water to help support their body weight.[8]
Philately
Television
See also
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References
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- ↑ Hoffstetter, R. 1957. Quelques observations sur le Stegosaurines. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (2nd series) 29: pp. 537- 547.
- ↑ Lapparent, A.F. de and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal. Mémoires du Service géologique du Portugal 2: pp. 1-63.
- ↑ Mionoprio, J. L., 1957, Nota aclaratoria sobre Colberta muralis: Ameghiniana, v. 1, p. 144.
- ↑ A. W. Crompton and F. Ellenberger. 1957. On a new cynodont from the Molteno Beds and the origin of the tritylodontids. Annals of the South African Museum 44:1-14
- ↑ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 504-529.