1957 in paleontology

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List of years 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.

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

Ameghinoia[2]

Gen et sp nov

jr synonym

Viana & Haedo Rossi, 1957

Middle Eocene

Ventana Formation

 Argentina

Extinct Myrmeciin ant genus,
jr synonym of type species Archimyrmex, sole species A. piatnitzkii

Trace fossils

Vertebrate paleozoology

Data coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.[3]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Lexovisaurus[4] Nomen dubium

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Oxford Clay Formation

 United Kingdom

A stegosaurid.

Lusitanosaurus[5] Nomen dubium
  • Zbyszewski

Early Jurassic

Unnamed unit

 Portugal

A basal thyreophoran.

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Colbertosaurus[6]

Valid

  • Minoprio

Middle Triassic

Potrereillos Formation

 Argentina

A traversodontid; a replacement name for Colbertia Minoprio (1954)

Scalenodontoides[7]

Valid

  • Crompton and Ellenberger

Late Triassic (late Norian-Rhaetian)

Lower Elliot Formation

 Lesotho
 South Africa

A traversodontid.

Research techniques

Fossil trade

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Law and politics

Regulation of fossil collection, transport, or sale

Fossil-related crime

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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  4. Hoffstetter, R. 1957. Quelques observations sur le Stegosaurines. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (2nd series) 29: pp. 537- 547.
  5. Lapparent, A.F. de and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal. Mémoires du Service géologique du Portugal 2: pp. 1-63.
  6. Mionoprio, J. L., 1957, Nota aclaratoria sobre Colberta muralis: Ameghiniana, v. 1, p. 144.
  7. 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
  8. 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.