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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 1953.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Comb nov |
jr synonym |
(Lesquereux) MacGinitie |
A mallow relative. |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Brachylophosaurus[4] | Valid taxon |
Late Cretaceous (Judithian) |
A saurolophine hadrosaurid. |
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Chiayusaurus[5] | Nomen dubium. |
Late Jurassic |
An indeterminate eusauropod. |
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Heishansaurus[5] | Nomen dubium. |
Late Cretaceous (Djadokhtan) |
An ankylosaurid ankylosaur. |
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Microceratops[5] |
Preoccupied. |
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Late Cretaceous (Djadokhtan) |
Preoccupied by Seyrig 1952. Renamed Microceratus in 2008. |
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Peishansaurus[5] | Nomen dubium. | |||||||
Sauroplites[5] | Valid taxon. |
A member of Nodosauridae. |
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Stegosaurides[5] | Nomen dubium. |
Early Cretaceous |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Brink and Kitching |
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junior synonym |
Brink and Kitching |
Late Permian |