1944 in paleontology

none 1944 paleontology science 1944 Plants Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesAmelanchier couleeanaBrown R.W. 1946 Alterations in some fossil and living floras Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 36 10 344–355Comb novvalid(E.W. Berry, 1931) MioceneLanghianLatah FormationUSAWashingtonAmelanchier dignata of Smith, 1941 Amelanchier dignatus of Brown, 1935 p. p. Amelanchier elliptica of Smith, 1941 Amelanchier grayi of MacGinitie, 1933 Amelanchier magnifolia 1937 Amelanchier scudderi of Berry, 1929 Amelanchier subserrata of Smith, 1941 Phyllites couleeanus 1931A saskatoon berry species. Moved from Phyllites couleeanus (1931)Betula tayloranaComb novvalidR.W. Brown EoceneAckerman FormationUSATennesseeA birch species.Cladrastis oregonensisComb novvalid(E.W. Berry & T.D.A. Cockerell, 1919) EoceneClarno FormationUSAOregonA yellowwood species. First named as Fraxinus oregonensis (1919)Moved from Umbellularia oregonensis (1925).Cornus republicensisWolfe J.A. Wehr, W.C. 1987 Middle Eocene Dicotyledonous Plants from Republic, Northeastern Washington. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1597 1–25Nom novjr synonymLaMotteEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsKlondike Mountain FormationTom Thumb TuffUSAWashingtonA replacement name for Cornus acuminata Berry, 1929 Moved to Schoepfia republicensis in 1987thumb|center|upright|Schoepfia republicensisKoelreuteria mixtaComb novvalid (pro parte)(Lesquereux, 1878) Eocene, YpresianIone FormationUSACaliforniaA golden rain tree species Moved from Rhus mixta (1878)Species definition expanded to include fruitsFruits moved to Koelreuteria dilcheri in 2013.Wang Q. Manchester S.R. Gregor H.-J. Shen S. Li Z.-Y. 2013 Fruits of Koelreuteria (Sapindaceae) from the Cenozoic throughout the northern hemisphere: their ecological, evolutionary, and biogeographic implications American Journal of Botany 100 2 422–449 10.3732/ajb.1200415 1537-2197 23360930 Arthropods Newly named crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesPalaeophoberus portlandicusRoger J. Lapparent A.F. 1944 Une nouvelle espèce de crustacé décapode Palaeophoberus portlandicus, découverte dans le Portlandien du Pays de Bray Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 14 365–374Sp novValidRoger & LapparentLate Jurassic (Tithonian)HannachesFranceA stenochirid Conodonts Name Status Authors Location Images SiphonodellaConodonts. EB Branson and MG Mehl, in HW Shimer and RR Shrock, Index Fossils of North America. 1944 valid Edward Branson Maurice Mehl Austria China Germany Russia USA (Virginia) Dinosaurs The only known fossils of Poekilopleuron are destroyed during the Allied liberation of Normandy. Farlow James O. M. K. Brett-Surmann The Complete Dinosaur Indiana University Press 1999 Bloomington, Indiana 16 0-253-21313-4 Newly named dinosaurs Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html dead Name Status AuthorsLocation Notes Images SanpasaurusYoung C.-C. 1944. On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bull. Geol. Soc. China 24: pp. 187-209. Nomen dubium.Yang Z. J. (as Young C. C.) ChinaIt has been argued that the remains were ornithopods or sauropods. They are now the remains of a sauropod. Plesiosaurs New taxa Name Status AuthorsLocation Notes Sinopliosaurus Valid Young China References Paleontology Category:1940s in paleontology Paleontology 4