1948 in paleontology

none 1948 paleontology science 1948 Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesMetanephrocerusKehlmaier C Dierick M Skevington JH 2014 Micro-CT studies of amber inclusions reveal internal genitalic features of big-headed flies, enabling a systematic placement of Metanephrocerus Aczel, 1948 (Insecta: Diptera: Pipunculidae) Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 72 1 23–36Gen novvalidAczélPriabonianBaltic AmberEuropeA big-headed fly; new genus for Protonephrocerus collini Archosauromorphs Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky'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 Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Lukousaurus Valid taxon Yang Zhongjian (as Young C. C.)Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)Lower Lufeng SeriesChinaMay be a crocodylomorph rather than a theropod.R. B. Irmis. 2004. First report of Megapnosaurus (Theropoda: Coelophysoidea) from China. PaleoBios 24(3):11-18 Pterosaurs New taxa Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Batrachognathus Valid Rjabinin Late Jurassic (Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian)Karabastau SvitaKazakhstanAn anurognathid. Synapsids Non-mammalian Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesClelandinaValid Broom Late PermianCistecephalus Assemblage Zone Dicynodon Assemblage Zone Tropidostoma Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA gorgonopsid.DigalodonValidBroom and RobinsonLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneSouth Africa ZambiaFor a time considered a junior synonym, its validity was reinstated in 2015.KoupiaValid BoonstraMiddle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA dicynodont.PardocephalusJunior synonym BroomLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA junior synonym of the gorgonopsid AelurognathusRobertiaValid BoonstraMiddle PermianTapinocephalus Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA pylaecephalid. Like Diictodon, it was also a burrower.thumb|RobertiaSmilesaurusValid BroomLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA junior synonym of the gorgonopsid Aelurognathus.TetracynodonValid Broom and RobinsonLate Permian-Early TriassicCistecephalus Assemblage Zone Lystrosaurus Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA lycideopid therocephalian. References Paleontology Category:1940s in paleontology Paleontology 8