Overview of the events of 1920 in paleontology
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 1920.
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
References
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- ^ a b c Antropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, KolyadaVA, Kozlov MA, PerfilievaKS, Rasnitsyn AP (2014). "The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK" (PDF). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (3–4): 335–446. doi:10.1017/S1755691014000103.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ a b c Hoepen, E.C.N. van. 1920. Contributions to the
knowledge of the reptiles of the Karro Formation.
5. A new dinosaur from the Stormberg Beds. 6.
Further dinosaurian material in the Transvaal
Museum. Ann. Transvaal. Mus. 7: pp. 77-141.
- ^ Janensch, W. 1920. Uber Elaphrosaurus
bambergi und die Megalosaurier aus den
Tendaguru-Schichten Deutsch-Ostafricas.
Sitzungsberichte Gesellschaft Naturforschender
Freunde Berlin 8: pp. 225-235.
- ^ Matthew, W.D. 1920. Canadian dinosaurs. Nat.
Hist. 20: pp. 536-544.