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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 1934.

Arthropods[edit]

Insects[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Lestes incertus^[2]	Sp. nov	synonym	Piton	Piacenzian	Lake Chambon	France	A Lestid damselfly, moved to Sympecma incerta in 1994	Sympecma incerta

Conodonts[edit]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ancyrognathus^[3]	Valid taxon	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson			Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri	USA
Pseudopolygnathus^[3]	Valid taxon	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson			Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri	USA

Vertebrates[edit]

Dinosaurs[edit]

Newly named dinosaurs[edit]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bahariasaurus^[5]	Valid taxon	Ernst Stromer		Late Cretaceous I (Cenomanian)	Bahariya Formation	Egypt Niger Morocco Algeria	A Megaraptorian.	Bahariasaurus
Brachypodosaurus^[6]	Nomen dubium.	Chakravarti		Maastrichtian	Lameta Formation	India	An ornithischian.

Synapsids[edit]

Non-mammalian[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Arctognathoides	Jr. synonym	Boonstra	Late Permian	Dicynodon Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Arctognathus.
Compsodon	Valid	van Hoepen	Late Permian	Dicynodon Assemblage Zone	South Africa Zambia	A member of Emydopoidea.
Daptocephalus	Valid	van Hoepen	Late Permian	Dicynodon Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Dicynodontoidea.	Daptocephalus
Emydopsoides	Jr. synonym	van Hoepen	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Emydops.
Pachyrhinos	Jr. synonym	Broili and Schroeder	Middle Permian	Middle Abrahamskraal Formation		A junior synonym of Gorgonops.
Pelorocyclops	Jr. synonym	van Hoepen	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		A junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus.

References[edit]

^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
^ Nel, A.; Paicheler, J.-C. (1994). "Les Lestoidea (Odonata, Zygoptera) fossiles : un inventaire critique". Annales de Paléontologie. 80 (1): 1–59.
^ ^a ^b Conodonts from Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri. EB Branson and MG Mehl, Univ. Missouri Studies, 1934
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Stromer, E. 1934. Vertebrate animal remainders of the Baharije stage (lowest Cenoman). 13. Dinosauria. Abh. Bavarian. Akad. Wissensch. Math. naturwiss. Abbott. 22: pp. 1 79.
^ Chakravarti, D.K. 1934. On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Q. I Mineral. Metallurg. Soc. India 30: pp. 75-79.

[1] Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.

[Nel&Paicheler1994-2] Nel, A.; Paicheler, J.-C. (1994). "Les Lestoidea (Odonata, Zygoptera) fossiles : un inventaire critique". Annales de Paléontologie. 80 (1): 1–59.

[BransonMehl-3] Conodonts from Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri. EB Branson and MG Mehl, Univ. Missouri Studies, 1934

[ddinogeorge-4] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[5] Stromer, E. 1934. Vertebrate animal remainders of the Baharije stage (lowest Cenoman). 13. Dinosauria. Abh. Bavarian. Akad. Wissensch. Math. naturwiss. Abbott. 22: pp. 1 79.

[6] Chakravarti, D.K. 1934. On a stegosaurian humerus from the Lameta beds of Jubbulpore. Q. I Mineral. Metallurg. Soc. India 30: pp. 75-79.

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