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 1928.
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Paliurus hesperius[2] |
Sp nov |
valid? |
Latah Formation |
A Paliurus species |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A panoplosaurine nodosaur. |
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Gen et sp nov |
First named as a polacanthine nodosaur |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A ankylosaurine ankylosaurid. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
Valid |
Strand |
Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation.[9] He would return yet again in 1935.[9]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
Simpson |
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Gen et sp nov |
Huene |
A Plant-Eating Cynodont. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Broom |