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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 1945.
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Gwyneddosaurus [2] | Valid taxon |
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Late Triassic ( Carnian) |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [3]
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Neosaurus [4] | Valid taxon |
Gilmore vide:
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Late Cretaceous ( Maastrichtian) |
Preoccupied by Nopsca, 1923. Renamed Parrosaurus. | |||
Parrosaurus [5] |
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Late Cretaceous ( Maastrichtian) |
A dubious hadrosaurid. |