Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoriclife 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 1924.
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]
^Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN9780070887398. OCLC46769716.
^Osborn, H.F. 1924. Sauropoda and Theropoda
of the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Amer. Mus.
Novitates 128: pp. 1-7.
^Gilmore, C.W. 1924. A new coelurid dinosaur
from the Belly River Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull.
Can. Dept. Mines Geol. Surv. 38: pp. 1-12.
^Parks, W.A. 1924. Dyoplosaurus
acutosquameus, a new genus and species of
armored dinosaur; with notes on a skeleton of
Prosaurolophus maximus. Univ. Toronto Stud.
(Geol. Ser.) 18: pp. 1-35.
^ abcOsborn, H.F. 1924. The discovery of an unknown
continent. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 133-149.
^ abHaughton, S.H. 1924. The fauna and
stratigraphy of the Stormberg series. Ann. South
Africa Museum 12: pp. 323-497.
^ abcOsborn, H.F. 1924. Three new Theropoda,
Protoceratops zone, central Mongolia. Amer.
Mus. Novitates 144: pp. 1-12.
