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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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.

Paleozoology

Conodont paleozoology

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ancyrognathus^[2]	Valid taxon	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson			Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri	USA
Pseudopolygnathus^[2]	Valid taxon	Maurice Mehl Edward Branson			Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri	USA

Vertebrate paleozoology

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bahariasaurus^[4]	Valid taxon	Ernst Stromer		Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)	Bahariya Formation	Egypt	A titanosaur.
Brachypodosaurus^[5]	Nomen dubium.	Chakravarti		Maastrichtian	Lameta Formation	India	A thyreophoran.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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

References

↑ 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.
1 2 Conodonts from Glassy Creek Shale of Missouri. EB Branson and MG Mehl, Univ. Missouri Studies, 1934
↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". 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.

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