1933 in paleontology
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 1933.
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Plants
    
    Angiosperms
    
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | 
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 lodes multireticiilata[2]  | 
 Sp nov  | 
 valid  | 
 An icacinaceous species.  | 
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 Langtonia[2]  | 
 Gen et sp nov  | 
 valid  | 
 A tupelo relative,  | 
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 Palaeophytocrene[2]  | 
 Gen et sp nov  | 
 valid  | 
 An icacinaceous relative.  | 
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 Tinomiscoidea[2]  | 
 Gen et sp nov  | 
 valid  | 
 A moon seed relative.  | 
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Arthropods
    
    
Conodonts
    
    Newly named conodonts
    
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | 
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 Sp nov  | 
 valid  | 
420 Millions of years ago | ||||||
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 Gen nov  | 
 valid  | 
 Harris and Hollingsworth  | 
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 Gen nov  | 
 valid  | 
 Harris and Hollingsworth  | 
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Archosauromorphs
    
- Barnum Brown prospected the Two Medicine Formation, but found nothing significant.[5]
 - Lull published a monograph where he discusses AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase.[6]
 
Newly named dinosaurs
    
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Alectrosaurus[8] | Valid taxon | 
 late Campanian-early Maastrichtian  | 
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 Valid taxon  | 
 late Albian-early Cenomanian  | 
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| Bactrosaurus[8] | Valid taxon | 
 late Campanian-early Maastrichtian  | 
 A hadrosauroid.  | 
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| Coeluroides[10] | Nomen dubium | 
 late Maastrichtian  | 
 An Abelisaur.  | 
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| Compsosuchus[10] | Valid taxon | 
 late Maastrichtian  | 
 A noasaurid.  | 
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| Dryptosauroides[10] | Nomen dubium | 
 late Maastrichtian  | 
 A noasaurid.  | 
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| Indosaurus[10] | Valid taxon | 
 late Maastrichtian  | 
 An abelisaurid.  | 
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| Indosuchus[10] | Valid taxon | 
 late Maastrichtian  | 
 An abelisaurid.  | 
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| Jubbulpuria[10] | Nomen dubium | 
 late Maastrichtian  | 
 A noasaurid.  | 
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| Laevisuchus[10] | Nomen dubium | 
 late Maastrichtian  | 
 A noasaurid.  | 
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| Mongolosaurus[11] | Nomen dubium | 
 A titanosaur.  | 
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| Ornithomimoides[10] | Nomen dubium | 
 late Maastrichtian  | 
 A noasaurid.  | 
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| Pinacosaurus[11] | Valid taxon | 
 middle-late Campanian  | 
 An ankylosaurid.  | 
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Synapsids
    
    Non-mammalian
    
| Name | Status | Authors | Discovery year | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | 
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 Valid  | 
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 Valid  | 
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Footnotes
    
- 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.
 - Manchester, S.R. (1994). "Fruits and Seeds of the Middle Eocene Nut Beds Flora, Clarno Formation, Oregon". Palaeontographica Americana. 58: 30–31.
 - Engel, M.S.; Ortega-Blanco, J. (2008). "The fossil crown wasp Electrostephanus petiolatus Brues in Baltic Amber (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae): designation of a neotype, revised classification, and a key to amber Stephanidae". ZooKeys (4): 55–64. doi:10.3897/zookeys.4.49.
 - New Pennsylvanian conodonts from Oklahoma. RW Harris and RV Hollingsworth, American Journal of Science, March 1933, series 5, volume 25, no. 147, pages 193-204, doi:10.2475/ajs.s5-25.147.193
 - "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
 - "Introduction," Makovicky (2001); page 244.
 - Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
 - Gilmore, C.W. 1933. On the dinosaurian fauna of the Iren Dabasu Formation. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 67: PP. 23-78.
 - Longman, H.A. 1933. A new dinosaur from the Queensland Cretaceous. Mem. Queensland Mus. 10: pp. 131-144.
 - Huene, F. von, and C.A. Matley. 1933. The Cretaceous saurischia and ornithischia of the Central Provinces of India. Mem. Geol. Survey India Pabeontol. Indica 21: pp. 1-72.
 - Gilmore, C.W. 1933. Two new dinosaurian reptiles from Mongolia with notes on some fragmentary specimens. Amer. Mus. Novitates 679: pp. 1-20
 
References
    
- Makovicky, P. J., 2001, A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 243–262.
 - Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.
 
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