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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1949.

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Parastylotermes	Gen. 4 comb nov	valid	Snyder & Emerson	Ypresian-Miocene	Latah Formation	USA  Washington	A Stylotermitid termite genus. The type species is Stylotermes washingtonensis Also includes S. calico, S. frazieri, & S. robustus.
Ulmeriella latahensis	Sp nov.	Valid	Snyder	Miocene	Latah Formation	USA  Washington	A harvester termite

Archosauromorphs

Archosauromorphs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Elachistosuchus	Gen et sp nov	valid	Janensch	Late Triassic (Norian)	*  Germany	A neodiapsid reptile.

Plesiosaurs

• Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Aneugomphius	Jr. Synonym of Theriognathus.	Broom and Robinson	Wuchiapingian	South Africa
Homodontosaurus	Valid	Broom	Wuchiapingian	South Africa	A therocephalian
Lemurosaurus	Valid	Broom	Wuchiapingian	*  South Africa	A biarmosuchian
Myosauroides	Valid	Broom	Wuchiapingian	South Africa	A dicynodont

Other Animals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Dickinsonia minima	Sp nov	Synonym of Dickinsonia costata	Sprigg	Ediacaran	Australia

References

1. 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.
2. Emerson, A.E. (1971). "Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 146 (3): 243–304.
3. Snyder, T. (1949). "A new Miocene Ulmeriella (fossil Isoptera, Hodotermitidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 51 (4): 164–165.
4. Welles and Bump (1949). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
5. Sprigg, R.C. (1949). "Early Cambrian "jellyfishes" of Ediacara, South Australia, and Mount John, Kimberley District, Western Australia" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 73: 72–99.

• Welles, Samuel P. and Bump, J. D.; 1949; Alzadasaurus pembertoni, a new elasmosaur from the Late Cretaceous of South Dakota; Journal of Paleontology; 23(5) pp. 521–535
• Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.

• 1949 in paleontology