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 1946.

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Charophytes

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Trochiliscales

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images

Trochiliscus greeni[2]

Comb & syn nov

(Ulrich) Brown

Devonian

Onondaga Limestone

  USA
  Indiana

A trochiliscaceous Charophycean green algae.
Moved from Moellerina greeni (1886)

Mollusca

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Bivalves

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Ctenodonta spjeldnaesi.[3]

Sp nov

synonym

Reed

Ashgillian

  Scotland

transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Nucula magna.[3]

Sp nov

synonym

Lamont

Ashgillian

  Scotland

transferred to Similodonta in 1964

References

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  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. ^ Brown, R.W. (1946). "Alterations in some fossil and living floras". Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. 36 (10): 344–355.
  3. ^ a b Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.