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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 1927.

Mollusks[edit]

Gastropods[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Condonella^[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	McLellan	Campanian	Cedar District Formation		A Urocoptid land snail

Archosauromorphs[edit]

Newly named dinosaurs[edit]

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

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cetiosauriscus^[4]	Gen. nov.	Valid	Huene	Middle Jurassic (Callovian)	Oxford Clay Formation	Cambridgeshire, UK	A non-neosauropod eusauropod known from a forelimb and rear half of a skeleton. The type species is Cetiosauriscus stewarti.

Newly named birds[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Phasmagyps^[5]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Wetmore	Chadronian	Chadron Formation	USA ( Colorado)	A New World vulture.

Synapsids[edit]

Non-mammalian[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Anningia	Gen et sp nov	Nomen dubium	Broom	Middle Permian			A member of Varanopidae.
Cynosaurus	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Schmidt	Late Permian	Dicynodon Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Galesauridae.
Permocynodon	Gen et sp nov	Junior synonym	Sushkin	Late Permian	Vyatkian Horizon		A junior synonym of Dvinia.

Mammals[edit]

Name	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Alphadon	Simpson	70 Million years ago	Algeria Canada ( Alberta and Saskatchewan) Portugal USA ( Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming) China	A Cretaceous Marsupial.	Alphadon

Cetaceans[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aulophyseter	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Kellogg	Middle Miocene (Langhian)	Temblor Formation	US ( California)	A close relative of the sperm whale.
Stenodelphis sternbergi	Sp. nov	Valid	Gregory & Kellogg	Late Pliocene (Piacenzian)	San Diego Formation	US ( California	A close relative of the baiji; now referred to Parapontoporia

References[edit]

^ 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.
^ Roth, B. (2000). "Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) land snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) from Washington and California". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 66 (3): 373–381. doi:10.1093/mollus/66.3.373.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Huene, F. von (1927). "Sichtung der Grundlagen der jetzigen Kenntnis der Sauropoden" (PDF). Eclogae Geologica Helveticae. 20: 444–470.
^ Wetmore, A. (1927). "Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of Colorado" (PDF). Proceedings of the Colorado Museum of Natural History. 7 (2): 1–14.

[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.

[Roth2000-2] Roth, B. (2000). "Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) land snails (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora) from Washington and California". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 66 (3): 373–381. doi:10.1093/mollus/66.3.373.

[ddinogeorge-3] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[huene1927-4] Huene, F. von (1927). "Sichtung der Grundlagen der jetzigen Kenntnis der Sauropoden" (PDF). Eclogae Geologica Helveticae. 20: 444–470.

[Wetmore1927-5] Wetmore, A. (1927). "Fossil Birds from the Oligocene of Colorado" (PDF). Proceedings of the Colorado Museum of Natural History. 7 (2): 1–14.

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