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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 1926.

Plants

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Acer chaneyi[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Knowlton	Oligocene to Miocene	John Day Formation	USA Oregon	A maple species
Alnus cremastogynoides[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	An alder leaf species
Alnus crispoides[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	An alder leaf species
Betula parvifolia[3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	An alder leaf species Moved to Alnus parvifolia in 1987[4]	Alnus parvifolia
Canna? dawsoni[3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Berry	Eocene	Burrard Formation	Canada British Columbia	A possible cannaceous leaf species synonymized with Cannophyllites magnifolia in 1949[5]
Celastrophyllum pugetensis[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene	Burrard Formation	Canada British Columbia	A possible celastraceous leaf species
Comptonia predryandroides[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	A myricaceous leaf species
Diospyros dawsoni[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	A persimmon leaf species
Ficus? johnstoni[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene	Burrard Formation	Canada British Columbia	A possible moraceous leaf species
Hicoria dawsoni[3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	A punitive hickory leaf species Moved to Carya dawsoni in 1952[5]
Hicoria stanleyanum[3]	comb nov	jr synonym	(Dawson) Berry	Eocene	Burrard Formation	Canada British Columbia	A punitive hickory leaf species Moved from Dryophyllum stanleyanum (1895)[3] Moved to Carya stanleyanum in 1952[5]
Juglans nigelloides[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene	Burrard Formation	Canada British Columbia	A juglandaceous leaf species
Leguminosites johnstoni[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Burrard Formation	Canada British Columbia	A legume leaf morphospecies.
Myrica uglowi[3]	Sp nov	Jr synonym	Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	A myricaceous leaf species synonymized with Bohlenia insignis in 1987.[4]
Populus acuminatafolia[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	A cottonwood leaf species
Quercus uglowi[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	A oak leaf species
Rhamnus kitsilaniana[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene	Burrard Formation	Canada British Columbia	A buckthorn leaf morphospecies.
Sorbus decorifolia[3]	Sp nov		Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	A punitive mountain ash leaf species
Trochodendroides[3]	Gen et comb nov		Berry			Greenland	A Trochodenraceous leaf morphogenus. The type species is Populus arctica (1868)
Ulmus columbianus[3]	sp nov	jr homonym	Berry	Eocene Ypresian	Chu Chua Formation	Canada British Columbia	An elm leaf species Name preoccupied by Ulmus columbianus Penhallow (1907) Moved to Ulmus chuchuanus in 1952.[5]	Ulmus chuchuanus

Conodonts

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ancyrodella[6]		Valid	Ulrich & Bassler

Amphibians

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Crassigyrinus		valid	Watson					Crassigyrinus

Newly named basal diapsids

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Coelurosauravus[7]		Valid	Piveteau			Madagascar	A weigeltisaurid gliding Reptile	Coelurosauravus

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Proceratosaurus[9]	Gen et comb nov.	Valid	von Huene	Middle Jurassic Bathonian	Forest Marble Formation	England	A proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid The type species is Megalosaurus bradleyi.	Proceratosaurus
Rhoetosaurus[10]	Gen. et sp nov.	Valid	Longman	Middle Jurassic Oxfordian	Walloon Coal Measures	Australia Queensland	A basal gravisaurian sauropod. The type species is R. brownei.	Rhoetosaurus brownei scale

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chiwetasaurus		Junior synonym	Haughton	Late Permian Lopingian	Beaufort Group Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A junior synonym of Gorgonops.
Dixeya		Junior synonym	Haughton	Late Permian	Teekloof Formation Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A junior synonym of Aelurognathus.

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.
Wolfe, J.A.; Tanai, T. (1987). "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of Western North America". Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy. 22 (1): 1–246.
Berry, E. (1926). Tertiary floras from British Columbia (PDF) (Report). Geological series; Contributions to Canadian Paleontology. Ottawa, Canada: Geological Survey of Canada. pp. 91–116. doi:10.4095/293661.
Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). Middle Eocene dicotyledonous plants from Republic, northeastern Washington (Report). Bulletin. Vol. 1597. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–25. doi:10.3133/b1597.
LaMotte, R.S. (1952). Catalogue of the Cenozoic plants of North America through 1950. Geological Society of America Memoirs. Vol. 51. Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/MEM51.
A classification of the toothlike fossils, conodonts, with descriptions of American Devonian and Mississippian species. EO Ulrich and RS Bassler, 1926
Piveteau, J. 1926. Contribution to the Study of the Lagoonal Formations of Northwest Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr. (4), XXVI: p. 3.
Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
Huene, F. (1926a). "On several known and unknown reptiles of the order Saurischia from England and France". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 17 (9): 473–489.
Longman, H.A. (1926). "A giant dinosaur from Durham Downs, Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 8: 183–194.

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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.

[Wolfe1987-2] Wolfe, J.A.; Tanai, T. (1987). "Systematics, Phylogeny, and Distribution of Acer (maples) in the Cenozoic of Western North America". Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 4, Geology and Mineralogy. 22 (1): 1–246.

[Berryfloras1926-3] Berry, E. (1926). Tertiary floras from British Columbia (PDF) (Report). Geological series; Contributions to Canadian Paleontology. Ottawa, Canada: Geological Survey of Canada. pp. 91–116. doi:10.4095/293661.

[WandW87-4] Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). Middle Eocene dicotyledonous plants from Republic, northeastern Washington (Report). Bulletin. Vol. 1597. United States Geological Survey. pp. 1–25. doi:10.3133/b1597.

[LaMotte52-5] LaMotte, R.S. (1952). Catalogue of the Cenozoic plants of North America through 1950. Geological Society of America Memoirs. Vol. 51. Geological Society of America. doi:10.1130/MEM51.

[6] A classification of the toothlike fossils, conodonts, with descriptions of American Devonian and Mississippian species. EO Ulrich and RS Bassler, 1926

[7] Piveteau, J. 1926. Contribution to the Study of the Lagoonal Formations of Northwest Madagascar. Bull. Soc. Géol. Fr. (4), XXVI: p. 3.

[ddinogeorge-8] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[huene-9] Huene, F. (1926a). "On several known and unknown reptiles of the order Saurischia from England and France". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 17 (9): 473–489.

[longman-10] Longman, H.A. (1926). "A giant dinosaur from Durham Downs, Queensland". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 8: 183–194.