1957 in paleontology

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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 1957.

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Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes
Enoplocytia tenuidigitata^[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Woods	Albian	Roma Formation	Australia	An erymid
Glyphea oculata^[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Woods	Upper Albian	Tambo Formation	Australia	A glypheid
Tillocheles^[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Woods	Upper Albian	Tambo Formation	Australia	A stenochirid, type species is T. shannonae

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes
Aplexa ricei^[4]	Sp nov	valid	Russell	Eocene Ypresian	Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation	Canada British Columbia	An aplexine physid bladder snail
Ferrissia arionoides^[4]	Sp nov	valid	Russell	Eocene Ypresian	Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation	Canada British Columbia	An ancyline planorbid ramshorn snail
Micropyrgus camselli^[4]	Sp nov	valid	Russell	Eocene Ypresian	Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation	Canada British Columbia	A Hydrobiid mud snail
Physa saxarubrensis^[4]	Sp nov	valid	Russell	Eocene Ypresian	Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation	Canada British Columbia	A physine physid bladder snail
Stagnicola tulameenensis^[4]	Sp nov	valid	Russell	Eocene Ypresian	Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation	Canada British Columbia	A lymnaeine lymnaeid pond snail

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Lexovisaurus^[6]	Valid	Robert Hoffstetter		Middle Jurassic (Callovian)	Oxford Clay Formation	United Kingdom France	A stegosaurid.
Lusitanosaurus^[7]	Valid	Albert-Félix de Lapparent	Zbyszewski	Early Jurassic	Unnamed unit	Portugal	A basal thyreophoran.

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Colbertosaurus^[8]	Valid	Minoprio		Middle Triassic	Potrereillos Formation	Argentina	A traversodontid; a replacement name for Colbertia Minoprio (1954)
Scalenodontoides^[9]	Valid	Crompton and Ellenberger		Late Triassic (late Norian-Rhaetian)	Lower Elliot Formation	Lesotho South Africa	A traversodontid.

1957 in paleontology

Crustaceans

Insects

Molluscs

Gastropods

Archosauromorpha

Newly named dinosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

References

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