# 1928 in paleontology

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 1928.

## Plants
### Angiosperms
#### Superrosids - Fabids

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
| Paliurus hesperius | Sp nov | valid? | Berry | Miocene Langhian | Latah Formation Grand Coulee florule | USA Washington | | A Paliurus species Synonymized into Paliurus favonii (2008) But contested in 2014 | |

## Archosauromorphs
### Dinosaurs

| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| Edmontonia longiceps | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Sternberg | Maastrichtian | Horseshoe Canyon Formation | Alberta | A nodosaurid |
| Polacanthoides ponderosus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Nopcsa | Early Cretaceous | | England | A chimera of Hylaeosaurus and Polacanthus. |
| Scolosaurus cutleri | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Nopcsa | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Alberta | An ankylosaurid |
| Teinurosaurus | Gen. nov. | Nomen dubium | Nopcsa | Tithonian | Mont-Lambert Formation | France | Lacking a type species until material named Caudocoelus sauvagei |

### Pterosaurs

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
| Campylognathoides | Gen nov | Valid | Strand | Jurassic Toarcian | Sachrang Formation Posidonia Shale | Germany Baden-Württemberg | | A campylognathoidid pterosaur | Campylognathoides |

### Field work

Charles Gilmore returned to prospect for fossils in the Two Medicine Formation. He would return yet again in 1935.

## Synapsids
### Therapsids

| Name | Novelty | Authors | Age | Location | Notes |
| Chalepotherium | Gen nov | Simpson | | | |
| Gomphodontosuchus | Gen et sp nov | Huene | Triassic Carnian | Brazil | A Plant-Eating Cynodont. The type species is G. brasiliensis |
| Taurocephalus | Gen et sp nov | Broom | | South Africa | |

## Footnotes

* Paleontology portal
* ↑ 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.
* ↑ Berry, E.W. (1928). "A Miocene Paliurus from the state of Washington". American Journal of Science. 5 (91): 39–44.
* ↑ Burge, D.O.; Manchester, S.R. (2008). "Fruit morphology, fossil history, and biogeography of Paliurus (Rhamnaceae)". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 169 (8): 1066–1085.
* ↑ Li, X.; Wang, H.; Leng, Q.; Xiao, L.; Guo, J.; He, W. (2014). "Paliurus (Paliureae, Rhamnaceae) from the Miocene of East China and its Macrofossil-based Phylogenetic and Phytogeographical History". Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition). 88 (5): 1364–1377. doi:10.1111/1755-6724.12304. S2CID 129463506.
* ↑ Sternberg, C.H. 1928. A new armored dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Can. Field-Nat. 22: pp. 93-106.
* 1 2 Nopcsa, F. (1928). "Paleontological notes on reptiles". Geol. Hungarica, Set. Palaeontol. 1: 1–84.
* ↑ Raven, T.J.; Barrett, P.M.; Pond, S.B.; Maidment, S.C. (2020). "Osteology and Taxonomy of British Wealden Supergroup (Berriasian–Aptian) Ankylosaurs (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (4). doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1826956.
* ↑ Nopcsa, F. (1928). "The genera of reptiles". Palaeobiologica. 1: 163–188.
* 1 2 "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.