# 1932 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 1932.

## Paleobotany
### Newly described angiosperms

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Viburnum whitebirdensis | Sp nov | jr synonym | Ashlee | Middle Miocene | Latah Formation White Bird Florule | USA Idaho | First described as a Viburnum Moved to Acer whitebirdense (1987) | |

## Arthropods
### Newly named crustaceans

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
| Palaeophoberus | Gen. et. comb. nov. | Valid | Glaessner | Middle Jurassic (Aalenian) | Reutlingen | Germany | A stenochirid, type species is P. suevicus (originally named as Stenochirus suevicus in 1867. | |

## Conodonts
### Newly named conodonts

Stauffer & Plummer described the conodont genus Gondolella.

## Archosauromorphs
### Newly named basal archosauromorphs

| Name | Status | Authors | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Spinosuchus | Valid | Friedrich von Huene | | Late Triassic (late Carnian) | Tecovas Formation | US ( Texas) | A member of Trilophosauridae. |

### Newly named pseudosuchians

| Name | Status | Authors | Authors | Location | Notes | Images |
| Basutodon | Nomen dubium. | Friedrich von Huene | | Lesotho  South Africa | Probable rauisuchian. | |

### Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| Aegyptosaurus | Valid taxon | Stromer | Middle Cretaceous (Cenomanian) | Bahariya Formation | Egypt  Niger | A titanosaur. |
| Betasuchus | Nomen dubium. | Friedrich von Huene | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | Maastrichtian Beds | Netherlands | An abelisaur. It one of the few non-avian dinosaurs in the Netherlands. |
| Caudocoelus | synonym | Friedrich von Huene | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) | Unnamed unit | France | Junior objective synonym of Teinurosaurus. |
| Dolichosuchus | Nomen dubium. | Friedrich von Huene | Late Triassic (Rhaetian) | Middle Stubensandstein | Germany | |
| Fulgurotherium | Valid taxon | Friedrich von Huene | Middle Cretaceous (late Albian) | Griman Creek Formation | Australia | A dubious ornithopod. |
| Iliosuchus | Nomen dubium | Friedrich von Huene | Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) | Taynton Limestone Formation | UK | A dubious tetanuran. |
| Macrophalangia | synonym | C. M. Sternberg | Late Cretaceous (middle to late Campanian) | Dinosaur Park Formation | Canada | Junior subjective synonym of Chirostenotes. |
| Magnosaurus | Valid taxon | Friedrich von Huene | Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) | Inferior Oolite | UK | A megalosaurid. |
| Magyarosaurus | Valid taxon | Friedrich von Huene | Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) | Sanpetru Formation | Romania | A Dwarf Titanosaur. |
| Plateosauravus | Valid taxon | Friedrich von Huene | Late Triassic (possibly late Norian to Rhaetian) | Lower Elliot Formation | South Africa | A basal sauropodomorph. |
| Polyodontosaurus | synonym | Gilmore | Late Cretaceous (middle to late Campanian) | Dinosaur Park Formation | Canada | Junior subjective synonym of Troodon. |
| Rapator | Nomen dubium. | Friedrich von Huene | Middle Cretaceous (late Albian) | Griman Creek Formation | Australia | A megaraptoran neovenatorid. |
| Stenonychosaurus | Valid taxon | C. M. Sternberg | Late Cretaceous (middle to late Campanian) | Dinosaur Park Formation | Canada | Once considered to be a junior synonym of Troodon. |
| Walgettosuchus | Nomen dubium. | Friedrich von Huene | Middle Cretaceous (late Albian) | Griman Creek Formation | Australia | A dubious theropod. |
| Yaleosaurus | synonym | Friedrich von Huene | Early Jurassic | Portland Formation | US | Junior subjective synonym of Anchisaurus. |

## Other diapsids

| Name | Status | Authors | Authors | Location | Images |
| Avipes | Nomen dubium. | Friedrich von Huene | | | |
| Velocipes | Nomen dubium. | Friedrich von Huene | | Poland | |

## Synapsids
### Non-mammalian

| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Delphaciognathus | Valid | Broom | | | | A member of Gorgonopsia. | |
| Pachytegos | Valid | Sidney Haughton | | | | A member of Endothiodontidae. | |