1950 in paleontology
# 1950 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 1950.

## Dinosaurs

### Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

| Name | Status | Authors | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acrocanthosaurus | Valid taxon | Stovall | Langston | late Aptian-early Albian | Antlers Formation Cloverly Formation Twin Mountains Formation | United States ( Maryland, Wyoming, Oklahoma,  Texas) | A sail-backed carcharodontosaurid. | AcrocanthosaurusPachyrhinosaurus canadensis |
| Pachyrhinosaurus | Valid taxon | C. M. Sternberg | | Edmontonian | Horseshoe Canyon Formation | Canada ( Alberta)  United States ( Alaska) | A centrosaurine. | AcrocanthosaurusPachyrhinosaurus canadensis |

## Plesiosaurs

* Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.

## Synapsids

### Non-mammalian

| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Kitchingia | Junior synonym | Broom and George | Late Permian | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | South Africa | A junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus. |
| Leontosaurus | Junior synonym | Broom and George | Late Permian | Dicynodon Assemblage Zone | South Africa | A junior synonym of Sycosaurus. |
| Silphoictidoides | Valid | Friedrich von Huene | Late Permian | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | Tanzania | A member of Gorgonopsia. |
| Theropsodon | Valid | Friedrich von Huene | Middle Triassic | Cynognathus Assemblage Zone | Tanzania | A traversodontid. |
| Tigrisaurus | Junior synonym | Broom and George | Late Permian | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | South Africa | A junior synonym of Dinogorgon. |
