Plants
Conodonts
Dinosaurs
* The only known fossils of ''
Poekilopleuron
''Poekilopleuron'' (meaning "varied ribs") is a genus of tetanuran dinosaur, which lived during the middle Bathonian of the Jurassic, about 168 to 166 million years ago. The genus has been used under many different spelling variants, although on ...
'' are destroyed during the Allied liberation of Normandy.
Newly named dinosaurs
Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
References
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1940s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
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