title: 1927 in paleontology
text: # 1927 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 1927.
  
  ## Mollusks
  
  ### Gastropods
  
  | Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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  | Condonella | Gen et sp nov | Valid | McLellan | Campanian | Cedar District Formation | | A Urocoptid land snail | |
  
  ## Archosauromorphs
  
  ### Newly named dinosaurs
  
  Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
  
  | Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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  | Cetiosauriscus | Gen. nov. | Valid | Huene | Middle Jurassic (Callovian) | Oxford Clay Formation | Cambridgeshire, UK | A non-neosauropod eusauropod known from a forelimb and rear half of a skeleton. The type species is Cetiosauriscus stewarti. | |
  
  ### Newly named birds
  
  | Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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  | Phasmagyps | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Wetmore | Chadronian | Chadron Formation | USA ( Colorado) | A New World vulture. | |
  
  ## Synapsids
  
  ### Non-mammalian
  
  | Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
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  | Anningia | Gen et sp nov | Nomen dubium | Broom | Middle Permian | | | A member of Varanopidae. |
  | Cynosaurus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Schmidt | Late Permian | Dicynodon Assemblage Zone | South Africa | A member of Galesauridae. |
  | Permocynodon | Gen et sp nov | Junior synonym | Sushkin | Late Permian | Vyatkian Horizon | | A junior synonym of Dvinia. |
  
  ### Mammals
  
  | Name | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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  | Alphadon | Simpson | 70 Million years ago | Algeria  Canada ( Alberta and Saskatchewan)  Portugal  USA ( Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming)  China | A Cretaceous Marsupial. | Alphadon |
  
  **Cetaceans**
  
  | Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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  | Aulophyseter | Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Kellogg | Middle Miocene (Langhian) | Temblor Formation | US ( California) | A close relative of the sperm whale. | |
  | Stenodelphis sternbergi | Sp. nov | Valid | Gregory & Kellogg | Late Pliocene (Piacenzian) | San Diego Formation | US ( California | A close relative of the baiji; now referred to Parapontoporia | |
  