1909 in paleontology

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Paleontology, palaeontology or [palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.^[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because mankind has 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 1909.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[2]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Hierosaurus[3]	Valid taxon	Wieland		Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian)	Niobrara Formation	United States	A nodosaurid.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Picrocleidus Valid Andrews Callovian Oxford Clay Formation  UK A cryptoclidid. Simolestes Valid Andrews Callovian Oxford Clay Formation  UK A thalassophonean pliosaurid. Sthenarosaurus Valid Watson Early Jurassic (Toarcian) Alum shale  UK A rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur. Tricleidus Valid Andrews Callovian Oxford Clay Formation  UK A cryptoclidid.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bauria	Valid	Robert Broom		Early Triassic	Cynognathus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A bauriid theriodont.	Bauria

People

• Death of Harry Govier Seeley, the paleontologist who invented the Saurischian/Ornithischian dinosaur dichotomy.^[4]

References

1. 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.
2. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
3. Wieland. G. 1909. A new armored saurian from the Niobrara. Amer. J. Sci. (ser. 4) 27: pp. 250- 252.
4. Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.