1910 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 1910.

Arthropoda

Newly named insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Agroecomyrmex[2]

Gen nov

Valid

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil Agroecomyrmecin ant,
new genus for moved to Myrmica duisburgi

Archosauromorphs

Newly named phytosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Mesorhinus

Preoccupied

Jaekel[4]

possibly Late Triassic

unknown

 Germany

Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961.

Metarhinus

Preoccupied

Jaekel[4]

Late Triassic (Norian)

Chinle Formation

 United States

New genus for "Belodon" buceros Cope, 1881; preoccupied by Metarhinus Osborn, 1908; renamed Machaeroprosopus Mehl in Mehl, Toepemann, and Schwartz, 1916

Newly named basal dinosauriforms

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Saltopus[5] Valid taxon

Late Triassic (Carnian)

Lossiemouth Sandstone

 Scotland

Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme.[6]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Euoplocephalus[8] Valid taxon

Late Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation

An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid.

"Hecatasaurus"[9] Junior synonym.

Maastrichtian

Sânpetru Formation

 Romania

Junior objective synonym of Telmatosaurus.

Kritosaurus[9] Valid

Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)

Kirtland Formation
Cerro del Pueblo Formation

 US
 Mexico

A saurolophine hadrosaurid, a member of Kritosaurini.

"Nectosaurus"[10] Preoccupied name.
  • Versluys

Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)

Kirtland Formation
Cerro del Pueblo Formation

 US
 Mexico

Preoccupied name by Merriam, 1905. Renamed Kritosaurus.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Aloposaurus

Valid

Robert Broom

Middle Permian

Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A member of Gorgonopsidae.

Galepus skull

Galepus

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A member of Galeopsidae.

Poecilospondylus

Junior synonym

Ermin Cowles Case

Early Permian

Arroyo Formation

 US

A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus.

Footnotes

  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. Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg 55 (4): 56–59.
  3. "Abstract," Makovicky (2001); page 243.
  4. 1 2 Jaekel, O. (1910). Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5:197-229.
  5. Huene, F. von. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin. Geol. Palaeontol. Abhandl. 8: pp. 317-322.
  6. Michael J. Benton and Alick D. Walker†. 2011. "Saltopus, a dinosauriform from the Upper Triassic of Scotland", Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 101, Special Issue 3-4, pp 285 - 299 Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011. Published online: 17 May 2011 doi:10.1017/S1755691011020081
  7. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  8. Lambe, L.M. 1910. Note on the parietal crest of Centrosaurus apertus, and a proposed new generic name for Stereocephalus tutus. Ottawa Nat. 14: pp. 149-151.
  9. 1 2 Brown, B. 1910. The Cretaceous Ojo Alamo beds of New Mexico with description of the new dinosaur genus Kritosaurus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28; pp. 267-274.
  10. Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft der Vogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp. 175-260.

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