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	Agroecomyrmex duisburgi

Archosauromorphs

• AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.^[3]

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	Friedrich von Huene		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	Lawrence Lambe		Late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid.	Euoplocephalus
"Hecatasaurus"[9]	Junior synonym.	Barnum Brown		Maastrichtian	Sânpetru Formation	Romania	Junior objective synonym of Telmatosaurus.
Kritosaurus[9]	Valid	Barnum Brown		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. 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. 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.

References

• Makovicky, P. J., 2001, A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 243–262.