1922 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 1922.

Arthropods

Insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Hydriomena? protrita[2]

sp. nov

valid

Priabonian

Florissant Formation

 USA

A geometrid moth

Archosauromorphs

Newly named phytosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Angistorhinopsis[3]

Nomen dubium

Friedrich von Huene

Late Triassic (Rhaetian)

Knollenmergel

  Switzerland

A member of Pseudopalatinae.

Leptosuchus

Valid taxon

Case[4]

Late Triassic (early Norian)

Tecovas Formation

 United States ( Texas)

A basal member of Leptosuchomorpha.

Promystriosuchus

Valid taxon

Case[4]

Late Triassic (early Norian)

Tecovas Formation

 United States ( Texas)

A basal phytosaur

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Alamosaurus[6] Valid taxon

early Maastrichtian (late Edmontonian)

lower Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member)

 United States

A titanosaur.

Dromaeosaurus[7] Valid taxon
  • Matthew

middle Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation

 Canada

A dromaeosaurid.

Erectopus[8] Valid taxon

Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive (Mammilatum Zone)

early Albian

 France

A metriacanthosaurid.

Parasaurolophus[9] Valid taxon
  • Parks

middle-late Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation
Fruitland Formation
Kaiparowits Formation
Kirtland Formation

 Canada
 United States

A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Eurycleidus

Valid

Andrews

Hettangian-Sinemurian

Lower Lias

 England

A rhomaleosaurid. A new genus for "Plesiosaurus" arcuatus Owen (1840)

Leptocleidus

Valid

Andrews

Barremian

Weald Clay

 England

A leptocleidid.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

Dvinia

Valid

Eosimops

Valid

Inostrancevia

Valid

Oligokyphus

Valid

Venjukovia

Valid

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. Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922). "A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado". American Museum Novitates 34: 1–2.
  3. Huene, F. von 1922, Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Parasuchier: Jahrbuch der Preussichen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin, v. 42, n. 1, p. 59-160.
  4. 1 2 Case, E. C., 1922, New reptiles and stegocephalians from the Upper Triassic of Western Texas: Carnegie Institute of Washington, Publication n. 321, p. 1-84.
  5. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  6. Gilmore, C.W. 1922. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Ojo Alamo formation of New Mexico. Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 72: pp. 1-9.
  7. Matthew, W.D. and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Amer. Museum Nat. Hist. Bull. 46: pp. 367-385.
  8. Huene, F. von. 1922. Uber einen Sauropoden im oberen Malm des Bemer Jura. Eclogae Geol. Helvetiae 17: pp. 80-94.
  9. Parks, W.A. 1922. Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of crested trachodont dinosaur. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 13: pp. 1-32.
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