1900 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology 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 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 1900.

Dinosaurs

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Limnosaurus^[2]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Preoccupied	Nopcsa	Maastrichtian	Sânpetru Formation	Romania	A hadrosaurid preoccupied by Limnosaurus Marsh, 1872 later given the genus name Telmatosaurus

Sauropterygia

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cimoliasaurus laramiensis	sp. nov.	junior synonym	Knight	Oxfordian	Sundance Formation, Wyoming	USA	recombined as Tatenectes laramiensis in 2003

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dicranozygoma	Gen. et sp. nov	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A dicynodont of uncertain position
Ictidosuchus	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Baurioidea.

References

^ 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.
^ Nopcsa, F. (1900). "Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen (Schädel von Limnosaurus transsylvanicus nov. gen. et spec.)". Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 68: 555–591.

[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.

[nopcsa1900-2] Nopcsa, F. (1900). "Dinosaurierreste aus Siebenbürgen (Schädel von Limnosaurus transsylvanicus nov. gen. et spec.)". Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 68: 555–591.

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