1910 in paleontology
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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 1910.
Arthropoda
Newly named insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gen et comb nov | Valid | An agroecomyrmecine ant, |  | |||||
| Aphrophora angusta[3] | Sp nov | valid |  (1910 illustration) | |||||
| Gen et sp nov | valid | Eocene Okanagan Highlands | A Raphidiid snakefly |  (1910 illustration) | ||||
| Archiraphidia[3] | Gen et comb nov | valid | A Raphidiid snakefly |  | ||||
| Dictyoraphidia veterana[3] | Gen et comb nov | valid | A baissopterid snakefly | |||||
| Gen et sp nov | nom nudum | A myrmicine ant. |  | |||||
| Garrus defuncta[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A gerrid water strider | _Handlirsch_1910_Fig35_cropped.png) (1910 illustration) | ||||
| Garrus stali[3] | Comb nov | jr synonym | A gerrid water strider |  (1890 illustration) | ||||
| Microphorus defunctus[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A long legged fly |  (1910 illustration) | ||||
| Penthetria angustipennis[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | Eocene Okanagan Highlands | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Penthetria avunculus[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl1_fig11.png) | ||||
| Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | |||||
| Penthetria brevipes[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl1_fig7.png) | ||||
| Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | |||||
| Penthetria curtula[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | Eocene Okanagan Highlands | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Penthetria dilatata[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | Eocene Okanagan Highlands | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Penthetria elatior[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Penthetria falcatula[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_Pl3_fig1.png){kind=spacer} | ||||
| Penthetria fragmentum[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl4_fig3.png){kind=spacer} | ||||
| Penthetria lambei[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl3_fig8.png) | ||||
| Penthetria nana[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Penthetria ovalis[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl3_fig5.png) | ||||
| Penthetria pictipennis[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Penthetria platyptera[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | Eocene Okanagan Highlands | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Penthetria pulchra[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Penthetria pulla[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
| Penthetria reducta[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | Eocene Okanagan Highlands | A bibionid fly |  (1910 illustration) | |||
| Penthetria separanda[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl4_fig4.png) | ||||
| Penthetria transitoria[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | Eocene Okanagan Highlands | A bibionid fly |  | |||
| Gen et sp nov | valid | Eocene Okanagan Highlands | A Promastacid grasshopper |  (1910 illustration) | ||||
| Tipula tulameena[3] | Sp nov | valid |  (1910 illustration) | |||||
| Xylonomus lambei[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp. |  (1910 illustration) |
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Archosauromorphs
- AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.[7]
Newly named phytosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preoccupied | Jaekel[8] | possibly Late Triassic | unknown | Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961. | |||
| Preoccupied | Jaekel[8] | Late Triassic (Norian) | 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[9] | Valid taxon | Late Triassic (Carnian) | Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme.[10] | |||||
Dinosaurs
| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euoplocephalus[11] | Gen. nov. | Valid | Lambe | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation |  Alberta | An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid |  |
| Hecatasaurus[12] | Gen. nov. | Jr. synonym | Brown | Maastrichtian | Sânpetru Formation |  Romania | New genus name for Limnosaurus transsylvanicus, already named Telmatosaurus | |
| Kritosaurus[12] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Brown | Campanian | Kirtland Formation |  New Mexico | A hadrosaurid | |
| "Nectosaurus navajovius"[13] | Nomen nudum | Versluys | Campanian | Kirtland Formation | New Mexico | An unpublished name for Kritosaurus navajovius mentioned in passing attributed to Brown |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valid | A member of Gorgonopsidae. |  | |||||
| Valid | Broom | A member of Galeopsidae. | |||||
| Ermin Cowles Case | A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus. |
Mammalian
| Name | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pseudaelurus chinjiensis[14] | Pilgrim | Tertiary | India |
Footnotes
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad Handlirsch, A. (1910). "Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe". Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2 (3): 93–129.
- ^ a b Damgaard, J. (2008). "Evolution of the semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) with a re-interpretation of the fossil record". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 48: 251–268.
- ^ Evenhuis (1994). Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Backhuys Publishers. pp. 1–600.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Rice, H. M. A (1959). "Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin. 55: 1–36.
- ^ "Abstract," Makovicky (2001); page 243.
- ^ a b Jaekel, O. (1910). Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5:197-229.
- ^ Huene, F. von. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin. Geol. Palaeontol. Abhandl. 8: pp. 317-322.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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: 267–274.
- ^ Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft der Vogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp. 175-260.
- ^ Pilgrim, G. (1910). "Notices of new mammalian genera and species from the Tertiaries of India". Records of the Geological Survey of India. 60: 65.
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.