1917 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 1917.
Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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sp. nov | jr synonym | A moth, moved to Paleolepidopterites destructus (2018)[3] | ![]() |
Vertebrates
Newly named non-mammalian synapsids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Haughton | 250 Millions years ago | ![]() | |||||
Valid | Van Hoepen | 250 Millions years ago | ||||||
Valid | Haughton |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Newly named avialaens
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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"Archaeornis"[5] | Gen et comb nov | Petronievics | Moved from Archaeopteryx siemensii (1897) | ![]() |
Newly named dinosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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"Cheneosaurus"[6] | gen et sp nov | Late Campanian | Junior synonym of Hypacrosaurus. | |||||
gen et sp et comb nov | Valid | late Campanian | A saurolophine hadrosaurid. | ![]() | ||||
Sub gen et comb nov | Valid | An Ornithomimid | ![]() |
Literature
- Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley, Alberta by C. H. Sternberg was published. Although the work was mostly non-fiction, it concluded with a series of fictional chapters wherein Sternberg dreamt of traveling back in time to the various ages of prehistory.[9]
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.
- ^ Cockerell, T. D. A. (1917). "Some American fossil insects". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 51 (2146): 89–106. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.51-2146.89.
- ^ Maria Heikkilä; John W. Brown; Joaquin Baixeras; Wolfram Mey; Mikhail V. Kozlov (2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 4394 (1): 41–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Petronievics, B. and A.S. Woodward. 1917. On the pectoral and pelvic arches of the Britt.Mus. specimen of Archaeopteryx. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: pp. 1 - 16.
- ^ Lambe, L.M. 1917. On Cheneosaurus tolmanensis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 30: pp. 117- 123.
- ^ Lambe, L.M. 1917. A new genus and species of crestless hadrosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 31: pp. 65-73.
- ^ Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1917). "Skeletal adaptations of Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurus" (PDF). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 35: 733–771.
- ^ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.