1907 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 1907.

Plants

Ferns and fern allies

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Cladophlebis skagitensis [2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous		Canada   British Columbia	A Cladophlebis pinnule
Nilsonia pasaytensis [2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous		Canada   British Columbia	A Nilsonia foliage

Conifers

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Picea columbiensis [2]	Sp nov	valid	Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian [3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada   British Columbia	A cone and foliage Spruce species.	Picea columbiensis
Pinus columbiana [2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian [3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada   British Columbia	A wood and cone pine species.	Pinus columbiana

Flowering plants

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Myrica serrata [2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous		Canada   British Columbia	A Myrica ? foliage
Ulmus columbiana [2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian [3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada   British Columbia	An elm wood species. Moved to Ulminium columbianum in 1922 [4]	Ulminium columbianum
Ulmus protoamericana [2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian [3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada   British Columbia	An elm wood species.	Ulmus protoamericana
Ulmus protoracemosa [2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian [3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada   British Columbia	An elm wood species.	Ulmus protoracemosa

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Megaraphidia [5]	Gen et Sp nov	valid	Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA   Colorado	A raphidiid snakefly The type species is M. elegans Moved to Raphidia elegans in 1936 [6] Moved back to M. elegans in 2014 [7]	Megaraphidia elegans
Tortrix? florissantana [8]	sp. nov	jr synonym	Cockerell	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA   Colorado	A moth of uncertain placement, moved to Paleolepidopterites florissantanus (2018) [9]	Paleolepidopterites florissantanus

Archosaurs

• Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths. ^[10]
• Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question." ^[11]
• Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented. ^[11]

Newly named ornithodirans

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. ^[12]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Scleromochlus [13]	gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Woodward	Late Triassic	Lossiemouth Sandstone	Scotland	A member of Ornithodira.	Scleromochlus

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Arnognathus	Gen. et. sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Lycideopsidae.	Galechirus
Galechirus	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Galeopidae.

References

• Paleontology portal

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. Penhallow, D. P. (1907). "A report on fossil plants from the International Boundary Survey for 1903–1905, collected by Dr. R A Daly.". Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 3. Vol. 1 (sect 4). Royal Society of Canada. pp. 287–351.
3. Höy, T.; Friedman, R.; Gabites, J. Paleogene Penticton Group, Boundary area, Southern British Columbia (Parts of NTS 082E): Geochronology and Implications for Precious Metal Mineralization (PDF) (Report). Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-01. Geoscience BC. pp. 55–66.
4. Edwards, W. N. (1931). Jongmans, W. (ed.). Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 17. Dicotyledones (Ligna). Berlin.
5. Cockerell, T. (1909). "Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 23: 605–616.
6. Carpenter, F.M. (1936). "Revision of the Nearctic Raphidiodea (Recent and Fossil)". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 89 (2): 89–158. doi:10.2307/20023217. JSTOR   20023217.
7. Makarkin, V.; Archibald, S. (2014). "A revision of the late Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of the Florissant Formation, Colorado, with special reference to the wing venation of the Raphidiomorpha". Zootaxa. 3784 (4): 401–444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.4. PMID   24872063.
8. Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907). "A fossil tortricid moth" . Canadian Entomologist. 39 (12): 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12. S2CID   85726085.
9. 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.
10. Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
11. Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
12. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
13. Woodward, A.S. 1907. On a new dinosaurian reptile (Scleromochlus taylori, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 63 (1, article 10): pp. 140-144.

• Brown, B. (1907). Gastroliths, Science, 25(636), p392.
• Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
• Wieland, G.R. (1907). Gastroliths. Science, 628:66-67.