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
Agroecomyrmex [2]	Gen et comb nov	Valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	An agroecomyrmecine ant, Moved from "Myrmica" duisburgi	Agroecomyrmex duisburgi
Aphrophora angusta [3]	Sp nov	valid	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A spittlebug	Aphrophora angusta (1910 illustration)
Archiinocellia [3]	Gen et sp nov	valid	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"	Canada   British Columbia	A Raphidiid snakefly Type species A. oligoneura	Archiinocellia oligoneura (1910 illustration)
Archiraphidia [3]	Gen et comb nov	valid	Handlirsch	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	United States   Colorado	A Raphidiid snakefly The type species is Inocellia tumulata (1890) also includes Inocellia somnolenta (1890) Raphidia tranquilla (1890)	Archiraphidia tumulata
Dictyoraphidia veterana [3]	Gen et comb nov	valid	Handlirsch	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	United States   Colorado	A baissopterid snakefly New genus for "Inocellia" veterana (1890)
Electromyrmex [2]	Gen et sp nov	nom nudum	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	A myrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi	Electromyrmex klebsi
Garrus defuncta [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Coldwater Beds	Canada   British Columbia	A gerrid water strider Moved to Telmatrechus defunctus (1998) [4]	Telmatrechus defunctus (1910 illustration)
Microphorus defunctus [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A long legged fly Moved to Microphor defunctus (1994) [5]	Microphor defunctus (1910 illustration)
Penthetria angustipennis [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia angustipennis (1959) [6]	Plecia angustipennis
Penthetria avunculus [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia curtula (1959) [6]	Plecia curtula
Penthetria avus [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia avus (1959) [6]	Plecia avus
Penthetria brevipes [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pulla (1959) [6]	Plecia pulla
Penthetria canadensis [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia canadensis (1959) [6]	Plecia canadensis
Penthetria curtula [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia curtula (1959) [6]	Plecia curtula
Penthetria dilatata [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia dilatata (1959) [6]	Plecia dilatata
Penthetria elatior [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia elatior (1959) [6]	Plecia elatior
Penthetria falcatula [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959) [6]	Plecia transitoria
Penthetria fragmentum [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959) [6]	Plecia transitoria
Penthetria lambei [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) [6]	Plecia pictipennis
Penthetria nana [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia nana (1959) [6]	Plecia nana
Penthetria ovalis [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) [6]	Plecia pictipennis
Penthetria pictipennis [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pictipennis (1959) [6]	Plecia pictipennis
Penthetria platyptera [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia platyptera (1959) [6]	Plecia platyptera
Penthetria pulchra [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pulchra (1959) [6]	Plecia pulchra
Penthetria pulla [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pulla (1959) [6]	Plecia pulla
Penthetria reducta [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia reducta (1959) [6]	Plecia reducta (1910 illustration)
Penthetria separanda [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) [6]	Plecia pictipennis
Penthetria transitoria [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"	Canada   British Columbia	A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia transitoria (1959) [6]	Plecia transitoria
Promastax [3]	Gen et sp nov	valid	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"	Canada   British Columbia	A Promastacid grasshopper Type species P. archaicus	Promastax archaicus (1910 illustration)
Tipula tulameena [3]	Sp nov	valid	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A tipuline Crane fly.	Tipula tulameena (1910 illustration)
Xylonomus lambei [3]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada   British Columbia	A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp. moved to Xorides lambei .	Xorides lambei (1910 illustration)

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
Mesorhinus	Preoccupied	Jaekel [8]	possibly Late Triassic	unknown	Germany	Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961.
Metarhinus	Preoccupied	Jaekel [8]	Late Triassic (Norian)	Chinle Formation	United States	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	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (Carnian)	Lossiemouth Sandstone	Scotland	Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme. [10]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. ^[11]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Euoplocephalus [12]	Valid taxon	Lawrence Lambe		Late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada   Alberta	An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid.	Euoplocephalus
"Hecatasaurus" [13]	Junior synonym.	Barnum Brown		Maastrichtian	Sânpetru Formation	Romania	Junior objective synonym of Telmatosaurus .
Kritosaurus [13]	Valid	Barnum Brown		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)	Kirtland Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation	US   Mexico	A saurolophine hadrosaurid, a member of Kritosaurini.
"Nectosaurus" [14]	Preoccupied name.	Versluys		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)	Kirtland Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation	US   Mexico	Preoccupied name by Merriam, 1905. Renamed Kritosaurus .

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aloposaurus	Valid	Robert Broom	Middle Permian	Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Gorgonopsidae.	Galepus skull
Galepus	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Galeopsidae.
Poecilospondylus	Junior synonym	Ermin Cowles Case	Early Permian	Arroyo Formation	US	A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus .

Mammalian

Name	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Pseudaelurus chinjiensis [15]	Pilgrim	Tertiary		India

Footnotes

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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. Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Evenhuis (1994). Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Backhuys Publishers. pp. 1–600.
6. Rice, H. M. A (1959). "Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin . 55: 1–36.
7. "Abstract," Makovicky (2001); page 243.
8. Jaekel, O. (1910). Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5:197-229.
9. Huene, F. von. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin. Geol. Palaeontol. Abhandl. 8: pp. 317-322.
10. 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
11. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
12. 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.
13. 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; pp. 267-274.
14. Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft der Vogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp. 175-260.
15. 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.