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.

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Arthropoda

Newly named insects

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Agroecomyrmex [2]

Gen et comb nov

Valid

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

Flag of Europe.svg  Europe

An agroecomyrmecine ant,
Moved from "Myrmica" duisburgi

Agroecomyrmex duisburgi Agroecomyrmex duisburgi BMNHP18831 02.jpg
Agroecomyrmex duisburgi

Aphrophora angusta [3]

Sp nov

valid

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A spittlebug

Aphrophora angusta
(1910 illustration) Aphrophora angusta Handlirsch 1910 Fig36 cropped.png
Aphrophora angusta
(1910 illustration)

Archiinocellia [3]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
"Horsefly shales"

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A Raphidiid snakefly
Type species A. oligoneura

Archiinocellia oligoneura
(1910 illustration) Archiinocellia oligoneura Handlirsch 1910.jpg
Archiinocellia oligoneura
(1910 illustration)

Archiraphidia [3]

Gen et comb nov

valid

Handlirsch

Priabonian

Florissant Formation

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Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado

A Raphidiid snakefly
The type species is Inocellia tumulata (1890)
also includes Inocellia somnolenta (1890)
Raphidia tranquilla (1890)

Archiraphidia tumulata Archiraphidia tumulata MCZ-4137 NPS img1.jpg
Archiraphidia tumulata

Dictyoraphidia veterana [3]

Gen et comb nov

valid

Handlirsch

Priabonian

Florissant Formation

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Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado

A baissopterid snakefly
New genus for "Inocellia" veterana (1890)

Electromyrmex [2]

Gen et sp nov

nom nudum

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

Flag of Europe.svg  Europe

A myrmicine ant.
Type species E. klebsi

Electromyrmex klebsi Electromyrmex klebsi IGRBA010 profile.jpg
Electromyrmex klebsi

Garrus defuncta [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Coldwater Beds

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A gerrid water strider
Moved to Telmatrechus defunctus (1998) [4]

Telmatrechus defunctus
(1910 illustration) Telmatrechus defunctus (syn Garrus defuncta) Handlirsch 1910 Fig35 cropped.png
Telmatrechus defunctus
(1910 illustration)

Garrus stali [3]

Comb nov

jr synonym

(Scudder) Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A gerrid water strider
Moved from Telmatrechus defunctus (1890)
Moved back to Telmatrechus defunctus (1998) [4]

Telmatrechus stali
(1890 illustration) Telmatrechus stali Scudder 1890 pl2 Fig12.png
Telmatrechus stali
(1890 illustration)

Microphorus defunctus [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A long legged fly
Moved to Microphor defunctus (1994) [5]

Microphor defunctus
(1910 illustration) Microphor defunctus Handlirsch 1910 Fig32 cropped.png
Microphor defunctus
(1910 illustration)

Penthetria angustipennis [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
"Horsefly shales"

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia angustipennis (1959) [6]

Plecia angustipennis Plecia angustipennis hypotype Rice 1959 pl1 fig5.png
Plecia angustipennis

Penthetria avunculus [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Jr synonym of Plecia curtula (1959) [6]

Plecia curtula Plecia curtula (syn Penthetria avunculus cotype) Rice 1959 pl1 fig11.png
Plecia curtula

Penthetria avus [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia avus (1959) [6]

Plecia avus Plecia avus hypotype Rice 1959 pl3 fig7.png
Plecia avus

Penthetria brevipes [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Jr synonym of Plecia pulla (1959) [6]

Plecia pulla Plecia pulla (syn Penthetria brevipes holotype) Rice 1959 pl1 fig7.png
Plecia pulla

Penthetria canadensis [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia canadensis (1959) [6]

Plecia canadensis Plecia canadensis hypotype Rice 1959 pl2 fig8.png
Plecia canadensis

Penthetria curtula [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
"Horsefly shales"

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia curtula (1959) [6]

Plecia curtula Plecia curtula hypotype Rice 1959 pl1 fig10.png
Plecia curtula

Penthetria dilatata [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
"Horsefly shales"

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia dilatata (1959) [6]

Plecia dilatata Plecia dilatata holotype Rice 1959 pl3 fig9.png
Plecia dilatata

Penthetria elatior [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia elatior (1959) [6]

Plecia elatior Plecia elatior holotype Rice 1959 pl4 fig5.png
Plecia elatior

Penthetria falcatula [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959) [6]

Plecia transitoria Plecia transitoria (syn Penthetria falcatula holotype) Rice 1959 Pl3 fig1.png
Plecia transitoria

Penthetria fragmentum [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959) [6]

Plecia transitoria Plecia transitoria (syn Penthetria fragmentum holotype) Rice 1959 pl4 fig3.png
Plecia transitoria

Penthetria lambei [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) [6]

Plecia pictipennis Plecia pictipennis (syn Penthetria lambei holotype) Rice 1959 pl3 fig8.png
Plecia pictipennis

Penthetria nana [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia nana (1959) [6]

Plecia nana Plecia nana holotype Rice 1959 pl1 fig8.png
Plecia nana

Penthetria ovalis [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) [6]

Plecia pictipennis Plecia pictipennis (syn Penthetria ovalis holotype) Rice 1959 pl3 fig5.png
Plecia pictipennis

Penthetria pictipennis [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia pictipennis (1959) [6]

Plecia pictipennis Plecia pictipennis hypotype Rice 1959 pl4 fig6.png
Plecia pictipennis

Penthetria platyptera [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
"Horsefly shales"

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia platyptera (1959) [6]

Plecia platyptera Plecia platyptera holotype Rice 1959 pl4 fig1.png
Plecia platyptera

Penthetria pulchra [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia pulchra (1959) [6]

Plecia pulchra Plecia pulchra holotype Rice 1959 pl4 fig2.png
Plecia pulchra

Penthetria pulla [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia pulla (1959) [6]

Plecia pulla Plecia pulla holotype Rice 1959 pl1 fig6.png
Plecia pulla

Penthetria reducta [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
"Horsefly shales"

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia reducta (1959) [6]

Plecia reducta
(1910 illustration) Plecia reducta Handlirsch 1910 Fig13 cropped.png
Plecia reducta
(1910 illustration)

Penthetria separanda [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) [6]

Plecia pictipennis Plecia pictipennis (syn Penthetria separanda holotype) Rice 1959 pl4 fig4.png
Plecia pictipennis

Penthetria transitoria [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
"Horsefly shales"

Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A bibionid fly
Moved to Plecia transitoria (1959) [6]

Plecia transitoria Plecia transitoria holotype Rice 1959 pl3 fig3.png
Plecia transitoria

Promastax [3]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
"Horsefly shales"

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A Promastacid grasshopper
Type species P. archaicus

Promastax archaicus
(1910 illustration) Promastax archaicus Handlirsch 1910 Fig1 cropped.png
Promastax archaicus
(1910 illustration)

Tipula tulameena [3]

Sp nov

valid

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A tipuline Crane fly.

Tipula tulameena
(1910 illustration) Tipula tulameena Handlirsch 1910 Fig31 cropped.png
Tipula tulameena
(1910 illustration)

Xylonomus lambei [3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Handlirsch

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Allenby Formation

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Flag of British Columbia.svg  British Columbia

A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp.
moved to Xorides lambei .

Xorides lambei
(1910 illustration) Xorides lambei Handlirsch 1910 Fig2 cropped.png
Xorides lambei
(1910 illustration)

Archosauromorphs

Newly named phytosaurs

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Mesorhinus

Preoccupied

Jaekel [8]

possibly Late Triassic

unknown

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Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961.

Metarhinus

Preoccupied

Jaekel [8]

Late Triassic (Norian)

Chinle Formation

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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

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Saltopus [9] Valid taxon

Late Triassic (Carnian)

Lossiemouth Sandstone

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Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme. [10]

Dinosaurs

TaxonNoveltyStatusAuthor(s)AgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Euoplocephalus [11] Gen. nov.Valid Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation Flag of Alberta.svg  Alberta An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid Euoplocephalus BW.jpg
Hecatasaurus [12] Gen. nov. Jr. synonym Brown Maastrichtian Sânpetru Formation Flag of Romania.svg  Romania New genus name for Limnosaurus transsylvanicus , already named Telmatosaurus
Kritosaurus [12] Gen. et sp. nov.Valid Brown Campanian Kirtland Formation Flag of New Mexico.svg  New Mexico A hadrosaurid
"Nectosaurus navajovius" [13] Nomen nudum Versluys Campanian Kirtland Formation Flag of New Mexico.svg  New Mexico An unpublished name for Kritosaurus navajovius mentioned in passing attributed to Brown

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Aloposaurus

Valid

Robert Broom

Middle Permian

Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone

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A member of Gorgonopsidae.

Galepus skull Galepus skull.jpg
Galepus skull

Galepus

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

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A member of Galeopsidae.

Poecilospondylus

Junior synonym

Ermin Cowles Case

Early Permian

Arroyo Formation

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A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus .

Mammalian

NameAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Pseudaelurus chinjiensis [14] PilgrimTertiaryIndia

Footnotes

  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. 1 2 Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 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. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 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. 1 2 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. 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.
  12. 1 2 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.
  13. Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft der Vogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp. 175-260.
  14. Pilgrim, G. (1910). "Notices of new mammalian genera and species from the Tertiaries of India". Records of the Geological Survey of India. 60: 65.

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