1914 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 1914.

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Arthropods

Newly named insects

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Raphidia pulveris [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Cockerell

Eocene
Priabonian

Florissant Formation

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A raphidiid snakefly
Synonymized with Megaraphidia exhumata in 2014 [3]

Megaraphidia exhumata Megaraphidia exhumata MCZ-3640A (part side) NPS img1.jpg
Megaraphidia exhumata

Dinosaurs

New taxa

TaxonNoveltyStatusAuthor(s)AgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Anchiceratops ornatus [5] Gen. et sp. nov.Valid Brown Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta A ceratopsid Anchiceratops BW.jpg
Brachyceratops montanensis [6] Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Gilmore Campanian Two Medicine Formation Flag of Montana.svg Montana A ceratopsid Brachyceratops BW.jpg
Chasmosaurus [7] Gen. nov.Valid Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta A replacement name for Protorosaurus , a new genus for Monoclonius belli Chasmosaurus BW.jpg
Corythosaurus casuarius [8] Gen. et sp. nov.Valid Brown Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta A hadrosaurid Corythosaurus TD.png
Dicraeosaurus hansemanni [9] Gen. et sp. nov.Valid Janensch Kimmeridgian Tendaguru Formation Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania A Jurassic sauropod Dicraeosaurus hansemanni22.jpg
Dicraeosaurus sattleri [9] Sp. nov.Valid Janensch Kimmeridgian Tendaguru Formation Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania A second species of Dicraeosaurus
Gorgosaurus libratus [10] Gen. et sp. nov.Valid Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta A tyrannosaurid Gorgosaurus.png
Gryposaurus notabilis [7] Gen. et sp. nov.Valid Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta A hadrosaurid Gryposaurus-notabilis jconway.png
Leptoceratops gracilis [11] Gen. et sp. novValid Brown Maastrichtian Scollard Formation Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta An early ceratopsian Leptoceratops BW.jpg
Protorosaurus [12] Gen. nov.Preoccupied Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta New genus for Monoclonius belli , but preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosauromorph von Meyer, 1830. Renamed Chasmosaurus .
Stephanosaurus [10] Gen. nov. Nomen dubium Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta A new genus name for Trachodon marginatus

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Brancasaurus

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Wegner

Berriasian

Isterberg Formation

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A possibly freshwater dwelling plesiosaur

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Brancasaurus

Pterosaurs

New taxa

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Lonchodectes

Fam et Gen nov

Valid

Hooley

Late Cretaceous

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An ornithocheiromorph

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Lonchodectes compressirostris

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

NameStatusAuthorsAgeLocationNotesImages

Arctops

Valid

Watson255 million years agoA Gorgonopsian.
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Arctops

Mormosaurus

Valid

Watson270 million years agoA Dinocephalian.
Mormosaurus Mormosaurus.jpg
Mormosaurus

Moschognathus

Valid

263 million years ago

Pnigalion

Valid

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. Cockerell, T. (1914). "New and little known insects from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado". Journal of Geology. 22: 714–724.
  3. 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.
  4. "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
  5. Brown, B. 1914. Anchiceratops, a new genus of horned dinosaurs from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta, with discussion of the origin of the ceratopsian crests and brain casts of Anchiceratops and Trachodon. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: pp. 559-565.
  6. Gilmore, C.W. 1914. A new ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, with a note on Hypacrosaurus. Smithosian Miscellaneous Collections 43: pp. 1-10.
  7. 1 2 Lambe, L.M. (1914). "On Gryposaurus notabilis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Chasmosaurus belli". The Ottawa Naturalist. 27 (11): 145–155.
  8. Brown, B. (1914). "Corythosaurus casuarius, a new crested dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous, with provisional classification of the family Trachodontidae". American Museum of Natural History Bulletin. 33: 559–565.
  9. 1 2 Janensch, W. 1914. Ubersicht uber die Wirbeltierfauna der Tendaguru-Schichten nebst einer kurzen Charakterisierung der neu aufgefuhrten Arten von Sauropoden. Arch. Biontol. 3: pp. 81-110.
  10. 1 2 Lambe, L.M. (1914). "On a new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Stephanosaurus marginatus from the same horizon". The Ottawa Naturalist. 28 (1): 13–20.
  11. Brown, B. 1914. Leptoceratops, a new genus of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: pp. 567-580.
  12. Lambe, L.M. (1914). "On the forelimb of a carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, and a new genus of Ceratopsia from the same horizon, with remarks on the integument of some Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs". The Ottawa Naturalist. 27 (10): 129–135.

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