1916 in paleontology

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 1916.

Plants

Newly named angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Florissantia [2]	Gen et sp nov	jr synonym (pro part)	Knowlton	Late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States Colorado	A mallow relative. Type species F. physalis, jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1886)	Florissantia speirii
Porana similis [2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Knowlton	Late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States Colorado	A mallow relative. jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1992)	Florissantia speirii

Echinoderms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Argentinaster [3]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Ruedemann	Early Devonian	Talacasto Formation	Argentina	A brittle star belonging to the family Ophiurinidae, type species is A. bodenbenderi.
Encrinaster yachalensis [3]	Sp nov	Jr synonym	Ruedemann	Early Devonian	Talacasto Formation	Argentina	A brittle star belonging to the family Encrinasteridae, moved to the genus Marginaster in 1995, [4] which was then renamed to Marginix in 2015. [5]

Fish

Bony fish

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Lucious rosei [6]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Hussakof	Eocene Ypresian	Tranquille Formation	Canada British Columbia	A moon eye relative. Moved to Eohiodon rosei (1966) moved to Hiodon rosei (2008) [7]

Dinosaurs

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Doryphorosaurus [8]	Gen. nov.	Jr. synonym	Nopcsa	Late Jurassic	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	Unnecessary replacement name for Kentrosaurus
Gigantoscelus molengraaffi [9]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	van Hoepen	Early Jurassic	Bushveld Sandstone Formation	South Africa	A prosauropod
Kentrurosaurus [10]	Gen. nov.	Jr. synonym	Hennig	Late Jurassic	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	Unnecessary replacement name for Kentrosaurus
Prosaurolophus maximus [11]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Brown	Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada Alberta)	A hadrosaurid

Plesiosaurs

Newly named taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Apractocleidus	Gen nov	jr synonym	Smellie				jr synonym of Cryptocleidus	Cryptoclidus eurymerus

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country/state	Notes	Images
Jonkeria	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Van Hoepen	Capitanian	Abrahamskraal Formation	South Africa	A titanosuchid dinocephalian Type species J. truculenta	Jonkeria

References

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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. Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR   2444909.
3. Ruedemann, Rudolf (1916). "Two new starfishes from the Silurian of Argentina". New York State Museum Bulletin. 189: 116–120.
4. Haude, Reimund (1995-07-14). "Lower Devonian echinoderms from the Precordillera (Argentina)" . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 197 (1): 37–86. doi:10.1127/njgpa/197/1995/37. ISSN   0077-7749.
5. Martínez, Sergio; Río, Claudia del (2015). "Fossil Asterozoa (Echinodermata) of Argentina". Revista de Biología Tropical. 63 (2): 1–6.
6. Hussakof, L. (1916). "A new cyprinid fish, Leuciscus rosei, from the Miocene of British Columbia". American Journal of Science. 4 (247): 18–20. doi:10.2475/ajs.s4-42.247.18.
7. Hilton, E.; Grande, L. (2008). "Fossil Mooneyes (Teleostei: Hiodontiformes, Hiodontidae) from the Eocene of western North America, with a reassessment of their taxonomy". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 295: 221–251. doi:10.1144/SP295.13. S2CID   128680041.
8. Nopcsa, F. 1916. Doryphorosaurus nov. nom. fiir Kentrosaurus Hennig. Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1916: pp. 511-512.
9. Hoepen, E.C.N. van. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen. Verh. Geol.- mijnbouwkundig genootschap Nederland en kolonien (Geol. Ser.) 3: pp. 107-117.
10. Hennig, E. 1916. Zweite Mirteilung tiber den Stegosauriden vom Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1916: pp.175-182.
11. Brown, B (1916). "A new crested trachodont dinosaur, Prosaurolophus maximus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 35: 701–708.