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

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Newly named insects

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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

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  • AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.[7]

Newly named phytosaurs

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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

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Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Saltopus[9] Valid taxon

Late Triassic (Carnian)

Lossiemouth Sandstone

  Scotland

Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme.[10]

Newly named dinosaurs

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

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Euoplocephalus[12] Valid taxon

Late Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation

An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid.

 
Euoplocephalus
"Hecatasaurus"[13] Junior synonym.

Maastrichtian

Sânpetru Formation

  Romania

Junior objective synonym of Telmatosaurus.

Kritosaurus[13] Valid

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

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Non-mammalian

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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

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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. ^ a b Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac 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. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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

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  • 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.