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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen et comb nov |
Valid |
An agroecomyrmecine ant, |
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Aphrophora angusta[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
 Aphrophora angusta (1910 illustration) | |||||
|
Gen et sp nov |
valid |
"Horsefly shales" |
A Raphidiid snakefly |
 Archiinocellia oligoneura (1910 illustration) | ||||
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Archiraphidia[3] |
Gen et comb nov |
valid |
A Raphidiid snakefly |
 Archiraphidia tumulata | ||||
|
Dictyoraphidia veterana[3] |
Gen et comb nov |
valid |
A baissopterid snakefly |
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Gen et sp nov |
nom nudum |
A myrmicine ant. |
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Garrus defuncta[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A gerrid water strider |
_Handlirsch_1910_Fig35_cropped.png.webp) Telmatrechus defunctus (1910 illustration) | ||||
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Microphorus defunctus[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A long legged fly |
 Microphor defunctus (1910 illustration) | ||||
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Penthetria angustipennis[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
"Horsefly shales" |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia angustipennis | |||
|
Penthetria avunculus[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl1_fig11.png.webp) Plecia curtula | ||||
|
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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Penthetria brevipes[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl1_fig7.png.webp) Plecia pulla | ||||
|
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria curtula[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
"Horsefly shales" |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia curtula | |||
|
Penthetria dilatata[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
"Horsefly shales" |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia dilatata | |||
|
Penthetria elatior[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia elatior | ||||
|
Penthetria falcatula[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_Pl3_fig1.png.webp){kind=spacer} Plecia transitoria | ||||
|
Penthetria fragmentum[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl4_fig3.png.webp){kind=spacer} Plecia transitoria | ||||
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Penthetria lambei[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl3_fig8.png.webp) Plecia pictipennis | ||||
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Penthetria nana[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia nana | ||||
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Penthetria ovalis[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl3_fig5.png.webp) Plecia pictipennis | ||||
|
Penthetria pictipennis[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia pictipennis | ||||
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Penthetria platyptera[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
"Horsefly shales" |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia platyptera | |||
|
Penthetria pulchra[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia pulchra | ||||
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Penthetria pulla[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia pulla | ||||
|
Penthetria reducta[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
"Horsefly shales" |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia reducta (1910 illustration) | |||
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Penthetria separanda[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl4_fig4.png.webp) Plecia pictipennis | ||||
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Penthetria transitoria[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
"Horsefly shales" |
A bibionid fly |
 Plecia transitoria | |||
|
Gen et sp nov |
valid |
"Horsefly shales" |
A Promastacid grasshopper |
 Promastax archaicus (1910 illustration) | ||||
|
Tipula tulameena[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
 Tipula tulameena (1910 illustration) | |||||
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Xylonomus lambei[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp. |
 Xorides lambei (1910 illustration) | ||||
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Preoccupied |
Jaekel[8] |
possibly Late Triassic |
unknown |
Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961. |
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Preoccupied |
Jaekel[8] |
Late Triassic (Norian) |
New genus for "Belodon" buceros Cope, 1881; preoccupied by Metarhinus Osborn, 1908; renamed Machaeroprosopus Mehl in Mehl, Toepemann, and Schwartz, 1916 |
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Newly named basal dinosauriforms
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saltopus[9] | Valid taxon |
Late Triassic (Carnian) |
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 |
Late Campanian |
An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid. |
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| "Hecatasaurus"[13] | Junior synonym. |
Maastrichtian |
Junior objective synonym of Telmatosaurus. | |||||
| Kritosaurus[13] | Valid |
Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) |
A saurolophine hadrosaurid, a member of Kritosaurini. | |||||
| "Nectosaurus"[14] | Preoccupied name. |
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Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) |
Preoccupied name by Merriam, 1905. Renamed Kritosaurus. | ||||
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Valid |
A member of Gorgonopsidae. |
 Galepus skull | |||||
|
Valid |
Broom |
A member of Galeopsidae. | |||||
|
Ermin Cowles Case |
A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus. | ||||||
Mammalian
| Name | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pseudaelurus chinjiensis[15] | Pilgrim | Tertiary | India | |||
Footnotes
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
- 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 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Evenhuis (1994). Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Backhuys Publishers. pp. 1–600.
- 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.
- ↑ "Abstract," Makovicky (2001); page 243.
- 1 2 Jaekel, O. (1910). Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5:197-229.
- ↑ Huene, F. von. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin. Geol. Palaeontol. Abhandl. 8: pp. 317-322.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ↑ 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.
- 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; pp. 267-274.
- ↑ Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft der Vogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp. 175-260.
- ↑ 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.