1908 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 1908.
Arthropoda
[edit]Newly named insects
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Sp nov | A platycleidine tettigoniid Mormon cricket relative |  | ||||||
| Sp nov | A cecidomyiine gall midge gall | _Cockerell_1908_pl1_fig7.png) gall on Myrica drymeia | ||||||
| Sp nov | Beutenmüller & Cockerell |  | ||||||
| Gen et sp nov | nom nudum | A nyrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi |  | |||||
| Sp nov | An eriophyid gall mite gall | _cockerell_1908_pl1_fig3.png) galls on Salix sp. | ||||||
| Comb nov | A Glossinid tsetse fly |  | ||||||
| Gen et sp nov | A cricket relative |  | ||||||
| Sp nov | Beutenmüller & Cockerell |  | ||||||
| Sp nov | Beutenmüller & Cockerell |  | ||||||
| Sp nov |  | |||||||
| Gen et sp nov | A dysagrionine odonate |  | ||||||
| Sp nov | Beutenmüller & Cockerell |  | ||||||
| Sp nov | jr synonym | An ithonid giant lacewing |  |
Archosauromorphs
[edit]Newly named basal archosauromorphs
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Valid | Woodward |  |
Newly named dinosaurs
[edit]Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Ankylosaurus[5] | Valid taxon | Late Cretaceous (Lancian) | An ankylosaurid. |  | ||||
| "Gigantosaurus"[6] | Preoccupied. | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) | Preoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria. | |||||
| Halticosaurus[7] | Nomen dubium. | Late Triassic (early Norian) | ||||||
| Preoccupied. | Late Triassic (middle Norian) | Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus. | ||||||
| Sellosaurus[8] | Valid taxon | Late Triassic (early Norian) | ||||||
Synapsids
[edit]Non-mammalian
[edit]| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Valid | Broom | Middle Abrahamskraal Formation |  | ||||
| Valid | Seeley | Burgersdorp Formation | |||||
| Valid | Matthew | Arroyo Formation | Possibly a basal therapsid. | ||||
| Valid | Broom | Middle Permian | Middle Abrahamskraal Formation | A member of Trochosuchidae. |
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cockerell, T. (1908). "Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 24: 59–69.
- ^ Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Brown, B. 1908. The Ankylosauridae, a new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 187-201.
- ^ Fraas, E. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier. Mitteilungen aus dem Kgl. Naturalien-Kabinett zu Stuttgart: pp.105-144.
- ^ Huene, F. von. 1907/1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europaiaschen Triasformation mit Berucksichtiging der aussereuropaischen Vorkommnisse. Geol. Paleont. Abhandl. Suppl. 1: pp. 1-419.
- ^ a b Huene, F. von. 1908. Eine Zusammensteilung uber die englische Trias und Alter ihre Fossilen. Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, Stuttgart 1908: pp. 9-17.