1908 in paleontology
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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 mankind has 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.
Archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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"Scaphonyx" |
Valid taxon. |
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A rhynchosaur. |
Late Triassic (Carnian) |
A hyperodapedontid rhynchosaur. | |||
Newly named dinosaurs
Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Ankylosaurus[3] | Valid taxon |
Late Cretaceous (Lancian) |
An ankylosaurid. |
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"Gigantosaurus"[4] |
Preoccupied. |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
Preoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria. | |||||
Halticosaurus[5] | Nomen dubium. |
Late Triassic (early Norian) |
A coelophysoid theropod. | |||||
"Pachysaurus"[6] |
Preoccupied. |
Late Triassic (middle Norian) |
Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus. | |||||
Sellosaurus[6] | Valid taxon |
Late Triassic (early Norian) |
A plateosaurid sauropodomorph. | |||||
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Alopecodon |
Valid |
Broom |
Middle Permian |
Middle Abrahamskraal Formation |
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Valid |
Seeley |
Burgersdorp Formation |
A kannemeyeriid dicynodont. | ||||
Valid |
Matthew |
Early Permian |
Arroyo Formation |
Possibly a basal therapsid. | |||
Valid |
Broom |
Middle Permian |
Middle Abrahamskraal Formation |
A member of Lycosauridae. | |||
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". 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.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 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.