1915 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 1915.

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries

Charles H. Sternberg's crew excavated a Corythsaurus from quarry 243 in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. The specimen would later be displayed at the Calgary Zoo.^[2]
Barnum Brown stopped collecting fossils in Alberta.^[3]

Scientific advances

Invertebrate paleozoology

Prehistoric insects described in 1915

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aphaenogaster mersa^[4]	Sp nov	valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil myrmicin ant.	Aphaenogaster mersa
Aphaenogaster oligocenica^[4]	Sp nov	valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil myrmicin ant.	Aphaenogaster oligocenica
Asymphylomyrmex	Gen et sp nov	valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	A dolichoderine ant.	Asymphylomyrmex balticus
Iridomyrmex constricta^[4]	Comb nov	Jr synonym	(Mayr)	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderin ant jr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta	Anonychomyrma constricta
Iridomyrmex geinitzi^[4]	Comb nov	Jr synonym	Mayr	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi	Anonychomyrma geinitzi
Iridomyrmex samlandica^[4]	Sp nov	Jr synonym	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma samlandica	Anonychomyrma samlandica

Vertebrate paleozoology

Non-mammalian synapsids described in 1915
Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alopecognathus	Valid
Cerdodon	Valid
Galesuchus	Valid
Moschosaurus	Valid
Scoliomus	Valid
Scylacorhinus	Valid
Scymnognathus	Valid
Simorhinella	Valid
Struthiocephalus	Valid
Trochosaurus	Valid
Tropidostoma	Valid

Prehistoric turtles described in 1915
Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cratochelone^[5]	gen et sp nov	valid	Loangman	Albian	Toolebuc Formation	Australia	largest protostegid turtle from Australia

Pseudosuchians described in 1915
Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
"Poposaurus"^[6]	Valid taxon.	*Mehl		Carnian	Popo Agie Formation	United States	A member of Poposauridae.

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[7]

Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1915
Name	Status	Authors	Notes
Eoceratops^[8]	Disputed.	*Lawrence Lambe	May be a synonym of Chasmosaurus.
Kangnasaurus^[9]	Valid taxon	*Haughton
"Kentrosaurus"^[10]		*Hennig
Spinosaurus^[11]	Valid taxon	* Ernst Stromer

People

Awards and recognition

Deaths

Eberhard Fraas died.

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.
↑ D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550.
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↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg 55 (4): 56–59.
↑ longman, H. L. (1915). "on a giant turtle of the Queensland Lower Cretaceous". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 3: 24–29. ISSN 0079-8835.
↑ Mehl, M.G. 1915. Poposaurus gracilis, a new reptile from the Triassic of Wyoming. Journal of Geology 23: pp. 516-522.
↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
↑ Lambe, L.M. 1915. On Eoceratops canadensis. gen. nov., with remarks on other genera of Cretaceous homed dinosaurs. Geol. Surv. Can. Mus. Bull. 12: pp. 1-49.
↑ Haughton, S.H. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 5: pp. 259-264.
↑ Hennig, E. 1915. Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, der Stegosauride des Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1915: pp. 219-247.
↑ Stromer, E. 1915. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wusten Agyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 3. Das Original des Theropoden Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Abhandlungen der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse 28 (band 3):pp. 3-32.