1917 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 1917.

Scientific advances

Invertebrate paleozoology

Prehistoric insects described in 1917

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Tortrix? florissantana^[2]	sp. nov	valid	Cockerell	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA	A torticid moth

Vertebrate paleozoology

Non-mammalian synapsids described in 1917

Name	Status	Images
Myosaurus	Valid	Myosaurus
Prolystrosaurus	Valid

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1917

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
"Archaeornis"^[4]	gen. nov	Junior synonym	Petronievics	Tithonian	Solnhofen limestone	Germany	Junior synonym of Archaeopteryx. Non-dinosaurian bird.	Edmontosaurus
"Cheneosaurus"^[5]	gen et sp nov	Junior synonym.	Lambe	early Maastrichtian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Canada	Junior synonym of Hypacrosaurus.
Edmontosaurus^[6]	gen et sp nov	Valid taxon	Lambe	late Campanian-late Maastrichtian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation Lance Formation Hell Creek Formation Scollard Formation Frenchman Formation	Canada United States	A saurolophine hadrosaurid.

People

Awards and recognition

Popular culture

Literature

Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley, Alberta by C. H. Sternberg was pubished. Although the work over all was non-fiction, it concluded with a series of fictional chapters wherein Sternberg dreamt of traveling back in time to the various ages of prehistory.^[7]

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.
↑ Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907). "A fossil tortricid moth". Canadian Entomologist 39: 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12.
↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
↑ Petronievics, B. and A.S. Woodward. 1917. On the pectoral and pelvic arches of the Britt.Mus. specimen of Archaeopteryx. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: pp. 1 - 16.
↑ Lambe, L.M. 1917. On Cheneosaurus tolmanensis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 30: pp. 117- 123.
↑ Lambe, L.M. 1917. A new genus and species of crestless hadrosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 31: pp. 65-73.
↑ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.