1908 in paleontology

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

Newly named dinosaurs

Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[2]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ankylosaurus[3]	Valid taxon	Barnum Brown		Late Cretaceous (Lancian)	Hell Creek Formation Lance Formation Scollard Formation	Canada  United States	An ankylosaurid.	Ankylosaurus
"Gigantosaurus"[4]	Preoccupied.	Eberhard Fraas		Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	Preoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria.
Halticosaurus[5]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (early Norian)	Stubensandstein	Germany	A coelophysoid theropod.
"Pachysaurus"[6]	Preoccupied.	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (middle Norian)	Trossingen Formation	Germany	Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus.
Sellosaurus[6]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (early Norian)	Stubensandstein	Germany	A plateosaurid sauropodomorph.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alopecodon	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Middle Abrahamskraal Formation	South Africa	A scylaosaurid theriodont.	Tetraceratops
Kannemeyeria	Valid	Seeley	Early-Middle Triassic (late Olenekian to Anisian)	Burgersdorp Formation	South Africa	A kannemeyeriid dicynodont.
Tetraceratops	Valid	Matthew	Early Permian	Arroyo Formation	US	Possibly a basal therapsid.
Trochosuchus	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Middle Abrahamskraal Formation	South Africa	A member of Trochosuchidae.

References

1. ↑ 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. 
2. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
3. ↑ Brown, B. 1908. The Ankylosauridae, a new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 187-201.
4. ↑ Fraas, E. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier. Mitteilungen aus dem Kgl. Naturalien-Kabinett zu Stuttgart: pp.105-144.
5. ↑ Huene, F. von. 1907/1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europaiaschen Triasformation mit Berucksichtiging der aussereuropaischen Vorkommnisse. Geol. Paleont. Abhandl. Suppl. 1: pp. 1-419.
6. 1 2 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.