1911 in paleontology

List of years in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology (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 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 1911.

Institutions and organizations

Natural history museums

Scientific advances

Invertebrate paleozoology

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Location Notes Images

Sidneyia

 Valid Walcott 1911 Cambrian
Sidneyia
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Vertebrate paleozoology

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Location Notes Images

Limnoscelis[3]

 Valid S.W. Williston 1911 Permian Nominal genus for the family Limnoscelidae
Limnoscelis
Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Arctognathus

Valid

 Broom 255 millions of years An South African Gorgonopsid.
Arctognathus

Arctosuchus

Valid

 Broom

Diaelurodon

Valid

 Broom

Eriphostoma

Valid

 Broom 254 Millions of Years Another South African Gorgonopsian.

Ictidognathus

Valid

 Broom 255 Millions of Years A Therocephalian

Moschops

Valid

 Broom 261 Millions of Years. A Dome-Headed Dinocephalian.
Moschops

Taognathus

Valid

 Broom A Dicynodont.
Plesiosaurs described in 1911
Name Status Authors Notes

Microcleidus

Valid

Watson

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]

Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1911
Name Status Authors Location Notes Images
Aetonyx[5] Junior synonym
  • Broom

Junior synonym of Massospondylus.
Geranosaurus[5] Valid taxon
  • Broom
Gryponyx[5] Valid taxon
  • Broom
Gyposaurus[5]

Junior synonym
  • Broom

Junior synonym of Massospondylus.
Podokesaurus[6]

Disputed
  • Talbot

Junior synonym of Coelophysis.

Tornieria[7] Valid taxon
  • Sternfeld

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. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Williston, S.W. (1911). "A new family of reptiles from the Permian of New Mexico". The American Journal of Science. 4. 33: 378–398.
  4. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Broom, R. 1911. On the dinosaurs of the Stormberg, South Africa: Annals of the South African Museum 7: pp. 291-308.
  6. ↑ Talbot, M. 1911. Podokesaurus holyokensis, a new dinosaur from the Triassic of the Connecticut Valley. Amer. J. Sci. (ser. 4) 31: pp. 469-479.
  7. ↑ Sternfeld, R. 1911. Zur Nomenklature der Gattung Gigantosaurus Fraas: Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde Fr. Berlin (1911) 8: p. 398.
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