1907 in paleontology

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Paleontology or palaeontology 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 1907.


Plants

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Ferns and fern allies

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Cladophlebis skagitensis[2]

Sp nov

Penhallow

Lower Cretaceous

 Canada
 British Columbia

A Cladophlebis pinnule

Nilsonia pasaytensis[2]

Sp nov

Penhallow

Lower Cretaceous

 Canada
 British Columbia

A Nilsonia foliage

Conifers

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Picea columbiensis[2]

Sp nov

valid

Penhallow

Early Eocene
Ypresian[3]

Kettle River Formation?

 Canada
 British Columbia

A cone and foliage Spruce species.

Picea columbiensis

Pinus columbiana[2]

Sp nov

Penhallow

Early Eocene
Ypresian[3]

Kettle River Formation?

 Canada
 British Columbia

A wood and cone pine species.

Pinus columbiana

Flowering plants

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Myrica serrata[2]

Sp nov

Penhallow

Lower Cretaceous

 Canada
 British Columbia

A Myrica? foliage

Ulmus columbiana[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Penhallow

Early Eocene
Ypresian[3]

Kettle River Formation?

 Canada
 British Columbia

An elm wood species.
Moved to Ulminium columbianum in 1922[4]

Ulminium columbianum

Ulmus protoamericana[2]

Sp nov

Penhallow

Early Eocene
Ypresian[3]

Kettle River Formation?

 Canada
 British Columbia

An elm wood species.

Ulmus protoamericana

Ulmus protoracemosa[2]

Sp nov

Penhallow

Early Eocene
Ypresian[3]

Kettle River Formation?

 Canada
 British Columbia

An elm wood species.

Ulmus protoracemosa

Arthropods

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Insects

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Megaraphidia[5]

Gen et Sp nov

valid

Cockerell

Eocene
Priabonian

Florissant Formation

 USA
 Colorado

A raphidiid snakefly
The type species is M. elegans
Moved to Raphidia elegans in 1936[6]
Moved back to M. elegans in 2014[7]

Megaraphidia elegans

Tortrix? florissantana[8]

sp. nov

jr synonym

Cockerell

Priabonian

Florissant Formation

 USA
 Colorado

A moth of uncertain placement,
moved to Paleolepidopterites florissantanus (2018)[9]

Paleolepidopterites florissantanus

Archosaurs

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  • Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.[10]
  • Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question."[11]
  • Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.[11]

Newly named ornithodirans

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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[12]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Scleromochlus[13]

gen. et sp. nov

Valid

  • Woodward

Late Triassic

Lossiemouth Sandstone

 Scotland

A member of Ornithodira.

Scleromochlus

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Arnognathus

Gen. et. sp. nov

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A member of Lycideopsidae.

Galechirus

Galechirus

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Broom

Middle Permian

Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A member of Galeopidae.

References

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  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. ^ a b c d e f g h Penhallow, D. P. (1907). "A report on fossil plants from the International Boundary Survey for 1903–1905, collected by Dr. R A Daly.". Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 3. Vol. 1 (sect 4). Royal Society of Canada. pp. 287–351.
  3. ^ a b c d e Höy, T.; Friedman, R.; Gabites, J. Paleogene Penticton Group, Boundary area, Southern British Columbia (Parts of NTS 082E): Geochronology and Implications for Precious Metal Mineralization (PDF) (Report). Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-01. Geoscience BC. pp. 55–66.
  4. ^ Edwards, W. N. (1931). Jongmans, W. (ed.). Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 17. Dicotyledones (Ligna). Berlin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Cockerell, T. (1909). "Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 23: 605–616.
  6. ^ Carpenter, F.M. (1936). "Revision of the Nearctic Raphidiodea (Recent and Fossil)". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 89 (2): 89–158. doi:10.2307/20023217. JSTOR 20023217.
  7. ^ Makarkin, V.; Archibald, S. (2014). "A revision of the late Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of the Florissant Formation, Colorado, with special reference to the wing venation of the Raphidiomorpha". Zootaxa. 3784 (4): 401–444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.4. PMID 24872063.
  8. ^ Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907). "A fossil tortricid moth". Canadian Entomologist. 39 (12): 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12. S2CID 85726085.
  9. ^ Maria Heikkilä; John W. Brown; Joaquin Baixeras; Wolfram Mey; Mikhail V. Kozlov (2018). "Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera)". Zootaxa. 4394 (1): 41–60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.
  10. ^ Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  11. ^ a b Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
  12. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  13. ^ Woodward, A.S. 1907. On a new dinosaurian reptile (Scleromochlus taylori, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 63 (1, article 10): pp. 140-144.
  • Brown, B. (1907). Gastroliths, Science, 25(636), p392.
  • Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
  • Wieland, G.R. (1907). Gastroliths. Science, 628:66-67.