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.
Arthropods[]
Newly named insects[]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Tortrix? florissantana[2] |
sp. nov |
jr synonym |
A moth of uncertain placement, |
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Archosaurs[]
- Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.[4]
- Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question."[5]
- Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.[5]
Newly named ornithodirans[]
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[6]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Scleromochlus[7] |
gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
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A member of Ornithodira. |
Synapsids[]
Non-mammalian[]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et. sp. nov |
Valid |
Broom |
A member of . |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Broom |
Middle Permian |
A member of Galeopidae. |
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 (12): 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
- ^ a b Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ 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.
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