1911 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 1911.

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries[]

Institutions and organizations[]

Natural history museums[]

The Calgary Public Museum opened in Alberta, Canada.^[2]

Scientific organizations[]

Scientific advances[]

Paleoanthropology[]

Paleobotany[]

Evolutionary biology[]

Exopaleontology[]

Extinction research[]

Micropaleontology[]

Invertebrate paleozoology[]

Prehistoric arthropods described in 1911
Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Sidneyia	Valid	Walcott	1911	Cambrian	Canada ( British Columbia) USA ( Pennsylvania and Utah )		Sidneyia

Trace fossils[]

Vertebrate paleozoology[]

Other prehistoric vertebrates described in 1911
Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Limnoscelis^[3]	Valid	S.W. Williston	1911	Permian	USA ( Colorado and New Mexico)	Nominal genus for the family Limnoscelidae	Limnoscelis

Non-mammalian synapsids described in 1911
Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Arctognathus	Valid	Broom	255 million years	South Africa	A South African Gorgonopsid.	Arctognathus
Arctosuchus	Valid	Broom
Diaelurodon	Valid	Broom
Eriphostoma	Valid	Broom	254 million years	South Africa	Another South African Gorgonopsian.
Ictidognathus	Valid	Broom	255 million years	South Africa	A Therocephalian
Moschops	Valid	Broom	261 million years	South Africa	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
Aetonyx^[5]	Junior synonym	Broom		Junior synonym of Massospondylus.
Geranosaurus^[5]	Valid taxon	Broom
Gryponyx^[5]	Valid taxon	Broom	Lesotho Zimbabwe
Gyposaurus^[5]	Junior synonym	Broom		Junior synonym of Massospondylus.
Podokesaurus^[6]	Disputed	Talbot		Junior synonym of Coelophysis.
Tornieria^[7]	Valid taxon	Sternfeld	Tanzania Zimbabwe

Research techniques[]

Fossil trade[]

Law and politics[]

Regulation of fossil collection, transport, or sale[]

Fossil-related crime[]

Official symbols[]

Protected areas[]

Ethics and practice[]

Hoaxes[]

Scandals[]

Unethical practice[]

People[]

Births[]

Awards and recognition[]

Deaths[]

Historiography and anthropology of paleontology[]

Pseudoscience[]

Popular culture[]

Amusement parks and attractions[]

Art[]

Comics[]

Film[]

Gaming[]

Literature[]

Philately[]

Television[]

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

[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.

[cutler-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.

[ddinogeorge-4] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[broom11stormberg-5] 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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