1916 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 1916.

Plants[]

Newly named angiosperms[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Florissantia^[2]	Gen et sp nov	jr synonym (pro part)	Knowlton	Late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States Colorado	A mallow relative. Type species F. physalis, jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1886)	Florissantia speirii
Porana similis^[2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Knowlton	Late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States Colorado	A mallow relative. jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1992)	Florissantia speirii

Dinosaurs[]

Newly named dinosaurs[]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list^[3] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.^[4]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
"Doryphorosaurus"^[5]	Gen et comb nov	Junior synonym	Nopcsa	Late Jurassic	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	Invalid replacement name for Kentrosaurus (1915).	Kentrosaurus aethiopicus
"Gigantoscelus"^[6]	Gen et sp nov	nomen dubium	van Hoepen	Early Jurassic	Bushveld Sandstone Formation	South Africa	A possible Sauropodomorpha of poor description
"Kentrurosaurus"^[7]	Gen et comb nov	Junior synonym	Hennig	Late Jurassic	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	Invalid replacement name for Kentrosaurus (1915).	Kentrosaurus aethiopicus
Prosaurolophus^[8]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Brown	late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada Alberta)	A saurolophine hadrosaur	Prosaurolophus maximus

Plesiosaurs[]

Newly named taxa[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
"Apractocleidus"	Gen nov	jr synonym	Smellie				jr synonym of Cryptocleidus	Cryptoclidus eurymerus

Synapsids[]

Non-mammalian[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Country/state	Notes	Images
Jonkeria	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Van Hoepen	Capitanian	Abrahamskraal Formation	South Africa	A titanosuchid dinocephalian Type species J. truculenta	Jonkeria

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.
^ ^a ^b Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR 2444909.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Montague, Jeremy. "Dr. Montague's Database" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-29.
^ Nopcsa, F. 1916. Doryphorosaurus nov. nom. fiir Kentrosaurus Hennig. Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1916: pp. 511-512.
^ Hoepen, E.C.N. van. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen. Verh. Geol.- mijnbouwkundig genootschap Nederland en kolonien (Geol. Ser.) 3: pp. 107-117.
^ Hennig, E. 1916. Zweite Mirteilung tiber den Stegosauriden vom Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1916: pp.175-182.
^ Brown, B. 1916. A new crested trachodont dinosaur, Prosaurolophus maximus. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 35: pp. 701-708.

[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.

[Manchester1992-2] Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR 2444909.

[ddinogeorge-3] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[montaguedatabase-4] Montague, Jeremy. "Dr. Montague's Database" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-29.

[5] Nopcsa, F. 1916. Doryphorosaurus nov. nom. fiir Kentrosaurus Hennig. Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1916: pp. 511-512.

[6] Hoepen, E.C.N. van. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen. Verh. Geol.- mijnbouwkundig genootschap Nederland en kolonien (Geol. Ser.) 3: pp. 107-117.

[7] Hennig, E. 1916. Zweite Mirteilung tiber den Stegosauriden vom Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1916: pp.175-182.

[8] Brown, B. 1916. A new crested trachodont dinosaur, Prosaurolophus maximus. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 35: pp. 701-708.

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