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 1910.
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Arthropoda
Newly named insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et comb nov | Valid | An agroecomyrmecine ant, |  | |||||
Aphrophora angusta[3] | Sp nov | valid |  (1910 illustration) | |||||
Gen et sp nov | valid | "Horsefly shales" | A Raphidiid snakefly |  (1910 illustration) | ||||
Archiraphidia[3] | Gen et comb nov | valid | A Raphidiid snakefly |  | ||||
Dictyoraphidia veterana[3] | Gen et comb nov | valid | A baissopterid snakefly | |||||
Gen et sp nov | nom nudum | A myrmicine ant. |  | |||||
Garrus defuncta[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A gerrid water strider | _Handlirsch_1910_Fig35_cropped.png) (1910 illustration) | ||||
Microphorus defunctus[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A long legged fly |  (1910 illustration) | ||||
Penthetria angustipennis[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | "Horsefly shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
Penthetria avunculus[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl1_fig11.png) | ||||
Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | |||||
Penthetria brevipes[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl1_fig7.png) | ||||
Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | |||||
Penthetria curtula[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | "Horsefly shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
Penthetria dilatata[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | "Horsefly shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
Penthetria elatior[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
Penthetria falcatula[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_Pl3_fig1.png){kind=spacer} | ||||
Penthetria fragmentum[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl4_fig3.png){kind=spacer} | ||||
Penthetria lambei[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl3_fig8.png) | ||||
Penthetria nana[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
Penthetria ovalis[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl3_fig5.png) | ||||
Penthetria pictipennis[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
Penthetria platyptera[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | "Horsefly shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
Penthetria pulchra[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
Penthetria pulla[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly |  | ||||
Penthetria reducta[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | "Horsefly shales" | A bibionid fly |  (1910 illustration) | |||
Penthetria separanda[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A bibionid fly | _Rice_1959_pl4_fig4.png) | ||||
Penthetria transitoria[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | "Horsefly shales" | A bibionid fly |  | |||
Gen et sp nov | valid | "Horsefly shales" | A Promastacid grasshopper |  (1910 illustration) | ||||
Tipula tulameena[3] | Sp nov | valid |  (1910 illustration) | |||||
Xylonomus lambei[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp. |  (1910 illustration) |
Archosauromorphs
- AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.[7]
Newly named phytosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Preoccupied | Jaekel[8] | possibly Late Triassic | unknown | Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961. | |||
Preoccupied | Jaekel[8] | Late Triassic (Norian) | New genus for "Belodon" buceros Cope, 1881; preoccupied by Metarhinus Osborn, 1908; renamed Machaeroprosopus Mehl in Mehl, Toepemann, and Schwartz, 1916 |
Newly named basal dinosauriforms
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Saltopus[9] | Valid taxon | Late Triassic (Carnian) | Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme.[10] | |||||
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[11]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Euoplocephalus[12] | Valid taxon | Late Campanian | An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid. |  | ||||
| "Hecatasaurus"[13] | Junior synonym. | Maastrichtian | Junior objective synonym of Telmatosaurus. | |||||
| Kritosaurus[13] | Valid | Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) | A saurolophine hadrosaurid, a member of Kritosaurini. | |||||
| "Nectosaurus"[14] | Preoccupied name. |
| Late Cretaceous (late Campanian) | Preoccupied name by Merriam, 1905. Renamed Kritosaurus. | ||||
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | A member of Gorgonopsidae. |  | |||||
Valid | Broom | A member of Galeopsidae. | |||||
Ermin Cowles Case | A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus. |
Mammalian
| Name | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Pseudaelurus chinjiensis[15] | Pilgrim | Tertiary | India |
Footnotes
References
- Makovicky, P. J., 2001, A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 243–262.