1915 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 1915.
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | valid | Fossil myrmicin ant. | ![]() | |||||
Sp nov | valid | Fossil myrmicin ant. | ![]() | |||||
Gen et sp nov | valid | Wheeler | A dolichoderine ant. | ![]() | ||||
Camponotus igneus[2] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Wheeler | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil formicine ant. | ![]() | |
Sp nov | valid | Wheeler | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | A Dolichoderine ant | ![]() | ||
Sp nov | valid | Wheeler | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | A Dolichoderine ant | ![]() | ||
Drymomyrmex[2] | Gen et 2 Sp nov | valid | Wheeler | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | A formicine ant | ![]() | |
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Late Eocene | A Dolichoderin ant | ![]() | ||||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Late Eocene | A Dolichoderin ant | ![]() | ||||
Erebomyrma antiqua[2] | Comb nov | jr synonym | (Mayr, 1868) | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil myrmicine ant, | ![]() | |
Euponera (Trachymesopus) succinea[2] | Comb nov | jr synonym | (Mayr) | Middle Eocene | Baltic Amber | A ponerine ant, | ![]() | |
Formica constrictus[2] | Comb nov | Jr synonym | (Mayr, 1868) | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil formicine ant., | ![]() | |
Comb nov | Jr synonym | (Mayr) | A Dolichoderin ant | ![]() | ||||
Comb nov | Jr synonym | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi | ![]() | |||||
Iridomyrmex goepperti[2] | Comb nov | Jr synonym | (Mayr, 1868) | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | ![]() | |
Iridomyrmex oblongiceps[2] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | ![]() | ||||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma samlandica | ![]() | |||||
Gen et 2 sp | Valid | Wheeler | Lutetian | Baltic amber | An aneuretine ant | ![]() | ||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Late Eocene | A Dolichoderin ant | ![]() | ||||
Sima klebsi[2] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Wheeler | A pseudomyrmecine ant. | ![]() | |||
Stenamma berendti[2] | comb nov | valid | (Mayr, 1868) | A myrmicin ant. | ![]() | |||
Stiphromyrmex[2] | gen et comb nov | valid | (Mayr, 1868) | A myrmicin ant. | ![]() |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named pseudosuchians
Name | Authors | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Poposaurus[4] |
| Valid taxon | A Dinosaur-like poposaurid suchian. | ![]() |
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Kangnasaurus[6] | Valid taxon | Gen et sp nov | ||||||
Kentrosaurus[7] | Valid taxon | Gen et sp nov | An African stegosaurid | ![]() | ||||
Spinosaurus[8] | Valid taxon | Gen et sp nov | Cretaceous |
| A Sail-backed meat-eating Theropod. | ![]() |
Anapsids
Turtles
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Cratochelone[9] | gen et sp nov | valid | Longman | largest protostegid turtle from Australia |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Broom | 263 Millions years ago. | ||||
Valid | Broom | 266 Millions years ago. | ||||
Synonym of Eriphostoma. | Haughton | |||||
Valid | Haughton | |||||
Valid | Broom | 263 Millions years ago. | ||||
Valid | Broom | |||||
Valid | Haughton | 263 Millions years ago. | Ostrich-Head ProtoMammal. | ![]() | ||
Valid | Haughton | 263 Millions years ago. | ||||
Valid | Broom | 257 Millions years ago. |
Paleontologists
- Death of Eberhard Fraas.[10]
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 c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 1–142.
- ^ a b c Antropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, KolyadaVA, Kozlov MA, PerfilievaKS, Rasnitsyn AP (2014). "The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK" (PDF). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (3–4): 335–446. doi:10.1017/S1755691014000103.
- ^ Mehl, M.G. 1915. Poposaurus gracilis, a new reptile from the Triassic of Wyoming. Journal of Geology 23: pp. 516-522.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Haughton, S.H. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 5: pp. 259-264.
- ^ Hennig, E. 1915. Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, der Stegosauride des Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1915: pp. 219-247.
- ^ Stromer, E. 1915. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wusten Agyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 3. Das Original des Theropoden Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Abhandlungen der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse 28 (band 3): pp. 3-32.
- ^ longman, H. L. (1915). "on a giant turtle of the Queensland Lower Cretaceous". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 3: 24–29. ISSN 0079-8835.
- ^ Farlow, James O.; Brett-Surmann, M. K. (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.