1910 in paleontology

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
Agroecomyrmex[2]	Gen nov	Valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Agroecomyrmecin ant, new genus for Myrmica duisburgi	Agroecomyrmex duisburgi
Electromyrmex[2]	Gen et sp nov	nom nudum	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	A nyrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi (Reprint of Wheeler 1908)	Electromyrmex klebsi

Archosauromorphs

• AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.[3]

Newly named phytosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Mesorhinus	Preoccupied	Jaekel[4]	possibly Late Triassic	unknown	Germany	Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961.
Metarhinus	Preoccupied	Jaekel[4]	Late Triassic (Norian)	Chinle Formation	United States	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
Saltopus[5]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (Carnian)	Lossiemouth Sandstone	Scotland	Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme.[6]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[7]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Euoplocephalus[8]	Valid taxon	Lawrence Lambe		Late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada  Alberta	An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid.	Euoplocephalus
"Hecatasaurus"[9]	Junior synonym.	Barnum Brown		Maastrichtian	Sânpetru Formation	Romania	Junior objective synonym of Telmatosaurus.
Kritosaurus[9]	Valid	Barnum Brown		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)	Kirtland Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation	US  Mexico	A saurolophine hadrosaurid, a member of Kritosaurini.
"Nectosaurus"[10]	Preoccupied name.	Versluys		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)	Kirtland Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation	US  Mexico	Preoccupied name by Merriam, 1905. Renamed Kritosaurus.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aloposaurus	Valid	Robert Broom	Middle Permian	Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Gorgonopsidae.	Galepus skull
Galepus	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Galeopsidae.
Poecilospondylus	Junior synonym	Ermin Cowles Case	Early Permian	Arroyo Formation	US	A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus.

Footnotes

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.
2. Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
3. "Abstract," Makovicky (2001); page 243.
4. Jaekel, O. (1910). Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5:197-229.
5. Huene, F. von. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin. Geol. Palaeontol. Abhandl. 8: pp. 317-322.
6. Michael J. Benton and Alick D. Walker†. 2011. "Saltopus, a dinosauriform from the Upper Triassic of Scotland", Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 101, Special Issue 3-4, pp 285 - 299 Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011. Published online: 17 May 2011 doi:10.1017/S1755691011020081
7. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
8. Lambe, L.M. 1910. Note on the parietal crest of Centrosaurus apertus, and a proposed new generic name for Stereocephalus tutus. Ottawa Nat. 14: pp. 149-151.
9. Brown, B. 1910. The Cretaceous Ojo Alamo beds of New Mexico with description of the new dinosaur genus Kritosaurus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28; pp. 267-274.
10. Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft der Vogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp. 175-260.

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.