1908 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 1908.

Arthropoda[edit]

Newly named insects[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anabrus caudeli^[2]	Sp nov		Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A platycleidine tettigoniid Mormon cricket relative	Anabrus caudeli
Cecidomyia(?) pontaniiformis^[2]	Sp nov		Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A cecidomyiine gall midge gall Gall on Myrica drymeia	Cecidomyia pontaniiformis gall on Myrica drymeia
Dryobius miocenicus^[2]	Sp nov		Beutenmüller & Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A cerambycine longhorned beetle	Dryobius miocenicus
Electromyrmex^[3]	Gen et sp nov	nom nudum	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	A nyrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi Validly described in 1910	Electromyrmex klebsi
Eriophyes(?) beutenmulleri^[2]	Sp nov		Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	An eriophyid gall mite gall Described from galls on a possible Salix leaf	Eriophyes beutenmulleri galls on Salix sp.
Glossina oligocena^[2]	Comb nov		(Scudder) Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A Glossinid tsetse fly moved from Paloestrus oligocenus (1892)	Glossina oligocenus
Lithogryllites^[2]	Gen et sp nov		Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A cricket relative The type species is L. lutzii	Lithogryllites lutzii
Necrodes primaevus^[2]	Sp nov		Beutenmüller & Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A silphine carrion beetle	Necrodes primaevus
Nymphalites scudderi^[2]	Sp nov		Beutenmüller & Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A nymphaline brush-footed butterfly	Nymphalites scudderi
Panorpa arctiiformis^[2]	Sp nov		Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A scorpionfly	Panorpa arctiiformis
Phenacolestes^[2]	Gen et sp nov		Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A dysagrionine odonate The type species is P. mirandus Also tentatively included is P.(?) parallelus	Phenacolestes mirandus
Phymatodes volans^[2]	Sp nov		Beutenmüller & Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A callidiine cerambycine longhorned beetle	Phymatodes volans
Polystoechotes piperatus^[2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	An ithonid giant lacewing Moved to Propsychopsis piperatus in 1943 moved to Polystoechotites piperatus in 2006	Polystoechotites piperatus

Archosauromorphs[edit]

Newly named basal archosauromorphs[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
"Scaphonyx"		Valid	Woodward	Late Triassic (Carnian)	Santa Maria Formation	Brazil	A hyperodapedontid rhynchosaur.

Newly named dinosaurs[edit]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ankylosaurus^[5]	Valid taxon	Barnum Brown	Late Cretaceous (Lancian)	Hell Creek Formation Lance Formation Scollard Formation	Canada United States	An ankylosaurid.	Ankylosaurus
"Gigantosaurus"^[6]	Preoccupied.	Eberhard Fraas	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	Preoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria.
Halticosaurus^[7]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene	Late Triassic (early Norian)	Stubensandstein	Germany	A coelophysoid theropod.
"Pachysaurus"^[8]	Preoccupied.	Friedrich von Huene	Late Triassic (middle Norian)	Trossingen Formation	Germany	Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus.
Sellosaurus^[8]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene	Late Triassic (early Norian)	Stubensandstein	Germany	A plateosaurid sauropodomorph.

Synapsids[edit]

Non-mammalian[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alopecodon	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Middle Abrahamskraal Formation	South Africa	A scylaosaurid theriodont.	Tetraceratops
Kannemeyeria	Valid	Seeley	Early-Middle Triassic (late Olenekian to Anisian)	Burgersdorp Formation	South Africa	A kannemeyeriid dicynodont.
Tetraceratops	Valid	Matthew	Early Permian	Arroyo Formation	US	Possibly a basal therapsid.
Trochosuchus	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Middle Abrahamskraal Formation	South Africa	A member of Trochosuchidae.

References[edit]

^ 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 Cockerell, T. (1908). "Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 24: 59–69.
^ Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Brown, B. 1908. The Ankylosauridae, a new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 187-201.
^ Fraas, E. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier. Mitteilungen aus dem Kgl. Naturalien-Kabinett zu Stuttgart: pp.105-144.
^ Huene, F. von. 1907/1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europaiaschen Triasformation mit Berucksichtiging der aussereuropaischen Vorkommnisse. Geol. Paleont. Abhandl. Suppl. 1: pp. 1-419.
^ ^a ^b Huene, F. von. 1908. Eine Zusammensteilung uber die englische Trias und Alter ihre Fossilen. Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, Stuttgart 1908: pp. 9-17.

[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.

[Cockerell1908-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Cockerell, T. (1908). "Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 24: 59–69.

[Wheeler1915-3] Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.

[ddinogeorge-4] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[5] Brown, B. 1908. The Ankylosauridae, a new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 187-201.

[6] Fraas, E. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier. Mitteilungen aus dem Kgl. Naturalien-Kabinett zu Stuttgart: pp.105-144.

[7] Huene, F. von. 1907/1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europaiaschen Triasformation mit Berucksichtiging der aussereuropaischen Vorkommnisse. Geol. Paleont. Abhandl. Suppl. 1: pp. 1-419.

[vonhuene08centralblatt-8] Huene, F. von. 1908. Eine Zusammensteilung uber die englische Trias und Alter ihre Fossilen. Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, Stuttgart 1908: pp. 9-17.

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