1908 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 1908.

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Arthropoda

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Electromyrmex[2]	Gen et sp nov	nom nudum	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	A nyrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi	Electromyrmex klebsi

Archosauromorphs

Newly named basal archosauromorphs

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

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ankylosaurus[4]	Valid taxon	Barnum Brown		Late Cretaceous (Lancian)	Hell Creek Formation Lance Formation Scollard Formation	Canada  United States	An ankylosaurid.	Ankylosaurus
"Gigantosaurus"[5]	Preoccupied.	Eberhard Fraas		Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	Preoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria.
Halticosaurus[6]	Nomen dubium.	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (early Norian)	Stubensandstein	Germany	A coelophysoid theropod.
"Pachysaurus"[7]	Preoccupied.	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (middle Norian)	Trossingen Formation	Germany	Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus.
Sellosaurus[7]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Late Triassic (early Norian)	Stubensandstein	Germany	A plateosaurid sauropodomorph.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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

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. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
4. Brown, B. 1908. The Ankylosauridae, a new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 187-201.
5. Fraas, E. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier. Mitteilungen aus dem Kgl. Naturalien-Kabinett zu Stuttgart: pp.105-144.
6. Huene, F. von. 1907/1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europaiaschen Triasformation mit Berucksichtiging der aussereuropaischen Vorkommnisse. Geol. Paleont. Abhandl. Suppl. 1: pp. 1-419.
7. 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.