List of years in paleontology (table)
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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

Aphaenogaster mersa[2]

Sp nov

valid

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Russia

Fossil myrmicin ant.

Aphaenogaster mersa

Aphaenogaster oligocenica[2]

Sp nov

valid

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Russia

Fossil myrmicin ant.

Aphaenogaster oligocenica

Asymphylomyrmex[2]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Russia

A dolichoderine ant.

Asymphylomyrmex balticus

Camponotus igneus[2]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Wheeler

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil formicine ant.
jr synonym of Camponotus mengei

Camponotus mengei

Dolichoderus mesosternalis[2]

Sp nov

valid

Wheeler

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

A Dolichoderine ant

Dolichoderus mesosternalis

Dolichoderus passalomma[2]

Sp nov

valid

Wheeler

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

A Dolichoderine ant

Dolichoderus passalomma

Drymomyrmex[2]

Gen et 2 Sp nov

valid

Wheeler

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

A formicine ant
Type species D. fuscipennis

Drymomyrmex fuscipennis

Dolichoderus britannicus[3]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Cockerell

Late Eocene

A Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Emplastus britannicus

Emplastus britannicus

Dolichoderus ovigerus[3]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Cockerell

Late Eocene

A Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Emplastus britannicus

Emplastus britannicus

Erebomyrma antiqua[2]

Comb nov

jr synonym

(Mayr, 1868)

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil myrmicine ant,
moved to Oligomyrmex antiqua in 1966
Synonym of Carebara antiqua

Carebara antiqua

Euponera (Trachymesopus) succinea[2]

Comb nov

jr synonym

(Mayr)

Middle Eocene

Baltic Amber

 Europe

A ponerine ant,
new combination for Ponera succinea,
moved to Pachycondyla succinea in 1995

Pachycondyla succinea

Formica constrictus[2]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

(Mayr, 1868)

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil formicine ant.,
moved to Cataglyphis constrictus in 1967
Synonym of Cataglyphoides constrictus

Cataglyphoides constrictus

Iridomyrmex constricta[2]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

(Mayr)

Lutetian

A Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta

Anonychomyrma constricta

Iridomyrmex geinitzi[2]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

Mayr

Lutetian

Fossil Dolichoderine ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi

Anonychomyrma geinitzi

Iridomyrmex goepperti[2]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

(Mayr, 1868)

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil Dolichoderine ant,
moved to Liometopum goepperti in 1992,
jr synonym of Ctenobethylus goepperti

Ctenobethylus goepperti

Iridomyrmex oblongiceps[2]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Russia

Fossil Dolichoderine ant,
moved to Ctenobethylus oblongiceps in 2009,
jr synonym of Eldermyrmex oblongiceps

Eldermyrmex oblongiceps

Iridomyrmex samlandica[2]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma samlandica

Anonychomyrma samlandica

Paraneuretus

Gen et 2 sp

Valid

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Russia

An aneuretine ant

Paraneuretus tornquisti

Ponera hypolitha[3]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Cockerell

Late Eocene

Bembridge Marls

A Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Emplastus hypolithus

Emplastus hypolithus

Sima klebsi[2]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Wheeler

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Europe

A pseudomyrmecine ant.
Moved to Tetraponera klebsi in 1990

Tetraponera klebsi

Stenamma berendti[2]

comb nov

valid

(Mayr, 1868)

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

A myrmicin ant.
Moved from Aphaenogaster berendti

Stenamma berendti

Stiphromyrmex[2]

gen et comb nov

valid

(Mayr, 1868)

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

A myrmicin ant.
A new genus for Stigmomyrmex robustus

Stiphromyrmex robustus

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name Authors Location Notes Images
Poposaurus[4]
  • Mehl
 Valid taxon A Dinosaur-like poposaurid suchian.
Poposaurus

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Kangnasaurus[6]

Valid taxon

Gen et sp nov

Haughton

Middle Cretaceous

An iguanodontian

Kentrosaurus[7]

Valid taxon

Gen et sp nov

Hennig

Late Jurassic

Tendaguru Formation

An African stegosaurid

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

Spinosaurus[8]

Valid taxon

Gen et sp nov

Stromer

Cretaceous

Bahariya Formation


A Sail-backed meat-eating Theropod.

Spinosaurus

Anapsids

Turtles

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Cratochelone[9]

gen et sp nov

valid

Longman

Albian

Toolebuc Formation

largest protostegid turtle from Australia

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Alopecognathus

Valid

Broom

263 Millions years ago.

Cerdodon

Valid

Broom

266 Millions years ago.

Galesuchus

Synonym of Eriphostoma.

Haughton

Moschosaurus

Valid

Haughton

Scylacorhinus

Valid

Broom 263 Millions years ago.

Simorhinella

Valid

Broom

Struthiocephalus

Valid

Haughton

263 Millions years ago. Ostrich-Head ProtoMammal.
Struthiocephalus

Trochosaurus

Valid

Haughton

263 Millions years ago.

Tropidostoma

Valid

Broom

257 Millions years ago.

Paleontologists

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. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Mehl, M.G. 1915. Poposaurus gracilis, a new reptile from the Triassic of Wyoming. Journal of Geology 23: pp. 516-522.
  5. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  6. ^ Haughton, S.H. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 5: pp. 259-264.
  7. ^ Hennig, E. 1915. Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, der Stegosauride des Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1915: pp. 219-247.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ longman, H. L. (1915). "on a giant turtle of the Queensland Lower Cretaceous". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 3: 24–29. ISSN 0079-8835.
  10. ^ Farlow, James O.; Brett-Surmann, M. K. (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
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