1910 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 1910.
Arthropoda
Newly named insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen et comb nov |
Valid |
An agroecomyrmecine ant, |
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Aphrophora angusta[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
 (1910 illustration) | |||||
|
Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Eocene Okanagan Highlands |
A Raphidiid snakefly |
 (1910 illustration) | ||||
|
Archiraphidia[3] |
Gen et comb nov |
valid |
A Raphidiid snakefly |
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|
Dictyoraphidia veterana[3] |
Gen et comb nov |
valid |
A baissopterid snakefly |
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|
Gen et sp nov |
nom nudum |
A myrmicine ant. |
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Garrus defuncta[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A gerrid water strider |
_Handlirsch_1910_Fig35_cropped.png) (1910 illustration) | ||||
|
Garrus stali[3] |
Comb nov |
jr synonym |
A gerrid water strider |
 (1890 illustration) | ||||
|
Microphorus defunctus[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A long legged fly |
 (1910 illustration) | ||||
|
Penthetria angustipennis[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Eocene Okanagan Highlands |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria avunculus[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria brevipes[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl1_fig7.png) | ||||
|
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria curtula[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Eocene Okanagan Highlands |
A bibionid fly |
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Penthetria dilatata[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Eocene Okanagan Highlands |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria elatior[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria falcatula[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria fragmentum[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria lambei[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl3_fig8.png) | ||||
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Penthetria nana[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria ovalis[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl3_fig5.png) | ||||
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Penthetria pictipennis[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
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|
Penthetria platyptera[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Eocene Okanagan Highlands |
A bibionid fly |
 | |||
|
Penthetria pulchra[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
 | ||||
|
Penthetria pulla[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
 | ||||
|
Penthetria reducta[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Eocene Okanagan Highlands |
A bibionid fly |
 (1910 illustration) | |||
|
Penthetria separanda[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A bibionid fly |
_Rice_1959_pl4_fig4.png) | ||||
|
Penthetria transitoria[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Eocene Okanagan Highlands |
A bibionid fly |
 | |||
|
Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Eocene Okanagan Highlands |
A Promastacid grasshopper |
 (1910 illustration) | ||||
|
Tipula tulameena[3] |
Sp nov |
valid |
 (1910 illustration) | |||||
|
Xylonomus lambei[3] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp. |
 (1910 illustration) | ||||
Archosauromorphs
- AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.[7]
Newly named phytosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Preoccupied |
Jaekel[8] |
possibly Late Triassic |
unknown |
Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961. |
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Preoccupied |
Jaekel[8] |
Late Triassic (Norian) |
New genus for "Belodon" buceros Cope, 1881; preoccupied by Metarhinus Osborn, 1908; renamed Machaeroprosopus Mehl in Mehl, Toepemann, and Schwartz, 1916 |
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Newly named basal dinosauriforms
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saltopus[9] | Valid taxon |
Late Triassic (Carnian) |
Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme.[10] | |||||
Dinosaurs
| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euoplocephalus[11] | Gen. nov. | Valid | Lambe | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation |  Alberta |
An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid |  |
| Hecatasaurus[12] | Gen. nov. | Jr. synonym | Brown | Maastrichtian | Sânpetru Formation |  Romania |
New genus name for Limnosaurus transsylvanicus, already named Telmatosaurus | |
| Kritosaurus[12] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Brown | Campanian | Kirtland Formation |  New Mexico |
A hadrosaurid | |
| "Nectosaurus navajovius"[13] | Nomen nudum | Versluys | Campanian | Kirtland Formation | New Mexico |
An unpublished name for Kritosaurus navajovius mentioned in passing attributed to Brown | ||
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Valid |
A member of Gorgonopsidae. |
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|
Valid |
Broom |
A member of Galeopsidae. | |||||
|
Ermin Cowles Case |
A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus. | ||||||
Mammalian
| Name | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pseudaelurus chinjiensis[14] | Pilgrim | Tertiary | India | |||
