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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

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Newly named insects

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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

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Newly named basal archosauromorphs

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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

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

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Ankylosaurus[5] Valid taxon

Late Cretaceous (Lancian)

Hell Creek Formation Lance Formation Scollard Formation

An ankylosaurid.

Ankylosaurus
"Gigantosaurus"[6]

Preoccupied.

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)

Tendaguru Formation

 Tanzania

Preoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria.

Halticosaurus[7] Nomen dubium.

Late Triassic (early Norian)

Stubensandstein

 Germany

A coelophysoid theropod.

"Pachysaurus"[8]

Preoccupied.

Late Triassic (middle Norian)

Trossingen Formation

 Germany

Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus.

Sellosaurus[8] Valid taxon

Late Triassic (early Norian)

Stubensandstein

 Germany

A plateosaurid sauropodomorph.

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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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

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  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 Cockerell, T. (1908). "Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 24: 59–69.
  3. ^ Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
  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.
  8. ^ 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.