1917 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 1917.
Institutions and organizations
Scientific advances
Invertebrate paleozoology
Prehistoric insects described in 1917 | ||||||||
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
sp. nov |
valid |
A torticid moth |
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Vertebrate paleozoology
Non-mammalian synapsids described in 1917 | ||||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images | ||
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Haughton | 250 Millions years ago | The Mice lizard. | |||||
Platycraniellus | Valid | Van Hoepen | 250 Millions years ago | |||||
Valid |
Haughton | |||||||
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1917 | ||||||||
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
gen. nov |
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Junior synonym of Archaeopteryx. Non-dinosaurian bird. |
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gen et sp nov |
early Maastrichtian |
Junior synonym of Hypacrosaurus. |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
late Campanian-late Maastrichtian |
Horseshoe Canyon Formation |
A saurolophine hadrosaurid. A Duck-billed Dinosaur. |
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Law and politics
Ethics and practice
People
Awards and recognition
Popular culture
Literature
- Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley, Alberta by C. H. Sternberg was published. Although the work over all was non-fiction, it concluded with a series of fictional chapters wherein Sternberg dreamt of traveling back in time to the various ages of prehistory.[7]
References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907). "A fossil tortricid moth". Canadian Entomologist. 39: 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12.
- ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ↑ Petronievics, B. and A.S. Woodward. 1917. On the pectoral and pelvic arches of the Britt.Mus. specimen of Archaeopteryx. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: pp. 1 - 16.
- ↑ Lambe, L.M. 1917. On Cheneosaurus tolmanensis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 30: pp. 117- 123.
- ↑ Lambe, L.M. 1917. A new genus and species of crestless hadrosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 31: pp. 65-73.
- ↑ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.