1907 in paleontology
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Template:Redirect category shell 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 Template:Show by date published in the year 1907.
Plants
Ferns and fern allies
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
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A Cladophlebis pinnule |
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Sp nov |
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A Nilsonia foliage |
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Conifers
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
valid |
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A cone and foliage Spruce species. |
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Sp nov |
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A wood and cone pine species. |
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Flowering plants
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
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A Myrica? foliage |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
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An elm wood species. |
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Sp nov |
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An elm wood species. |
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Sp nov |
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An elm wood species. |
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Arthropods
Insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen et Sp nov |
valid |
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A raphidiid snakefly |
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sp. nov |
jr synonym |
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A moth of uncertain placement, |
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Archosaurs
- Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.[10]
- Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question."[11]
- Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.[11]
Newly named ornithodirans
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[12]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scleromochlus[13] |
gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
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A member of Ornithodira. |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et. sp. nov |
Valid |
Broom |
A member of Lycideopsidae. |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Broom |
A member of Galeopidae. |
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- ↑ Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
- ↑ a b Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
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- ↑ Woodward, A.S. 1907. On a new dinosaurian reptile (Scleromochlus taylori, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 63 (1, article 10): pp. 140-144.
- Brown, B. (1907). Gastroliths, Science, 25(636), p392.
- Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
- Wieland, G.R. (1907). Gastroliths. Science, 628:66-67.