1916 in paleontology
Template:Short description Template:Year topic navigation 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 1916.
Plants
Newly named angiosperms
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
jr synonym (pro part) |
File:Flag of the United States.svg United States |
A mallow relative. |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
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A mallow relative. |
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Echinoderms
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A brittle star belonging to the family Ophiurinidae, type species is A. bodenbenderi. |
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Sp nov |
Jr synonym |
A brittle star belonging to the family Encrinasteridae, moved to the genus Marginaster in 1995,[4] which was then renamed to Marginix in 2015.[5] |
File:Marginix yachalensis holotype.jpg |
Fish
Bony fish
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
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A moon eye relative. |
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Dinosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doryphorosaurus[8] | Gen. nov. | Jr. synonym | Nopcsa | Late Jurassic | Tendaguru Formation | File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania | Unnecessary replacement name for Kentrosaurus | File:Berlin Naturkundemuseum Dino Eingangshalle.jpg |
| Gigantoscelus molengraaffi[9] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | van Hoepen | Early Jurassic | Bushveld Sandstone Formation | File:Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa | A prosauropod | |
| Kentrurosaurus[10] | Gen. nov. | Jr. synonym | Hennig | Late Jurassic | Tendaguru Formation | File:Flag of Tanzania.svg Tanzania | Unnecessary replacement name for Kentrosaurus | |
| Prosaurolophus maximus[11] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Brown | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada File:Flag of Alberta.svg Alberta) |
A hadrosaurid | File:Prosaurolophus maximus, Red Deer River, Alberta, collected 1921 by Levi Sternberg - Royal Ontario Museum - DSC09845.JPG |
Plesiosaurs
Newly named taxa
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
jr synonym |
Smellie |
jr synonym of Cryptocleidus |
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Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/state | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Van Hoepen |
A titanosuchid dinocephalian |
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References
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- ↑ Nopcsa, F. 1916. Doryphorosaurus nov. nom. fiir Kentrosaurus Hennig. Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1916: pp. 511-512.
- ↑ Hoepen, E.C.N. van. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen. Verh. Geol.- mijnbouwkundig genootschap Nederland en kolonien (Geol. Ser.) 3: pp. 107-117.
- ↑ Hennig, E. 1916. Zweite Mirteilung tiber den Stegosauriden vom Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1916: pp.175-182.
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