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1916 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 1916.

Plants

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Newly named angiosperms

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Florissantia[2]

Gen et sp nov

jr synonym (pro part)

Knowlton

Late Eocene

Florissant Formation

 United States
 Colorado

A mallow relative.
Type species F. physalis,
jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1886)

Florissantia speirii

Porana similis[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Knowlton

Late Eocene

Florissant Formation

 United States
 Colorado

A mallow relative.
jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1992)

Florissantia speirii

Echinoderms

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Argentinaster[3]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Ruedemann

Early Devonian

Talacasto Formation

 Argentina

A brittle star belonging to the family Ophiurinidae, type species is A. bodenbenderi.

Encrinaster yachalensis[3]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Ruedemann

Early Devonian

Talacasto Formation

 Argentina

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]

Fish

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Bony fish

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Lucious rosei[6]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Hussakof

Eocene
Ypresian

Tranquille Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A moon eye relative.
Moved to Eohiodon rosei (1966)
moved to Hiodon rosei (2008)[7]

Dinosaurs

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Newly named dinosaurs

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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list[8] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.[9]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

"Doryphorosaurus"[10]

Gen et comb nov

Junior synonym

Nopcsa

Late Jurassic

Tendaguru Formation

 Tanzania

Invalid replacement name for Kentrosaurus (1915).

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

"Gigantoscelus"[11]

Gen et sp nov

nomen dubium

van Hoepen

Early Jurassic

Bushveld Sandstone Formation

 South Africa

A possible Sauropodomorpha of poor description

"Kentrurosaurus"[12]

Gen et comb nov

Junior synonym

Hennig

Late Jurassic

Tendaguru Formation

 Tanzania

Invalid replacement name for Kentrosaurus (1915).

Kentrosaurus aethiopicus

Prosaurolophus[13]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Brown

late Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation

 Canada
 Alberta)

A saurolophine hadrosaur

Prosaurolophus maximus

Plesiosaurs

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Newly named taxa

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

"Apractocleidus"

Gen nov

jr synonym

Smellie

jr synonym of Cryptocleidus

Cryptoclidus eurymerus

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/state Notes Images

Jonkeria

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Van Hoepen

Capitanian

Abrahamskraal Formation

 South Africa

A titanosuchid dinocephalian
Type species J. truculenta

Jonkeria

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 Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR 2444909.
  3. ^ a b Ruedemann, Rudolf (1916). "Two new starfishes from the Silurian of Argentina". New York State Museum Bulletin. 189: 116–120.
  4. ^ Haude, Reimund (1995-07-14). "Lower Devonian echinoderms from the Precordillera (Argentina)". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 197 (1): 37–86. doi:10.1127/njgpa/197/1995/37. ISSN 0077-7749.
  5. ^ Martínez, Sergio; Río, Claudia del (2015). "Fossil Asterozoa (Echinodermata) of Argentina". Revista de Biología Tropical. 63 (2): 1–6.
  6. ^ Hussakof, L. (1916). "A new cyprinid fish, Leuciscus rosei, from the Miocene of British Columbia". American Journal of Science. 4 (247): 18–20. doi:10.2475/ajs.s4-42.247.18.
  7. ^ Hilton, E.; Grande, L. (2008). "Fossil Mooneyes (Teleostei: Hiodontiformes, Hiodontidae) from the Eocene of western North America, with a reassessment of their taxonomy". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 295: 221–251. doi:10.1144/SP295.13. S2CID 128680041.
  8. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  9. ^ Montague, Jeremy. "Dr. Montague's Database" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-10-29.
  10. ^ Nopcsa, F. 1916. Doryphorosaurus nov. nom. fiir Kentrosaurus Hennig. Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1916: pp. 511-512.
  11. ^ Hoepen, E.C.N. van. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen. Verh. Geol.- mijnbouwkundig genootschap Nederland en kolonien (Geol. Ser.) 3: pp. 107-117.
  12. ^ Hennig, E. 1916. Zweite Mirteilung tiber den Stegosauriden vom Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1916: pp.175-182.
  13. ^ Brown, B. 1916. A new crested trachodont dinosaur, Prosaurolophus maximus. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 35: pp. 701-708.