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 1914.

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Raphidia pulveris[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Cockerell

Eocene
Priabonian

Florissant Formation

 USA
 Colorado

A raphidiid snakefly
Synonymized with Megaraphidia exhumata in 2014[3]

Megaraphidia exhumata

Dinosaurs

New taxa

Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images
Anchiceratops ornatus[5] Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Brown Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation  Alberta A ceratopsid
Brachyceratops montanensis[6] Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Gilmore Campanian Two Medicine Formation  Montana A ceratopsid
Chasmosaurus[7] Gen. nov. Valid Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation  Alberta A replacement name for Protorosaurus, a new genus for Monoclonius belli
Corythosaurus casuarius[8] Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Brown Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation  Alberta A hadrosaurid
Dicraeosaurus hansemanni[9] Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Janensch Kimmeridgian Tendaguru Formation  Tanzania A Jurassic sauropod
Dicraeosaurus sattleri[9] Sp. nov. Valid Janensch Kimmeridgian Tendaguru Formation  Tanzania A second species of Dicraeosaurus
Gorgosaurus libratus[10] Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation  Alberta A tyrannosaurid
Gryposaurus notabilis[7] Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation  Alberta A hadrosaurid
Leptoceratops gracilis[11] Gen. et sp. nov Valid Brown Maastrichtian Scollard Formation  Alberta An early ceratopsian
Protorosaurus[12] Gen. nov. Preoccupied Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation  Alberta New genus for Monoclonius belli, but preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosauromorph von Meyer, 1830. Renamed Chasmosaurus.
Stephanosaurus[10] Gen. nov. Nomen dubium Lambe Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation  Alberta A new genus name for Trachodon marginatus

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Brancasaurus

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Wegner

Berriasian

Isterberg Formation

 Germany

A possibly freshwater dwelling plesiosaur

Brancasaurus

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Lonchodectes

Fam et Gen nov

Valid

Hooley

Late Cretaceous

 UK

An ornithocheiromorph

Lonchodectes compressirostris

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Arctops

Valid

Watson 255 million years ago A Gorgonopsian.
Arctops

Mormosaurus

Valid

Watson 270 million years ago A Dinocephalian.
Mormosaurus

Moschognathus

Valid

263 million years ago

Pnigalion

Valid

Footnotes

  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. ^ Cockerell, T. (1914). "New and little known insects from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado". Journal of Geology. 22: 714–724.
  3. ^ Makarkin, V.; Archibald, S. (2014). "A revision of the late Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of the Florissant Formation, Colorado, with special reference to the wing venation of the Raphidiomorpha". Zootaxa. 3784 (4): 401–444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.4. PMID 24872063.
  4. ^ "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
  5. ^ Brown, B. 1914. Anchiceratops, a new genus of horned dinosaurs from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta, with discussion of the origin of the ceratopsian crests and brain casts of Anchiceratops and Trachodon. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: pp. 559-565.
  6. ^ Gilmore, C.W. 1914. A new ceratopsian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, with a note on Hypacrosaurus. Smithosian Miscellaneous Collections 43: pp. 1-10.
  7. ^ a b Lambe, L.M. (1914). "On Gryposaurus notabilis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Chasmosaurus belli". The Ottawa Naturalist. 27 (11): 145–155.
  8. ^ Brown, B. (1914). "Corythosaurus casuarius, a new crested dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous, with provisional classification of the family Trachodontidae". American Museum of Natural History Bulletin. 33: 559–565.
  9. ^ a b Janensch, W. 1914. Ubersicht uber die Wirbeltierfauna der Tendaguru-Schichten nebst einer kurzen Charakterisierung der neu aufgefuhrten Arten von Sauropoden. Arch. Biontol. 3: pp. 81-110.
  10. ^ a b Lambe, L.M. (1914). "On a new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Stephanosaurus marginatus from the same horizon". The Ottawa Naturalist. 28 (1): 13–20.
  11. ^ Brown, B. 1914. Leptoceratops, a new genus of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: pp. 567-580.
  12. ^ Lambe, L.M. (1914). "On the forelimb of a carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, and a new genus of Ceratopsia from the same horizon, with remarks on the integument of some Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs". The Ottawa Naturalist. 27 (10): 129–135.

References

  • Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.
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