1922_in_paleontology
1922 in paleontology
Overview of the events of 1922 in paleontology
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 1922.
Crustaceans
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Jr synonym |
Type species is A. rostrata, junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti. |
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Sp. nov |
Jr synonym |
Junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti. |
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Sp. nov |
Jr synonym |
Junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti. |
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Insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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sp. nov |
valid |
A geometrid moth |
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Newly named phytosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Late Triassic (Rhaetian) |
A member of Pseudopalatinae. | ||||||
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Valid taxon |
Case[5] |
Late Triassic (early Norian) |
A basal member of Leptosuchomorpha. | ||||
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Valid taxon |
Case[5] |
Late Triassic (early Norian) |
A basal phytosaur | ||||
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[6]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Alamosaurus[7] | Valid taxon |
early Maastrichtian (late Edmontonian) |
lower Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member) |
A North American titanosaur. |
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| Dromaeosaurus[8] | Valid taxon |
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middle Campanian |
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| Erectopus[9] | Valid taxon |
Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive (Mammilatum Zone) |
early Albian |
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| Parasaurolophus[10] | Valid taxon |
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middle-late Campanian |
Dinosaur Park Formation |
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New taxa
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Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Amalitski | 255 Millions of years ago | ||||
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Valid |
Broom | 257 Millions of years ago | ||||
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Valid |
Hennig | 198 Millions of years ago. | The Last North American Cynodont. | |||
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Valid |
Amalitski | 264 Millions of years ago. | ||||
- 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.
- van Straelen, Victor (1922). "Quelques eumalacostracés nouveaux du Westphalien inférieur d'Argenteau près Liége". Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique (in French). 45: 35–40.
- Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922). "A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado". American Museum Novitates (34): 1–2.
- Huene, F. von 1922, Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Parasuchier: Jahrbuch der Preussichen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin, v. 42, n. 1, p. 59-160.
- Case, E. C., 1922, New reptiles and stegocephalians from the Upper Triassic of Western Texas: Carnegie Institute of Washington, Publication n. 321, p. 1-84.
- Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- Gilmore, C.W. 1922. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Ojo Alamo formation of New Mexico. Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 72: pp. 1-9.
- Matthew, W.D. and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Amer. Museum Nat. Hist. Bull. 46: pp. 367-385.
- Huene, F. von. 1922. Uber einen Sauropoden im oberen Malm des Bemer Jura. Eclogae Geol. Helvetiae 17: pp. 80-94.
- Parks, W.A. 1922. Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of crested trachodont dinosaur. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 13: pp. 1-32.