1908 in paleontology

none 1908 paleontology science 1908 Arthropoda Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAnabrus caudeliCockerell T. 1908 Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24 59–69Sp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA platycleidine tettigoniid Mormon cricket relativethumb|center|upright|Anabrus caudeliCecidomyia(?) pontaniiformisSp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA cecidomyiine gall midge gall Gall on Myrica drymeiathumb|center|upright|Cecidomyia pontaniiformisgall on Myrica drymeiaDryobius miocenicusSp novBeutenmüller & CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA cerambycine longhorned beetlethumb|center|upright|Dryobius miocenicusElectromyrmexWheeler W. M. 1915 The ants of the Baltic amber Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg 55 4 56–59Gen et sp novnom nudum WheelerLutetianBaltic amberEuropeA nyrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsiValidly described in 1910 thumb|center|upright|Electromyrmex klebsiEriophyes(?) beutenmulleriSp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoAn eriophyid gall mite gall Described from galls on a possible Salix leaf thumb|center|upright|Eriophyes beutenmullerigalls on Salix sp.Glossina oligocenaComb nov(Scudder) CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA Glossinid tsetse fly moved from Paloestrus oligocenus (1892)thumb|center|upright|Glossina oligocenusLithogryllitesGen et sp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA cricket relativeThe type species is L. lutziithumb|center|upright|Lithogryllites lutziiNecrodes primaevusSp novBeutenmüller & CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA silphine carrion beetlethumb|center|upright|Necrodes primaevusNymphalites scudderiSp novBeutenmüller & CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA nymphaline brush-footed butterflythumb|center|upright|Nymphalites scudderiPanorpa arctiiformisSp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA scorpionflythumb|center|upright|Panorpa arctiiformisPhenacolestesGen et sp novCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA dysagrionine odonateThe type species is P. mirandus Also tentatively included is P.(?) parallelus thumb|center|upright|Phenacolestes mirandusPhymatodes volansSp novBeutenmüller & CockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA callidiine cerambycine longhorned beetlethumb|center|upright|Phymatodes volansPolystoechotes piperatusSp novjr synonymCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoAn ithonid giant lacewingMoved to Propsychopsis piperatus in 1943moved to Polystoechotites piperatus in 2006thumb|center|upright|Polystoechotites piperatus Archosauromorphs Newly named basal archosauromorphs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ScaphonyxSynonym of HyperodapedonWoodwardLate Triassic(Carnian)Santa Maria FormationBrazilA hyperodapedontid rhynchosaur.thumb|center|upright| Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html dead Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images AnkylosaurusBrown, B. 1908. The Ankylosauridae, a new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: pp. 187-201. Valid taxon Barnum Brown Late Cretaceous (Lancian)Hell Creek Formation Lance Formation Scollard Formation Canada United StatesAn ankylosaurid. center|thumb|200x200px|Ankylosaurus "Gigantosaurus"Fraas, E. 1908. Ostafrikanische Dinosaurier. Mitteilungen aus dem Kgl. Naturalien-Kabinett zu Stuttgart: pp.105-144.Preoccupied. Eberhard Fraas Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)Tendaguru FormationTanzaniaPreoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria. HalticosaurusHuene, F. von. 1907/1908. Die Dinosaurier der Europaiaschen Triasformation mit Berucksichtiging der aussereuropaischen Vorkommnisse. Geol. Paleont. Abhandl. Suppl. 1: pp. 1-419. Nomen dubium. Friedrich von Huene Late Triassic (early Norian)StubensandsteinGermanyA coelophysoid theropod. "Pachysaurus"Huene, F. von. 1908. Eine Zusammensteilung uber die englische Trias und Alter ihre Fossilen. Centralblatt fur Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaontologie, Stuttgart 1908: pp. 9-17.Preoccupied. Friedrich von Huene Late Triassic (middle Norian)Trossingen FormationGermanyPreoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus. Sellosaurus Valid taxon Friedrich von Huene Late Triassic (early Norian)StubensandsteinGermanyA plateosaurid sauropodomorph. Synapsids Non-mammalian Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAlopecodonValidBroomMiddle PermianMiddle Abrahamskraal FormationSouth AfricaA scylaosaurid theriodont.thumb|150px|center|TetraceratopsKannemeyeriaValidSeeleyEarly-Middle Triassic (late Olenekian to Anisian)Burgersdorp FormationSouth AfricaA kannemeyeriid dicynodont.TetraceratopsValidMatthewEarly PermianArroyo FormationUSPossibly a basal therapsid.TrochosuchusNomen dubiumBroomMiddle PermianMiddle Abrahamskraal FormationSouth AfricaNamed from fossils belonging to Lycosuchidae. References Paleontology