1912 in paleontology

none 1912 paleontology science 1912 Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesAtriplex borealisCorrea-Narvaez J. E. Manchester S. R. 2021 Distribution and Morphological Diversity of Palaeocarpinus (Betulaceae) from the Paleogene of the Northern Hemisphere. The Botanical Review 88 2 161–203 10.1007/s12229-021-09258-y 237795532 Comb novjr synonym(Heer) LaurentPaleocenelate PaleoceneMenat FormationFrancePuy-de-DômeRedescribed as a saltbush species.Moved from Anchietea borealis in 1859. Moved to Palaeocarpinus borealis in 2021. Arthropod paleontology Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesBurgessiaGen et sp novValidWalcottCambrianMiaolingianStephen FormationBurgess ShaleCanadaBritish ColumbiaA stem arthropod of uncertain affinities.The type species is B. bellathumb|center|upright|Burgessia bellaLeanchoiliaGen et sp novValidWalcottCambrianMiaolingianStephen FormationBurgess ShaleCanadaBritish ColumbiaA leanchoiliid megacheirianThe type species is L. superlata thumb|center|upright|Leanchoilia superlataWaptiaVannier Jean Aria Cédric Taylor Rod Caron Jean-Bernard 2018-06-01 Waptia fieldensis Walcott, a mandibulate arthropod from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325875466 Royal Society Open Science 5 6 172206 10.1098/rsos.172206 free 30110460 6030330 Gen et sp novValidWalcottCambrianMiaolingianStephen FormationBurgess ShaleCanadaBritish ColumbiaA hymenocarin megacheirianThe type species is W. fieldensisthumb|center|upright|Waptia fieldensisYohoiaGen et sp novValidWalcottCambrianMiaolingianStephen FormationBurgess ShaleCanadaBritish ColumbiaA yohoiid megacheirianThe type species is Y. tenuisthumb|center|upright|Yohoia tenuis Vertebrate paleontology non-mammalian synapsids Name Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesAlopecorhinusValid South AfricaEmydochampsaValid South AfricaEmydopsValidBroom South Africa ZambiaGaleopsSynonym of Emydops.BroomIctidopsisSynonym of Thrinaxodon.TauropsValidBroomTritheledonValidBroom South Africa Mammalians Name Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesStegomastodonPohlig, H., 1912, Sur une vieille mandibule de Tetracaulodon ohioticum Blum, avec defense in situ: Bulletin Societe Belge Geologique, v. 26, p. 187-193.ValidPohlig United States Mexico Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Saurolophus osborniBrown B 1912 A crested dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 31 131-136 Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Brown Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Alberta A hadrosaurid with a horn-like crest on its head 200px Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries William Edmund Cutler first began collecting fossils, choosing the mouth of Kneehills Creek in Alberta as a prospecting site. According to paleontologist Darren Tanke, Cutler was motivated by "commercial gain".D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550. Charles H. Sternberg and his sons began working under a contract with the Geological Survey of Canada, which at the time was responsible for maintaining the National Museum of Canada. Lawrence Lambe occupied a supervisory position in the project. The Sternbergs were in competition with Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History through a period that came to be known as the Great Canadian Dinosaur Rush. Institutions and organizations Natural history museums The Calgary Public Museum of Alberta, Canada moved to occupy a single floor of the city's Memorial Park Library Building. Popular culture Literature The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published. This novel was the first major fictional portrayal of dinosaurs in the 20th century. It was also the first work of fiction to depict dinosaurs as surviving somewhere in a remote wilderness refuge. Conan Doyle depicted the novel's dinosaurs as cold blooded and stupid. This accurately reflected the scientific thinking of the period, but is now obsolete. Paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant has characterized Conan Doyle's dinosaurs as otherwise "excellently described".Conan Doyle also incorrectly accepted the prevailing scientific consensus of the period that pterosaurs were poor fliers who depended on gliding to travel. Nevertheless, Sarjeant also noted that while Conan Doyle underestimated pterosaur flying abilities, he anticipated the later scientific conclusion that they were social animals. References