1909 in paleontology

none 1909 paleontology science 1909 Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEtoptychopteraHandlirsh A. 1909 Zur Phylogenie und Flügelmorphologie der Ptychopteriden (Dipteren) Annalen des Kaiserlich-Königlichen Naturhistorischen Hofmuseums 23 263–272Gen et sp novValid HandlirschYpresianAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaAn etoptychopterine phantom cranefly.Type species E. tertiaria. thumb|center|upright|Etoptychoptera tertiaria(1910 illustration)Raphidia exhumataCockerell T. 1909 Fossil insects from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 26 67–77Sp novjr synonymCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA raphidiid snakeflyMoved to Megaraphidia exhumata in 2014Makarkin 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 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.4 24872063thumb|center|upright|Megaraphidia exhumataProtanyderusGen et sp novValid HandlirschJurassicMongoliaA tanyderine phantom cranefly. Archosauromorphs 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 HierosaurusWieland. G. 1909. A new armored saurian from the Niobrara. Amer. J. Sci. (ser. 4) 27: pp. 250- 252. Valid taxon Wieland Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian)Niobrara Formation United States (Kansas)A nodosaurid. Plesiosaurs New taxa Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages Picrocleidus Valid Andrews CallovianOxford Clay Formation UKA cryptoclidid. Simolestes Valid Andrews CallovianOxford Clay Formation France India UKA thalassophonean pliosaurid.thumb|Simolestes Tricleidus Valid Andrews CallovianOxford Clay Formation Norway UKA cryptoclidid. Synapsids Non-mammalian Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesBauriaValid Robert Broom Early TriassicCynognathus Assemblage Zone South AfricaA bauriid theriodont.center|thumb|150x150px|Bauria People Death of Harry Govier Seeley, the paleontologist who invented the Saurischian/Ornithischian dinosaur dichotomy. Farlow James O. M. K. Brett-Surmann The Complete Dinosaur Indiana University Press 1999 Bloomington, Indiana 15 0-253-21313-4 References Paleontology