1907 in paleontology

none 1907 paleontology science 1907 Plants Ferns and fern allies Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesCladophlebis skagitensisPenhallow D. P. 1907 A report on fossil plants from the International Boundary Survey for 1903–1905, collected by Dr. R A Daly. Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada Royal Society of Canada 3 1 (sect 4) 287–351Sp novPenhallowLower CretaceousCanadaBritish ColumbiaA Cladophlebis pinnuleNilsonia pasaytensisSp novPenhallowLower CretaceousCanadaBritish ColumbiaA Nilsonia foliage Conifers Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesPicea columbiensisSp novvalidPenhallowEarly Eocene YpresianHöy T. Friedman R. Gabites J. Paleogene Penticton Group, Boundary area, Southern British Columbia (Parts of NTS 082E): Geochronology and Implications for Precious Metal Mineralization Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-01 Geoscience BC 55–66 https://www.geosciencebc.com/i/pdf/SummaryofActivities2020/Minerals/Project%202018-011_MineralsSOA2020.pdf Kettle River Formation?CanadaBritish ColumbiaA cone and foliage Spruce species. thumb|center|upright|Picea columbiensisPinus columbianaSp novPenhallowEarly Eocene YpresianKettle River Formation?CanadaBritish ColumbiaA wood and cone pine species. thumb|center|upright|Pinus columbiana Flowering plants Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesMyrica serrataSp novPenhallowLower CretaceousCanadaBritish ColumbiaA Myrica? foliageUlmus columbianaSp novjr synonymPenhallowEarly Eocene YpresianKettle River Formation?CanadaBritish ColumbiaAn elm wood species. Moved to Ulminium columbianum in 1922Edwards W. N. 1931 Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 17. Dicotyledones (Ligna). Jongmans, W. Berlinthumb|center|upright|Ulminium columbianumUlmus protoamericanaSp novPenhallowEarly Eocene YpresianKettle River Formation?CanadaBritish ColumbiaAn elm wood species. thumb|center|upright|Ulmus protoamericanaUlmus protoracemosaSp novPenhallowEarly Eocene YpresianKettle River Formation?CanadaBritish ColumbiaAn elm wood species. thumb|center|upright|Ulmus protoracemosa Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesMegaraphidiaCockerell T. 1909 Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23 605–616Gen et Sp novvalidCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA raphidiid snakeflyThe type species is M. elegansMoved to Raphidia elegans in 1936Carpenter F.M. 1936 Revision of the Nearctic Raphidiodea (Recent and Fossil) Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 89 2 89–158 20023217 10.2307/20023217 Moved back to M. elegans 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 elegansTortrix? florissantanaCockerell T. D. A. A fossil tortricid moth Canadian Entomologist 1907 39 12 416 https://books.google.com/books?id=gUQUAAAAYAAJ&q=Tortrix+%EF%AC%82orissantana&pg=PA416 10.4039/ent39416-12 85726085 subscription free sp. novjr synonymCockerellPriabonian Florissant FormationUSA ColoradoA moth of uncertain placement, moved to Paleolepidopterites florissantanus (2018)Maria Heikkilä John W. Brown Joaquin Baixeras Wolfram Mey Mikhail V. Kozlov 2018 Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) Zootaxa 4394 1 41–60 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2 29690381 free 10138/234022 free thumb|center|upright|Paleolepidopterites florissantanus Archosaurs Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question." Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. Newly named ornithodirans 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 Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images ScleromochlusWoodward, A.S. 1907. On a new dinosaurian reptile (Scleromochlus taylori, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 63 (1, article 10): pp. 140-144.gen. et sp. nov Valid Woodward Late TriassicLossiemouth SandstoneScotlandA member of Ornithodira. thumb|center|upright|Scleromochlus Synapsids Non-mammalian Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesArnognathusGen. et. sp. novValidBroomLate PermianCistecephalus Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA member of Lycideopsidae.thumb|150px|center|GalechirusGalechirusGen. et sp. novValidBroomMiddle PermianTapinocephalus Assemblage ZoneSouth AfricaA member of Galeopidae. References Paleontology Brown, B. (1907). Gastroliths, Science, 25(636), p392. Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180. Wieland, G.R. (1907). Gastroliths. Science, 628:66-67.