1917 in paleontology

none 1917 paleontology science 1917 Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesTortrix? destructusCockerell T. D. A. Some American fossil insects Proceedings of the United States National Museum 1917 51 2146 89–106 https://books.google.com/books?id=_bkAAAAAYAAJ&dq=Tortrix+destructus&pg=PA98 10.5479/si.00963801.51-2146.89sp. novjr synonymCockerellPriabonian Florissant FormationUSA ColoradoA moth, moved to Paleolepidopterites destructus (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 destructus Vertebrates Synapsids Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesMyosaurusValidHaughton250 Millions years agoAntarctica South Africathumb|150px|center|MyosaurusPlatycraniellusValidVan Hoepen250 Millions years agoSouth AfricaProlystrosaurusValidHaughton Avialans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images "Archaeornis"Petronievics, B. and A.S. Woodward. 1917. On the pectoral and pelvic arches of the Britt.Mus. specimen of Archaeopteryx. Proc. Zool. Soc. London: pp. 1 - 16.Gen et comb nov Junior synonymPetronievicsTithonianSolnhofen limestone GermanyMoved from Archaeopteryx siemensii (1897) refuted and retained in Archaeopteryx.thumb|center|upright|Archaeopteryx siemensii Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images CheneosaurusLambe L.M. 1917 On Cheneosaurus tolmanensis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta The Ottawa Naturalist 30 117–123 Gen. et sp. nov. Jr. synonym Lambe Campanian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Alberta Juvenile of Hypacrosaurus EdmontosaurusLambe L.M. 1917 A new genus and species of crestless hadrosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta The Ottawa Naturalist 31 65–73 Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Lambe Campanian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Alberta A hadrosaurid 200px StruthiomimusOsborn Henry Fairfield Henry Fairfield Osborn Skeletal adaptations of Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurus Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35 733–771 1917 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/1334/1/B035a43.pdf Subgen. nov. Valid Osborn Campanian Oldman Formation Alberta A new subgenus for Ornithomimus altus elevated in 1972 200px Literature Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley, Alberta by C. H. Sternberg was published. Although the work was mostly non-fiction, it concluded with a series of fictional chapters wherein Sternberg dreamt of traveling back in time to the various ages of prehistory.Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529. References 30em Category:1910s in paleontology Paleontology 7