1916 in paleontology

none 1916 paleontology science 1916 Plants Newly named angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesFlorissantiaManchester S.R. 1992 Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America American Journal of Botany 79 9 996–1008 10.2307/2444909 2444909 Gen et sp novjr synonym (pro part)KnowltonLate EoceneFlorissant FormationUnited StatesColoradoA mallow relative.Type species F. physalis, jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1886) thumb|center|upright|Florissantia speiriiPorana similisSp novjr synonymKnowltonLate EoceneFlorissant FormationUnited StatesColoradoA mallow relative. jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1992) thumb|center|upright|Florissantia speirii Echinoderms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesArgentinasterRuedemann Rudolf 1916 Two new starfishes from the Silurian of Argentina https://nysl.ptfs.com/#!/s?a=c&q=*&type=16&criteria=field11%3D2583088&b=0 New York State Museum Bulletin 189 116–120Gen et sp novValidRuedemannEarly DevonianTalacasto FormationArgentinaA brittle star belonging to the family Ophiurinidae, type species is A. bodenbenderi.framelessEncrinaster yachalensisSp novJr synonymRuedemannEarly DevonianTalacasto FormationArgentinaA brittle star belonging to the family Encrinasteridae, moved to the genus Marginaster in 1995,Haude Reimund 1995-07-14 Lower Devonian echinoderms from the Precordillera (Argentina) http://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/197/90246/Echinodermen_aus_dem_Unter_Devon_der_argentinische?af=crossref Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen en 197 1 37–86 10.1127/njgpa/197/1995/37 0077-7749 subscription which was then renamed to Marginix in 2015.Martínez Sergio Río Claudia del 2015 Fossil Asterozoa (Echinodermata) of Argentina https://www.redalyc.org/journal/449/44943929001/html/ Revista de Biología Tropical en 63 2 1–6frameless Fish Bony fish Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesLucious roseiHussakof L. 1916 A new cyprinid fish, Leuciscus rosei, from the Miocene of British Columbia American Journal of Science 4 247 18–20 10.2475/ajs.s4-42.247.18 https://zenodo.org/record/2178027 Sp novjr synonymHussakofEoceneYpresianTranquille FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaA moon eye relative. Moved to Eohiodon rosei (1966) moved to Hiodon rosei (2008)Hilton E. Grande L. 2008 Fossil Mooneyes (Teleostei: Hiodontiformes, Hiodontidae) from the Eocene of western North America, with a reassessment of their taxonomy Geological Society, London, Special Publications 295 221–251 10.1144/SP295.13 128680041 Dinosaurs New taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images DoryphorosaurusNopcsa, F. 1916. Doryphorosaurus nov. nom. fiir Kentrosaurus Hennig. Centralbl. Mineral. Geol. Palaeont. 1916: pp. 511-512. Gen. nov. Jr. synonym Nopcsa Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation Tanzania Unnecessary replacement name for Kentrosaurus 200px Gigantoscelus molengraaffiHoepen, E.C.N. van. 1916. De ouderdom der Transvaalsche Karroolagen. Verh. Geol.- mijnbouwkundig genootschap Nederland en kolonien (Geol. Ser.) 3: pp. 107-117. Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium van Hoepen Early Jurassic Bushveld Sandstone Formation South Africa A prosauropod KentrurosaurusHennig, E. 1916. Zweite Mirteilung tiber den Stegosauriden vom Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1916: pp.175-182. Gen. nov. Jr. synonym Hennig Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation Tanzania Unnecessary replacement name for Kentrosaurus Prosaurolophus maximusBrown B 1916 A new crested trachodont dinosaur, Prosaurolophus maximus Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35 701–708 Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Brown Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation CanadaAlberta) A hadrosaurid 200px Plesiosaurs Newly named taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images ApractocleidusGen nov jr synonym Smellie jr synonym of Cryptocleidusthumb|center|upright|Cryptoclidus eurymerus Synapsids Non-mammalian Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Country/state NotesImagesJonkeriaGen et sp novValidVan HoepenCapitanianAbrahamskraal FormationSouth AfricaA titanosuchid dinocephalian Type species J. truculentathumb|center|upright|Jonkeria References Paleontology Category:1910s in paleontology Paleontology 6