1917 in paleontology

List of years in paleontology
... 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 ... 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 ... 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 ...
In science 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +...

Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.^[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1917.

Scientific advances

Invertebrate paleozoology

Prehistoric insects described in 1917
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Tortrix? florissantana[2] sp. nov valid Cockerell Priabonian Florissant Formation  USA A torticid moth

Vertebrate paleozoology

Non-mammalian synapsids described in 1917
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Myosaurus Valid Myosaurus Prolystrosaurus Valid

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1917
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images "Archaeornis"[4] gen. nov Junior synonym Petronievics Tithonian Solnhofen limestone  Germany Junior synonym of Archaeopteryx. Non-dinosaurian bird. Edmontosaurus "Cheneosaurus"[5] gen et sp nov Junior synonym. Lambe early Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation  Canada Junior synonym of Hypacrosaurus. Edmontosaurus[6] gen et sp nov Valid taxon Lambe late Campanian-late Maastrichtian Horseshoe Canyon Formation Lance Formation Hell Creek Formation Scollard Formation Frenchman Formation  Canada  United States A saurolophine hadrosaurid.

People

Awards and recognition

Popular culture

Literature

• Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley, Alberta by C. H. Sternberg was published. Although the work over all was non-fiction, it concluded with a series of fictional chapters wherein Sternberg dreamt of traveling back in time to the various ages of prehistory.^[7]

References

1. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
2. Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907). "A fossil tortricid moth". Canadian Entomologist. 39: 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12.
3. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
4. 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.
5. Lambe, L.M. 1917. On Cheneosaurus tolmanensis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 30: pp. 117- 123.
6. Lambe, L.M. 1917. A new genus and species of crestless hadrosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 31: pp. 65-73.
7. 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.