1917 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology 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.
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
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Institutions and organizations
Natural history museums
Scientific organizations
Scientific advances
Paleoanthropology
Paleobotany
Evolutionary biology
Exopaleontology
Extinction research
Micropaleontology
Invertebrate paleozoology
Prehistoric insects described in 1917 | ||||||||
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
sp. nov |
valid |
A torticid moth |
Trace fossils
Vertebrate paleozoology
Non-mammalian synapsids described in 1917 | ||||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images | ||
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Haughton | 250 Millions years ago | The Mice lizard. | ![]() | ||||
Platycraniellus | Valid | Van Hoepen | 250 Millions years ago | |||||
Valid |
Haughton |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1917 | ||||||||
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
gen. nov |
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Junior synonym of Archaeopteryx. Non-dinosaurian bird. |
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gen et sp nov |
early Maastrichtian |
Junior synonym of Hypacrosaurus. |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
late Campanian-late Maastrichtian |
Horseshoe Canyon Formation |
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Research techniques
Fossil trade
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Law and politics
Regulation of fossil collection, transport, or sale
Fossil-related crime
Official symbols
Protected areas
Ethics and practice
Hoaxes
Scandals
Unethical practice
People
Births
Awards and recognition
Deaths
Historiography and anthropology of paleontology
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Pseudoscience
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Popular culture
Amusement parks and attractions
Art
Comics
Film
Gaming
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]
Philately
Television
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907). "A fossil tortricid moth". Canadian Entomologist. 39: 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Lambe, L.M. 1917. A new genus and species of crestless hadrosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. Ottawa Nat. 31: pp. 65-73.
- ^ 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.