1910 in paleontology explained

Arthropoda

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Agroecomyrmex^[1]	Gen et comb nov	Valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber		An agroecomyrmecine ant, Moved from "Myrmica" duisburgi
Aphrophora angusta^[2]	Sp nov	valid	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A spittlebug
Archiinocellia	Gen et sp nov	valid	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"		A Raphidiid snakefly Type species A. oligoneura
Archiraphidia	Gen et comb nov	valid	Handlirsch	Priabonian	Florissant Formation		A Raphidiid snakefly The type species is Inocellia tumulata (1890) also includes Inocellia somnolenta (1890) Raphidia tranquilla (1890)
Dictyoraphidia veterana	Gen et comb nov	valid	Handlirsch	Priabonian	Florissant Formation		A baissopterid snakefly New genus for "Inocellia" veterana (1890)
Electromyrmex	Gen et sp nov	nom nudum	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber		A myrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi
Garrus defuncta	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Coldwater Beds		A gerrid water strider Moved to Telmatrechus defunctus (1998)^[3]
Microphorus defunctus	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A long legged fly Moved to Microphor defunctus (1994)^[4]
Penthetria angustipennis	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia angustipennis (1959)^[5]
Penthetria avunculus	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia curtula (1959)
Penthetria avus	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia avus (1959)
Penthetria brevipes	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pulla (1959)
Penthetria canadensis	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia canadensis (1959)
Penthetria curtula	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia curtula (1959)
Penthetria dilatata	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia dilatata (1959)
Penthetria elatior	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia elatior (1959)
Penthetria falcatula	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959)
Penthetria fragmentum	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959)
Penthetria lambei	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959)
Penthetria nana	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia nana (1959)
Penthetria ovalis	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959)
Penthetria pictipennis	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pictipennis (1959)
Penthetria platyptera	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia platyptera (1959)
Penthetria pulchra	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pulchra (1959)
Penthetria pulla	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pulla (1959)
Penthetria reducta	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia reducta (1959)
Penthetria separanda	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959)
Penthetria transitoria	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"		A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia transitoria (1959)
Promastax	Gen et sp nov	valid	Handlirsch	Ypresian	"Horsefly shales"		A Promastacid grasshopper Type species P. archaicus
Tipula tulameena	Sp nov	valid	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A tipuline Crane fly.
Xylonomus lambei	Sp nov	jr synonym	Handlirsch	Ypresian	Allenby Formation		A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp. moved to Xorides lambei.

Archosauromorphs

• AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.

Newly named phytosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Mesorhinus	Preoccupied	Jaekel^[6]	possibly Late Triassic	unknown		Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961.
Metarhinus	Preoccupied	Jaekel	Late Triassic (Norian)	Chinle Formation		New genus for "Belodon" buceros Cope, 1881; preoccupied by Metarhinus Osborn, 1908; renamed Machaeroprosopus Mehl in Mehl, Toepemann, and Schwartz, 1916

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[9]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Euoplocephalus^[10]	Valid taxon	Lawrence Lambe		Late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation		An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid.
"Hecatasaurus"^[11]	Junior synonym.	Barnum Brown		Maastrichtian	Sânpetru Formation	Romania	Junior objective synonym of Telmatosaurus.
Kritosaurus	Valid	Barnum Brown		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)	Kirtland Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation		A saurolophine hadrosaurid, a member of Kritosaurini.
"Nectosaurus"^[12]	Preoccupied name.	Versluys		Late Cretaceous (late Campanian)	Kirtland Formation Cerro del Pueblo Formation		Preoccupied name by Merriam, 1905. Renamed Kritosaurus.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aloposaurus	Valid	Robert Broom	Middle Permian	Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone		A member of Gorgonopsidae.
Galepus	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		A member of Galeopsidae.
Poecilospondylus	Junior synonym	Ermin Cowles Case	Early Permian	Arroyo Formation		A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus.

Mammalian

References

• Makovicky, P. J., 2001, A Montanoceratops cerorhynchus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) braincase from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 243–262.

Notes and References

1. Wheeler . W. M. . 1915 . The ants of the Baltic amber . Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg . 55 . 4 . 56–59.
2. Handlirsch . A. . 1910 . Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe . Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology . 2 . 3 . 93–129.
3. Damgaard . J. . 2008 . Evolution of the semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) with a re-interpretation of the fossil record . Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae . 48 . 251–268.
4. Book: Evenhuis . 1994 . Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera) . Backhuys Publishers . 1–600.
5. Rice . H. M. A . 1959 . Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia . . 55 . 1–36.
6. Jaekel, O. (1910). Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5:197-229.
7. Huene, F. von. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin. Geol. Palaeontol. Abhandl. 8: pp. 317-322.
8. Michael J. Benton and Alick D. Walker†. 2011. "Saltopus, a dinosauriform from the Upper Triassic of Scotland", Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 101, Special Issue 3-4, pp 285 - 299 Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011. Published online: 17 May 2011
9. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
10. Lambe, L.M. 1910. Note on the parietal crest ofCentrosaurus apertus, and a proposed newgeneric name for Stereocephalus tutus. OttawaNat. 14: pp. 149-151.
11. Brown, B. 1910. The Cretaceous Ojo Alamo beds of New Mexico with description of the new dinosaur genus Kritosaurus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28; pp. 267-274.
12. Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern,nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft derVogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp.175-260.
13. Pilgrim, G. . Notices of new mammalian genera and species from the Tertiaries of India . Records of the Geological Survey of India . 60 . 65 . 1910.