1917 in paleontology explained

Arthropods

Insects

Vertebrates

Newly named non-mammalian synapsids

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Myosaurus		Valid	Haughton	250 Millions years ago
Platycraniellus		Valid	Van Hoepen	250 Millions years ago
Prolystrosaurus		Valid	Haughton

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

Newly named dinosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
"Cheneosaurus"^[5]	gen et sp nov	Junior synonym.	Lambe	Late Campanian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation		Junior synonym of Hypacrosaurus.
Edmontosaurus^[6]	gen et sp et comb nov	Valid	Lambe	late Campanian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Canada	A saurolophine hadrosaurid. Type species E. regalis Also includes "Claosaurus" annectens (1882)
Struthiomimus^[7]	Sub gen et comb nov	Valid	Osborn	Campanian	Oldman Formation		An Ornithomimid A new subgenus for "Ornithomimus" altus (1901), elevated to Struthiomimus altus (1972)

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.^[8]

Notes and References

1. Cockerell . T. D. A. . Some American fossil insects . Proceedings of the United States National Museum . 1917 . 51 . 2146 . 89–106 . 10.5479/si.00963801.51-2146.89.
2. 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 .
3. 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 .
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. Osborn . Henry Fairfield . Henry Fairfield Osborn . Skeletal adaptations of Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Tyrannosaurus . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 35 . 733–771 . 1917 .
8. 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.