1922 in paleontology explained

Arthropods

Crustaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anthracomysis^[1]	Gen. et sp. nov	Jr synonym	van Straelen	Westphalian			Type species is A. rostrata, junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.
Palaeocaris lohesti	Sp. nov	Jr synonym	van Straelen	Westphalian			Junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.
Perimecturus fraiponti	Sp. nov	Jr synonym	van Straelen	Westphalian			Junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.

Insects

Archosauromorphs

Newly named phytosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Angistorhinopsis^[3]	Nomen dubium	Friedrich von Huene	Late Triassic (Rhaetian)	Knollenmergel		A member of Pseudopalatinae.
Leptosuchus	Valid taxon	Case^[4]	Late Triassic (early Norian)	Tecovas Formation		A basal member of Leptosuchomorpha.
Promystriosuchus	Valid taxon	Case	Late Triassic (early Norian)	Tecovas Formation		A basal phytosaur

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[5]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alamosaurus^[6]	Valid taxon	Charles W. Gilmore		early Maastrichtian (late Edmontonian)	lower Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member)		A North American titanosaur.
Dromaeosaurus^[7]	Valid taxon	Matthew	Barnum Brown	middle Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada (	A dromaeosaurid.
Erectopus^[8]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive (Mammilatum Zone)	early Albian	France	A metriacanthosaurid.
Parasaurolophus^[9]	Valid taxon	Parks		middle-late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation Fruitland Formation Kaiparowits Formation Kirtland Formation	Canada (and)	A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Dvinia	Valid	Amalitski	255 Millions of years ago
Eosimops	Valid	Broom	257 Millions of years ago
Oligokyphus	Valid	Hennig	198 Millions of years ago.		The Last North American Cynodont.
Venyukovia	Valid	Amalitski	264 Millions of years ago.

References

1. van Straelen . Victor . 1922 . Quelques eumalacostracés nouveaux du Westphalien inférieur d'Argenteau près Liége . Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique . fr . 45 . 35–40.
2. Cockerell . T. D. A. . A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado . American Museum Novitates . 1922 . 34 . 1–2 .
3. Huene, F. von 1922, Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Parasuchier: Jahrbuch der Preussichen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin, v. 42, n. 1, p. 59-160.
4. Case, E. C., 1922, New reptiles and stegocephalians from the Upper Triassic of Western Texas: Carnegie Institute of Washington, Publication n. 321, p. 1-84.
5. 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 .
6. Gilmore, C.W. 1922. A new sauropod dinosaurfrom the Ojo Alamo formation of New Mexico.Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 72: pp. 1-9.
7. Matthew, W.D. and B. Brown. 1922. The familyDeinodontidae with notice of a new genus fromthe Cretaceous of Alberta. Amer. Museum Nat.Hist. Bull. 46: pp. 367-385.
8. Huene, F. von. 1922. Uber einen Sauropoden imoberen Malm des Bemer Jura. Eclogae Geol.Helvetiae 17: pp. 80-94.
9. Parks, W.A. 1922. Parasaurolophus walkeri, anew genus and species of crested trachodontdinosaur. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 13: pp.1-32.