1925 in paleontology

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 1925.

List of years in paleontology (table)
In science
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928

Plants

Newly named plants

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Cornus acuminata[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Berry

Ypresian

Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation

 USA
 Washington

Described as a Cornus species, a homonym of C. acuminata Weber, 1852
The replacement name Cornus republicensis given in 1944
Moved to Schoepfia republicensis in 1987

Schoepfia republicensis

Arthropods

newly named insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Mesoraphidiidae[3]

Fam nov

valid

Martynov

Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous

Northern Hemisphere

Extinct snakefly family, Type genus Mesoraphidia

Archosauromorpha

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Arrhinoceratops[5]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Parks

latest Campanian/earliest Maastrichtian

Edmonton Formation

a Ceratopsid

Arrhinoceratops brachyops

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Tapinosaurus

nomen invalidum

Rabeck

Mislabeling of an image, not a valid genus name

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Lycaenodon

Valid

Broom 257 Millions of years ago

Lycaenoides

Valid

Broom

Lycaenops

Valid

Broom 257 Millions of years ago A Dog-like Gorgonopsian.

Notosollasia

Jr. Synonym

Jr. Synonim of Whaitsia.

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. Wolfe, J.A.; Wehr, W.C. (1987). "Middle Eocene Dicotyledonous Plants from Republic, Northeastern Washington". United States Geological Survey Bulletin. 1597: 1–25.
  3. Pérez-de la Fuente, R.; Peñalver, E.; Delclòs, X.; Engel, M.S. (2012). "Snakefly diversity in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Neuropterida, Raphidioptera)". ZooKeys. 204: 1–40. doi:10.3897/zookeys.204.2740. PMC 3391719. PMID 22787417.
  4. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. Parks, W. A. (1925). "Arrhinoceratops brachyops, a new genus and species of Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta". University of Toronto Studies (Geological Series). 19: 5-15.
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