1907 in paleontology

	… 1897; 1898; 1899; 1900; 1901; 1902; 1903; ; 1904; 1905; 1906; 1907; 1908; 1909; 1910; ; 1911; 1912; 1913; 1914; 1915; 1916; 1917 …;
	In science 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
	Art; Archaeology; Architecture; Literature; Music; Philosophy; Science; +...

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 1907.

Plants[edit]

Ferns and fern allies[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Cladophlebis skagitensis^[2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous		Canada British Columbia	A Cladophlebis pinnule
Nilsonia pasaytensis^[2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous		Canada British Columbia	A Nilsonia foliage

Conifers[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Picea columbiensis^[2]	Sp nov	valid	Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian^[3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada British Columbia	A cone and foliage Spruce species.	Picea columbiensis
Pinus columbiana^[2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian^[3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada British Columbia	A wood and cone pine species.	Pinus columbiana

Flowering plants[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Myrica serrata^[2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous		Canada British Columbia	A Myrica? foliage
Ulmus columbiana^[2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian^[3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada British Columbia	An elm wood species. Moved to Ulminium columbianum in 1922^[4]	Ulminium columbianum
Ulmus protoamericana^[2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian^[3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada British Columbia	An elm wood species.	Ulmus protoamericana
Ulmus protoracemosa^[2]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian^[3]	Kettle River Formation?	Canada British Columbia	An elm wood species.	Ulmus protoracemosa

Arthropods[edit]

Insects[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Megaraphidia^[5]	Gen et Sp nov	valid	Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A raphidiid snakefly The type species is M. elegans Moved to Raphidia elegans in 1936^[6] Moved back to M. elegans in 2014^[7]	Megaraphidia elegans
Tortrix? florissantana^[8]	sp. nov	jr synonym	Cockerell	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA Colorado	A moth of uncertain placement, moved to Paleolepidopterites florissantanus (2018)^[9]	Paleolepidopterites florissantanus

Archosaurs[edit]

Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.^[10]
Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question."^[11]
Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.^[11]

Newly named ornithodirans[edit]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[12]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Scleromochlus^[13]	gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Woodward	Late Triassic	Lossiemouth Sandstone	Scotland	A member of Ornithodira.	Scleromochlus

Synapsids[edit]

Non-mammalian[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Arnognathus	Gen. et. sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Lycideopsidae.	Galechirus
Galechirus	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone	South Africa	A member of Galeopidae.

References[edit]

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Penhallow, D. P. (1907). "A report on fossil plants from the International Boundary Survey for 1903–1905, collected by Dr. R A Daly.". Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 3. Vol. 1 (sect 4). Royal Society of Canada. pp. 287–351.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Höy, T.; Friedman, R.; Gabites, J. Paleogene Penticton Group, Boundary area, Southern British Columbia (Parts of NTS 082E): Geochronology and Implications for Precious Metal Mineralization (PDF) (Report). Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-01. Geoscience BC. pp. 55–66.
^ Edwards, W. N. (1931). Jongmans, W. (ed.). Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 17. Dicotyledones (Ligna). Berlin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Cockerell, T. (1909). "Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 23: 605–616.
^ Carpenter, F.M. (1936). "Revision of the Nearctic Raphidiodea (Recent and Fossil)". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 89 (2): 89–158. doi:10.2307/20023217. JSTOR 20023217.
^ Makarkin, V.; Archibald, S. (2014). "A revision of the late Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of the Florissant Formation, Colorado, with special reference to the wing venation of the Raphidiomorpha". Zootaxa. 3784 (4): 401–444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.4. PMID 24872063.
^ Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907). "A fossil tortricid moth". Canadian Entomologist. 39 (12): 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12. S2CID 85726085.
^ 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.
^ Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
^ ^a ^b Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Woodward, A.S. 1907. On a new dinosaurian reptile (Scleromochlus taylori, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 63 (1, article 10): pp. 140-144.

Brown, B. (1907). Gastroliths, Science, 25(636), p392.
Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.
Wieland, G.R. (1907). Gastroliths. Science, 628:66-67.

[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.

[Boundary1907-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Penhallow, D. P. (1907). "A report on fossil plants from the International Boundary Survey for 1903–1905, collected by Dr. R A Daly.". Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. 3. Vol. 1 (sect 4). Royal Society of Canada. pp. 287–351.

[Pentictongroup2021-3] Höy, T.; Friedman, R.; Gabites, J. Paleogene Penticton Group, Boundary area, Southern British Columbia (Parts of NTS 082E): Geochronology and Implications for Precious Metal Mineralization (PDF) (Report). Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-01. Geoscience BC. pp. 55–66.

[Edwards1931-4] Edwards, W. N. (1931). Jongmans, W. (ed.). Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 17. Dicotyledones (Ligna). Berlin.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[Cockerell1907v23-5] Cockerell, T. (1909). "Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 23: 605–616.

[Carpenter1936-6] Carpenter, F.M. (1936). "Revision of the Nearctic Raphidiodea (Recent and Fossil)". Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 89 (2): 89–158. doi:10.2307/20023217. JSTOR 20023217.

[Raphidioptera2014-7] Makarkin, V.; Archibald, S. (2014). "A revision of the late Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of the Florissant Formation, Colorado, with special reference to the wing venation of the Raphidiomorpha". Zootaxa. 3784 (4): 401–444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.4. PMID 24872063.

[Cockerell1907-8] Cockerell, T. D. A. (1907). "A fossil tortricid moth". Canadian Entomologist. 39 (12): 416. doi:10.4039/ent39416-12. S2CID 85726085.

[ZT43941-9] 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. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2. PMID 29690381.

[Wieland-Sanders-10] Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.

[brown-sanders-11] Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.

[ddinogeorge-12] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[13] Woodward, A.S. 1907. On a new dinosaurian reptile (Scleromochlus taylori, gen. et sp. nov.) from the Trias of Lossiemouth, Elgin. Quart. J. Geol. Soc. London 63 (1, article 10): pp. 140-144.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]

[12]

[13]