# 1922 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1922.

## Arthropods
### Crustaceans

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

### Insects

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Hydriomena? protrita | sp. nov | valid | Cockerell | Priabonian | Florissant Formation | USA | A geometrid moth | Hydriomena? protrita holotype |

## Archosauromorphs
### Newly named phytosaurs

| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| Angistorhinopsis | Nomen dubium | Friedrich von Huene | Late Triassic (Rhaetian) | Knollenmergel | Switzerland | A member of Pseudopalatinae. |
| Leptosuchus | Valid taxon | Case | Late Triassic (early Norian) | Tecovas Formation | United States ( Texas) | A basal member of Leptosuchomorpha. |
| Promystriosuchus | Valid taxon | Case | Late Triassic (early Norian) | Tecovas Formation | United States ( Texas) | A basal phytosaur |

### Dinosaurs

* Krausel reported fossil gut contents from an Edmontosaurus annectens mummy. He described the material as including conifer needles and branches, deciduous foliage, and possible small seeds or fruit.
* Abel argued that the plant material Krausel argues was the fossilized remains of the gut contents of an Edmontosaurus annectens was actually deposited by flowing water.

#### New taxa

| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| Alamosaurus sanjuanensis | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Gilmore | Maastrichtian | Ojo Alamo Formation | USA Texas | A North American titanosaur |
| Dromaeosaurus albertensis | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Matthew & Brown | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Canada Alberta | A dromaeosaurid |
| Erectopus superbus | Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Huene | Albian | Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive (Mammilatum Zone) | France | A metriacanthosaurid |
| Parasaurolophus walkeri | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Parks | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Canada Alberta | A hadrosaurid |

## Plesiosaurs
### New taxa

| Name | Status | Authors | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Eurycleidus | Valid | Andrews | | Hettangian-Sinemurian | Lower Lias | UK | A rhomaleosaurid. A new genus for "Plesiosaurus" arcuatus Owen (1840) | |
| Leptocleidus | Valid | Andrews | | Barremian | Weald Clay | Australia  South Africa  UK | A leptocleidid. | Leptocleidus |

## Synapsids
### Non-mammalian

| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
| Dvinia | Valid | Amalitski | 255 Millions of years ago | Russia | | |
| Eosimops | Valid | Broom | 257 Millions of years ago | South Africa | | |
| Oligokyphus | Valid | Hennig | 198 Millions of years ago. | Germany  China  UK  USA ( Arizona) | The Last North American Cynodont. | Oligokyphus |
| Venyukovia | Valid | Amalitski | 264 Millions of years ago. | Russia | | Venyukovia |