# 1910 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 1910.

## Arthropoda
### Newly named insects

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Agroecomyrmex | Gen et comb nov | Valid | Wheeler | Lutetian | Baltic amber | Europe | An agroecomyrmecine ant, Moved from "Myrmica" duisburgi | Agroecomyrmex duisburgi |
| Aphrophora angusta | Sp nov | valid | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A spittlebug | Aphrophora angusta (1910 illustration) |
| Archiinocellia | Gen et sp nov | valid | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands "Horsefly shales" | Canada British Columbia | A Raphidiid snakefly Type species A. oligoneura | Archiinocellia oligoneura (1910 illustration) |
| Archiraphidia | Gen et comb nov | valid | Handlirsch | Priabonian | Florissant Formation | United States Colorado | A Raphidiid snakefly The type species is Inocellia tumulata (1890) also includes Inocellia somnolenta (1890) Raphidia tranquilla (1890) | Archiraphidia tumulata |
| Dictyoraphidia veterana | Gen et comb nov | valid | Handlirsch | Priabonian | Florissant Formation | United States Colorado | A baissopterid snakefly New genus for "Inocellia" veterana (1890) | |
| Electromyrmex | Gen et sp nov | nom nudum | Wheeler | Lutetian | Baltic amber | Europe | A myrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi | Electromyrmex klebsi |
| Garrus defuncta | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Coldwater Beds | Canada British Columbia | A gerrid water strider Moved to Telmatrechus defunctus (1998) | Telmatrechus defunctus (1910 illustration) |
| Garrus stali | Comb nov | jr synonym | (Scudder) Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A gerrid water strider Moved from Telmatrechus defunctus (1890) Moved back to Telmatrechus defunctus (1998) | Telmatrechus stali (1890 illustration) |
| Microphorus defunctus | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A long legged fly Moved to Microphor defunctus (1994) | Microphor defunctus (1910 illustration) |
| Penthetria angustipennis | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands "Horsefly shales" | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia angustipennis (1959) | Plecia angustipennis |
| Penthetria avunculus | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia curtula (1959) | Plecia curtula |
| Penthetria avus | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia avus (1959) | Plecia avus |
| Penthetria brevipes | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pulla (1959) | Plecia pulla |
| Penthetria canadensis | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia canadensis (1959) | Plecia canadensis |
| Penthetria curtula | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands "Horsefly shales" | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia curtula (1959) | Plecia curtula |
| Penthetria dilatata | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands "Horsefly shales" | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia dilatata (1959) | Plecia dilatata |
| Penthetria elatior | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia elatior (1959) | Plecia elatior |
| Penthetria falcatula | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959) | Plecia transitoria |
| Penthetria fragmentum | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia transitoria (1959) | Plecia transitoria |
| Penthetria lambei | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) | Plecia pictipennis |
| Penthetria nana | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia nana (1959) | Plecia nana |
| Penthetria ovalis | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) | Plecia pictipennis |
| Penthetria pictipennis | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pictipennis (1959) | Plecia pictipennis |
| Penthetria platyptera | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands "Horsefly shales" | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia platyptera (1959) | Plecia platyptera |
| Penthetria pulchra | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pulchra (1959) | Plecia pulchra |
| Penthetria pulla | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia pulla (1959) | Plecia pulla |
| Penthetria reducta | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands "Horsefly shales" | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia reducta (1959) | Plecia reducta (1910 illustration) |
| Penthetria separanda | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Jr synonym of Plecia pictipennis (1959) | Plecia pictipennis |
| Penthetria transitoria | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands "Horsefly shales" | Canada British Columbia | A bibionid fly Moved to Plecia transitoria (1959) | Plecia transitoria |
| Promastax | Gen et sp nov | valid | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands "Horsefly shales" | Canada British Columbia | A Promastacid grasshopper Type species P. archaicus | Promastax archaicus (1910 illustration) |
| Tipula tulameena | Sp nov | valid | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A tipuline Crane fly. | Tipula tulameena (1910 illustration) |
| Xylonomus lambei | Sp nov | jr synonym | Handlirsch | Eocene Ypresian | Eocene Okanagan Highlands Allenby Formation | Canada British Columbia | A xoridine ichneumon parasitic wasp. moved to Xorides lambei. | Xorides lambei (1910 illustration) |

## Archosauromorphs

* AMNH 5244, a ceratopsian braincase, was found isolated during an American Museum of Natural History Barnum Brown-led expedition.

### Newly named phytosaurs

| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Mesorhinus | Preoccupied | Jaekel | possibly Late Triassic | unknown | Germany | Preoccupied by Mesorhinus Ameghino, 1885; renamed Mesorhinosuchus Kuhn, 1961. | |
| Metarhinus | Preoccupied | Jaekel | Late Triassic (Norian) | Chinle Formation | United States | New genus for "Belodon" buceros Cope, 1881; preoccupied by Metarhinus Osborn, 1908; renamed Machaeroprosopus Mehl in Mehl, Toepemann, and Schwartz, 1916 | |

### Newly named basal dinosauriforms

| Name | Status | Authors | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Saltopus | Valid taxon | Friedrich von Huene | | Late Triassic (Carnian) | Lossiemouth Sandstone | Scotland | Probably a non-dinosaurian dinosauriforme. |

### Dinosaurs

| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| Euoplocephalus | Gen. nov. | Valid | Lambe | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Alberta | An ankylosaurine ankylosaurid |
| Hecatasaurus | Gen. nov. | Jr. synonym | Brown | Maastrichtian | Sânpetru Formation | Romania | New genus name for Limnosaurus transsylvanicus, already named Telmatosaurus |
| Kritosaurus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Brown | Campanian | Kirtland Formation | New Mexico | A hadrosaurid |
| "Nectosaurus navajovius" | | Nomen nudum | Versluys | Campanian | Kirtland Formation | New Mexico | An unpublished name for Kritosaurus navajovius mentioned in passing attributed to Brown |

## Synapsids
### Non-mammalian

| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Aloposaurus | Valid | Robert Broom | Middle Permian | Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone | South Africa | A member of Gorgonopsidae. | Galepus skull |
| Galepus | Valid | Broom | Late Permian | Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone | South Africa | A member of Galeopsidae. | Galepus skull |
| Poecilospondylus | Junior synonym | Ermin Cowles Case | Early Permian | Arroyo Formation | US | A junior synonym of the pelycosaur Varanosaurus. | Galepus skull |

### Mammalian

| Name | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Pseudaelurus chinjiensis | Pilgrim | Tertiary | | India | | |

## Footnotes

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* ↑ 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.
* 1 2 Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Handlirsch, A. (1910). "Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe". Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2 (3): 93–129.
* 1 2 Damgaard, J. (2008). "Evolution of the semi-aquatic bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerromorpha) with a re-interpretation of the fossil record". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 48: 251–268.
* ↑ Evenhuis (1994). Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Backhuys Publishers. pp. 1–600.
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Rice, H. M. A (1959). "Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera) from British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin. 55: 1–36.
* ↑ "Abstract," Makovicky (2001); page 243.
* 1 2 Jaekel, O. (1910). Ueber einen neuen Belodonten aus dem Buntsandstein von Bernburg. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 5:197-229.
* ↑ Huene, F. von. 1910. Ein primitiver Dinosaurier aus der mittleren Trias von Elgin. Geol. Palaeontol. Abhandl. 8: pp. 317-322.
* ↑ Michael J. Benton and Alick D. Walker†. 2011. "Saltopus, a dinosauriform from the Upper Triassic of Scotland", Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 101, Special Issue 3-4, pp 285 - 299 Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011. Published online: 17 May 2011 doi:10.1017/S1755691011020081
* ↑ Lambe, L.M. 1910. Note on the parietal crest of Centrosaurus apertus, and a proposed new generic name for Stereocephalus tutus. Ottawa Nat. 14: pp. 149-151.
* 1 2 Brown, B (1910). "The Cretaceous Ojo Alamo beds of New Mexico with description of the new dinosaur genus Kritosaurus". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 28: 267–274.
* ↑ Versluys, J. 1910. Streptostylie bel Dinosauriern, nebst Bemerkungen uber die Verwandtschaft der Vogel und Dinosaurier. Zool. Jb., Anat. 30: pp. 175-260.
* ↑ Pilgrim, G. (1910). "Notices of new mammalian genera and species from the Tertiaries of India". Records of the Geological Survey of India. 60: 65.