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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 1908.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
A platycleidine tettigoniid Mormon cricket relative |
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Sp nov |
A
cecidomyiine
gall midge gall |
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Sp nov |
Beutenmüller & Cockerell |
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Gen et sp nov |
nom nudum |
A
nyrmicine ant. Type species E. klebsi |
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Sp nov |
An
eriophyid
gall mite gall |
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Comb nov |
A
Glossinid tsetse fly |
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Gen et sp nov |
A
cricket relative |
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Sp nov |
Beutenmüller & Cockerell |
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Sp nov |
Beutenmüller & Cockerell |
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Sp nov |
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Gen et sp nov |
A
dysagrionine
odonate |
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Sp nov |
Beutenmüller & Cockerell |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
An
ithonid giant lacewing |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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" Scaphonyx" |
Valid |
Woodward |
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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [4]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Ankylosaurus [5] | Valid taxon |
Late Cretaceous ( Lancian) |
An ankylosaurid. |
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" Gigantosaurus" [6] |
Preoccupied. |
Late Jurassic ( Kimmeridgian- Tithonian) |
Preoccupied by Harry Govier Seeley, 1869 renamed Tornieria. | |||||
Halticosaurus [7] | Nomen dubium. |
Late Triassic (early Norian) |
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" Pachysaurus" [8] |
Preoccupied. |
Late Triassic (middle Norian) |
Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843 renamed Pachysauriscus. | |||||
Sellosaurus [8] | Valid taxon |
Late Triassic (early Norian) |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Broom |
Middle Abrahamskraal Formation |
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Valid |
Seeley |
Burgersdorp Formation |
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Valid |
Matthew |
Arroyo Formation |
Possibly a basal therapsid. | ||||
Valid |
Broom |
Middle Permian |
Middle Abrahamskraal Formation |
A member of Trochosuchidae. |