1909 in paleontology

Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEtoptychopteraGen et sp novValid HandlirschYpresianAllenby FormationAn etoptychopterine phantom cranefly.Type species E. tertiaria. Raphidia exhumataSp novjr synonymCockerellEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationA raphidiid snakeflyMoved to Megaraphidia exhumata in 2014ProtanyderusGen et sp novValid HandlirschJurassicA tanyderine phantom cranefly.

Archosauromorphs Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images HierosaurusWieland. G. 1909. A new armored saurian from the Niobrara. Amer. J. Sci. (ser. 4) 27: pp. 250- 252. Valid taxon Wieland Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian)Niobrara Formation ()A nodosaurid.

Plesiosaurs New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages Picrocleidus Valid Andrews CallovianOxford Clay Formation A cryptoclidid. Simolestes Valid Andrews CallovianOxford Clay Formation

A thalassophonean pliosaurid. Tricleidus Valid Andrews CallovianOxford Clay Formation A cryptoclidid.

Synapsids Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesBauriaValid Robert Broom Early TriassicCynognathus Assemblage Zone A bauriid theriodont.

People Death of Harry Govier Seeley, the paleontologist who invented the Saurischian/Ornithischian dinosaur dichotomy.

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