1907 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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.

Arthropods

Insects

Archosaurs

• Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.^[3]
• Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question."^[4]
• Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.^[4]

Newly named ornithodirans

Data coutersy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[5]

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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

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. 
2. ↑ Cockerell, T. D. A. (1917). "Some American fossil insects". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 51: 89–106. doi:10.5479/si.00963801.51-2146.89. 
3. ↑ Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
4. 1 2 Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
5. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
6. ↑ 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.