1915 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 1915.

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aphaenogaster mersa[2]	Sp nov	valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil myrmicin ant.	Aphaenogaster mersa
Aphaenogaster oligocenica[2]	Sp nov	valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil myrmicin ant.	Aphaenogaster oligocenica
Asymphylomyrmex	Gen et sp nov	valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	A dolichoderine ant.	Asymphylomyrmex balticus
Dolichoderus britannicus[3]	Sp nov	Syn	Cockerell	Late Eocene	Bembridge Marls	England	A Dolichoderin ant jr synonym of Emplastus britannicus	Emplastus britannicus
Dolichoderus ovigerus[3]	Sp nov	Syn	Cockerell	Late Eocene	Bembridge Marls	England	A Dolichoderin ant jr synonym of Emplastus britannicus	Emplastus britannicus
Iridomyrmex constricta[2]	Comb nov	Jr synonym	(Mayr)	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	A Dolichoderin ant jr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta	Anonychomyrma constricta
Iridomyrmex geinitzi[2]	Comb nov	Jr synonym	Mayr	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi	Anonychomyrma geinitzi
Iridomyrmex samlandica[2]	Sp nov	Jr synonym	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma samlandica	Anonychomyrma samlandica
Paraneuretus	Gen et 2 sp	Valid	Wheeler	Lutetian	Baltic amber	Europe	An aneuretine ant	Paraneuretus tornquisti
Ponera hypolitha[3]	Sp nov	Syn	Cockerell	Late Eocene	Bembridge Marls	England	A Dolichoderin ant jr synonym of Emplastus hypolithus	Emplastus hypolithus

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Newly named dinosaurs

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

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Eoceratops [6]	Gen nov	nomen dubium	Lambe	Campanian	Belly River Formation	Canada	A possible synonym of Chasmosaurus	Eoceratops canadensis
Kangnasaurus[7]	Valid taxon	Gen et sp nov	Haughton	Early Cretaceous		South Africa	An iguanodontian
Kentrosaurus[8]	Valid taxon	Gen et sp nov	Hennig	Late Jurassic	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	A stegosaurid	Kentrosaurus aethiopicus
Spinosaurus[9]	Valid taxon	Gen et sp nov	Stromer	Cretaceous	Bahariya Formation	Egypt	A spinosaurid	Spinosaurus

Anapsids

Turtles

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Paleontologists

• Death of Eberhard Fraas.^[11]

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. 1 2 3 4 5 Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59. 
3. 1 2 3 Antropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, KolyadaVA, Kozlov MA, PerfilievaKS, Rasnitsyn AP (2014). "The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (3-4): 335–446. doi:10.1017/S1755691014000103. 
4. ↑ Mehl, M.G. 1915. Poposaurus gracilis, a new reptile from the Triassic of Wyoming. Journal of Geology 23: pp. 516-522.
5. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
6. ↑ Lambe, L.M. 1915. On Eoceratops canadensis. gen. nov., with remarks on other genera of Cretaceous homed dinosaurs. Geol. Surv. Can. Mus. Bull. 12: pp. 1-49.
7. ↑ Haughton, S.H. 1915. On some dinosaur remains from Bushmanland. Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Africa 5: pp. 259-264.
8. ↑ Hennig, E. 1915. Kentrosaurus aethiopicus, der Stegosauride des Tendaguru. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1915: pp. 219-247.
9. ↑ Stromer, E. 1915. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wusten Agyptens. II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharije-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 3. Das Original des Theropoden Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Abhandlungen der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse 28 (band 3): pp. 3-32.
10. ↑ longman, H. L. (1915). "on a giant turtle of the Queensland Lower Cretaceous". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 3: 24–29. ISSN 0079-8835. 
11. ↑ Farlow, James O.; Brett-Surmann, M. K. (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.