1900 in paleontology

Overview of the events of 1900 in paleontology
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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 1900.

Sauropterygia

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Cimoliasaurus laramiensis

sp. nov.

junior synonym

Knight

Oxfordian

Sundance Formation, Wyoming

 USA

recombined as Tatenectes laramiensis in 2003

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Dicranozygoma

Gen. et sp. nov

Nomen dubium

Seeley

Late Permian

Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A dicynodont of uncertain position

Ictidosuchus

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Tropidostoma Assemblage Zone

 South Africa

A member of Baurioidea.

References

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  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.