1922 in paleontology

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 1922.

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Arthropods

Crustaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Anthracomysis[2]	Gen. et sp. nov	Jr synonym	van Straelen	Westphalian		Belgium	Type species is A. rostrata, junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.
Palaeocaris lohesti[2]	Sp. nov	Jr synonym	van Straelen	Westphalian		Belgium	Junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.
Perimecturus fraiponti[2]	Sp. nov	Jr synonym	van Straelen	Westphalian		Belgium	Junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Hydriomena? protrita[3]	sp. nov	valid	Cockerell	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA	A geometrid moth	Hydriomena? protrita holotype

Archosauromorphs

Newly named phytosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Angistorhinopsis[4]	Nomen dubium	Friedrich von Huene	Late Triassic (Rhaetian)	Knollenmergel	Switzerland	A member of Pseudopalatinae.
Leptosuchus	Valid taxon	Case[5]	Late Triassic (early Norian)	Tecovas Formation	United States ( Texas)	A basal member of Leptosuchomorpha.
Promystriosuchus	Valid taxon	Case[5]	Late Triassic (early Norian)	Tecovas Formation	United States ( Texas)	A basal phytosaur

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[6]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Alamosaurus[7]	Valid taxon	Charles W. Gilmore		early Maastrichtian (late Edmontonian)	lower Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member)	United States  Texas	A North American titanosaur.	Alamosaurus
Dromaeosaurus[8]	Valid taxon	Matthew	Barnum Brown	middle Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada ( Alberta  USA ( Texas,  Montana Wyoming)	A dromaeosaurid.	Dromaeosaurus
Erectopus[9]	Valid taxon	Friedrich von Huene		Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive (Mammilatum Zone)	early Albian	France	A metriacanthosaurid.
Parasaurolophus[10]	Valid taxon	Parks		middle-late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation Fruitland Formation Kaiparowits Formation Kirtland Formation	Canada(  Alberta)  USA ( New Mexico and  Utah)  China	A lambeosaurine hadrosaurid.	Parasaurolophus

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Eurycleidus Valid Andrews Hettangian-Sinemurian Lower Lias  UK A rhomaleosaurid. A new genus for "Plesiosaurus" arcuatus Owen (1840) Leptocleidus Valid Andrews Barremian Weald Clay  Australia  South Africa  UK A leptocleidid. Leptocleidus

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Dvinia	Valid	Amalitski	255 Millions of years ago	Russia
Eosimops	Valid	Broom	257 Millions of years ago	South Africa
Oligokyphus	Valid	Hennig	198 Millions of years ago.	Germany  China  UK  USA ( Arizona)	The Last North American Cynodont.	Oligokyphus
Venyukovia	Valid	Amalitski	264 Millions of years ago.	Russia		Venyukovia

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.
2. van Straelen, Victor (1922). "Quelques eumalacostracés nouveaux du Westphalien inférieur d'Argenteau près Liége". Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique (in French). 45: 35–40.
3. Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922). "A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado". American Museum Novitates (34): 1–2.
4. Huene, F. von 1922, Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Parasuchier: Jahrbuch der Preussichen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin, v. 42, n. 1, p. 59-160.
5. Case, E. C., 1922, New reptiles and stegocephalians from the Upper Triassic of Western Texas: Carnegie Institute of Washington, Publication n. 321, p. 1-84.
6. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
7. Gilmore, C.W. 1922. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Ojo Alamo formation of New Mexico. Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 72: pp. 1-9.
8. Matthew, W.D. and B. Brown. 1922. The family Deinodontidae with notice of a new genus from the Cretaceous of Alberta. Amer. Museum Nat. Hist. Bull. 46: pp. 367-385.
9. Huene, F. von. 1922. Uber einen Sauropoden im oberen Malm des Bemer Jura. Eclogae Geol. Helvetiae 17: pp. 80-94.
10. Parks, W.A. 1922. Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of crested trachodont dinosaur. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 13: pp. 1-32.