1907 in paleontology explained

Plants

Ferns and fern allies

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Cladophlebis skagitensis[1]	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous			A Cladophlebis pinnule
Nilsonia pasaytensis	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous			A Nilsonia foliage

Conifers

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Picea columbiensis	Sp nov	valid	Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian[2]	Kettle River Formation?		A cone and foliage Spruce species.
Pinus columbiana	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian	Kettle River Formation?		A wood and cone pine species.

Flowering plants

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Myrica serrata	Sp nov		Penhallow	Lower Cretaceous			A Myrica? foliage
Ulmus columbiana	Sp nov	jr synonym	Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian	Kettle River Formation?		An elm wood species. Moved to Ulminium columbianum in 1922[3]
Ulmus protoamericana	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian	Kettle River Formation?		An elm wood species.
Ulmus protoracemosa	Sp nov		Penhallow	Early Eocene Ypresian	Kettle River Formation?		An elm wood species.

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Megaraphidia[4]	Gen et Sp nov	valid	Cockerell	Eocene Priabonian	Florissant Formation	United States	A raphidiid snakefly The type species is M. elegans Moved to Raphidia elegans in 1936[5] Moved back to M. elegans in 2014[6]
Tortrix? florissantana[7]	sp. nov	jr synonym	Cockerell	Priabonian	Florissant Formation		A moth of uncertain placement, moved to Paleolepidopterites florissantanus (2018)[8]

Archosaurs

• Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.^[9]
• Brown argues that Wieland's alleged stegosaur gastroliths were "not associated with the stegosaur bones in question."
• Possible hadrosaur gastroliths documented.^[10]

Newly named ornithodirans

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[11]

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Arnognathus	Gen. et. sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone		A member of Lycideopsidae.
Galechirus	Gen. et sp. nov	Valid	Broom	Middle Permian	Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone		A member of Galeopidae.

References

1. Book: Penhallow . D. P. . 1907 . A report on fossil plants from the International Boundary Survey for 1903–1905, collected by Dr. R A Daly. . Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada . Royal Society of Canada . 3 . 1 (sect 4) . 287–351.
2. Höy . T. . Friedman . R. . Gabites . J. . Paleogene Penticton Group, Boundary area, Southern British Columbia (Parts of NTS 082E): Geochronology and Implications for Precious Metal Mineralization . Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Minerals, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-01 . Geoscience BC . 55–66 .
3. Book: Edwards . W. N. . 1931 . Fossilium Catalogus. II. Plantae. Pars 17. Dicotyledones (Ligna).. Jongmans, W. . Berlin.
4. Cockerell . T. . 1909 . Some fossil arthropods from Florissant, Colorado. . Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History . 23 . 605–616.
5. Carpenter . F.M. . 1936 . Revision of the Nearctic Raphidiodea (Recent and Fossil) . Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . 89 . 2 . 89–158 . 20023217. 10.2307/20023217 .
6. Makarkin . V. . Archibald . S. . 2014 . A revision of the late Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of the Florissant Formation, Colorado, with special reference to the wing venation of the Raphidiomorpha . Zootaxa . 3784 . 4 . 401–444 . 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.4 . 24872063.
7. Cockerell . T. D. A. . A fossil tortricid moth . Canadian Entomologist . 1907 . 39 . 12 . 416 . 10.4039/ent39416-12. 85726085 .
8. Maria Heikkilä . John W. Brown . Joaquin Baixeras . Wolfram Mey . Mikhail V. Kozlov . 2018 . Re-examining the rare and the lost: a review of fossil Tortricidae (Lepidoptera) . Zootaxa . 4394 . 1 . 41–60 . 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.1.2 . 29690381 . free .
9. Wieland (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
10. Brown (1907). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
11. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
12. 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.