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 1914.
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Raphidia pulveris[2] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
A raphidiid snakefly |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid taxon |
Almost horned face. | ||||
Brachyceratops[7] |
Valid taxon |
The Short Horned Face | |||
Chasmosaurus[8] |
Valid taxon |
The Opening Horned Dinosaur | |||
Corythosaurus[9] | Valid taxon | The Helmet Dinosaur, with a Cassowary-like crest on its head. | |||
Dicraeosaurus[10] | Valid taxon | A Long-Spined sauropod. | |||
Valid |
Possible junior synonym of Albertosaurus. |
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Gryposaurus[8] | Valid taxon | ||||
Leptoceratops[12] | Valid taxon | ||||
Preoccupied |
Preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosauromorph von Meyer, 1830. Renamed Chasmosaurus. |
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Stephanosaurus[11] |
Possible junior synonym of Lambeosaurus. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Wegner |
Isterberg Formation |
A possibly freshwater dwelling plesiosaur |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Fam et Gen nov |
Valid |
An Ornithocheiromorpha pterosaur |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Watson | 255 million years ago | A Gorgonopsian. | |||
Valid |
Watson | 270 million years ago | A Dinocephalian. | |||
Valid |
263 million years ago | |||||
Valid |