1916 in paleontology
# 1916 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1916.

## Plants

### Newly named angiosperms

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Florissantia | Gen et sp nov | jr synonym (pro part) | Knowlton | Late Eocene | Florissant Formation | United States Colorado | A mallow relative. Type species F. physalis, jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1886) | Florissantia speirii |
| Porana similis | Sp nov | jr synonym | Knowlton | Late Eocene | Florissant Formation | United States Colorado | A mallow relative. jr synonym of Florissantia speirii (1992) | Florissantia speirii |

## Fish

### Bony fish

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Lucious rosei | Sp nov | jr synonym | Hussakof | Eocene Ypresian | Tranquille Formation | Canada British Columbia | A moon eye relative. Moved to Eohiodon rosei (1966) moved to Hiodon rosei (2008) | |

## Dinosaurs

### Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Doryphorosaurus" | Gen et comb nov | Junior synonym | Nopcsa | Late Jurassic | Tendaguru Formation | Tanzania | Invalid replacement name for Kentrosaurus (1915). | Kentrosaurus aethiopicus |
| "Gigantoscelus" | Gen et sp nov | nomen dubium | van Hoepen | Early Jurassic | Bushveld Sandstone Formation | South Africa | A possible Sauropodomorpha of poor description | |
| "Kentrurosaurus" | Gen et comb nov | Junior synonym | Hennig | Late Jurassic | Tendaguru Formation | Tanzania | Invalid replacement name for Kentrosaurus (1915). | Kentrosaurus aethiopicus |
| Prosaurolophus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Brown | late Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Canada Alberta) | A saurolophine hadrosaur | Prosaurolophus maximus |

## Plesiosaurs

### Newly named taxa

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| "Apractocleidus" | Gen nov | jr synonym | Smellie | | | | jr synonym of Cryptocleidus | Cryptoclidus eurymerus |

## Synapsids

### Non-mammalian

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country/state | Notes | Images |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Jonkeria | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Van Hoepen | Capitanian | Abrahamskraal Formation | South Africa | A titanosuchid dinocephalian Type species J. truculenta | Jonkeria |
