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
    
    Insects
    
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | 
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 sp. nov  | 
 valid  | 
 A geometrid moth  | 
![]() Hydriomena? protrita holotype  | |||||
Archosauromorphs
    
    Newly named phytosaurs
    
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | 
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 Late Triassic (Rhaetian)  | 
 A member of Pseudopalatinae.  | ||||||
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 Valid taxon  | 
 Case[4]  | 
 Late Triassic (early Norian)  | 
 A basal member of Leptosuchomorpha.  | ||||
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 Valid taxon  | 
 Case[4]  | 
 Late Triassic (early Norian)  | 
 A basal phytosaur  | ||||
Newly named dinosaurs
    
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[5]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Alamosaurus[6] | Valid taxon | 
 early Maastrichtian (late Edmontonian)  | 
 lower Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member)  | 
 An North American titanosaur.  | 
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| Dromaeosaurus[7] | Valid taxon | 
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 middle Campanian  | 
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| Erectopus[8] | Valid taxon | 
 Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive (Mammilatum Zone)  | 
 early Albian  | 
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| Parasaurolophus[9] | Valid taxon | 
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 middle-late Campanian  | 
 Dinosaur Park Formation   | 
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Plesiosaurs
    
    New taxa
    
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Synapsids
    
    Non-mammalian
    
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images | 
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Amalitski | 255 Millions of years ago | ||||
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Broom | 257 Millions of years ago | ||||
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 Valid  | 
Amalitski | 254 Millions of years ago | his teeth evolved in saber-toothed feline. | |||
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Hennig | 198 Millions of years ago. | The Last North American Cynodont. | |||
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 Valid  | 
Amalitski | 264 Millions of years ago. | ||||
References
    
- 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.
 - Cockerell, T. D. A. (1922). "A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado". American Museum Novitates (34): 1–2.
 - Huene, F. von 1922, Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Parasuchier: Jahrbuch der Preussichen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin, v. 42, n. 1, p. 59-160.
 - 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.
 - Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
 - Gilmore, C.W. 1922. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Ojo Alamo formation of New Mexico. Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 72: pp. 1-9.
 - 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.
 - Huene, F. von. 1922. Uber einen Sauropoden im oberen Malm des Bemer Jura. Eclogae Geol. Helvetiae 17: pp. 80-94.
 - Parks, W.A. 1922. Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of crested trachodont dinosaur. Univ. Toronto Stud. (Geol. Ser.) 13: pp. 1-32.
 







