1915 in paleontology
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{{Year in paleontology header|1915}}
Arthropods
=Newly named insects=
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! Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images |
| Aphaenogaster mersa{{cite journal |last1=Wheeler |first1=W. M. |year=1915 |title= The ants of the Baltic amber |journal=Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg |volume=55 |issue=4 |pages=1–142}}
| Sp nov | valid | | | | {{Flag|Russia}} | Fossil myrmicin ant. | File:Aphaenogaster mersa Wheeler, 1915 Specimen number B 18509.jpg]] |
| Aphaenogaster oligocenica
| Sp nov | valid | | | | {{Flag|Russia}} | Fossil myrmicin ant. | File:Aphaenogaster oligocenica Wheeler, 1915 Specimen number B 5461.jpg]] |
| Asymphylomyrmex
| Gen et sp nov | valid | Wheeler | | | {{Flag|Russia}} | A dolichoderine ant. | |
| Camponotus igneus
| Sp nov | Jr synonym | Wheeler | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | {{Flag|Europe}} | Fossil formicine ant. | |
| Dolichoderus mesosternalis
| Sp nov | valid | Wheeler | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | {{Flag|Europe}} | A Dolichoderine ant | |
| Dolichoderus passalomma
| Sp nov | valid | Wheeler | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | {{Flag|Europe}} | A Dolichoderine ant | |
| Drymomyrmex
| Gen et 2 Sp nov | valid | Wheeler | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | {{Flag|Europe}} | A formicine ant | |
| Dolichoderus britannicus{{cite journal |vauthors=Antropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, KolyadaVA, Kozlov MA, PerfilievaKS, Rasnitsyn AP |title=The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |volume=104 |issue=3–4 |pages=335–446 |date=2014 |doi=10.1017/S1755691014000103|url = http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80030/1/2014_Archaeagaon%5B1%5D.pdf}}
| Sp nov | Jr synonym | | Late Eocene | | | A Dolichoderin ant | |
| Dolichoderus ovigerus
| Sp nov | Jr synonym | | Late Eocene | | | A Dolichoderin ant | |
| Erebomyrma antiqua
| Comb nov | jr synonym | (Mayr, 1868) | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | {{Flag|Europe}} | Fossil myrmicine ant, | |
| Euponera (Trachymesopus) succinea
| Comb nov | jr synonym | (Mayr) | Middle Eocene | Baltic Amber | {{Flag|Europe}} | A ponerine ant, | |
| Formica constrictus
| Comb nov | Jr synonym | (Mayr, 1868) | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | {{Flag|Europe}} | Fossil formicine ant., | |
| Iridomyrmex constricta
| Comb nov | Jr synonym | (Mayr) | | | | A Dolichoderin ant | |
| Iridomyrmex geinitzi
| Comb nov | Jr synonym | | | | | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi | |
| Iridomyrmex goepperti
| Comb nov | Jr synonym | (Mayr, 1868) | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | {{Flag|Europe}} | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | |
| Iridomyrmex oblongiceps
| Sp nov | Jr synonym | | | | {{Flag|Russia}} | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | |
| Iridomyrmex samlandica
| Sp nov | Jr synonym | | | | {{Flag|Europe}} | Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma samlandica | |
| Paraneuretus
| Gen et 2 sp | Valid | Wheeler | Lutetian | Baltic amber | {{Flag|Russia}} | An aneuretine ant | |
| Ponera hypolitha
| Sp nov | Jr synonym | | Late Eocene | | | A Dolichoderin ant | |
| Sima klebsi
| Sp nov | Jr synonym | Wheeler | | | {{Flag|Europe}} | A pseudomyrmecine ant. | |
| Stenamma berendti
| comb nov | valid | (Mayr, 1868) | | | {{Flag|Europe}} | A myrmicin ant. | |
| Stiphromyrmex
| gen et comb nov | valid | (Mayr, 1868) | | | {{Flag|Europe}} | A myrmicin ant. | file:Stiphromyrmex robustus CASENT0917568 profile view.jpg]] |
Archosauromorphs
=Newly named pseudosuchians=
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| PoposaurusMehl, M.G. 1915. Poposaurus gracilis, a new reptile from the Triassic of Wyoming. Journal of Geology 23: pp. 516-522.
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| Valid taxon |
|A Dinosaur-like poposaurid suchian. |
=Dinosaurs=
- Charles H. Sternberg's crew excavated a Corythosaurus from quarry 243 in Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. The specimen would later be displayed at the Calgary Zoo.{{cite book |ref=tanke-2010 | last = Tanke | first = D. H. | title = New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium | publisher = Indiana University Press | series = Life of the Past | date = 2010 | location = Bloomington | editor-last = Ryan | editor-first = M. J. | editor2-last = Chinnery-Allgeier | editor2-first = B. J. | editor3-last = Eberth | editor3-first = D. A. | chapter = Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops | pages = 541–550 | language = en | isbn =978-0253353580 }}
- Matthew observed that fossils of hadrosaur eggs and hatchlings were absent in coastal areas and suggested that hadrosaurs may have preferred nesting grounds further inland. He believed that these inland nesting grounds were actually where hadrosaurs first evolved and therefore to breed, hadrosaurs retraced their ancestors route back to their place of origin. After hatching, the young hadrosaurs would spend some time inland maturing before migrating out to more coastal areas.{{cite book |ref=horner-weishampel-forster-2004 | last1 = Horner | first1 = John R. | last2 = Weishampel | first2 = David B. | last3 = Forster | first3 = Catherine A. | title = The Dinosauria | publisher = University of California Press | edition = 2 | date = 2004 | location = Berkeley | editor-last = Weishampel | editor-first = D. B. | editor2-last = Dodson | editor2-first = P. | editor3-last = Osmolska | editor3-first = H. | chapter = Hadrosauridae | pages = 438–463 | language = en | isbn = 978-0520254084 }}
==New taxa==
Anapsids
=Turtles=
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| Cratochelone{{Cite journal |last1=longman |first1=H. L. |title=on a giant turtle of the Queensland Lower Cretaceous|journal=Memoirs of the Queensland Museum |year=1915 |volume=3 |pages=24–29 |issn=0079-8835 |url=http://biostor.org/reference/60887}}
| gen et sp nov | valid | Longman | | |
| largest protostegid turtle from Australia | |
Synapsids
=Non-mammalian=
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| Alopecognathus
| Valid | Broom |263 Millions years ago. |
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| Cerdodon
| Valid | Broom |266 Millions years ago. |
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| Galesuchus
| Synonym of Eriphostoma. | Haughton | | | | |
| Moschosaurus
| Valid | Haughton | | | | |
| Scylacorhinus
| Valid |Broom |263 Millions years ago. |
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| Simorhinella
| Valid | Broom | | | | |
| Struthiocephalus
| Valid | Haughton |263 Millions years ago. |
|Ostrich-Head ProtoMammal. |
| Trochosaurus
| Valid | Haughton |263 Millions years ago. |
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| Tropidostoma
| Valid | Broom |257 Millions years ago. |
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