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1922 in paleontology

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{{Year in paleontology header|1922}}

Arthropods

=Crustaceans=

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Anthracomysis{{Cite journal |last=van Straelen |first=Victor |date=1922 |title=Quelques eumalacostracés nouveaux du Westphalien inférieur d'Argenteau près Liége |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55548656 |journal=Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique |language=fr |volume=45 |pages=35–40}}

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Gen. et sp. nov

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Jr synonym

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van Straelen

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Westphalian

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{{Flag|Belgium}}

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Type species is A. rostrata, junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.

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Palaeocaris lohesti

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Sp. nov

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Jr synonym

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van Straelen

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Westphalian

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Junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.

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Perimecturus fraiponti

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Sp. nov

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Jr synonym

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van Straelen

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Westphalian

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{{Flag|Belgium}}

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Junior synonym of Gorgonophontes fraiponti.

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=Insects=

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Hydriomena? protrita{{Cite journal |last1=Cockerell |first1=T. D. A. |title=A fossil Moth from Florissant, Colorado |journal=American Museum Novitates |year=1922 |issue=34 |pages=1–2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZNPAAAAYAAJ&q=Hydriomena%22+protrita&pg=PR3}}

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sp. nov

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valid

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Priabonian

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Florissant Formation

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A geometrid moth

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File:Hydriomena? protrita.jpg holotype]]

Archosauromorphs

=Newly named phytosaurs=

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AngistorhinopsisHuene, F. von 1922, Neue Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Parasuchier: Jahrbuch der Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt zu Berlin, v. 42, n. 1, p. 59-160.

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Nomen dubium

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Friedrich von Huene

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Late Triassic (Rhaetian)

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Knollenmergel

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A member of Pseudopalatinae.

Leptosuchus

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Valid taxon

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CaseCase, E. C., 1922, New reptiles and stegocephalians from the Upper Triassic of Western Texas: Carnegie Institute of Washington, Publication n. 321, p. 1-84.

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Late Triassic (early Norian)

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Tecovas Formation

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{{Flag|United States}} ({{Flag|Texas}})

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A basal member of Leptosuchomorpha.

Promystriosuchus

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Valid taxon

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Case

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Late Triassic (early Norian)

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Tecovas Formation

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{{Flag|United States}} ({{Flag|Texas}})

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A basal phytosaur

=Dinosaurs=

  • Krausel reported fossil gut contents from an Edmontosaurus annectens mummy. He described the material as including conifer needles and branches, deciduous foliage, and possible small seeds or fruit.{{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 }}
  • Abel argued that the plant material Krausel argues was the fossilized remains of the gut contents of an Edmontosaurus annectens was actually deposited by flowing water.

==New taxa==

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Alamosaurus sanjuanensisGilmore, C.W. 1922. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Ojo Alamo formation of New Mexico. Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 72: pp. 1-9.

| Gen. et sp. nov.

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| Gilmore

| Maastrichtian

| Ojo Alamo Formation

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{{flag|Texas}}

| A North American titanosaur

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Dromaeosaurus albertensisMatthew, 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.

| Gen. et sp. nov.

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| Matthew & Brown

| Campanian

| Dinosaur Park Formation

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{{Flag|Alberta}}

| A dromaeosaurid

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Erectopus superbusHuene, F. von. 1922. Uber einen Sauropoden im oberen Malm des Bemer Jura. Eclogae Geol. Helvetiae 17: pp. 80-94.

| Gen. et sp. nov

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| Huene

| Albian

| Phosphate-bearing beds of La Penthèive (Mammilatum Zone)

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| A metriacanthosaurid

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Parasaurolophus walkeri{{cite journal|last=Parks|first=W.A.|year=1922|title=Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of crested trachodont dinosaur|journal=University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series|volume=13|pages=1-32}}

| Gen. et sp. nov.

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| Parks

| Campanian

| Dinosaur Park Formation

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{{Flag|Alberta}}

| A hadrosaurid

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Plesiosaurs

=New taxa=

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Eurycleidus

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Valid

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Andrews

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Hettangian-Sinemurian

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Lower Lias

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A rhomaleosaurid. A new genus for "Plesiosaurus" arcuatus Owen (1840)

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Leptocleidus

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Valid

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Andrews

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Barremian

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Weald Clay

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  • {{flag|Australia}}
  • {{flag|South Africa}}
  • {{flag|UK}}

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A leptocleidid.

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Synapsids

=Non-mammalian=

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Dvinia

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Valid

|Amalitski

|255 Millions of years ago

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  • {{Flag|Russia}}

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Eosimops

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Valid

|Broom

|257 Millions of years ago

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  • {{Flag|South Africa}}

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Oligokyphus

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Valid

|Hennig

|198 Millions of years ago.

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  • {{Flag|Germany}}
  • {{Flag|China}}
  • {{Flag|UK}}
  • {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|Arizona}})

|The Last North American Cynodont.

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Venyukovia

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Valid

|Amalitski

|264 Millions of years ago.

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  • {{Flag|Russia}}

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|File:Venyukovia1DB.jpg]]

References

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