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1906 In Paleontology
Arthropods Insects Archosauromorphs * ''Apatosaurus'' gastroliths documented.Cannon (1906). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. * Wieland claims to have found stegosaur gastroliths.Wieland (1906). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. Dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. References * * Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180. * {{cite journal , last1 = Wieland , first1 = G. R. , year = 1906 , title = Dinosaurian gastroliths , url = https://zenodo.org/record/1447958, journal = Science , volume = 23 , issue = 595, pages = 819–821 , doi=10.1126/science.23.595.819-a , pmid=17756355 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calyptapis
''Calyptapis'' is an extinct bombini genus related to bumblebees with one described species ''Calyptapis florissantensis''. It is known only from the Late Eocene Chadronian age shales of the Florissant Formation in Colorado. the genus and species were described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1906. References † A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species). It is one of the modern descendan ... Eocene insects Fossil bee taxa Fossil taxa described in 1906 Insects described in 1906 Prehistoric insects of North America Fossil bee genera {{paleo-insect-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell
Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948) was an American zoologist, born at Norwood, England, and brother of Sydney Cockerell. He was educated at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and then studied botany in the field in Colorado in 1887–90. Subsequently, he became a taxonomist and published numerous papers on the Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Mollusca and plants, as well as publications on paleontology and evolution. Personal life Cockerell was born in Norwood, Greater London and died in San Diego, California. He married Annie Sarah Fenn in 1891 (she died in 1893) and Wilmatte Porter in 1900. In 1901, he named the ultramarine blue chromodorid ''Mexichromis porterae'' (now '' Felimare porterae'') in her honor. After their marriage in 1900, they frequently went on collecting expeditions together and assembled a large private library of natural history films, which they showed to schoolchildren and public audiences to promote the cause of environmental conservation. After h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priabonian
The Priabonian is, in the ICS's geologic timescale, the latest age or the upper stage of the Eocene Epoch or Series. It spans the time between . The Priabonian is preceded by the Bartonian and is followed by the Rupelian, the lowest stage of the Oligocene. Stratigraphic definition The Priabonian Stage was introduced in scientific literature by Ernest Munier-Chalmas and Albert de Lapparent in 1893. The stage is named after the small hamlet of Priabona in the community of Monte di Malo, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. The base of the Priabonian Stage is at the first appearance of calcareous nannoplankton species ''Chiasmolithus oamaruensis'' (which forms the base of nanoplankton biozone NP18). An official GSSP was ratified in 2020, and was placed in the Alano di Piave section in Alano di Piave, Belluno, Italy. The top of the Priabonian Stage (the base of the Rupelian Stage and Oligocene Series) is at the extinction of foram genus ''Hantkenina''. Sometimes l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florissant Formation
The Florissant Formation is a sedimentary geologic formation outcropping around Florissant, Teller County, Colorado. The formation is noted for the abundant and exceptionally preserved insect and plant fossils that are found in the mudstones and shales. Based on argon radiometric dating, the formation is Eocene (approximately 34 million years old ) in age and has been interpreted as a lake environment. The fossils have been preserved because of the interaction of the volcanic ash from the nearby Thirtynine Mile volcanic field with diatoms in the lake, causing a diatom bloom. As the diatoms fell to the bottom of the lake, any plants or animals that had recently died were preserved by the diatom falls. Fine layers of clays and muds interspersed with layers of ash form "paper shales" holding beautifully-preserved fossils. The Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is a national monument established to preserve and study the geology and history of the area. History The name ''Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombini
The Bombini are a tribe of large bristly apid bees which feed on pollen or nectar. Many species are social, forming nests of up to a few hundred individuals; other species, formerly classified as '' Psithyrus'' cuckoo bees, are brood parasites of nest-making species. The tribe contains a single living genus, '' Bombus'', the bumblebees, and some extinct genera such as '' Calyptapis'' and '' Oligobombus''. The tribe was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1802. Fossils '' Bombus cerdanyensis'' was described from Late Miocene lacustrine beds of La Cerdanya, Spain in 2014. '' Calyptapis florissantensis'' was described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1906 from the Chadronian ( Eocene) lacustrine – large shale of Florissant in the US. '' Oligobombus cuspidatus'' was described by Antropov ''et al'' (2014) from the Late Eocene Insect Bed of the Bembridge Marls on the Isle of Wight, England. The holotype fossil was described by re-examining a specimen in the Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaeovespa
''Palaeovespa'' is an extinct genus of wasp in the Vespidae subfamily Vespinae. The genus currently contains eight species, five from the Priabonian stage Florissant Formation in Colorado, United States two from the middle Eocene Baltic amber deposits of Europe. and one species from the late Paleocene of France. History and classification The genus was first described by Dr. Theodore Cockerell in a 1906 paper published in the ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology''. The genus name is a combination of the Greek ', meaning "old" and ''vespa'' from the genus ''Vespa'', the type genus of the family Vespidae where ''Palaeovespa'' is placed. Along with the genus description, the paper contained the description of the type species ''P. florissantia'', ''P. scudderi'' and ''P. gillettei'' all from the Florissant Formation. Cockerell described a fourth species, ''P. baltica'' in 1909 from a specimen in Baltic amber. Five years later, in 1914, Cockerell described another specie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vespidae
The Vespidae are a large (nearly 5000 species), diverse, cosmopolitan family of wasps, including nearly all the known eusocial wasps (such as ''Polistes fuscatus'', '' Vespa orientalis'', and '' Vespula germanica'') and many solitary wasps. Each social wasp colony includes a queen and a number of female workers with varying degrees of sterility relative to the queen. In temperate social species, colonies usually last only one year, dying at the onset of winter. New queens and males (drones) are produced towards the end of the summer, and after mating, the queens hibernate over winter in cracks or other sheltered locations. The nests of most species are constructed out of mud, but polistines and vespines use plant fibers, chewed to form a sort of paper (also true of some stenogastrines). Many species are pollen vectors contributing to the pollination of several plants, being potential or even effective pollinators, while others are notable predators of pest insect species. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palaeovespa Florissantia
''Palaeovespa'' is an extinct genus of wasp in the Vespidae subfamily Vespinae. The genus currently contains eight species, five from the Priabonian stage Florissant Formation in Colorado, United States two from the middle Eocene Baltic amber deposits of Europe. and one species from the late Paleocene of France. History and classification The genus was first described by Dr. Theodore Cockerell in a 1906 paper published in the ''Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology''. The genus name is a combination of the Greek ', meaning "old" and ''vespa'' from the genus ''Vespa'', the type genus of the family Vespidae where ''Palaeovespa'' is placed. Along with the genus description, the paper contained the description of the type species ''P. florissantia'', ''P. scudderi'' and ''P. gillettei'' all from the Florissant Formation. Cockerell described a fourth species, ''P. baltica'' in 1909 from a specimen in Baltic amber. Five years later, in 1914, Cockerell described another speci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protostephanus
''Protostephanus'' is an extinct genus of crown wasp in the Hymenoptera family Stephanidae known from an Eocene fossil found in the United States of America. The genus contains a single described species, ''Protostephanus ashmeadi'' placed in the stephanid subfamily Stephaninae. History and classification ''Protostephanus'' is known only from a single fossil, the holotype, specimen number "2035" and formerly number 13913 of the Samuel Hubbard Scudder collection. The specimen is housed in the fossil collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, part of Harvard University. The specimen is composed of a partially complete adult female crown wasp that has been preserved as a compression fossil in shale of fine volcanic ash from the Florissant Formation in Colorado. When the fossil was first recovered and studied, the age of the Florissant Formation was not firmly determined, and a tentative Miocene date was advocated. The formation has subsequently been determined to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanidae
The Stephanidae, sometimes called crown wasps, are a family of parasitoid wasps. They are the only living members of the superfamily Stephanoidea. Stephanidae has at least 345 living species in 11 genera. The family is considered cosmopolitan in distribution, with the highest species concentrations in subtropical and moderate climate zones. Stephanidae also contain four extinct genera described from both compression fossils and inclusions in amber. Biology Stephanids are noted for their ocellar corona, a semicircular to circular set of projections around the middle ocellus, forming a "crown" on the head. Only stephanids and the similarly old Hymenoptera family Orussidae have ocellar coronae, and it is uncertain if they developed the structure separately or if a common ancestor of both developed it and it was then lost in all but the two families. Weakly developed grooves starting at the base of the antennae and extending past the eyes to the back of the head capsule are present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Proceratops
''Ceratops'' (meaning "horn face") is a dubious genus of herbivorous ceratopsian dinosaur which lived during the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils have been found in the Judith River Formation in Montana. Although poorly known, ''Ceratops'' is important in the history of dinosaurs, since it is the type genus for which both the Ceratopsia and the Ceratopsidae have been named. The material is too poor to be confidently referred to better specimens, and ''Ceratops'' is thus considered a ''nomen dubium''. History The first remains referred to ''Ceratops'' — an occipital condyle and a pair of horn cores — were found by John Bell Hatcher (1861–1904) in the late summer of 1888 near the Cow Creek in Blaine County in the uppermost Judith River Formation of Montana. Hatcher was at the time employed by Professor Othniel Charles Marsh who the same year named the find as the type species ''Ceratops montanus''. The generic name was derived from Greek κέρας, ''keras'', "h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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