1922 in paleontology

Arthropods

Crustaceans

Insects

Archosauromorphs

Newly named phytosaurs

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.
• 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

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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