1917 in paleontology

Newly named non-mammalian synapsids
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Literature

 * Hunting Dinosaurs in the Badlands of the Red Deer River Valley, Alberta by C. H. Sternberg was published. Although the work was mostly non-fiction, it concluded with a series of fictional chapters wherein Sternberg dreamt of traveling back in time to the various ages of prehistory.