1876 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1876.

List of years in paleontology (table)
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Dinosaurs

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Chondrosteosaurus

Nomen dubium

Sir Richard Owen

Diclonius

Nomen dubium

Edward Drinker Cope

A hadrosaurid.

Macrurosaurus

Valid

Harry Govier Seeley

Monoclonius

Nomen dubium

Edward Drinker Cope

A centrosaurine ceratopsid

Paronychodon

Nomen dubium

Edward Drinker Cope

Zapsalis

Nomen dubium

Edward Drinker Cope

Anapsids

Newly named anapsids

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Anthodon

Sir Richard Owen

A pareiasaur.

Pareiasaurus

Sir Richard Owen

A pareiasaur

Plesiosaurs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name Status Authors Notes

Plesiosaurus longirostris

Valid

Blake

Now referred to Hauffiosaurus.[2]

Plesiosaurus propinquus

Junior synonym

Blake

A junior synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus.[3]

Uronautes

Valid

Cope

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Nyctosaurus

Valid

Marsh

A Pterosaur with an antenna-like crest .

Pteranodon

Valid

Marsh

An Crested Pterosaur, Erroneously known as "Pterodactyl"

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Cistecephalus

Valid

Owen

255 Millions of years ago. Box-Headed animal

Endothiodon

Valid

Owen

257 Millions of years ago.

Gorgonops

Valid

Owen

257 Millions of years ago. A Gorgonopsian.

Scaloposaurus

Valid

Owen

251 Millions of years ago.

Tapinocephalus

Valid

Owen

261 Millions of years ago. A Dome-headed Dinocephalian.

Theriognathus

Valid

Owen

255 Millions of years ago.

Titanosuchus

Valid

Owen

261 Millions of years ago. Titanic crocodile.

See also

References

  1. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
  2. Roger B. J. Benson, Hilary F. Ketchum, Leslie F. Noè and Marcela Gómez-Pérez (2011). "New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK". Palaeontology 54 (3): 547–571. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01044.x.
  3. P. Vincent and A. S. Smith. 2009. A redescription of Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate & Blake, 1876 (Reptilia, Plesiosauria), from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Yorkshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 57(3-4):133-142
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