1838 in paleontology

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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 1838.

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[2]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Poekilopleuron[3]

Valid

Eudes-Deslongchamps

Middle Jurassic (Bathonian)

Calcaire de Caen

 France

Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps discovered the first major French dinosaur find. He named the animal Poekilopleuron, and mistakenly believed it to be marine.[4]

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes

Charitosaurus

Valid

Meyer

Ischyrodon

Valid

von Meyer

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Brithopus

Nomen dubium

Kutorga

Late Permian

 Russia

A member of Dinocephalia.
Brithopus

Orthopus

Nomen dubium

Kutorga

Late Permian

 Russia

A member of Dinocephalia.

Syodon

Valid

Kutorga

Middle Permian

 Russia

A member of Dinocephalia.

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. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  3. ↑ Eudes-Deslongchamps, J.A. 1838. Memoire sur le Poekilopleuron bucklandi, grande saurien fossile, intermediaire entre les crocodiles et les lezards. Memoires de la Societe linneenne de Normandie, Caen 6: pp. 37-146.
  4. ↑ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 16. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
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