1865 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 1865.
Newly named archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs
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Panchet Formation |
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Newly named dinosaurs
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Preoccupied. |
Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) |
An ornithomimid. Preoccupied by Owen 1854. |
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Preoccupied |
Hitchcock |
Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843. Later renamed Amphisaurus. |
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Valid |
Sir Richard Owen vide Anonymous. |
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) |
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Preoccupied. |
Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) |
Preoccupied by Duméril 1853 Later renamed Diplotomodon. |
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Plesiosaurs
Newly named plesiosaurs
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Leidy |
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) |
A dubious plesiosaur. | |||||
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Valid |
Early Jurassic (Toarcian) |
A Microcleididae plesiosaur. Type species of Microcleidus Watson, 1909. | |||||
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Valid |
Sir Richard Owen |
Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
A rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur. Type species of Archaeonectrus Novozhilov, 1964. | ||||
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