1879 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 1879.
Ichthyosaurs
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Junior homonym |
Marsh |
Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) |
Preoccupied by Sauranodon Jourdan, 1862; renamed Baptanodon Marsh, 1880. | |||
Archosauromorphs
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
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Valid |
middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian) |
A nodosaurid ankylosaur, a member of Struthiosaurinae. The type species is A. curtonotus. | |||||
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Valid |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
An apatosaurine diplodocid. | |||||
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Preoccupied. |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
Preoccupied by Uhler, 1864. Later renamed Camptosaurus. | |||||
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Valid |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
A basal coelurosaur. The type species is Coelurus fragilis. | |||||
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middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian) |
An dubious ornithopod. | ||||||
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Valid |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
Junior subjective synonym of Allosaurus. The type species is Allosaurus lucaris Marsh, 1878. | |||||
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middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian) |
A dubious ornithopod. The type species is S. macrocercus. | ||||||
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Hulke |
early Cretaceous (Barremian) |
A dubious iguanodont. The type species is Vectisaurus valdensis. | |||||
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
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References
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 Seeley, H. G., 1879, On the Dinosauria of the Cambridge Greensand: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 35, p. 591-636.
- 1 2 Marsh, O. C., 1879. Notice of New Jurassic Reptiles: American Journal of Science, 3rd series, v. 18, p. 501-505.
- ↑ Marsh, O. C., 1879. Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. Part II: American Journal of Science, 3rd series, v. 17, p. 86-92.
- ↑ Hulke, J. W., 1879, Vectisaurus valdensis, a new Wealden Dinosaur: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 35, p. 421-424.