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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 1847.

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Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

NameStatusAuthorsNotes

Macroscelosaurus [2]

Misidentification.

Muenster vide von Meyer

An unpublished name for a misidentified prolacertiform reptile that was probably the same as Tanystropheus .

Sphenosaurus [3]

Misidentification.

von Meyer

A misidentified procolophonid.

Macroscelosaurus is probably the same as Tanystropheus. Tanystropheus BW.jpg
Macroscelosaurus is probably the same as Tanystropheus .

Pterosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

NameStatusAuthorsAgeLocationNotesImages

Dinosaurus

Valid

Fischer

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<i>Plateosaurus</i> Sauropodomorph dinosaur

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<i>Termatosaurus</i> Extinct genus of reptiles

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<i>Geosaurus</i> Extinct genus of reptiles

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<i>Cycnorhamphus</i> Genus of gallodactylid pterosaur Late Jurassic

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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1905.

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1832.

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<i>Psephophorus</i> Extinct genus of turtles

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Goniosaurus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Nekum Chalk, in the Netherlands. The only species so far described, G. binkhorsti is represented only by an isolated, compressed and slender tooth described by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer and a referred tooth and possibly two cervical vertebrae that shows that it was an elasmosaurid, as many other Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs from Europe. The generic name is derived from the Greek gonia, "angle", referring to the fact that the striations meets each other under an angle pointing to below, i.e. the root of the tooth, instead of towards the apex. Johannes Theodorus Binkhorst in 1857 drew Meyer's attention to the tooth in the collection of Ignaz Beusel and was rewarded for this by having the specific name named after him. Goniosaurus binkhorsti was already named by Meyer in 1858 but not fully described.

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1844.

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1830.

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1842.

<i>Dyoplax</i> Extinct genus of reptiles

Dyoplax is an extinct genus of pseudosuchian archosaur, possibly an erpetosuchid. Fossils have been found from the type locality within the upper Schilfsandstein Formation in Stuttgart, Germany. The holotype specimen was a natural cast of a nearly complete skeleton that lacked only parts of the tail and limb bones.

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1861.

<i>Simosaurus</i> Extinct genus of reptiles

Simosaurus is an extinct genus of marine reptile within the superorder Sauropterygia from the Middle Triassic of central Europe. Fossils have been found in deposits in France and Germany that are roughly 230 million years old. It is usually classified as a nothosaur, but has also been considered a pachypleurosaur or a more primitive form of sauropterygia.

The Solling Formation is a geologic formation in Germany. Formerly considered earliest Triassic (Induan), but later dating places the formation from the Olenekian to Anisian of the Triassic period.

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1826.

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. Muenster vide Meyer, H. 1847. Die Saurier des Muschelkalkes mit Rucksicht auf die Saurier aus Buntem Sandstein und Keuper. In: Zur Fauna der Vorwelt, zweite Abtheilung: viii + 167pages;
  3. Meyer, H. von. 1847. Brifel. Mittel: Neües Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Geologie u. Palaontologie (1847): p. 181.
  4. Hanson, Mike (12 November 2008). "The Pterosaur Species List" (PDF). The Pterosauria. Archosauria.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 July 2007. Retrieved 15 January 2009.