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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 1860.

Contents

Insects

New taxa

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Limnobiorhynchus brevipalpa [2]

comb. nov

jr synonym

(Loew) Osten-Sacken

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

Flag of Europe.svg  Europe

A Limoniid cranefly,
syn of Elephantomyia brevipalpa

Elephantomyia brevipalpa Elephantomyia brevipalpa specimen MP3323.jpg
Elephantomyia brevipalpa

Limnobiorhynchus pulchella [2]

comb. nov

jr synonym

(Loew) Osten-Sacken

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

Flag of Europe.svg  Europe

A Limoniid cranefly,
syn of Elephantomyia pulchella

Elephantomyia pulchella Elephantomyia (E.) pulchella Fig 12 body 01.jpg
Elephantomyia pulchella

Pterosaurs

New taxa

TaxonNoveltyStatusAuthor(s)AgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Dorygnathus [3] Gen. nov.Valid Wagner Toarcian Posidonia Shale Flag of Germany.svg  Germany A new genus name for Pterodactylus banthensis Theodori, 1831. DorygnathusVienna.jpg

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

TaxonNoveltyStatusAuthor(s)AgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Goniosaurus ValidMeyer

Synapsids

New taxa

TaxonNoveltyStatusAuthor(s)AgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Deuterosaurus ValidEichwald267 Millions of years agoFlag of Russia.svg  Russia The scientists believed that they had found a Dinosaur, but in Reality it was a ProtoMammal. Deuterosaurus2DB.jpg
Eurosaurus ValidEichwald
Oudenodon ValidOwen254 Millions of years ago. Oudenodon.jpg

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References

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  2. 1 2 Kania, I (2015). "Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic Amber (Eocene): The Genus Elephantomyia Osten Sacken, 1860". PLOS ONE. 10 (2): 1–25. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1017434K. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117434 . PMC   4338262 . PMID   25706127.
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