1873 in paleontology

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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 1873.

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Plants

Algae

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationSynonymized taxaNotesImages

Fucus lignitum [2]

Sp nov

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A brown algae species.

Mosses

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationSynonymized taxaNotesImages

Hypnum haydenii [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Lesquereux

eocene
Priabonian

Florissant Formation

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Described as a moss species.
Moved to Sequoia haydenii (1907). [3]
Moved to Juniparis haydenii (1912).

Ferns

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationSynonymized taxaNotesImages

Salvinia attenuata [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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Described as a watermoss species.
Moved to Marsilea attenuata (1894). [4]

Lycophytes

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationSynonymized taxaNotesImages

Selaginella? falcata [2]

Sp nov

jr homonym

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A possible spikemoss species.
Junior homonym of Selaginella falcata (P.Beauv.) Spring (1843).

Selaginella laciniata [2]

Sp nov

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A possible spikemoss species.

Conifers

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationSynonymized taxaNotesImages

Sequoia biformis [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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Described as a coast redwood species.
Moved to Geinitzia biformis (1900). [5]

Widdringtonia complanata [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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Described as an African cypress species.
Moved to Callitris complanata (1887). [6]

Monocots

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationSynonymized taxaNotesImages

Ottelia americana [2]

Sp nov

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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Described as an anacharioid hydrocharitaceous species.

Pistia corrugata [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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Described as a water cabbage species.
Moved to Cobbania corrugata (2007). [7]

Eudicots

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationSynonymized taxaNotesImages

Alnites unequilateralis [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Lesquereux

Eocene
Ypresian

Green River Formation

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First described as a betulaceous species.
Moved to Alnus inaequilateralis Moved to (1883)
Moved to Planera inaequilateralis (1923). [8] Moved to Bursera inaequilateralis (1969) [9]

Bursera inaequilateralis Bursera inaequilateralis as Comptonia%3F anomala Knowlton holotype USNM P36563 img3.jpg
Bursera inaequilateralis

Carpites viburni [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Lesquereux

Eocene
Ypresian

Green River Formation

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A walnut species.

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Carpites viburni

Dryophyllum crenatum [2]

Sp nov

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A Fagaceous or Juglandaceous species.

Dryophyllum subfalcatum [2]

Sp nov

valid

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A Fagaceous or Juglandaceous species.

Dryophyllum subfalcatum Dryophyllum subfalcatum (HC49).jpg
Dryophyllum subfalcatum

Grewiopsis cleburnii [2]

Sp nov

valid

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A platanaceous species.

Juglans alkalina [2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Lesquereux

Eocene
Ypresian

Green River Formation

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A walnut species.

Laurus (Persea) praestans [2]

Sp nov

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A possible laural species.

Populus melanarioides [2]

Sp nov

valid

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A cottonwood/aspen species.

Rhus membranacea [2]

Sp nov

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A sumac species.

Trapa? microphylla [2]

Sp nov

valid

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A possible water caltrop species.

Viburnum rotundifolium [2]

Sp nov

jr homonym

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A Viburnum species.
Junior homonym of Viburnum rotundifolium Rafinesque, 1838

Fungi

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationSynonymized taxaNotesImages

Sphaeria rhytismoides [2]

Sp nov

jr homonym

Lesquereux

Cretaceous

Montana Group

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A fungi species.
Junior homonym of Sphaeria rhytismoides Ettingshausen, 1868
Moved to replacement name Sphaerites lesquereuxii (1892). [10]

Arthropods

Newly named insects

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Bothriomyrmex constricta [11]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

(Mayr)

Lutetian

Baltic amber

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Fossil Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta

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Anonychomyrma constricta

Bothriomyrmex geinitzi [11]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

Mayr

Lutetian

Baltic amber

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Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi

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Anonychomyrma geinitzi

Sauropterygia

Newly named plesiosaurs

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeLocationNotesImages

Liopleurodon

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Sauvage

Callovian

A pliosaurid

Ichthyosaurs

Newly named ichthyosaurs

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Cetarthrosaurus [12]

Valid

Seeley

late Albian/early Cenomanian

Cambridge Greensand Formation

Other

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Dawsonia campanulata [13]

Valid

Nicholson

Silurian

Moffat Shales Group

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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Lesquereux, L. C. (1876). "On the Tertiary flora of the North American lignitic, considered as evidence of the age of the formation". Annual report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. pp. 271–365.
  3. Cockerell, T.D.A. (1894). "A redwood described as a moss". Torreya. 7 (10): 204.
  4. Hollick, A. (1894). "Fossil Salvinias, including description of a new species". Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. 21 (6): 256.
  5. Knowlton, F. H. (1900). Flora of the Montana Formation (Report). Bulletin. Vol. 163. United States Geological Survey. p. 28. doi:10.3133/b163.
  6. Ward, L. F. (1885). "Synopsis of the Flora of the Laramie Group". Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey. Vol. 6. United States Geological Survey. p. 462. doi:10.3133/b163.
  7. Stockey, R. A.; Rothwell, G. W.; Johnson, K. R. (2007). "Cobbania corrugata gen. et comb. nov. (Araceae): a floating aquatic monocot from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 94 (4): 609–624. Bibcode:2007AmJB...94..609S. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.4.609. PMID   21636430.
  8. Knowlton, F.H. (1923). "Chapter F". Revision of the flora of the Green River Formation, with descriptions of new species (Report). Professional Papers. Vol. 131. United States Geological Survey. pp. 133–182. doi: 10.3133/pp131F .
  9. MacGinitie, H.D. (1969). "The Eocene green River flora of northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah". University of California Publications in Geological Sciences. 83 (116): 1–202.
  10. Saccardo, P. A. (1892). Sylloge Fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum. Vol. 10. p. 31.
  11. 1 2 Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
  12. Harry G. Seeley (1873). "On Cetarthrosaurus walkeri (Seeley), an Ichthyosaurian from the Cambridge Upper Greensand". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 29 (1–2): 505–507. Bibcode:1873QJGS...29..505S. doi:10.1144/gsl.jgs.1873.029.01-02.43.
  13. Alex Page; Philip R. Wilby; Claire J. T. Mellish; Mark Williams; Jan A. Zalasiewicz (2008). "Dawsonia Nicholson: linguliform brachiopods, crustacean tail-pieces and a problematicum rather than graptolite ovarian vesicles" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . 99 (3–4): 251–266. Bibcode:2008EESTR..99..251P. doi:10.1017/S175569100900704X.