1874 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 1874.

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Dinosaurs

New taxa

TaxonNoveltyStatusAuthor(s)AgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Agathaumas milo [3] Sp. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado Described as a synonym of Hadrosaurus occidentalis
Cionodon [4] Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado A hadrosaurid. Misspelled as Cinodon in original publication due to proofreader [3]
Craterosaurus Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Seeley Aptian Potton Sands Flag of England.svg  England A dubious stegosaur
Hadrosaurus mirabilis [3] Comb. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Campanian Judith River Formation Flag of Montana.svg  Montana A new combination for Trachodon mirabilis
Hadrosaurus occidentalis [3] Comb. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Maastrichtian Lance Formation Flag of Wyoming.svg  Wyoming A new combination for Thespesius occidentalis
Ischyrosaurus manseli Gen. nov.Preoccupied Hulke Kimmeridgian Kimmeridge Clay Formation Flag of England.svg  England Preoccupied by Edward Drinker Cope, 1869. Later named Ornithopsis manseli
Morinosaurus Gen. et sp. nov Nomen dubium Sauvage Kimmeridgian Boulogne-sur-Mer Flag of France.svg  France A dubious sauropod
Polyonax [3] Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium Cope Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado A ceratopsid

Ichthyosaurs

New taxa

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Ophthalmosaurus

Valid

Seeley

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Oxford Clay Formation

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An ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Colymbosaurus

Valid

Seeley

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)

Kimmeridge Clay

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A cryptoclidid, new genus for "Plesiosaurus" megadeirus Seeley, 1869

Eretmosaurus

Valid

Seeley

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Blue Lias

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A member of Microcleididae; new genus for "Plesiosaurus" rugosus Owen, 1840.

Mauisaurus

Nomen dubium

Hector

Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-Maastrichtian)

Conway Formation

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An elasmosaurid.

Muraenosaurus

Valid

Seeley

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Oxford Clay

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A cryptoclidid.

Rhomaleosaurus

Valid

Seeley

Early Jurassic (Toarcian)

Whitby Mudstone Formation

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A rhomaleosaurid; new genus for "Plesiosaurus" cramptoni Carte and Bailey, 1863

Pterosaurs

Newly named pterosaurs

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Coloborhynchus

Valid

Owen

Early Cretaceous (Valanginian)

Wadhurst Clay Formation

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A member of Ornithocheiridae.

Criorhynchus

Jr. synonym

Owen

Jr. synonym of Ornithocheirus .

Squamates

Newly named mosasaurs

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Taniwhasaurus ValidHector Late Campanian Conway Formation

A tylosaurine mosasaurid.

Taniwhasaurus oweni Taniwhasaurus oweni.jpg
Taniwhasaurus oweni

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. Owen, R. (1874). Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Supplement No. V. Dinosauria (Iguanodon). Palaeontographical Society. pp. 1–18.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Cope, E.F. (1874). "Review of the Vertebrata of the Cretaceous Period found west of the Mississippi River". Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. First Series. 2: 3–48.
  4. Cope, E.F. (1874). "Report on the stratigraphy and Pliocene vertebrate paleontology of northern Colorado". Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. 1 (1): 9–22.