1894 in paleontology

List of years 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 1894.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Ornithosuchus

Valid taxon

Newton

Late Triassic (Carnian)

Lossiemouth Sandstone

 Scotland

An ornithosuchid.

Newly named dinosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Dryosaurus

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)

Morrison Formation

 United States

A dryosaurid. New genus for "Laosaurus" altus Marsh (1878).
Dryosaurus.

Hortalotarsus

Jr. synonym

Harry Govier Seeley

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Elliot Formation

 South Africa

Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes

Cymatosaurus

Valid

Fritsch

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes

"Campylognathus"

Valid

Plieninger

preoccupied name; now known as Campylognathoides

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images

Thrinaxodon

Valid

Seeley

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.
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