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1854 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 1854.

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries

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Institutions and organizations

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Natural history museums

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Scientific organizations

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Scientific advances

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Paleoanthropology

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Paleobotany

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Evolutionary biology

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Exopaleontology

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Extinction research

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Micropaleontology

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Invertebrate paleozoology

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Trace fossils

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Vertebrate paleozoology

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Research techniques

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Fossil trade

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Law and politics

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Regulation of fossil collection, transport, or sale

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Official symbols

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Protected areas

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Ethics and practice

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Hoaxes

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Scandals

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Unethical practice

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People

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Births

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Awards and recognition

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Deaths

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Historiography and anthropology of paleontology

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Pseudoscience

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Amusement parks and attractions

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Art

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Comics

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Film

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Gaming

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Literature

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  • The Fossil Spirit: A Boy's Dream of Geology by John Mill was published. The story features a fakir from Hindostan telling a group of boys about his past lives as prehistoric creatures across geologic time. One such life as was lived as an Iguanodon who was attacked by a Megalosaurus. Apart from this fight scene, paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant has dismissed the book as a "singularly turgid and heavily didactic text."[4]

Philately

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Television

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References

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  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. ^ Leidy, J. 1854. Remarks on Bathygnathus borealis (Article XVI). Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia (2nd Series) Volume VIII, part 4: pp. 449-451;
  3. ^ a b c d Owen, R. 1854. Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of reptilia contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. British Museum (Natural History), London: 184 pages.
  4. ^ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.