1876 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 1876.

Dinosaurs[edit]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Chondrosteosaurus	Nomen dubium	Sir Richard Owen		UK
Diclonius	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		USA ( Montana)	A hadrosaurid.
Macrurosaurus	Valid	Harry Govier Seeley	UK
Monoclonius	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		Canada ( Alberta) USA ( Montana	A centrosaurine ceratopsid	Monoclonius
Paronychodon	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		USA ( Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming)
Zapsalis	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		Canada ( Alberta) USA ( Montana

Anapsids[edit]

Newly named anapsids[edit]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Anthodon		Sir Richard Owen		South Africa Tanzania	A pareiasaur.	Anthodon
Pareiasaurus		Sir Richard Owen		South Africa Zambia	A pareiasaur	Pareiasaurus

Plesiosaurs[edit]

Newly named plesiosaurs[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Notes
Plesiosaurus longirostris	Valid	Blake	Now referred to Hauffiosaurus.^[2]
Plesiosaurus propinquus	Junior synonym	Blake	A junior synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus.^[3]
Uronautes	Valid	Cope

Pterosaurs[edit]

New taxa[edit]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Nyctosaurus	Valid	Marsh		USA ( Kansas)	A Pterosaur with an antenna-like crest .	Nyctosaurus
Pteranodon	Valid	Marsh		USA Kansas England Japan	An Crested Pterosaur, Erroneously known as "Pterodactyl"	Pteranodon

Synapsids[edit]

Non-mammalian[edit]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Cistecephalus	Valid	Owen	255 Millions of years ago.	South Africa	Box-Headed animal	Cistecephalus
Endothiodon	Valid	Owen	257 Millions of years ago.	Brazil India Malawi South Africa Tanzania Zambia		Endothiodon
Gorgonops	Valid	Owen	257 Millions of years ago.	Malawi South Africa	A Gorgonopsian.	Gorgonops
Scaloposaurus	Valid	Owen	251 Millions of years ago.	South Africa		Scaloposaurus
Tapinocephalus	Valid	Owen	261 Millions of years ago.	South Africa	A Dome-headed Dinocephalian.	Tapinocephalus
Theriognathus	Valid	Owen	255 Millions of years ago.	Tanzania		Theriognathus
Titanosuchus	Valid	Owen	261 Millions of years ago.	South Africa	Titanic crocodile.	Titanosuchus

References[edit]

^ 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.
^ Roger B. J. Benson, Hilary F. Ketchum, Leslie F. Noè and Marcela Gómez-Pérez (2011). "New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK". Palaeontology 54 (3): 547–571. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01044.x.
^ P. Vincent and A. S. Smith. 2009. A redescription of Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate & Blake, 1876 (Reptilia, Plesiosauria), from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Yorkshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 57(3-4):133-142

[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] Roger B. J. Benson, Hilary F. Ketchum, Leslie F. Noè and Marcela Gómez-Pérez (2011). "New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK". Palaeontology 54 (3): 547–571. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01044.x.

[3] P. Vincent and A. S. Smith. 2009. A redescription of Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate & Blake, 1876 (Reptilia, Plesiosauria), from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Yorkshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 57(3-4):133-142

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