1865 in paleontology

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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (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 mankind has 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 in the year 1865.

Dinosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Notes

Ankistrodon

Misidentification.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Misidentified proterosuchian archosaur.

Coelosaurus

Preoccupied.

Joseph Leidy

Preoccupied by a name erected in an Anonymous paper now known to have been written by Sir Richard Owen in 1854. Later renamed Ornithomimus.

Megadactylus

Preoccupied

Hitchcock

Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843. Later renamed Amphisaurus.

Polacanthus

Valid

Sir Richard Owen vide Anonymous.

Tomodon

Preoccupied.

Joseph Leidy

Preoccupied by Dumeril 1853. Latrer renamed Diplotomodon.
Polacanthus.

Plesiosaurs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name Status Authors Notes

Archaeonectrus

Valid

Owen

Piratosaurus

Valid

Leidy

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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