1873 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 1873.

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Bothriomyrmex constricta[2]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

(Mayr)

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta
Anonychomyrma constricta

Bothriomyrmex geinitzi[2]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

Mayr

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi
Anonychomyrma geinitzi

Sauropterygia

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Liopleurodon

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Sauvage

Callovian

 France

A pliosaurid
Liopleurodon ferox

Ichthyosaurs

Newly named ichthyosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Cetarthrosaurus[3]

Valid

Seeley

late Albian/early Cenomanian

Cambridge Greensand Formation

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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg 55 (4): 56–59. 
  3. ↑ Harry G. Seeley (1873). "On Cetarthrosaurus walkeri (Seeley), an Ichthyosaurian from the Cambridge Upper Greensand". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 29: 505–507. 
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