1868 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 1868.
Arthropoda
Newly named crustaceans
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Jr synonym | Schlüter | Moved to the genus Protastacus in 1983. | |||||
Enoploclytia paucispina[2] | Sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | An erymid. | ||||
Eurycarpus[2] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | A decapod, type species is E. nanodactylus. | ||||
Hoploparia macrodactyla[2] | Sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | A lobster | ||||
Necrocarcinus senonensis[2] | Sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | |||||
Palaeocorystes laevis[2] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Schlüter | Late Cretaceous (Upper Santonian) | Moved to Bournelyreidus in 2012. | |||
Squilla cretacea[2] | Sp nov | Valid | Schlüter |
Newly named insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aphaenogaster berendti[3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | ||||||
Sp nov | valid | A myrmicine ant. | ||||||
Camponotus constrictus[3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil formicine ant., | ||
Camponotus mengei[3] | Sp nov | valid | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil formicine ant. | ||
Enneamerus[3] | Gen et 2 sp nov | valid | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | A myrmecine ant. 2 species | ||
Formica flori[3] | Sp nov | valid | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil formicine ant | ||
Hypoclinea balticus[3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus balticus in 1893 | ||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, jr synonym of Yantaromyrmex constricta | |||
Hypoclinea cornuta[3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus cornutus in 1893 | ||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | |||
Hypoclinea goepperti[3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | ||
Hypoclinea longipennis[3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus longipennis in 1893 | ||
Hypoclinea sculpturata[3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus sculpturata in 1893 | ||
Hypoclinea tertiaria[3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus tertiaria in 1893 | ||
sp nov | jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Agroecomyrmecine ant, moved to Agroecomyrmex duisburgi in 1910 | |||
Pheidologeton antiquus[3] | sp nov | jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil myrmicine ant, | ||
Sp nov | jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic Amber | A ponerine ant, moved to Pachycondyla succinea in 1995 | |||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | European amber | Fossil formicine ant, jr synonym of Nylanderia pygmaea | |||
Stigmomyrmex[3] | Gen et sp nov | valid | Mayr | Middle Eocene | European amber | A myrmicin ant. |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named dinosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | ( Montana) | Possible subjective synonym of Albertosaurus or Deinodon. | ||||||
Gen nov | Leidy | USA ( New Jersey) | Possible subjective synonym of Dryptosaurus. |
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
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Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Discovery year | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Huxley |
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e f g von der Marck, W.; Schlüter, C. (1868). Neue fische und krebse aus der kreide von Westphalen (PDF). Stuttgart: Palaeontographica. pp. 269–305. OCLC 39999779.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
- ^ LaPolla, J.S.; Dlussky, G.M. (2010). "Review of fossil Prenolepis genus-group species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 112 (2): 258–273.