1870 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 1870.
Arthropods
Newly named insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Bibio lartetii[2] | Sp. nov | jr synonym | Oustalet, 1870 | Oligocene | A bibionid, | ![]() | ||
Protomyia lugens[2] | Sp nov | jr synonym | Oustalet, 1870 | Oligocene | A bibionid, | ![]() |
"Fish"
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Asineops'[3] | Gen et Sp nov | valid | A fish of possibly Percopsiformes affiliation. | | |||||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | A percopsid fish | ![]() |
Turtles
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | valid | First identified as a possible basal sauropod. | ![]() |
Archosauromorphs
Newly named birds
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | |
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Misidentification. | Misidentified bird. |
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Possible subjective synonym of Allosaurus. | ||||||
Earlier it was believed that the fossils were those of a pterosaur. But now it is known that they were the bones of a Sauropod. | ||||||
Valid | Bunzel | A dwarf ankylosaur. |
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | |
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Valid | Cope |
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Valid | Cope |
Pterosaurs
New taxa
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Jr. synonym. | Seeley | Junior synonym of Coloborhynchus. | ||||
Valid | Seeley | ![]() | ![]() | |||
Misidentification | Cope | At first it was thought to be a Triassic pterosaur, but is now known to be (at least in part) a kuehneosaurid |
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Cope | 252 million years ago. | It was a protomammal that had fangs very similar to those of a walrus. | ![]() |
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 Skartveit, J.; Nel, A. (2017). "Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from French Oligocene deposits". Zootaxa. 4225 (1): 1–83. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4225.1.1. PMID 28187637.
- ^ a b Grande, L. (1984). "Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna". Bulletin of the Wyoming State Geological Survey. 63 2nd ed. Laramie, Wyoming.
- ^ Cope, 1870. Observations on the Reptilia of the Triassic formations of the Atlantic region of the United States. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 11, 444-446.