Overview of the events of 1846 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. 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 1846.
Archosauromorphs
New taxa
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Preoccupied |
Plieninger |
Middle Triassic (Ladinian) |
The name was also preoccupied by the well known species of prehistoric cat. The genus was later renamed Zanclodon. | ||||
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Valid |
Plieninger |
Middle Triassic (Ladinian) |
A non-dinosaurian archosaur; replacement name for Smilodon Plieninger, 1846 (non Lund 1842). | ||||
Pterosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Owen |
Middle Cretaceous (Turonian) |
Unnamed unit in Chalk Group |
A dubious pterosaur. |
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Valid |
von Meyer |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
A rhamphorhynchid pterosaur. |
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Sauropterygians
Newly named plesiosaurs
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Valid |
Stutchbury |
Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
A rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur; type species of Atychodracon Smith, 2015. |
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.
- Plieninger, T. 1846. Ueber ein neues Sauriergenus. Jahreschefte Verein fur Vaterlandische Naturkunde in Wurttemberg 2.