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.
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Arthropods
editNewly named insects
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Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Oustalet, 1870 |
Oligocene |
A bibionid, |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Oustalet, 1870 |
Oligocene |
A bibionid, |
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"Fish"
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Gen et Sp nov |
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A fish of possibly Percopsiformes affiliation. |
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Sp nov |
Jr synonym |
A percopsid fish |
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Turtles
editName | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
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First identified as a possible basal sauropod. |
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Archosauromorphs
editNewly named birds
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Misidentification. |
Misidentified bird. |
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
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Possible subjective synonym of Allosaurus. |
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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. | ||||||
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Bunzel |
A dwarf ankylosaur. |
Plesiosaurs
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Cope |
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Cope |
Pterosaurs
editNew taxa
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Jr. synonym. |
Seeley |
Junior synonym of Coloborhynchus. |
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Seeley |
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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
editNon-mammalian
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Cope |
252 million years ago. | It was a protomammal that had fangs very similar to those of a walrus. |
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References
edit- ^ 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.