1874 in paleontology

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Paleontologyor palaeontology is the study ofprehistoric life formsonEarththrough the examination of plant and animalfossils.^[1]This includes the study of body fossils,tracks(ichnites),burrows,cast-off parts, fossilisedfeces(coprolites),palynomorphsandchemical residues.Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as ascience.This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1874.

Dinosaurs

Publications

Richard Owenpublishes a monograph onWealdenandPurbeckreptiles, classifyingScelidosaurus,IguanodonandEchinodonin the new dinosaur cladePrionodontia.^[2]

Newly named dinosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Cionodon	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope	Late Cretaceous (lateMaastrichtian)	Laramie Formation	US Colorado	Ahadrosaurid.
Craterosaurus	Nomen dubium	Harry Govier Seeley	Early Cretaceous	Potton Sands	England	A dubiousstegosaur.
Ischyrosaurus	Preoccupied.	Hulke, 1874	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)	Kimmeridge Clay	UK	Preoccupied byEdward Drinker Cope,1869.
Morinosaurus	Nomen dubium	Sauvage	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)	Unnamed unit	France	A dubioussauropod.
Polyonax	Jr. synonym	Edward Drinker Cope	Late Cretaceous (lateMaastrichtian)	Laramie Formation	US	Junior subjective synonym ofTriceratops.

Ichthyosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ophthalmosaurus	Valid	Seeley	Middle Jurassic (Callovian)	Oxford Clay Formation	UK	Anophthalmosauridichthyosaur.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Colymbosaurus	Valid	Seeley	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)	Kimmeridge Clay	UK	Acryptoclidid,new genus for"Plesiosaurus" megadeirusSeeley, 1869
Eretmosaurus	Valid	Seeley	Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)	Blue Lias	UK	A member ofMicrocleididae;new genus for"Plesiosaurus" rugosusOwen, 1840.
Mauisaurus	Valid	Hector	Late Cretaceous (lateCampanian-Maastrichtian)	Conway Formation	New Zealand	Anelasmosaurid.
Muraenosaurus	Valid	Seeley	Middle Jurassic (Callovian)	Oxford Clay	UK	Acryptoclidid.
Rhomaleosaurus	Valid	Seeley	Early Jurassic (Toarcian)	Whitby Mudstone Formation	UK	Arhomaleosaurid;new genus for"Plesiosaurus" cramptoniCarte and Bailey, 1863

Pterosaurs

Newly named pterosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Coloborhynchus	Valid	Owen	Early Cretaceous (Valanginian)	Wadhurst Clay Formation	UK	A member ofOrnithocheiridae.
Criorhynchus	Jr. synonym	Owen				Jr. synonym ofOrnithocheirus.

Squamates

Newly named mosasaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Taniwhasaurus	Valid	Hector	Late Campanian	Conway Formation	New Zealand Japan Antarctica	Atylosaurine mosasaurid.	Taniwhasaurus oweni

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.
^Owen, R. (1874).Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Supplement No. V. Dinosauria (Iguanodon).Palaeontographical Society. pp. 1–18.

[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.

[owen1874-2] Owen, R. (1874).Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Supplement No. V. Dinosauria (Iguanodon).Palaeontographical Society. pp. 1–18.

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