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1884 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 1884.

Arthropods

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insects

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Anomalites[2]

Gen et Sp nov

valid

Frič

Eocene
Priabonian

Nogent-le-Rotrou

 France

A scarab beetle preserved in quartz

Anomalites fugitivus

Vertebrates

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Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries

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Pseudosuchians

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Newly named pseudosuchians
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes Images

Macelognathus

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Marsh

Kimmeridgian-Tithonian

Como Bluff Morrison Formation

 USA
 Wyoming

A sphenosuchian crocodylomorph.
Type species M. vagans

Macelognathus vagans

Non-avian dinosaurs

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newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes Images

Ceratosaurus

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Marsh

Kimmeridgian-Tithonian

Morrison Formation

 USA
 Colorado

A ceratosaurid ceratosaur
Type species C. nasicornis

Ceratosaurus

Dinodocus

Gen et sp nov

Nomen dubium

Owen

Aptian

Hythe Formation

 UK
 England

A Sauropod, type species D. mackesoni

Synapsids

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Newly named non-mammalian synapsids
Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes Images

Tritylodon

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Owen

HettangianSinemurian

Karoo Supergroup

 South Africa

A tritylodontid,
type species T. longaevus

Tritylodon longaevus

Plesiosaurs

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Newly named plesiosaurs
Name Status Authors Location

Dactylosaurus

Valid Gurich

References

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  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.
  2. ^ Frič, A. (1884). "Uiber einen fossilen Maikäfer (Anomalites fugitivus Fr.) aus dem tertiären Süsswasserquarz von Nogent le Rotron in Frankreich". Sitzungsberichte der Königlich-Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 1884 (20): 163–165.
  3. ^ D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550.