1876 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 1876.
Dinosaurs
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Anapsids
Newly named anapsids
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Plesiosaurs
Newly named plesiosaurs
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Pterosaurs
New taxa
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Synapsids
Non-mammalian
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255 Millions of years ago. | Box-Headed animal | ![]() | ||
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257 Millions of years ago. | ![]() | |||
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257 Millions of years ago. | A Gorgonopsian. | ![]() | ||
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251 Millions of years ago. | ![]() | |||
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261 Millions of years ago. | A Dome-headed Dinocephalian. | ![]() | ||
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261 Millions of years ago. | Titanic crocodile. | ![]() |
See also
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.
- ^ Roger B. J. Benson, Hilary F. Ketchum, Leslie F. Noè and Marcela Gómez-Pérez (2011). "New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK". Palaeontology 54 (3): 547–571. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01044.x.
- ^ P. Vincent and A. S. Smith. 2009. A redescription of Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate & Blake, 1876 (Reptilia, Plesiosauria), from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Yorkshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 57(3-4):133-142