1856 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 1856.

Paleozoology

Conodont paleozoology

Vertebrate paleozoology

Archosauromorphs

Newly named phytosaurs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Newly named dinosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Deinodon[5] Nomen dubium Joseph Leidy Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation  United States Might be a subjective synonym of Gorgosaurus or Daspletosaurus. Dinosaurus[6] Preoccupied. Rütimeyer Late Triassic (Rhaetian) Knollenmergel   Switzerland Preoccupied by a genus erected by Fischer von Waldheim in 1847. Renamed Gresslyosaurus Gresslyosaurus[7] Disputed. Rütimeyer Late Triassic (Rhaetian) Knollenmergel   Switzerland Possible subjective synonym of Plateosaurus Palaeoscincus[5] Nomen dubium Joseph Leidy Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation  United States Possible subjective synonym of Edmontonia or Panoplosaurus. Thespesius[5] Nomen dubium Joseph Leidy Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Great Lignite Formation (=Lance Formation)  United States A dubious hadrosaurid. Trachodon[5] Nomen dubium Joseph Leidy Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation  United States A dubious hadrosaurid. Troodon[5] Valid Joseph Leidy Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation  United States A troodontid.

Trachodon teeth

Paleontologists

• Death of William Buckland, the polymath who was the first to scientifically describe a dinosaur (Megalosaurus).^[8]

References

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. 1 2 3 Monographie der fossilen fische des silurischen systems des Russisch-baltischen gouvernements. CH Pander, 1856
3. ↑ Lea, I. 1856. Description of Centemodon sulcatus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 10: pp. 77-78.
4. ↑ Quenstedt, F. A. 1856. Sonst und Jetzt. Populäre Vorträge über Geologie. Tübingen: Laupp. [pp. 128, 130].
5. 1 2 3 4 5 Leidy, J. 1856. Notices of the remains of extinct reptiles and fishes, discovered by Dr. F.V. Hayden in the badlands of the Judith River, Nebraska Territory. Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. 1856: pp. 72-72.
6. ↑ Rutimeyer. L. 1856. (Dinosaurus gresslyi). Biblio. Universelle Geneve Arch. September 1856: p. 53.
7. ↑ Rutimeyer. L. 1856. Reptilienknochen aus dem Keuper. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Ge samt. Naturwiss. Verh. 41: pp. 62-64.
8. ↑ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 7. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.