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

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Chondrosteosaurus	Nomen dubium	Sir Richard Owen		UK
Diclonius	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		USA ( Montana)	A hadrosaurid.
Macrurosaurus	Valid	Harry Govier Seeley	UK
Monoclonius	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		Canada ( Alberta) USA ( Montana	A centrosaurine ceratopsid	Monoclonius
Paronychodon	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		USA ( Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming)
Zapsalis	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		Canada ( Alberta) USA ( Montana

Anapsids

Newly named anapsids

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Anthodon		Sir Richard Owen		South Africa Tanzania	A pareiasaur.	Anthodon
Pareiasaurus		Sir Richard Owen		South Africa Zambia	A pareiasaur	Pareiasaurus

Plesiosaurs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Notes
Plesiosaurus longirostris	Valid	Blake	Now referred to Hauffiosaurus.^[2]
Plesiosaurus propinquus	Junior synonym	Blake	A junior synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus.^[3]
Uronautes	Valid	Cope

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Nyctosaurus	Valid	Marsh		USA ( Kansas)	A Pterosaur with an antenna-like crest .	Nyctosaurus
Pteranodon	Valid	Marsh		USA Kansas England Japan	An Crested Pterosaur, Erroneously known as "Pterodactyl"	Pteranodon

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Cistecephalus	Valid	Owen	255 Millions of years ago.	South Africa	Box-Headed animal	Cistecephalus
Endothiodon	Valid	Owen	257 Millions of years ago.	Brazil India Malawi South Africa Tanzania Zambia		Endothiodon
Gorgonops	Valid	Owen	257 Millions of years ago.	Malawi South Africa	A Gorgonopsian.	Gorgonops
Scaloposaurus	Valid	Owen	251 Millions of years ago.	South Africa		Scaloposaurus
Tapinocephalus	Valid	Owen	261 Millions of years ago.	South Africa	A Dome-headed Dinocephalian.	Tapinocephalus
Theriognathus	Valid	Owen	255 Millions of years ago.	Tanzania		Theriognathus
Titanosuchus	Valid	Owen	261 Millions of years ago.	South Africa	Titanic crocodile.	Titanosuchus

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

[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] 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.

[3] 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

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