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 1862.
Dinosaurs
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Dimodosaurus | Nomen dubium |
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Possible subjective synonym of Plateosaurus. | |||||
| Griphornis | Gen. nov. | Nomen rejectum | Sir Richard Owen vide Woodward | Kimmeridgian | Solnhofen Limestone |  Germany
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Rejected in favor of Archaeopteryx. | |
| Griphosaurus[2] | Gen. nov. | Nomen rejectum | Andreas Wagner | Kimmeridgian | Solnhofen Limestone | Germany
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Named for a skeleton with feathers considered by Wagner to represent a reptile unrelated to the origin of birds, specifically opposing Darwinian evolution and Hermann von Meyer's taxon Archaeopteryx.[2] |
Paleontologists
- Birth of Eberhard Fraas.[3]
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.
- ^ a b Wagner, A. (April 1862). "On a new Fossil Reptile supposed to be furnished with Feathers". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9 (52): 261–267. doi:10.1080/00222936208681227.
- ^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 18. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
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