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.
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Arthropods
insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen et Sp nov |
valid |
A scarab beetle preserved in quartz |
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Vertebrates
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
- Joseph Burr Tyrrell discovered a partial Albertosaurus skull near Kneehills Creek in Alberta Canada. This specimen is now catalogued as CMN 5600.[3]
Pseudosuchians
| Newly named pseudosuchians | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Como Bluff Morrison Formation |
A sphenosuchian crocodylomorph. |
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Non-avian dinosaurs
| newly named non-avian dinosaurs | ||||||||
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| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A ceratosaurid ceratosaur |
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Gen et sp nov |
A Sauropod, type species D. mackesoni |
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Synapsids
| Newly named non-mammalian synapsids | ||||||||
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| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Owen |
A tritylodontid, |
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Plesiosaurs
| Newly named plesiosaurs | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Status | Authors | Location | |||||
| Valid | Gurich | |||||||
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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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