List of years in paleontology (table)
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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 1857.

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Stenopelix[2]

Valid

von Meyer

 A Marginocephalian.
Stenopelix

Paleontologists

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. ↑ Meyer, H. von. 1857. Beitrage zur naheren Kenntnis fossiler Reptilien. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. (1857): pp. 532-543.
  3. ↑ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
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