Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life formsonEarth 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 1879.
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jr synonym |
Agerrine water strider |
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Sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Aplecian marchfly |
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| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
Junior homonym |
Marsh |
Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) |
Preoccupied by Sauranodon Jourdan, 1862; |
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| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
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middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian) |
Anodosaurid ankylosaur, a member of Struthiosaurinae. The type species is A. curtonotus. | |||||
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Valid |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
An apatosaurine diplodocid. | |||||
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Preoccupied. |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
Preoccupied by Uhler, 1864. Later renamed Camptosaurus. | |||||
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Valid |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
A basal coelurosaur. The type species is Coelurus fragilis. | |||||
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middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian) |
An dubious ornithopod. | ||||||
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Valid |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
Junior subjective synonym of Allosaurus. The type species is Allosaurus lucaris Marsh, 1878. | |||||
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middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian) |
A dubious ornithopod. The type species is S. macrocercus. | ||||||
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Hulke |
early Cretaceous (Barremian) |
A dubious iguanodont. The type species is Vectisaurus valdensis. | |||||
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et comb nov |
Valid |
Fritsch |
A new genus for "Labyrinthodon" schwartzenbergii 1875. |
