1882 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 1882.

Diapsids

Newly named choristoderes

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes
Actiosaurus	Nomen dubium	Sauvage		France	A choristodere.^[2]

Newly named ichthyosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Rachitrema	Nomen dubium	Sauvage		An ichthyosaur.^[2]

Newly named dinosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes
Amphisaurus	Preoccupied.	Othniel Charles Marsh		Preoccupied by Barkas, 1870. Later renamed Anchisaurus.
Sphenospondylus	Nomen dubium	Harry Govier Seeley		An iguanodont.
Thecospondylus	Nomen dubium	Harry Govier Seeley	UK

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Edaphosaurus	Valid	Cope	280 Million of years ago	Czech Republic Germany USA ( New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and West Virginia)	a Sail-Backed ProtoMammal.	Edaphosaurus

Paleontologists

The fossil collection of the recently deceased Reverend William Fox, which contained over 500 specimens, was bought by the trustees of the British Museum of Natural History.^[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 "Fischer V & Goolaerts S. 2013. Shastasaurid ichthyosaurs and other lost critters from the French Rhaetian | Valentin Fischer - Academia.edu". www.academia.edu. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.

[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.

[Fischer13-2] "Fischer V & Goolaerts S. 2013. Shastasaurid ichthyosaurs and other lost critters from the French Rhaetian | Valentin Fischer - Academia.edu". www.academia.edu. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2022.

[3] Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.

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