1865 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 1865.
Newly named archosauromorphs
[edit]Newly named basal archosauromorphs
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Newly named dinosaurs
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| Preoccupied. | Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) | An ornithomimid. Preoccupied by Owen 1854. | ||||||
| Preoccupied | Hitchcock | Preoccupied by Fitzinger, 1843. Later renamed Amphisaurus. | ||||||
| Valid | Sir Richard Owen vide Anonymous. | Early Cretaceous (Barremian) |  | |||||
| Preoccupied. | Late Cretaceous (early Maastrichtian) | Preoccupied by Duméril 1853 Later renamed Diplotomodon. | ||||||
Plesiosaurs
[edit]Newly named plesiosaurs
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| Leidy | Late Cretaceous (Santonian) | A dubious plesiosaur. | |||||
| Valid | Early Jurassic (Toarcian) | A Microcleididae plesiosaur. Type species of Microcleidus Watson, 1909. | |||||
| Valid | Sir Richard Owen | Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | A rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur. Type species of Archaeonectrus Novozhilov, 1964. | ||||
References
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- ^ 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.