1836 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 1836.
Dinosaurs
Newly named dinosaurs
| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Poekilopleuron bucklandii[2] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps | Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) | Calcaire de Caen |  France |
As shown in Ref.,[3] the genus and species were first named and described by Jacques-Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps in a report published in 1836, based on holotype material that is now destroyed. In 1837, Eudes-Deslongchamps published a more detailed account of this discovery in a monograph[4] which was also inserted next year in volume 6 of the "Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne Normandie".[5] |  |
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| Palaeosaurus cylindrodon | Gen. et sp. nov. | Preoccupied genus, nomen dubium | Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury | Late Triassic, Rhaetian[6] | Durdham Down[6] |  England |
The name was preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosaur named by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1833. Palaeosaurus cylindrodon is the type species of the genus.[6] | ||
| Palaeosaurus platyodon | Sp. nov. | Preoccupied genus, nomen dubium | Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury | Late Triassic, Rhaetian | Durdham Down | England |
Second species of the preoccupied genus Palaeosaurus, later renamed into the separate genus Rileya. | ||
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Gen. nov. |
Valid |
Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury |
Durdham Down[6] |
England |
Thecodontosaurus is the fourth valid dinosaur genus named. It was first excavated by Riley and Stutchbury in 1834, and they published a preliminary description in 1835. When they assigned the remains to a new taxon, which they named Thecodontosaurus, they did not assign a species. The genus was not originally recognized as a dinosaur, with Riley and Stutchbury finding it a saurian.[6] |
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Pterosaurs
- William Buckland depicted pterosaurs as cliff-climbing winged reptiles in a manner heavily influenced by Goldfuss.[8]
