1843 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 1843.
Pterosaurs
- Edward Newman interpreted pterosaurs as mammals in a similar fashion to Soemmering. However, Newman specifically considered pterosaurs to be carnivorous flying marsupials.[2]
Sharks
- Louis Agassiz named a new taxon, Otodus and renamed Lamna obliqua as new Otodus species, the O. obliquus.
- Louis Agassiz named and renamed species, such as the Oxyrhina xiphodon, Oxyrhina hastalis, a new species of White Shark, the Carcharodon subauriculatus (now, replaced in Otodus genus and known as O. chubutensis) was named also.
New taxa
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