1894 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 1894.
Archosauromorphs
Newly named pseudosuchians
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Valid taxon |
Newton |
Late Triassic (Carnian) |
An ornithosuchid. |
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Newly named dinosaurs
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Valid |
Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
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A dryosaurid. New genus for "Laosaurus" altus Marsh (1878). |
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Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus. |
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Plesiosaurs
New taxa
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Valid |
Fritsch |
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Pterosaurs
New taxa
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Valid |
Plieninger |
preoccupied name; now known as Campylognathoides | ||
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
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Valid |
Seeley |
248 Millions of years ago | One of the earliest cynodonts. |  | ||
