1883 in paleontology

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 1883.

Plants

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Porana speirii^[2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Lesquereux	late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States Colorado	A mallow relative. moved to Holmskioldia speirii (1953)

Dinosaurs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Craspedodon	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Dollo	Santonian	Glauconie de Lonzée Formation	Belgium	An early ceratopsian
Megalosaurus bredai^[3]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Seeley	Maastrichtian	Maastricht Formation	Netherlands	First named as a megalosaurid Moved to Betasuchus bredai (1932)
Orthomerus^[3]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Maastrichtian	Maastricht Formation	Netherlands	A hadrosaurid relative

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Luetkesaurus	Nomen dubium	Kiprijanoff

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.
^ Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR 2444909.
^ ^a ^b Seeley, H.G. (1883). "On the dinosaurs from the Maastricht bed". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 39 (1–4): 246–253. Bibcode:1883QJGS...39..246S. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1883.039.01-04.19.

[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.

[Manchester1992-2] Manchester, S.R. (1992). "Flowers, fruits and pollen of Florissantia, an extinct malvalean genus from the Eocene and Oligocene of western North America". American Journal of Botany. 79 (9): 996–1008. doi:10.2307/2444909. JSTOR 2444909.

[seeley1883-3] Seeley, H.G. (1883). "On the dinosaurs from the Maastricht bed". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London. 39 (1–4): 246–253. Bibcode:1883QJGS...39..246S. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1883.039.01-04.19.

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