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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

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Newly named pseudosuchians

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Ornithosuchus

Valid taxon

Newton

Late Triassic (Carnian)

Lossiemouth Sandstone

 Scotland

An ornithosuchid.

Ornithosuchus

Newly named dinosaurs

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Dryosaurus

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)

Morrison Formation

A dryosaurid. New genus for "Laosaurus" altus Marsh (1878).

Dryosaurus

Hortalotarsus

Jr. synonym

Harry Govier Seeley

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus.

Plesiosaurs

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New taxa

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Cymatosaurus

Valid

Fritsch

Pterosaurs

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New taxa

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"Campylognathus"

Valid

Plieninger

preoccupied name; now known as Campylognathoides

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Thrinaxodon

Valid

Seeley

248 Millions of years ago One of the earliest cynodonts.
Thrinaxodon

References

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  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.