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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 1878.
Arthropods
Newly named arachnids
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aranea columbiae[2] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Quesnel |
An orb-web spider egg sack ichnogenus. |
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Newly named insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Bothromicromus[2] |
Gen et Sp nov |
valid |
Quesnel |
A possibly megalomine[4] hemerobiid lacewing. |
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Euschistus antiquus[2] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Quesnel |
A shield bug |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
A holcorpid scorpionfly |
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Lachnus quesneli[2] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Quesnel |
An aphidoid of uncertain placement |
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Sciara deperdita[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Quesnel |
A sciarine dark-winged fungus gnat. |
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Archosauromorphs
O. W. Lucas recovers more material which would be referred to Laelaps trihedrodon from Morrison Formation strata near Garden Park, Colorado.[7]
Newly named pseudosuchians
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) |
Possible synonym of Amphicotylus.[8] |
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Newly named dinosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Late Jurassic (Tithonian) |
Unknown |
Moved to Maraapunisaurus fragillimus (2018).[9] |
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Gen nov |
jr synonym |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) |
Junior synonym of Camptosaurus. |
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Gen nov |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) |
Synonym of Allosaurus fragilis. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) |
A diplodocine diplodocid. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) |
An allosaurid theropod. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) |
possibly a synonym of Stegosaurus. | ||||||
Gen et sp nov |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) |
A dubious Neornithischine of uncertain placement. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian) |
Junior synonym of Camarasaurus. |
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Plesiosaurs
Newly named plesiosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Gaudry |
Unknown |
A possible pliosauroid |
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Synapsids
Non-mammalian
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Footnotes
- ↑ 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.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Scudder, S. H (1878). "Additions to the Insect-fauna of the Tertiary beds at Quesnel, British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for. 1876–1877: 457–464.
- ↑ Dunlop, J.A.; Braddy, S.J. (2011). "Cteniza bavincourti and the nomenclature of arachnid-related trace fossils". The Journal of Arachnology. 39: 250–257.
- ↑ Makarkin, V.; Wedmann, S.; Weiterschan, T. (2016). "A new genus of Hemerobiidae (Neuroptera) from Baltic amber, with a critical review of the Cenozoic Megalomus-like taxa and remarks on the wing venation variability of the family". Zootaxa. 4179 (3): 345–370. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.3.2.
- 1 2 Scudder, S. H. (1890). "The Tertiary insects of North America". United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Washington: 615.
- ↑ Archibald, SB (2010). "Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 173–182. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697654. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
- ↑ "Introduction," Chure (2001) page 11.
- ↑ Osborn, H.F., and Mook, C. C. (1921). "Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias and other sauropods of Cope." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History NS, 3(3): 249–387.
- ↑ Carpenter, K. (2018). "Maraapunisaurus fragillimus, n.g. (formerly Amphicoelias fragillimus), a basal Rebbachisaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Colorado". Geology of the Intermountain West. 5 (9): 227–244. ISSN 2380-7601.
References
- Chure, Daniel J. (2001). "On the type and referred material of Laelaps trihedrodon Cope 1877 (Dinosauria: Theropoda)". In Tanke, Darren; Carpenter, Kenneth (eds.). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 10–18. ISBN 0-253-33907-3.