1892 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 1892.

Mollusca [ edit ]

Newly named bivalves [ edit ]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Tellinomya similis . ^[2]	Sp nov	synonym	Ulrich	Ashgillian	Upper Richmond Group, Minnesota	USA	transferred to Similodonta in 1964
Tellinomya recurva . ^[2]	Sp nov	synonym	Lamont	Ashgillian	Upper Richmond Group, Minnesota	USA	transferred to Similodonta in 1964

Archosauromorphs [ edit ]

Newly named dinosaurs [ edit ]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Claorhynchus	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		Possible subjective synonym of Triceratops .
Manospondylus	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		Possible subjective synonym of Tyrannosaurus .

*Manospondylus* may be a synonym of *Tyrannosaurus* .

Plesiosaurs [ edit ]

New taxa [ edit ]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Cryptocleidus	Valid	Seeley

Synapsids [ edit ]

Non-mammalian [ edit ]

Name	Status	Authors
Delphinognathus	Valid	Seeley
Diopaeus
Geikia	Valid	Newton

References [ edit ]

^ 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 .
^ ^a ^b Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland" . Palaeontology . 42 (3): 467?499. doi : 10.1111/1475-4983.00081 .

[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 .

[Cope1999-2] Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland" . Palaeontology . 42 (3): 467?499. doi : 10.1111/1475-4983.00081 .

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