1869 in paleontology

Overview of the events of 1869 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 1869.

## Arthropods

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### Insects

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Elephantomyia brevipalpa[2]

comb. nov

Valid

(Loew) Osten-Sacken

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

* Germany
* Poland
* Russia

A Limoniid cranefly,

|  Elephantomyia brevipalpa

Elephantomyia longirostris[2]

comb. nov

Valid

(Loew) Osten-Sacken

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

* Poland
* Russia

A Limoniid cranefly,

|  Elephantomyia longirostris

Elephantomyia pulchella[2]

comb. nov

Valid

(Loew) Osten-Sacken

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

* Poland

* Russia

A Limoniid cranefly,

|  Elephantomyia pulchella

## Dinosaurs

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Cryptosaurus

Valid

Harry Govier Seeley

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* England

Gigantosaurus

Nomen dubium

Harry Govier Seeley

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* England

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Hypselosaurus

Valid

Matheron

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* France

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Hypsibema

Valid

Edward Drinker Cope

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* USA ( Missouri and  North Carolina)

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Hypsilophodon

Valid

Thomas Henry Huxley

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* UK

| A small and agile ornithopod.  | Hypsilophodon

Ornithotarsus

Nomen dubium

Edward Drinker Cope

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Rhabdodon

Valid

Matheron

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* France
* Spain
* Romania

| A dwarf relative of Iguanodon.  | Rhabdodon

## Plesiosaurs

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### New taxa

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Crymocetus

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Cope

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Polycotylus

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Cope

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* France

* ( Alabama,  Kansas and  Wyoming)

| An advanced Short-Necked plesiosaur.  | Polycotylus

Stereosaurus

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Seeley

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## Pterosaurs

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### New taxa

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Ornithocheirus

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Seeley

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* DRC
* France
* Germany
* Portugal
* Russia
* UK

| A Pterosaur with a pair of round crests on its beak, which probably served to keep its food from escaping.  | Ornithocheirus

Ptenodactylus

Jr. synonym.

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Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus.

## Paleontologists

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* Death of German Paleontologist Christian Hermann Erich von Meyer.[3]

## 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.
2. ^ a b c Kania, I (2015). "Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic Amber (Eocene): The Genus Elephantomyia Osten Sacken, 1860". PLOS ONE. 10 (2): 1–25. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1017434K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117434. PMC 4338262. PMID 25706127.
3. ^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 11\. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.