1870 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 1870.

## Arthropods

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### Newly named insects

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Bibio lartetii[2]

Sp. nov

jr synonym

Oustalet, 1870

Oligocene

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France

A bibionid,
moved to Plecia larteti in 2017

|  Plecia larteti

Protomyia lugens[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Oustalet, 1870

Oligocene

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France

A bibionid,
moved to Penthetria lugens in 2017

|  Penthetria lugens

## "Fish"

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Asineops'[3]

Gen et Sp nov

valid

Cope

Eocene
Ypresian

Green River Formation

Wyoming

A fish of possibly Percopsiformes affiliation.
The type species is A. squamifrons

|  Asineops squamifrons |

Cyprinodon levatus[3]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Cope

Eocene
Ypresian

Green River Formation

Wyoming

A percopsid fish
Moved to Erismatopterus levatus in 1871

|  Erismatopterus levatus

## Turtles

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Pneumatoarthrus[4]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Cope

Cretaceous
Maastrichtian

Mount Laurel Formation

New Jersey

First identified as a possible basal sauropod.
Reidentified as a protostegid marine turtle.
The type species is P. peloreus

|  Pneumatoarthrus

## Archosauromorphs

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### Newly named birds

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Laornis

Misidentification.

Marsh

USA
New Jersey

Misidentified bird.
The type species is L. edvardsianus

### Dinosaurs

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Antrodemus | Gen. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Leidy | Tithonian | Morrison Formation |  Colorado | Possible subjective synonym of Allosaurus |
Hadrosaurus minor[5] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Marsh | Maastrichtian | Navesink Formation?  |  New Jersey | A species of Hadrosaurus |
Ornithopsis hulkei | Gen. et sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Barremian | Wealden Formation |  England | Earlier it was believed that the fossils were those of a pterosaur. But now it is known that they were the bones of a Sauropod.  |
"Struthiosaurus"  |  | Nomen nudum | Bunzel | Campanian | Grünbach Formation |  Austria | An ankylosaur formally named Struthiosaurus in 1871 |

## Plesiosaurs

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### New taxa

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Taphrosaurus

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Cope

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* USA ( New Jersey)

Uronautes

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Cope

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## Pterosaurs

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* Harry Govier Seeley published his expansive book The Ornithosauria, reviewing the anatomy and classification of pterosaurs.[6]

### New taxa

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Cycnorhamphus[6] | Gen. nov.  | Valid  | Seeley | Kimmeridgian | Nursplinger Schist |  Germany | A new genus for Pterodactylus suevicus Quenstedt, 1855 |
Ornithocheirus brachyrhinus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus capito[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus colorhinus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Valid  | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus. Later named Camposipterus colorhinus |
Ornithocheirus crassidens[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus dentatus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus denticulatus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus enchorhynchus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus eurygnathus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus huxleyi[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Valid  | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus. Later named Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus.  |
Ornithocheirus microdon[6] | Sp. nov.  | Valid  | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus. Later named Lonchodraco microdon.  |
Ornithocheirus nasutus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Valid  | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus. Later named Camposipterus nasutus.  |
Ornithocheirus oxyrhinus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus platystomus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus polyodon[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus reedi[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus scaphorhynchus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus tenuirostris[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Ornithocheirus xyphorhynchus[6] | Sp. nov.  | Nomen dubium | Seeley | Albian | Cambridge Greensand |  England | A new species of Ornithocheirus.  |
Rhabdopelix |  | Misidentification  | Cope |  |  |  | At first it was thought to be a Triassic pterosaur, but is now known to be (at least in part) a kuehneosaurid  |

## Synapsids

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### Non-mammalian

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Lystrosaurus

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| 252 million years ago.  |

* Antarctica
* China
* India
* South Africa

| It was a protomammal that had fangs very similar to those of a walrus.  |  Lystrosaurus

## References

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* Paleontology portal

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 Skartveit, J.; Nel, A. (2017). "Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from French Oligocene deposits". Zootaxa. 4225 (1): 1–83\. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4225.1.1. PMID 28187637.
3. ^ a b Grande, L. (1984). "Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna". Bulletin of the Wyoming State Geological Survey. 63 2nd ed. Laramie, Wyoming.
4. ^ Cope, 1870. Observations on the Reptilia of the Triassic formations of the Atlantic region of the United States. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 11, 444-446.
5. ^ Marsh, O.C. (1870). "On a number of vertebrae of a new Dinosaurian from the Cretaceous green sand near Barnsboro". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 22: 2–3.
6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Seeley, H.G. (1870). The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell & Co.

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