1873 in paleontology

Overview of the events of 1873 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 1873.

## Arthropods

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### Newly named insects

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Bothriomyrmex constricta[2]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

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Lutetian

Baltic amber

Europe

Fossil Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta

|  Anonychomyrma constricta

Bothriomyrmex geinitzi[2]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

Mayr

Lutetian

Baltic amber

Europe

Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi

|  Anonychomyrma geinitzi

## Sauropterygia

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### Newly named plesiosaurs

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Liopleurodon

Gen et sp nov

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Sauvage

Callovian

* France
* Germany
* UK

A pliosaurid

## Ichthyosaurs

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Cetarthrosaurus[3]

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Seeley

late Albian/early Cenomanian

Cambridge Greensand Formation

* United Kingdom

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## Other

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Dawsonia campanulata[4]

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Nicholson

Silurian

Moffat Shales Group

* United Kingdom

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## 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 Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
3. ^ Harry G. Seeley (1873). "On Cetarthrosaurus walkeri (Seeley), an Ichthyosaurian from the Cambridge Upper Greensand". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 29 (1–2): 505–507. doi:10.1144/gsl.jgs.1873.029.01-02.43.
4. ^ Alex Page; Philip R. Wilby; Claire J. T. Mellish; Mark Williams; Jan A. Zalasiewicz (2008). "Dawsonia Nicholson: linguliform brachiopods, crustacean tail-pieces and a problematicum rather than graptolite ovarian vesicles" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 99 (3–4): 251–266. doi:10.1017/S175569100900704X.