1898 in paleontology

Overview of the events of 1898 in paleontology

List of years 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 1898.

## Dinosaurs

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Avalonia

Preoccupied

Harry Govier Seeley

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Misidentified non-dinosaurian archosaur preoccupied by Walcott, 1889. Later renamed Avalonianus.

Clasmodosaurus

Nomen dubium

Ameghino

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Loncosaurus

Nomen dubium

Ameghino

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Picrodon

Misidentification.

Harry Govier Seeley

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Misidentified genus of dubious non-dinosaurian archosaur. May be a synonym of Avalonianus.

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## Plesiosaurs

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### New taxa

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Megalneusaurus

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Knight

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## Synapsids

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### Non-mammalian

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Aulacocephalodon

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Seeley

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Aulacephalodon

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Seeley

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Rhachiocephalus

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Seeley

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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.

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