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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 1809.

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Ptero-dactyle	Valid	Cuvier		Later renamed Pterodactylus in 1819.[2]

References

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.
Cuvier, G. (1819). "Pterodactylus longirostris". In Oken, Lorenz (ed.). Isis (oder Encyclopädische Zeitung) von Oken (in German). Jena : Expedition der Isis. pp. 1126, 1788.

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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.

[Cuvier1819-2] Cuvier, G. (1819). "Pterodactylus longirostris". In Oken, Lorenz (ed.). Isis (oder Encyclopädische Zeitung) von Oken (in German). Jena : Expedition der Isis. pp. 1126, 1788.