1879 in paleontology

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 1879.

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Plants

Ferns

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Equisetum similkamense[2]

Sp nov

valid

Dawson

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A scouring rush


Arthropods

Insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Buprestis saxigena[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Coldwater Beds

 Canada
 British Columbia

A jewel beetle

Buprestis saxigena
(1890 illustration)

Buprestis sepulta[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Coldwater Beds

 Canada
 British Columbia

A jewel beetle

Buprestis sepulta
(1890 illustration)

Buprestis tertiaria[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Coldwater Beds

 Canada
 British Columbia

A jewel beetle

Buprestis tertiaria
(1890 illustration)

Cercopis selwyni[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A froghopper

Cercopis selwyni
(1890 illustration)

Cercyon? terrigena[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Coldwater Beds

 Canada
 British Columbia

A water scavenger beetle

Cercyon? terrigena
(1890 illustration)

Coelidia columbiana[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A leafhopper

Coelidia columbiana
(1890 illustration)

Hygrotrechus stali[3]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A gerrine water strider
moved to Telmatrechus stali (1890)
moved to "Gerris" stali (1910)[4]
returned to Telmatrechus stali (1998)[5]

Telmatrechus stali
(1890 illustration)

Nebria paleomelas[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Coldwater Beds

 Canada
 British Columbia

A ground beetle

Nebria paleomelas
(1890 illustration)

Penthetria similkameena[3]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A plecian marchfly
moved to Plecia similkameena (1885)[6]

Plecia similkameena

Planophlebia gigantea[3]

Gen et sp nov

Jr synonym

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A hemipteran[3] of uncertain placement[7]

Planophlebia gigantea
(1890 illustration)

Tenebrio primigenius[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A darkling beetle

Tenebrio primigenius
(1890 illustration)

Trox oustaleti[3]

Sp nov

valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A hide beetle

Trox oustaleti
(1890 illustration)

Ichthyosauromorpha

Ichthyosaurs

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Sauranodon

Gen nov

Junior homonym

Marsh

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

Sundance Formation

 United States
 Wyoming

Preoccupied by Sauranodon Jourdan, 1862;
renamed Baptanodon Marsh, 1880.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named non-avian dinosaurs


Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Anoplosaurus[8]

Valid

Harry Govier Seeley

middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian)

Cambridge Greensand

 United Kingdom

A nodosaurid ankylosaur, a member of Struthiosaurinae. The type species is A. curtonotus.

Brontosaurus

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)

Morrison Formation

 US

An apatosaurine diplodocid.

Camptonotus[9]

Preoccupied.

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)

Morrison Formation

 US

Preoccupied by Uhler, 1864. Later renamed Camptosaurus.

Coelurus[9]

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)

Morrison Formation

 US

A basal coelurosaur. The type species is Coelurus fragilis.

Eucercosaurus[8]

Nomen dubium

Harry Govier Seeley

middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian)

Cambridge Greensand

 United Kingdom

An dubious ornithopod.

Labrosaurus[10]

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)

Morrison Formation

 US

Junior subjective synonym of Allosaurus. The type species is Allosaurus lucaris Marsh, 1878.

Syngonosaurus[8]

Nomen dubium

Harry Govier Seeley

middle Cretaceous (late Albian-early Cenomanian)

Cambridge Greensand

 United Kingdom

A dubious ornithopod. The type species is S. macrocercus.

Vectisaurus[11]

Nomen dubium

Hulke

early Cretaceous (Barremian)

Wessex Formation

 United Kingdom

A dubious iguanodont. The type species is Vectisaurus valdensis.

Synapsids

"Pelycosaurians"

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Macromerion

Gen et comb nov

Valid

Fritsch

Late Carboniferous

 Czech Republic

A new genus for "Labyrinthodon" schwartzenbergii 1875.

See also

References

  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. Dawson, J. W. (1879). "Appendix B. List of tertiary plants in the southern part of British Columbia, with the description of a new species of Equisetum". Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for. Vol. 1877–1878. Montreal, Quebec: Dawson Brothers. p. 187.
  3. Scudder, S. H (1879). "Appendix A. The fossil insects collected in 1877, by Mr. G.M. Dawson, in the interior of British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada, Report of Progress for. 1877–1878: 175–185.
  4. Handlirsch, A. (1910). "Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe". Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2 (3): 93–129.
  5. Andersen, N.M. (1998). "Water striders from the Paleogene of Denmark and review of fossil record and evolution of semi aquatic bugs (Hemiptera Gerromorpha)". Biologiske Skrifter. 50: 1–157.
  6. Scudder, S. H. (1890). "The Tertiary insects of North America". United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Washington: 615.
  7. Szwedo, J.; Lefebvre, F. (2004). Fossil planthoppers of the world (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha). An annotated catalogue with notes on Hemiptera classification. Warszawa: Studio, 1. pp. 48–49. ISBN 83-912236-8-X.
  8. Seeley, H. G., 1879, On the Dinosauria of the Cambridge Greensand: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 35, p. 591-636.
  9. Marsh, O. C., 1879. Notice of New Jurassic Reptiles: American Journal of Science, 3rd series, v. 18, p. 501-505.
  10. Marsh, O. C., 1879. Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs. Part II: American Journal of Science, 3rd series, v. 17, p. 86-92.
  11. Hulke, J. W., 1879, Vectisaurus valdensis, a new Wealden Dinosaur: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 35, p. 421-424.
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