Английская Википедия:1874 in paleontology
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Dinosaurs
Publications
- Richard Owen publishes a monograph on Wealden and Purbeck reptiles, classifying Scelidosaurus, Iguanodon and Echinodon in the new dinosaur clade Prionodontia.[1]
Newly named dinosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) |
A hadrosaurid. | ||||||
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Early Cretaceous |
A dubious stegosaur. | ||||||
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Preoccupied. |
Hulke, 1874 |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
Preoccupied by Edward Drinker Cope, 1869. | ||||
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Sauvage |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
Unnamed unit |
A dubious sauropod. | ||||
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Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) |
Junior subjective synonym of Triceratops. |
Ichthyosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Valid |
Seeley |
Middle Jurassic (Callovian) |
An ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur. |
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Valid |
Seeley |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
A cryptoclidid, new genus for "Plesiosaurus" megadeirus Seeley, 1869 |
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Valid |
Seeley |
Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
A member of Microcleididae; new genus for "Plesiosaurus" rugosus Owen, 1840. | ||||
|
Valid |
Hector |
Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-Maastrichtian) |
An elasmosaurid. | ||||
|
Valid |
Seeley |
Middle Jurassic (Callovian) |
A cryptoclidid. | ||||
|
Valid |
Seeley |
Early Jurassic (Toarcian) |
A rhomaleosaurid; new genus for "Plesiosaurus" cramptoni Carte and Bailey, 1863 |
Pterosaurs
Newly named pterosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Valid |
Owen |
Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) |
A member of Ornithocheiridae. |
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Jr. synonym |
Owen |
Jr. synonym of Ornithocheirus. |
Squamates
Newly named mosasaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taniwhasaurus | Valid | Hector | Late Campanian | Conway Formation |
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References
