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 1886.
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Flowering plants
editSuperasterids
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Sp nov | Jr synonym | (Casp.) Sadowski & Hofmann | A Symplocaceous flower species. |  |
Ichthyosaurs
editNew taxa
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Valid | Bassani | Late Triassic (Carnian) | Type species of the mixosaurid genus Mixosaurus Baur, 1887. |
Archosaurs
editNewly named basal archosauromorphs
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Bassani | Junior synonym of Tanystropheus, a member of Protorosauria. | ||||||
New pseudosuchian taxa
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De Vis | Pallimnarchus was informally named, but the name acquired widespread use. The syntype material consisted of multiple individuals of different crocodilian species and a later erected lectotype was lost. It was eventually declared a nomen dubium, with much of the material transferred into the genus Paludirex.[4] |  |
Synapsids
editNon-mammalian
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Valid | Gaudry | Millery Formation | |||||
Invalid | Red beds |
References
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- ^ 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.
- ^ Sadowski, E.-M.; Hofmann, C.-C. (2023). "The largest amber-preserved flower revisited". Scientific Reports. 13 (1). 17. doi:10.1038/s41598-022-24549-z. PMC 9837116. PMID 36635320.
- ^ De Vis, C.W. (1886). "On remains of an extinct saurian". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 2: 181–191.
- ^ Ristevski, J.; Yates, A.M.; Price, G.J.; Molnar, R.E.; Weisbecker, V.; Salisbury, S.W. (2020). "Australia's prehistoric 'swamp king': revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886". PeerJ. 8: e10466. doi:10.7717/peerj.10466. PMC 7759136. PMID 33391869.