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 1860.

List of years in paleontology (table)
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Arthropods

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Insects

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Limnobiorhynchus brevipalpa[2]

comb. nov

jr synonym

(Loew) Osten-Sacken

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

  Europe

A Limoniid cranefly,
syn of Elephantomyia brevipalpa

 
Elephantomyia brevipalpa

Limnobiorhynchus pulchella[2]

comb. nov

jr synonym

(Loew) Osten-Sacken

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

  Europe

A Limoniid cranefly,
syn of Elephantomyia pulchella

 
Elephantomyia pulchella

Plesiosaurs

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New taxa

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Name Status Authors Notes

Goniosaurus

Valid

Meyer

Pterosaurs

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New taxa

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Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Dorygnathus

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Wagner

A Seagull-like pterosaur.
 
Dorygnathus

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Deuterosaurus

Valid

Eichwald

267 Millions of years ago The scientists believed that they had found a Dinosaur, but in Reality it was a ProtoMammal.
 
Deuterosaurus

Eurosaurus

Valid

Eichwald

Oudenodon

Valid

Owen

254 Millions of years ago.
 
Oudenodon

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.
  2. ^ a b Kania, I (2015). "Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic Amber (Eocene): The Genus Elephantomyia Osten Sacken, 1860". PLOS ONE. 10 (2): 1–25. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1017434K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117434. PMC 4338262. PMID 25706127.