1862 in paleontology

none 1862 paleontology science 1862 Dinosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Dimodosaurus Nomen dubium Pidancet Chopard Possible subjective synonym of Plateosaurus. Griphornis Gen. nov. Nomen rejectum Sir Richard Owen vide Woodward Kimmeridgian Solnhofen Limestone Germany Rejected in favor of Archaeopteryx. GriphosaurusWagner A. April 1862 On a new Fossil Reptile supposed to be furnished with Feathers The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9 52 261–267 10.1080/00222936208681227 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/64614 Gen. nov. Nomen rejectum Andreas Wagner Kimmeridgian Solnhofen Limestone Germany Named for a skeleton with feathers considered by Wagner to represent a reptile unrelated to the origin of birds, specifically opposing Darwinian evolution and Hermann von Meyer's taxon Archaeopteryx. Paleontologists Birth of Eberhard Fraas. Farlow James O. M. K. Brett-Surmann The Complete Dinosaur Indiana University Press 1999 Bloomington, Indiana 18 0-253-21313-4 References Category:1860s in paleontology Paleontology 2