1873 in paleontology

none 1873 paleontology science 1873 Plants Algae Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesFucus lignitumLesquereux L. C. 1876 On the Tertiary flora of the North American lignitic, considered as evidence of the age of the formation Annual report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 271–365 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33160915Sp novLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA brown algae species. Mosses Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesHypnum haydeniiSp novjr synonymLesquereuxeocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoDescribed as a moss species.Moved to Sequoia haydenii (1907).Cockerell T.D.A. 1894 A redwood described as a moss Torreya 7 10 204 Moved to Juniparis haydenii (1912). Ferns Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesSalvinia attenuataSp novjr synonymLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingDescribed as a watermoss species.Moved to Marsilea attenuata (1894).Hollick A. 1894 Fossil Salvinias, including description of a new species Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 21 6 256 Lycophytes Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesSelaginella? falcataSp novjr homonymLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA possible spikemoss species.Junior homonym of Selaginella falcata (P.Beauv.) Spring (1843).Selaginella laciniataSp novLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA possible spikemoss species. Conifers Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesSequoia biformisSp novjr synonymLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingDescribed as a coast redwood species.Moved to Geinitzia biformis (1900).Knowlton F. H. 1900 Flora of the Montana Formation Bulletin United States Geological Survey 163 28 10.3133/b163 free Widdringtonia complanataSp novjr synonymLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingDescribed as an African cypress species.Moved to Callitris complanata (1887).Ward L. F. 1885 Synopsis of the Flora of the Laramie Group Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey United States Geological Survey 6 462 10.3133/b163 Monocots Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesOttelia americanaSp novLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingDescribed as an anacharioid hydrocharitaceous species.Pistia corrugataSp novjr synonymLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingDescribed as a water cabbage species.Moved to Cobbania corrugata (2007).Stockey R. A. Rothwell G. W. Johnson K. R. 2007 Cobbania corrugata gen. et comb. nov. (Araceae): a floating aquatic monocot from the Upper Cretaceous of western North America American Journal of Botany 94 4 609–624 10.3732/ajb.94.4.609 21636430 2007AmJB...94..609S Eudicots Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesAlnites unequilateralisSp novjr synonymLesquereuxEoceneYpresianGreen River FormationUSAWyomingFirst described as a betulaceous species.Moved to Alnus inaequilateralis Moved to (1883)Moved to Planera inaequilateralis (1923).Knowlton F.H. 1923 Revision of the flora of the Green River Formation, with descriptions of new species Professional Papers United States Geological Survey 131 Chapter F 133–182 10.3133/pp131F free Moved to Bursera inaequilateralis (1969)MacGinitie H.D. 1969 The Eocene green River flora of northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 83 116 1–202 https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2LpM5cB_X8Cthumb|center|upright|Bursera inaequilateralisCarpites viburniSp novjr synonymLesquereuxEoceneYpresianGreen River FormationUSAWyomingA walnut species.thumb|center|upright|Carpites viburniDryophyllum crenatumSp novLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA Fagaceous or Juglandaceous species.Dryophyllum subfalcatumSp novvalidLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA Fagaceous or Juglandaceous species.thumb|center|upright|Dryophyllum subfalcatumGrewiopsis cleburniiSp novvalidLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA platanaceous species.Juglans alkalinaSp novjr synonymLesquereuxEoceneYpresianGreen River FormationUSAWyomingA walnut species.Laurus (Persea) praestansSp novLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA possible laural species.Populus melanarioidesSp novvalidLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA cottonwood/aspen species.Rhus membranaceaSp novLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA sumac species.Trapa? microphyllaSp novvalidLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA possible water caltrop species.Viburnum rotundifoliumSp novjr homonymLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA Viburnum species.Junior homonym of Viburnum rotundifolium Rafinesque, 1838 Fungi Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesSphaeria rhytismoidesSp novjr homonymLesquereuxCretaceousMontana GroupUSAWyomingA fungi species.Junior homonym of Sphaeria rhytismoides Ettingshausen, 1868Moved to replacement name Sphaerites lesquereuxii (1892).Saccardo P. A. 1892 Sylloge Fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum 10 31 Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesBothriomyrmex constrictaWheeler W. M. 1915 The ants of the Baltic amber Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg 55 4 56–59Comb novJr synonym (Mayr)LutetianBaltic amberEuropeFossil Dolichoderin antjr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta thumb|center|150px|Anonychomyrma constrictaBothriomyrmex geinitziComb novJr synonym MayrLutetianBaltic amberEuropeFossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi thumb|center|150px|Anonychomyrma geinitzi Sauropterygia Newly named plesiosaurs Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes Images LiopleurodonGen et sp nov Valid SauvageCallovian France Germany UKA pliosaurid Ichthyosaurs Newly named ichthyosaurs Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCetarthrosaurusHarry G. Seeley 1873 On Cetarthrosaurus walkeri (Seeley), an Ichthyosaurian from the Cambridge Upper Greensand Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 29 1–2 505–507 10.1144/gsl.jgs.1873.029.01-02.43 1873QJGS...29..505S https://zenodo.org/record/1448517 ValidSeeleylate Albian/early CenomanianCambridge Greensand Formation United Kingdom Other Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDawsonia campanulataTransactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 99 251–266 2008 10.1017/S175569100900704X Dawsonia Nicholson: linguliform brachiopods, crustacean tail-pieces and a problematicum rather than graptolite ovarian vesicles Alex Page Philip R. Wilby Claire J. T. Mellish Mark Williams Jan A. Zalasiewicz 3–4 2008EESTR..99..251P http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9498/1/DawsoniaSUBMITTED.pdf ValidNicholsonSilurianMoffat Shales Group United Kingdom References Category:1870s in paleontology Paleontology, 1873 In