1840 in paleontology

none 1840 paleontology science 1840 Arthropods Crustaceans NameNovelty Status AuthorsAge Unit Location Notes ImagesAlvisMünster G 1840 Ueber einige Isopoden in den Kalkschiefern von Bayern. https://www.marinespecies.org/traits./aphia.php?p=sourceget&id=353551 PDF Beiträge zur Petrefactenkunde de 3 19–23Gen. et. sp. nov. Jr synonymMünsterJurassicSolnhofen LimestoneGermanyType species is A. octopus, initially described as an isopod, now a junior synonym of Pseudastacus.Moore R. C. Brooks H. K. Glaessner M. F. Rolfe W. D. Ian Manning Raymond B. Holthuis L. B. Hessler Robert R. 1969-01-01 Part R, Arthropoda 4, vol. 1 & 2, ch. 4, p. 295-566 https://journals.ku.edu/InvertebratePaleo/article/view/5629 Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology en 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5629 2153-621XNornaGen. et. sp. nov.ValidMünsterJurassicSolnhofen LimestoneGermanyA peracarid initially described as an isopod, type species is N. lithophila.framelessSculdaGen. et. sp. nov.ValidMünsterLate Jurassic (Tithonian)Solnhofen LimestoneGermanyA mantis shrimp initially described as an isopod, type species is S. pennata.framelessUrdaGen. et. sp. nov.ValidMünsterJurassic - CretaceousGermanyAn isopod, species named include U. rostrata, U. decorata, U. cincta & U. elongata.no pictures available... Anapsids October 2021 Newly named anapsids Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Palaeosaurus PreoccupiedFitzingerEarly PermianUnnamed unit (coal deposits)Czech RepublicPreoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosaur named by Geoffroy Saint-Hilare in 1833. Renamed Sphenosaurus. A procolophonid. Archosauromorphs Newly named basal archosauromorphs Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Paleosaurus Nomen dubiumRiley StutchburyLate Triassic (?Rhaetian)Magnesian ConglomerateEnglandAn archosaur of unknown affinities Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html dead Name Status Authors NotesImages HylosaurusFitzinger, L.J. 1840. Über Palaeosaurus sternbergii, eine neue Gattung vorweltlicher Reptilien und die Stellung dieser Thiere im Systeme überhaupt. Wiener Mus. Annalen II: pp. 175-187 + plate XI.Jr. synonym Fitzinger Junior synonym of Hylaeosaurus. Therosaurus ValidFitzingerAn iguanodont. New name for "Iguanodon" mantelli von Meyer (1832) (=Iguanodon anglicus Holl (1829)).frameless Pterosaurs Thomas Hawkins published The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, wherein he suggested that the great reptiles of the Mesozoic were created by the devil. oconnor-2012 O’Connor Ralph Victorian saurians: The linguistic prehistory of the modern dinosaur Journal of Victorian Culture 17 4 492–504 December 2012 10.1080/13555502.2012.738896 free He described pterosaurs as "an engrafted-by-Evil stock" and depicted them as bat-like scavengers that combed the ancient seashore. hawkins-1840 Hawkins Thomas 1840 The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/152648 en London William Pickering wellnhofer-2008 Wellnhofer, Peter 2008 A short history of pterosaur research. Zitteliana B 28 7–19 Plesiosaurs October 2021 Newly named plesiosaurs Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages Plesiosaurus arcuatus Valid Owen Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)Blue LiasUnited KingdomA rhomaleosaurid.framelessPlesiosaurus brachyspondylus Valid Owen Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)Kimmeridge Clay FormationUnited KingdomA thalassophonean pliosaurid.frameless Plesiosaurus hawkinsii Valid Owen Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)Blue LiasUnited KingdomA pliosaurid.framelessPlesiosaurus rugosus Valid Owen Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)Blue LiasUnited KingdomA microcleidid.framelessPlesiosaurus trochantericus Valid Owen Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)Kimmeridge Clay FormationUnited KingdomA cryptoclidid.frameless Mammals Newly named cetaceans NameNovelty Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImagesSqualodonGrateloup Jean-Pierre Silvestre de https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5039 Description d'un fragment de machoire fossile d'un genre nouveau de reptile (saurien) : de taille gigantesque voison de l'iguanodon, trouvé dans les grès marins à Léognan près Bordeaux (Gironde) (1840) 1840 s.n.] [S.l frGen. nov.ValidGrateloupEarly Miocene (Burdigalian)Unnamed unitFrance A squalodontid.frameless References Category:1840s in paleontology Paleontology