1859 in paleontology
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Newly named dinosaurs
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Astrodon Astrodon Astrodon was a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, related to Brachiosaurus, that lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Cretaceous period. Its fossils have been found in the Arundel Formation, which has been dated through palynomorphs to the Aptian-Albian... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... . |
Johnston |
Possible subjective synonym of Pleurocoelus. |
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Compsognathus Compsognathus Compsognathus was a small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. The animal was the size of a turkey and lived around 150 million years ago, the early Tithonian stage of the late Jurassic Period, in what is now Europe. Paleontologists have found two well-preserved fossils, one in Germany... |
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Wagner |
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Galesaurus Galesaurus Galesaurus was a prehistoric mammal-like-reptile, incorrectly classified as a dinosaur by Sir Richard Owen in 1859. Notably, Galesaurus was mentioned in the first issue of Nature in 1869, where T. H. Huxley expressed confidence that it would eventually be shown to be a dinosaur... |
Misidentification. |
Sir Richard Owen |
Misidentified therapsid. |
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Hadrosaurus Hadrosaurus Hadrosaurus is a valid genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur. In 1858, a skeleton of a dinosaur from this genus was the first dinosaur skeleton known from more than isolated teeth to be found in North America. In 1868, it became the first ever mounted dinosaur skeleton... |
Nomen dubium Nomen dubium In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application... . |
Joseph Leidy Joseph Leidy Joseph Leidy was an American paleontologist.Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska contained many species not previously described and many previously... |
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Scelidosaurus Scelidosaurus Scelidosaurus is a genus of quadrupedal, lightly plated, herbivorous dinosaur about long. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, during the Hettangian to Sinemurian stages around 199.6 to 194 million years ago. Its fossils have been found in both England and in Arizona, in the United... |
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Sir Richard Owen |
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New taxa
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Dimorphodon[6] |
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Owen |
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Non-mammalian
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Cycnochampsa |
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Owen |
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Galesaurus Galesaurus Galesaurus was a prehistoric mammal-like-reptile, incorrectly classified as a dinosaur by Sir Richard Owen in 1859. Notably, Galesaurus was mentioned in the first issue of Nature in 1869, where T. H. Huxley expressed confidence that it would eventually be shown to be a dinosaur... |
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Owen |
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