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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 1854.
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Non-mammalian synapsids described in 1854 | ||||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
Bathygnathus [2] | Valid | Joseph Leidy | Early Permian | Unnamed unit | Canada | A sphenacodontid pelycosaur. |
Nothosaurs described in 1854 | ||||||||
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Deirosaurus | Junior synonym | Owen | Late Triassic | Italy | Junior synonym of Lariosaurus. |
Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1854 | ||||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
Early Jurassic ( Hettangian- Sinemurian) |
Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus. |
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Early Jurassic ( Hettangian- Sinemurian) |
A massospondylid. a Small Plant-Eating Sauropodomorph. |
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Early Cretaceous ( Berriasian) |
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Early Jurassic ( Hettangian- Sinemurian) |
Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus. |
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