1874 in paleontology
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Dinosaurs
Publications
- Prionodontia.[2]
Newly named dinosaurs
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) |
A hadrosaurid .
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Harry Govier Seeley
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Early Cretaceous |
Potton Sands
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A dubious stegosaur .
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Preoccupied. |
Hulke, 1874 |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
Preoccupied by Edward Drinker Cope, 1869. | |||
Sauvage |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
Unnamed unit |
A dubious sauropod .
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Jr. synonym
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Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) |
Junior subjective synonym of Triceratops. |
Ichthyosaurs
New taxa
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Seeley |
Middle Jurassic (Callovian) |
Oxford Clay Formation
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An ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur.
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Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Seeley |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
A cryptoclidid , new genus for "Plesiosaurus" megadeirus Seeley, 1869
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Valid |
Seeley |
Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
A member of Microcleididae; new genus for "Plesiosaurus" rugosus Owen, 1840. | ||||
Valid |
Hector |
Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-Maastrichtian) |
An elasmosaurid .
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Valid |
Seeley |
Middle Jurassic (Callovian) |
A cryptoclidid .
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Valid |
Seeley |
Early Jurassic (Toarcian) |
Whitby Mudstone Formation
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A rhomaleosaurid ; new genus for "Plesiosaurus" cramptoni Carte and Bailey, 1863
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Pterosaurs
Newly named pterosaurs
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Owen |
Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) |
A member of Ornithocheiridae. |
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Jr. synonym |
Owen |
Jr. synonym of Ornithocheirus. |
Squamates
Newly named mosasaurs
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Taniwhasaurus | Valid | Hector | Late Campanian | Conway Formation |
A mosasaurid .
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References
- OCLC 46769716.
- ^ Owen, R. (1874). Monograph on the Fossil Reptilia of the Wealden and Purbeck Formations. Supplement No. V. Dinosauria (Iguanodon). Palaeontographical Society. pp. 1–18.