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 1894.

List of years in paleontology (table)
In science
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
+...

Archosauromorphs

edit

Newly named pseudosuchians

edit
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Ornithosuchus

Valid taxon

Newton

Late Triassic (Carnian)

Lossiemouth Sandstone

  Scotland

An ornithosuchid.

 
Ornithosuchus

Newly named dinosaurs

edit
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Images

Dryosaurus

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)

Morrison Formation

A dryosaurid. New genus for "Laosaurus" altus Marsh (1878).

 
Dryosaurus

Hortalotarsus

Jr. synonym

Harry Govier Seeley

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus.

Plesiosaurs

edit

New taxa

edit
Name Status Authors Location Images

Cymatosaurus

Valid

Fritsch

Pterosaurs

edit

New taxa

edit
Name Status Authors Notes

"Campylognathus"

Valid

Plieninger

preoccupied name; now known as Campylognathoides

Synapsids

edit

Non-mammalian

edit
Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Thrinaxodon

Valid

Seeley

248 Millions of years ago One of the earliest cynodonts.
 
Thrinaxodon

References

edit
  1. ^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.