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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 1852.

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries[]

Institutions and organizations[]

Natural history museums[]

Scientific organizations[]

Scientific advances[]

Paleoanthropology[]

Paleobotany[]

Evolutionary biology[]

Exopaleontology[]

Extinction research[]

Micropaleontology[]

Invertebrate paleozoology[]

Trace fossils[]

Vertebrate paleozoology[]

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Newly named Prolacertiformes[]

Name	Authors	Age	Location	Images
Tanystropheus	von Meyer	237 Millions of years ago	China France Germany Israel Switzerland UK	Tanystropheus

**Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1852**
Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aepisaurus^[2]	Nomen dubium	Gervais		Early Cretaceous (Albian)		France	A possible camarasaurid.	Aepisaurus limb bone.
Oplosaurus^[2]	Nomen dubium	Gervais		Early Cretaceous (Barremian)	Wessex Formation	England	A sauropod of unknown affinities.

**Pterosaurs described in 1852**
Name	Status	Authors	Notes
Brachytrachelus	Preoccupied.	Geibel	preoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus
Ctenochasma	Valid	von Meyer
Macrotrachelus	Jr. synonym.	Giebel	Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus.

Research techniques[]

Fossil trade[]

Law and politics[]

Regulation of fossil collection, transport, or sale[]

Fossil-related crime[]

Official symbols[]

Protected areas[]

Ethics and practice[]

Hoaxes[]

Scandals[]

Unethical practice[]

People[]

Births[]

Awards and recognition[]

Deaths[]

Gideon Algernon Mantell died.

Historiography and anthropology of paleontology[]

Pseudoscience[]

Popular culture[]

Amusement parks and attractions[]

Art[]

Comics[]

Literature[]

Bleak House by Charles Dickens was published. The story told by this novel is unrelated to paleontology, but it does briefly mention a Megalosaurus, which happened to be the first reference made to dinosaurs in fiction.^[3]

Philately[]

References[]

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b Gervais, P. 1852. Zoologie et paleontology francaise (animauz vertebras): Paris v. 1, iv + 271 (text), v. 2, explanation of plates, v. 3, Plates;
^ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.

[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.

[gervais1852-2] Gervais, P. 1852. Zoologie et paleontology francaise (animauz vertebras): Paris v. 1, iv + 271 (text), v. 2, explanation of plates, v. 3, Plates;

[sarjeant-fic-3] Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.

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