1894 in paleontology

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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 1894.

Archosauromorphs[]

Newly named pseudosuchians[]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ornithosuchus	Valid taxon	Newton		Late Triassic (Carnian)	Lossiemouth Sandstone	Scotland	An ornithosuchid.	Ornithosuchus

Newly named dinosaurs[]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images	Images
Dryosaurus	Valid	Othniel Charles Marsh		Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	Portugal United States ( Colorado and Wyoming)	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[]

New taxa[]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Images
Cymatosaurus	Valid	Fritsch		Austria Germany Netherlands Poland

Pterosaurs[]

New taxa[]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
"Campylognathus"	Valid	Plieninger		preoccupied name; now known as Campylognathoides

Synapsids[]

Non-mammalian[]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Thrinaxodon	Valid	Seeley	248 Millions of years ago	Antarctica South Africa	One of the earliest cynodonts.	Thrinaxodon

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.

[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.

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