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 1857.
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Dinosaurs edit
Newly discovered dinosaurs edit
- Holotype specimen of Temnodontosaurus crassimanus (Ichthyosauria) from the Early Jurassic at Kettleness, Yorkshire, England.[2]
Newly named dinosaurs edit
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Paleontologists edit
- Birth of William Diller Matthew.[4]
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Swaby, Emily J.; Lomax, Dean R. (2020). "A revision of Temnodontosaurus crassimanus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Whitby, Yorkshire, UK" (PDF). Historical Biology. 33 (11): 2715–2731. doi:10.1080/08912963.2020.1826469. S2CID 225116735.
- ^ Meyer, H. von. 1857. Beitrage zur naheren Kenntnis fossiler Reptilien. N. Jb. Mineral. Geol. Palaeontol. (1857): pp. 532-543.
- ^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 17. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.