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 1895.

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Insects

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Cercopis grandescens[2]

Sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A froghopper

 
Cercopis grandescens
(1895 illustration)

Cercopites torpescens[2]

Sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A froghopper

 
Cercopites torpescens
(1895 illustration)

Dawsonites[2]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A froghopper
Type species D. veter

 
Dawsonites veter
(1895 illustration)

Cryptocephalites[3]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A chrysomelid leaf beetle.
Type species C. punctatus

 
Cryptocephalites punctatus

Limonius impunctus[3]

Sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

An elaterid click beetle.

 
Limonius impunctus

Palaeoptysma[2]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A spittle bug
Type species P. venosa

 
Palaeoptysma venosa
(1895 illustration)

Ptysmaphora[2]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A spittle bug
Type species P. fletcheri

 
Ptysmaphora fletcheri
(1895 illustration)

Ricania antiquata[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A Polystoechotid-group moth lacewing[4]
Moved to Ricaniella antiquata (1897)[5]

 
Ricaniella antiquata
(1895 illustration)

Stenecphora[2]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A froghopper
Type species S. punctulata

 
Stenecphora punctulata
(1895 illustration)

Stenolocris[2]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

  Canada
  British Columbia

A froghopper
Type species S. venosa

 
Stenolocris venosa
(1895 illustration)

Synapsids

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Non-mammalian

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Name Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Cryptocynodon

Valid

Seeley

Late Permian

  South Africa

Cynognathus

Valid

Seeley

Middle Triassic

  South Africa

 
Cynognathus

Diademodon

Valid

Seeley

Middle Triassic

  South Africa

A Cynodont.

 
Diademodon

Esoterodon

Valid

Seeley

Gomphognathus

Valid

Seeley

Microgomphodon

Valid

Seeley

  South Africa

Pristerognathus

Valid

Seeley

A Therocephalian

Trirachodon

Valid

Seeley

 
Trirachodon

Birds

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Thegornis

Gen. et 2 sp. nov

Valid

Ameghino

Early–Middle Miocene (Santacrucian)

  Argentina

A member of the Herpetotherinae. The type species is T. musculosus; Ameghino also named T. debilis, but it has since been synonymized with the former on the basis of sexual dimorphism.[6]

References

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  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.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Scudder, S. H (1895). "Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, Vol I. The Tertiary Hemiptera of British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2: 5–26.
  3. ^ a b Scudder, S. H (1895). "Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, Vol II. The Coleoptera hitherto found fossil in Canada". Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2: 5–26.
  4. ^ Shcherbakov, D. E. (2006). "The earliest find of Tropiduchidae (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha), representing a new tribe, from the Eocene of Green River, USA, with notes on the fossil record of higher Fulgoroidea". Russian Entomological Journal. 15: 315–322.
  5. ^ Meunier, F. (1897). "Observations sur quelques insectes du Corallien de la Bavière". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia. 3: 18–23.
  6. ^ Jorge I. Noriega; Juan I. Areta; Sergio F. Vizcaíno; M. Susana Bargo (2011). "Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Patagonian Miocene Falcon Thegornis musculosus Ameghino, 1895 (Aves: Falconidae)". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (6): 1089–1104. doi:10.1666/10-122.1. hdl:11336/76576. S2CID 84262902.