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1840 in paleontology

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Arthropods

Crustaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Anapsids

Newly named anapsids

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes

Archosauromorphs

Newly named basal archosauromorphs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Status	Authors	Notes

Pterosaurs

Thomas Hawkins published The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, wherein he suggested that the great reptiles of the Mesozoic were created by the devil. He described pterosaurs as "an engrafted-by-Evil stock" and depicted them as bat-like scavengers that combed the ancient seashore.

Plesiosaurs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes

Mammals

Newly named cetaceans

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

References

Münster, G. (1840). "Ueber einige Isopoden in den Kalkschiefern von Bayern.". Beiträge zur Petrefactenkunde.
Moore, R. C.. (1969-01-01). "Part R, Arthropoda 4, vol. 1 & 2, ch. 4, p. 295-566". Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
O’Connor, Ralph. (December 2012). "Victorian saurians: The linguistic prehistory of the modern dinosaur". Journal of Victorian Culture.
(1840). "The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons, Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri". William Pickering.
Wellnhofer, Peter. (2008). "A short history of pterosaur research.". Zitteliana B.
Grateloup, Jean-Pierre Silvestre de. (1840). "Description d'un fragment de machoire fossile d'un genre nouveau de reptile (saurien) : de taille gigantesque voison de l'iguanodon, trouvé dans les grès marins à Léognan près Bordeaux (Gironde) (1840)". s.n.].

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