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1843 in paleontology
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Pterosaurs
- Edward Newman interpreted pterosaurs as mammals in a similar fashion to Soemmering. However, Newman specifically considered pterosaurs to be carnivorous flying marsupials.
Sharks
- Louis Agassiz named a new taxon, Otodus and renamed Lamna obliqua as new Otodus species, the O. obliquus.
- Louis Agassiz named and renamed species, such as the Oxyrhina xiphodon, Oxyrhina hastalis, a new species of White Shark, the Carcharodon subauriculatus (now, replaced in Otodus genus and know as O. chubutensis) was named also.
New taxa
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References
References
- Wellnhofer, Peter. (2008). "A short history of pterosaur research.". Zitteliana B.
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