From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

1870 in paleontology

none

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

"Fish"

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Turtles

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Archosauromorphs

Newly named birds

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes

Dinosaurs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Antrodemus	Gen. nov.	Nomen dubium	Leidy	Tithonian	Morrison Formation	Colorado	Possible subjective synonym of Allosaurus
last=Marsh	first=O.C.	year=1870	title=On a number of vertebrae of a new Dinosaurian from the Cretaceous green sand near Barnsboro	journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia	volume=22	pages=2-3}}	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Marsh	Maastrichtian	Navesink Formation?	New Jersey	A species of Hadrosaurus
Ornithopsis hulkei	Gen. et sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Barremian	Wealden Formation	England	Earlier it was believed that the fossils were those of a pterosaur. But now it is known that they were the bones of a Sauropod.
"Struthiosaurus"		Nomen nudum	Bunzel	Campanian	Grünbach Formation	Austria	An ankylosaur formally named Struthiosaurus in 1871

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes

Pterosaurs

Harry Govier Seeley published his expansive book The Ornithosauria, reviewing the anatomy and classification of pterosaurs.

New taxa

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cycnorhamphus	Gen. nov.	Valid	Seeley	Kimmeridgian	Nursplinger Schist	Germany	A new genus for Pterodactylus suevicus Quenstedt, 1855	[[File:Cycnorhamphus suevicus.jpg	200px]]
Ornithocheirus brachyrhinus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus capito	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus colorhinus	Sp. nov.	Valid	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus. Later named Camposipterus colorhinus
Ornithocheirus crassidens	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus dentatus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus denticulatus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus enchorhynchus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus eurygnathus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus huxleyi	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus machaerorhynchus	Sp. nov.	Valid	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus. Later named Lonchodraco machaerorhynchus.
Ornithocheirus microdon	Sp. nov.	Valid	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus. Later named Lonchodraco microdon.
Ornithocheirus nasutus	Sp. nov.	Valid	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus. Later named Camposipterus nasutus.
Ornithocheirus oxyrhinus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus platystomus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus polyodon	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus reedi	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus scaphorhynchus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus tenuirostris	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Ornithocheirus xyphorhynchus	Sp. nov.	Nomen dubium	Seeley	Albian	Cambridge Greensand	England	A new species of Ornithocheirus.
Rhabdopelix		Misidentification	Cope				At first it was thought to be a Triassic pterosaur, but is now known to be (at least in part) a kuehneosaurid

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
			252 million years ago.		It was a protomammal that had fangs very similar to those of a walrus.

References

(2017). "Revision of fossil Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera) from French Oligocene deposits". Zootaxa.
(1984). "Paleontology of the Green River Formation, with a review of the fish fauna". Bulletin of the Wyoming State Geological Survey.
Cope, 1870. Observations on the Reptilia of the Triassic formations of the Atlantic region of the United States. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 11, 444-446.
Marsh, O.C.. (1870). "On a number of vertebrae of a new Dinosaurian from the Cretaceous green sand near Barnsboro". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.
Seeley, H.G.. (1870). "The Ornithosauria: an elementary study of the bones of pterodactyles, made from fossil remains found in the Cambridge Upper Greensand, and arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge". Deighton, Bell & Co.

Info: Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

1870s-in-paleontology 1870-in-science

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about 1870 in paleontology — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report