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1887 in paleontology

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Lepidosaurs

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Archosaurs

Classification Events

  • Harry Govier Seeley divides the Dinosaurs into two taxa based on the configuration of their hip bones.

Newly named dinosaurs

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Plesiosaurs

New taxa

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Plants

The Fossil Grove was discovered in Glasgow, Scotland. It contains the fossilised stumps of eleven extinct Lepidodendron trees, which are sometimes described as "giant club mosses" but they may be more closely related to quillworts.

Paleontologists

  • Death of George Bax Holmes, a wealthy fossil collector who collaborated with Sir Richard Owen. His collection remains preserved in Brighton's Booth Museum of Natural History.

References

References

  1. Barrett and Evans, 2002. A reassessment of the Early Cretaceous reptile ‘Patricosaurus merocratus’ Seeley from the Cambridge Greensand, Cambridgeshire, UK. Cretaceous Research. 23, 231-240.
  2. Farlow, James O.. (1999). "The Complete Dinosaur". Indiana University Press.
  3. Farlow, James O.. (1999). "The Complete Dinosaur". Indiana University Press.
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