1813 in paleontology
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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 1813.
Pterosaurs
[edit]New taxa
[edit]| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Pterotherium[2] | Gen. nov. | Jr. synonym | von Waldheim | Tithonian | Solnhofen limestone |  Germany
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Junior synonym of Pterodactylus. | 
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Paleontologists
[edit]- Birth of the Reverend William Fox, a significant early collector of dinosaur fossils from the Isle of Wight[3]
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Fischer von Waldheim, Gotthelf (1813). Zoognosia tabulis synopticis illustrata : in usum praelectionum mperalis Medico-Chirurgicae Mosquenis edita. Vol. 1. Mosquae [Moscow]: Typis Nicolai S. Vsevolozsky. p. 466.
- ^ Farlow, James Orville; Brett-Surmann, M. K. (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 15. ISBN 9780253213136. OCLC 37107117.