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1852 in paleontology

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Reptiles

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Tanystropheus

|von Meyer

|237 Millions of years ago

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Brachytrachelus

| Preoccupied.

| Geibel

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| preoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus

Ctenochasma

| Valid

| von Meyer

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| Pterosaur

Macrotrachelus

| Jr. synonym.

| Giebel

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| Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus.

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AepisaurusGervais, P. 1852. Zoologie et paleontology francaise (animauz vertebras): Paris v. 1, iv + 271 (text), v. 2, explanation of plates, v. 3, Plates;

| Nomen dubium

| Gervais

| Early Cretaceous (Albian)

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| A possible camarasaurid.

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Oplosaurus

| Nomen dubium

| Gervais

| Early Cretaceous (Barremian)

| Wessex Formation

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| A sauropod of unknown affinities.

Death

Literature

  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens was published. The story told by this novel is unrelated to paleontology, but it does briefly mention a Megalosaurus, which happened to be the first reference made to dinosaurs in fiction.

References

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Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.

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