1862 in paleontology

Dinosaurs

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Name ! Novelty ! Status ! Authors ! Age ! Unit ! Location ! Notes ! Images
Dimodosaurus \| \| Nomen dubium \| Pidancet Chopard \| \| \| \| Possible subjective synonym of Plateosaurus. \|
Griphornis \| Gen. nov. \| Nomen rejectum \| Sir Richard Owen vide Woodward \| Kimmeridgian \| Solnhofen Limestone \| {{flag\|Germany}} \| Rejected in favor of Archaeopteryx. \|
Griphosaurus{{cite journal\|last=Wagner\|first=A.\|date=April 1862\|title=On a new Fossil Reptile supposed to be furnished with Feathers\|journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History\|volume=9\|issue=52\|pages=261–267\|doi=10.1080/00222936208681227\|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/64614}} \| Gen. nov. \| Nomen rejectum \| Andreas Wagner \| Kimmeridgian \| Solnhofen Limestone \| {{flag\|Germany}} \| Named for a skeleton with feathers considered by Wagner to represent a reptile unrelated to the origin of birds, specifically opposing Darwinian evolution and Hermann von Meyer's taxon Archaeopteryx. \|

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Name

! Novelty

! Status

! Authors

! Age

! Unit

! Location

! Notes

! Images

Dimodosaurus

| Nomen dubium

Pidancet
Chopard

| Possible subjective synonym of Plateosaurus.

Griphornis

| Gen. nov.

| Nomen rejectum

| Sir Richard Owen vide Woodward

| Kimmeridgian

| Solnhofen Limestone

| {{flag|Germany}}

| Rejected in favor of Archaeopteryx.

Griphosaurus{{cite journal|last=Wagner|first=A.|date=April 1862|title=On a new Fossil Reptile supposed to be furnished with Feathers|journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History|volume=9|issue=52|pages=261–267|doi=10.1080/00222936208681227|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/64614}}

| Gen. nov.

| Nomen rejectum

| Andreas Wagner

| Kimmeridgian

| Solnhofen Limestone

| {{flag|Germany}}

| Named for a skeleton with feathers considered by Wagner to represent a reptile unrelated to the origin of birds, specifically opposing Darwinian evolution and Hermann von Meyer's taxon Archaeopteryx.

Paleontologists

Birth of Eberhard Fraas.{{cite book| last = Farlow| first = James O.|author2= M. K. Brett-Surmann| title = The Complete Dinosaur| publisher = Indiana University Press| year = 1999| location = Bloomington, Indiana| pages = 18| isbn = 0-253-21313-4}}

References

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