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 1884.
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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A scarab beetle preserved in quartz |
Newly named pseudosuchians | ||||||||
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Como Bluff Morrison Formation |
A sphenosuchian crocodylomorph. |
newly named non-avian dinosaurs | ||||||||
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
Gen et sp nov |
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A ceratosaurid ceratosaur |
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Gen et sp nov |
A Sauropod, type species D. mackesoni |
Newly named non-mammalian synapsids | ||||||||
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Owen |
A tritylodontid, |
Newly named plesiosaurs | ||||||||
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Valid | Gurich |