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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 1836.
Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Poekilopleuron bucklandii [2] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps | Middle Jurassic ( Bathonian) | Calcaire de Caen | ![]() |
As shown in Ref., [3] the genus and species were first named and described by Jacques-Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps in a report published in 1836, based on holotype material that is now destroyed. In 1837, Eudes-Deslongchamps published a more detailed account of this discovery in a monograph [4] which was also inserted next year in volume 6 of the "Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne Normandie". [5] |
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Palaeosaurus cylindrodon | Gen. et sp. nov. | Preoccupied genus, nomen dubium | Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury | Late Triassic, Rhaetian [6] | Durdham Down [6] | ![]() |
The name was preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosaur named by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1833. Palaeosaurus cylindrodon is the type species of the genus. [6] | ||
Palaeosaurus platyodon | Sp. nov. | Preoccupied genus, nomen dubium | Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury | Late Triassic, Rhaetian | Durdham Down | ![]() |
Second species of the preoccupied genus Palaeosaurus, later renamed into the separate genus Rileya. | ||
Gen. nov. |
Valid |
Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury |
Durdham Down [6] |
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Thecodontosaurus is the fourth valid dinosaur genus named. It was first excavated by Riley and Stutchbury in 1834, and they published a preliminary description in 1835. When they assigned the remains to a new taxon, which they named Thecodontosaurus, they did not assign a species. The genus was not originally recognized as a dinosaur, with Riley and Stutchbury finding it a saurian. [6] |
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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 1836.
Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Poekilopleuron bucklandii [2] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps | Middle Jurassic ( Bathonian) | Calcaire de Caen | ![]() |
As shown in Ref., [3] the genus and species were first named and described by Jacques-Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps in a report published in 1836, based on holotype material that is now destroyed. In 1837, Eudes-Deslongchamps published a more detailed account of this discovery in a monograph [4] which was also inserted next year in volume 6 of the "Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne Normandie". [5] |
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Palaeosaurus cylindrodon | Gen. et sp. nov. | Preoccupied genus, nomen dubium | Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury | Late Triassic, Rhaetian [6] | Durdham Down [6] | ![]() |
The name was preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosaur named by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1833. Palaeosaurus cylindrodon is the type species of the genus. [6] | ||
Palaeosaurus platyodon | Sp. nov. | Preoccupied genus, nomen dubium | Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury | Late Triassic, Rhaetian | Durdham Down | ![]() |
Second species of the preoccupied genus Palaeosaurus, later renamed into the separate genus Rileya. | ||
Gen. nov. |
Valid |
Henry Riley, Samuel Stutchbury |
Durdham Down [6] |
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Thecodontosaurus is the fourth valid dinosaur genus named. It was first excavated by Riley and Stutchbury in 1834, and they published a preliminary description in 1835. When they assigned the remains to a new taxon, which they named Thecodontosaurus, they did not assign a species. The genus was not originally recognized as a dinosaur, with Riley and Stutchbury finding it a saurian. [6] |