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 1874.
Cionodon
Nomen dubium
Edward Drinker Cope
Late Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian)
Laramie Formation
A hadrosaurid.
Craterosaurus
Harry Govier Seeley
Early Cretaceous
Potton Sands
England
A dubious stegosaur.
Ischyrosaurus
Preoccupied.
Hulke, 1874
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)
Kimmeridge Clay
UK
Preoccupied by Edward Drinker Cope, 1869.
Morinosaurus
Sauvage
Unnamed unit
France
A dubious sauropod.
Polyonax
Jr. synonym
US
Junior subjective synonym of Triceratops.
Ophthalmosaurus
Valid
Seeley
Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
Oxford Clay Formation
An ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur.
Colymbosaurus
A cryptoclidid, new genus for "Plesiosaurus" megadeirus Seeley, 1869
Eretmosaurus
Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)
Blue Lias
A member of Microcleididae; new genus for "Plesiosaurus" rugosus Owen, 1840.
Mauisaurus
Hector
Late Cretaceous (late Campanian-Maastrichtian)
Conway Formation
New Zealand
An elasmosaurid.
Muraenosaurus
Oxford Clay
A cryptoclidid.
Rhomaleosaurus
Early Jurassic (Toarcian)
Whitby Mudstone Formation
A rhomaleosaurid; new genus for "Plesiosaurus" cramptoni Carte and Bailey, 1863
Coloborhynchus
Owen
Early Cretaceous (Valanginian)
Wadhurst Clay Formation
A member of Ornithocheiridae.
Criorhynchus
Jr. synonym of Ornithocheirus.
A tylosaurine mosasaurid.
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