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 1873.
Bothriomyrmex constricta[2]
Comb nov
Jr synonym
(Mayr)
Lutetian
Baltic amber
Europe
Fossil Dolichoderin antjr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta
Bothriomyrmex geinitzi[2]
Mayr
Fossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi
Liopleurodon
Gen et sp nov
Valid
Sauvage
Callovian
A pliosaurid
Cetarthrosaurus[3]
Seeley
late Albian/early Cenomanian
Cambridge Greensand Formation
Dawsonia campanulata[4]
Nicholson
Silurian
Moffat Shales Group
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