1846 in paleontology
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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 1846.
Archosauromorphs
New taxa
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
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| Preoccupied | Plieninger | Middle Triassic (Ladinian) | The name was also preoccupied by the well known species of prehistoric cat. The genus was later renamed Zanclodon. | ||||
| Valid | Plieninger | Middle Triassic (Ladinian) | A non-dinosaurian archosaur; replacement name for Smilodon Plieninger, 1846 (non Lund 1842). | ||||
Pterosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Owen | Middle Cretaceous (Turonian) | Unnamed unit in Chalk Group | A dubious pterosaur. | |||||
| Valid | von Meyer | Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) | A rhamphorhynchid pterosaur. |  | ||||
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Sauropterygians
Newly named plesiosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Valid | Stutchbury | Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | A rhomaleosaurid plesiosaur; type species of Atychodracon Smith, 2015. |