1894 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 1894.
Archosauromorphs
Newly named pseudosuchians
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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| Valid taxon | Newton | Late Triassic (Carnian) | An ornithosuchid. |  | ||||
Newly named dinosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | Images | |
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| Valid | Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
| A dryosaurid. New genus for "Laosaurus" altus Marsh (1878). |  | |||||
| Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) | Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus. | ||||||||
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Plesiosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Status | Authors | Location | Images | |
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| Valid | Fritsch | ||||
Pterosaurs
New taxa
| Name | Status | Authors | Notes | |
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| Valid | Plieninger | preoccupied name; now known as Campylognathoides | ||
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Valid | Seeley | 248 Millions of years ago | One of the earliest cynodonts. |  |
