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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 1884.

Arthropods[edit]

insects[edit]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Anomalites^[2]	Gen et Sp nov	valid	Frič	Eocene Priabonian	Nogent-le-Rotrou	France	A scarab beetle preserved in quartz	Anomalites fugitivus

Vertebrates[edit]

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries[edit]

Joseph Burr Tyrrell discovered a partial Albertosaurus skull near Kneehills Creek in Alberta Canada. This specimen is now catalogued as CMN 5600.^[3]

Pseudosuchians[edit]

Newly named pseudosuchians
Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type unit	Location	Notes	Images
Macelognathus	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Marsh	Kimmeridgian-Tithonian	Como Bluff Morrison Formation	USA Wyoming	A sphenosuchian crocodylomorph. Type species M. vagans	Macelognathus vagans

Non-avian dinosaurs[edit]

newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ceratosaurus	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Marsh	Kimmeridgian-Tithonian	Morrison Formation	USA Colorado	A ceratosaurid ceratosaur Type species C. nasicornis	Ceratosaurus
Dinodocus	Gen et sp nov	Nomen dubium	Owen	Aptian	Hythe Formation	UK England	A Sauropod, type species D. mackesoni

Synapsids[edit]

Newly named non-mammalian synapsids
Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type unit	Location	Notes	Images
Tritylodon	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Owen	Hettangian–Sinemurian	Karoo Supergroup	South Africa	A tritylodontid, type species T. longaevus	Tritylodon longaevus

Plesiosaurs[edit]

Newly named plesiosaurs
Name	Status	Authors	Location
Dactylosaurus	Valid	Gurich	Netherlands

References[edit]

^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
^ Frič, A. (1884). "Uiber einen fossilen Maikäfer (Anomalites fugitivus Fr.) aus dem tertiären Süsswasserquarz von Nogent le Rotron in Frankreich". Sitzungsberichte der Königlich-Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 1884 (20): 163–165.
^ D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550.

[1] Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.

[Frič1884-2] Frič, A. (1884). "Uiber einen fossilen Maikäfer (Anomalites fugitivus Fr.) aus dem tertiären Süsswasserquarz von Nogent le Rotron in Frankreich". Sitzungsberichte der Königlich-Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. 1884 (20): 163–165.

[cutler-3] D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550.

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