1846 in paleontology explained

Archosauromorphs

New taxa

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotes
Smilodon[1] PreoccupiedPlieningerMiddle Triassic (Ladinian)Erfurt FormationThe name was also preoccupied by the well known species of prehistoric cat. The genus was later renamed Zanclodon.
ZanclodonValidPlieningerMiddle Triassic (Ladinian)Erfurt FormationA non-dinosaurian archosaur; replacement name for Smilodon Plieninger, 1846 (non Lund 1842).

Pterosaurs

New taxa

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages
CimoliornisNomen dubiumOwenMiddle Cretaceous (Turonian)Unnamed unit in Chalk GroupA dubious pterosaur.
RhamphorhynchusValidvon MeyerLate Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)Solnhofen FormationA rhamphorhynchid pterosaur.

Sauropterygians

Newly named plesiosaurs

Notes and References

  1. Plieninger, T. 1846. Ueber ein neuesSauriergenus. Jahreschefte Verein furVaterlandische Naturkunde in Wurttemberg 2.