1852 in paleontology explained

Institutions and organizations

Scientific organizations

Scientific advances

Newly named Prolacertiformes

Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1852

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aepisaurus^[1]	Nomen dubium	Gervais		Early Cretaceous (Albian)	Grès vert		A possible camarasaurid.
Oplosaurus	Nomen dubium	Gervais		Early Cretaceous (Barremian)	Wessex Formation		A sauropod of unknown affinities.

Pterosaurs described in 1852

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Brachytrachelus	Preoccupied.	Geibel		preoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus
Ctenochasma	Valid	von Meyer
Macrotrachelus	Jr. synonym.	Giebel		Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus.

Research techniques

Law and politics

Protected areas

Ethics and practice

Unethical practice

People

Deaths

• Gideon Algernon Mantell died.

Popular culture

Literature

• Bleak House by Charles Dickens was published. The story told by this novel is unrelated to paleontology, but it does briefly mention a Megalosaurus, which happened to be the first reference made to dinosaurs in fiction.

Philately

Notes and References

1. Gervais, P. 1852. Zoologie et paleontology francaise (animauz vertebras): Paris v. 1, iv + 271 (text), v. 2, explanation of plates, v. 3, Plates;