1873 in paleontology explained

Arthropods

Newly named insects

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages
Bothriomyrmex constricta[1] Comb novJr synonym(Mayr)LutetianBaltic amberFossil Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Anonychomyrma constricta
Bothriomyrmex geinitziComb novJr synonymMayrLutetianBaltic amberFossil Dolichoderin ant, jr synonym of Anonychomyrma geinitzi

Sauropterygia

Newly named plesiosaurs

Ichthyosaurs

Newly named ichthyosaurs

Notes and References

  1. Wheeler . W. M. . 1915 . The ants of the Baltic amber . Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg . 55 . 4 . 56–59.
  2. Harry G. Seeley . 1873 . On Cetarthrosaurus walkeri (Seeley), an Ichthyosaurian from the Cambridge Upper Greensand . Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society . 29 . 1–2. 505–507 . 10.1144/gsl.jgs.1873.029.01-02.43.
  3. . 99 . 251–266 . 2008 . 10.1017/S175569100900704X . Dawsonia Nicholson: linguliform brachiopods, crustacean tail-pieces and a problematicum rather than graptolite ovarian vesicles . Alex Page . Philip R. Wilby . Claire J. T. Mellish . Mark Williams . Jan A. Zalasiewicz . 3–4.

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