Reptiles
Non-dinosaurs NameAuthorsAgeLocationImagesTanystropheusvon Meyer237 Millions of years ago
Brachytrachelus Preoccupied. Geibel preoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus Ctenochasma Valid von Meyer Pterosaur Macrotrachelus Jr. synonym. Giebel Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus.
Dinosaurs Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images AepisaurusGervais, P. 1852. Zoologie et paleontology francaise (animauz vertebras): Paris v. 1, iv + 271 (text), v. 2, explanation of plates, v. 3, Plates; 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.
Death Gideon Algernon Mantell died.
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.
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