1894 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 1894.

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Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Ornithosuchus	Valid taxon	Newton		Late Triassic (Carnian)	Lossiemouth Sandstone	Scotland	An ornithosuchid.	Ornithosuchus

Newly named dinosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images	Images
Dryosaurus	Valid	Othniel Charles Marsh		Late Jurassic (late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	Portugal United States (Colorado and Wyoming)	A dryosaurid. New genus for "Laosaurus" altus Marsh (1878).	Dryosaurus
Hortalotarsus	Jr. synonym	Harry Govier Seeley		Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)			Junior subjective synonym of Massospondylus.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Images
Cymatosaurus	Valid	Fritsch		Austria Germany Netherlands Poland

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
"Campylognathus"	Valid	Plieninger		preoccupied name; now known as Campylognathoides

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Thrinaxodon	Valid	Seeley	248 Millions of years ago	Antarctica South Africa	One of the earliest cynodonts.	Thrinaxodon