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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.^[1] 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 1837.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[2]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Plateosaurus^[3]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer	Late Triassic	Feuerletten Formation, Fleming Fjord Formation, Knollenmergel, Marnes Irisees Superieures Formation, Obere Bunte Mergel Stubensandstein, Trossingen Formation	France, Norway, Germany, Greenland, Switzerland	German paleontologist Hermann von Meyer formally named and described Plateosaurus. This was the first described prosauropod, and is still the one we know most about.^[4]

Synapsids

Newly named mammals

Afrotherians

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Gomphotherium	Valid	Burmeister	Early Miocene to Early Pliocene	Ethiopia Austria Saudi Arabia China Czech Republic Egypt France Germany India Kenya Mexico Namibia North Korea Pakistan Poland Portugal Romania Russia Spain Switzerland Thailand Tunisia Turkey Ukraine USA ( California, Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota and Texas) Nicaragua	A gomphothere.	Gomphotherium

References

^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Meyer, H. von (1837). "Mitteilung an prof, Bronn (Plateosaurus engelhardti)". Neues Jahrbuch Mineral Geol. Palaeontol. 1837: 317.
^ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 11. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.

[1] Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.

[ddinogeorge-2] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[meyer-3] Meyer, H. von (1837). "Mitteilung an prof, Bronn (Plateosaurus engelhardti)". Neues Jahrbuch Mineral Geol. Palaeontol. 1837: 317.

[completedino-4] Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 11. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.

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