1874 in paleontology
Dinosaurs
Publications
- Richard Owen publishes a monograph on Wealden and Purbeck reptiles, classifying Scelidosaurus, Iguanodon and Echinodon in the new dinosaur clade Prionodontia.
Newly named dinosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
Cionodon | Nomen dubium | Edward Drinker Cope | Late Cretaceous | Laramie Formation | A hadrosaurid. | - | |
Craterosaurus | Nomen dubium | Harry Govier Seeley | Early Cretaceous | Potton Sands | A dubious stegosaur. | - | |
Ischyrosaurus | Preoccupied. | Hulke, 1874 | Late Jurassic | Kimmeridge Clay | Preoccupied by Edward Drinker Cope, 1869. | - | |
Morinosaurus | Nomen dubium | Sauvage | Late Jurassic | Unnamed unit | A dubious sauropod. | - | |
Polyonax | Jr. synonym | Edward Drinker Cope | Late Cretaceous | Laramie Formation | Junior subjective synonym of Triceratops. | - |
Ichthyosaurs
New taxa
Plesiosaurs
New taxa
Pterosaurs
Newly named pterosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
Coloborhynchus | Valid | Owen | Early Cretaceous | Wadhurst Clay Formation | A member of Ornithocheiridae. | ||
Criorhynchus | Jr. synonym | Owen | Jr. synonym of Ornithocheirus. | ||||
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