1895 in paleontology

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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 1895.

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Cercopis grandescens[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A froghopper	Cercopis grandescens (1895 illustration)
Cercopites torpescens[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A froghopper	Cercopites torpescens (1895 illustration)
Dawsonites[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A froghopper Type species D. veter	Dawsonites veter (1895 illustration)
Cryptocephalites[3]	gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A chrysomelid leaf beetle. Type species C. punctatus	Cryptocephalites punctatus
Limonius impunctus[3]	Sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	An elaterid click beetle.	Limonius impunctus
Palaeoptysma[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A spittle bug Type species P. venosa	Palaeoptysma venosa (1895 illustration)
Ptysmaphora[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A spittle bug Type species P. fletcheri	Ptysmaphora fletcheri (1895 illustration)
Ricania antiquata[2]	Sp nov	jr synonym	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A Polystoechotid-group moth lacewing[4] Moved to Ricaniella antiquata (1897)[5]	Ricaniella antiquata (1895 illustration)
Stenecphora[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A froghopper Type species S. punctulata	Stenecphora punctulata (1895 illustration)
Stenolocris[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Scudder	Ypresian	Allenby Formation	Canada  British Columbia	A froghopper Type species S. venosa	Stenolocris venosa (1895 illustration)

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Cryptocynodon	Valid	Seeley	Late Permian	South Africa
Cynognathus	Valid	Seeley	Middle Triassic	South Africa		Cynognathus
Diademodon	Valid	Seeley	Middle Triassic	South Africa	A Cynodont.	Diademodon
Esoterodon	Valid	Seeley		Tanzania
Gomphognathus	Valid	Seeley
Microgomphodon	Valid	Seeley		South Africa
Pristerognathus	Valid	Seeley		South Africa	A Therocephalian
Trirachodon	Valid	Seeley		Namibia  South Africa  Zambia		Trirachodon

Birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Thegornis	Gen. et 2 sp. nov	Valid	Ameghino	Early–Middle Miocene (Santacrucian)	Argentina	A member of the Herpetotherinae. The type species is T. musculosus; Ameghino also named T. debilis, but it has since been synonymized with the former on the basis of sexual dimorphism.[6]

References

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.
2. Scudder, S. H (1895). "Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, Vol I. The Tertiary Hemiptera of British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2: 5–26.
3. Scudder, S. H (1895). "Canadian fossil insects, myriapods and arachnids, Vol II. The Coleoptera hitherto found fossil in Canada". Geological Survey of Canada Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology. 2: 5–26.
4. Shcherbakov, D. E. (2006). "The earliest find of Tropiduchidae (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha), representing a new tribe, from the Eocene of Green River, USA, with notes on the fossil record of higher Fulgoroidea". Russian Entomological Journal. 15: 315–322.
5. Meunier, F. (1897). "Observations sur quelques insectes du Corallien de la Bavière". Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia. 3: 18–23.
6. Jorge I. Noriega; Juan I. Areta; Sergio F. Vizcaíno; M. Susana Bargo (2011). "Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Patagonian Miocene Falcon Thegornis musculosus Ameghino, 1895 (Aves: Falconidae)". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (6): 1089–1104. doi:10.1666/10-122.1. hdl:11336/76576. S2CID 84262902.