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 184.
Reptiles
New taxa
| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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| Crocodilus priscus[2] | Sp. nov. | Valid | von Sömmerring | Tithonian | Mörnsheim Formation |  Germany
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Later named Aeolodon priscus by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer | 
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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.
- ^ von Sömmerring, S.T. (1814). "Über den Crocodilus priscus oder über ein in Baiern versteinert gefundenes Krokodil, Gavial der Vorwelt". Denkschriften der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München Classe. 4: 1–74.
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