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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 1852.

Institutions and organizations

Scientific advances

Vertebrate paleozoology

Newly named Prolacertiformes

Name	Authors	Age	Location	Images
Tanystropheus	von Meyer	237 Millions of years ago	China France Germany Israel Switzerland UK	Tanystropheus

**Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1852**
Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aepisaurus[2]	Nomen dubium	Gervais		Early Cretaceous (Albian)	Grès vert	France	A possible camarasaurid.	Aepisaurus limb bone.
Oplosaurus[2]	Nomen dubium	Gervais		Early Cretaceous (Barremian)	Wessex Formation	England	A sauropod of unknown affinities.

**Pterosaurs described in 1852**
Name	Status	Authors	Notes
Brachytrachelus	Preoccupied.	Geibel	preoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus
Ctenochasma	Valid	von Meyer
Macrotrachelus	Jr. synonym.	Giebel	Jr. synonym of Pterodactylus.

Law and politics

Ethics and practice

People

Awards and recognition

Deaths

Gideon Algernon Mantell died.

Popular culture

Literature

Bleak House by Charles Dickens was published. The story told by this novel is unrelated to paleontology, but it does briefly mention a Megalosaurus, which happened to be the first reference made to dinosaurs in fiction.[3]

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.
Gervais, P. 1852. Zoologie et paleontology francaise (animauz vertebras): Paris v. 1, iv + 271 (text), v. 2, explanation of plates, v. 3, Plates;
Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.

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[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.

[gervais1852-2] Gervais, P. 1852. Zoologie et paleontology francaise (animauz vertebras): Paris v. 1, iv + 271 (text), v. 2, explanation of plates, v. 3, Plates;

[sarjeant-fic-3] Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.