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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 1878.

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Holcorpa[2]	Gen et sp nov	valid	Scudder	Priabonian	Florissant Formation	USA	A scorpionfly, type sp. H. maculosa

Archosauromorphs

O. W. Lucas recovers more material which would be referred to Laelaps trihedrodon from Morrison Formation strata near Garden Park, Colorado.[3]

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Symphyrophus	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope		Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	US	Possibly a synonym of Amphicotylus.[4]

Newly named dinosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Amphicoelias fragillimus	Jr. synonym	Othniel Charles Marsh	Late Jurassic (Tithonian)	Unknown	US	Synonym of Maraapunisaurus.[5]
Brachyrophus	Valid	Edward Drinker Cope	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	US	Junior subjective synonym of Camptosaurus.
Creosaurus	Junior synonym	Othniel Charles Marsh	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	US	Synonym of Allosaurus.
Diplodocus	Valid	Othniel Charles Marsh	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	US	A diplodocine diplodocid.
Epanterias	Nomen dubium	Edward Drinker Cope
Hypsirhophus	Junior synonym	Edward Drinker Cope	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	US ( Colorado)	Synonym of Stegosaurus.
Laosaurus	Nomen dubium	Othniel Charles Marsh	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	US
Morosaurus	Jr. synonym	Othniel Charles Marsh	Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Tithonian)	Morrison Formation	US	Junior subjective synonym of Camarasaurus.

Diplodocus.

Plesiosaurs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Eurysaurus	Valid	Gaudry		Early Jurassic	Unknown	France

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dimetrodon	Valid
Embolophorus	Valid
Ophiacodon	Valid
Sphenacodon	Valid
Theropleura	Valid

Footnotes

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.
Archibald, SB (2010). "Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 173–182. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697654.
"Introduction," Chure (2001) page 11.
Osborn, H.F., and Mook, C. C. (1921). "Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias and other sauropods of Cope." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History NS, 3(3): 249–387.
Carpenter, K. (2018). "Maraapunisaurus fragillimus, n.g. (formerly Amphicoelias fragillimus), a basal Rebbachisaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Colorado". Geology of the Intermountain West. 5 (9): 227–244. ISSN 2380-7601. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2018-10-22.

References

Chure, Daniel J. (2001). "On the type and referred material of Laelaps trihedrodon Cope 1877 (Dinosauria: Theropoda)". In Tanke, Darren; Carpenter, Kenneth (eds.). Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 10–18. ISBN 0-253-33907-3.

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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.

[Archibald2010-2] Archibald, SB (2010). "Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada" (PDF). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France. 46 (1–2): 173–182. doi:10.1080/00379271.2010.10697654.

[chure-11-3] "Introduction," Chure (2001) page 11.

[4] Osborn, H.F., and Mook, C. C. (1921). "Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias and other sauropods of Cope." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History NS, 3(3): 249–387.

[5] Carpenter, K. (2018). "Maraapunisaurus fragillimus, n.g. (formerly Amphicoelias fragillimus), a basal Rebbachisaurid from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Colorado". Geology of the Intermountain West. 5 (9): 227–244. ISSN 2380-7601. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2018-10-22.