Arthropods

Crustaceans

Anapsids

Newly named anapsids

Archosauromorphs

Newly named basal archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Pterosaurs

* Thomas Hawkins published ''The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons'', wherein he suggested that the great reptiles of the Mesozoic were created by the

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. He described pterosaurs as "an engrafted-by-Evil stock" and depicted them as bat-like scavengers that combed the ancient seashore.

Plesiosaurs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Mammals

Newly named cetaceans

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References

1840s in paleontology

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