Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, coprolites, palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because mankind has 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 in the year 1856.
Death of William Buckland, the polymath who was the first to scientifically describe a dinosaur.[6]
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^Lea, I. 1856. Description of Centemodon
sulcatus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia 10: pp. 77-78.
^Quenstedt, F. A. 1856. Sonst und Jetzt.
Populäre Vorträge über Geologie. Tübingen:
Laupp. [pp. 128, 130].
^ abcdeLeidy, J. 1856. Notices of the remains of extinct
reptiles and fishes, discovered by Dr. F.V. Hayden
in the badlands of the Judith River, Nebraska
Territory. Proc Acad. Nat. Sci. 1856: pp. 72-72.
^Rutimeyer. L. 1856. (Dinosaurus gresslyi).
Biblio. Universelle Geneve Arch. Sept 1856: p.
53.
^Rutimeyer. L. 1856. Reptilienknochen aus dem
Keuper. Allg. Schweiz. Ges. Ge samt. Naturwiss.
Verh. 41: pp. 62-64.
^Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. pp. 7. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
