title: 1834 in paleontology
text: # 1834 in paleontology
  
  Paleontology or palaeontology 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, 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 1834.
  
  ## Lophotrochozoans
  
  ### Newly named lophotrochozoans
  
  | Name | Status | Authors | Authors | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Macrodontophion | Nomen dubium | Zborzewski | | |
  
  ## Sauropterygians
  
  ### Newly named nothosaurs
  
  | Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Nothosaurus mirabilis | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid taxon | Georg zu Münster | Middle to early Late Triassic | Muschelkalk | Germany | A Seal-like marine reptile, from the family Nothosauridae. The type species of the genus Nothosaurus. |
  | Nothosaurus giganteus | Sp. nov. | Valid taxon | Georg zu Münster | Middle to early Late Triassic | Osnabrück | Germany | An additional species of Nothosaurus. |
  | Conchiosaurus clavatus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Junior synonym | Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer | Middle Triassic | Muschelkalk | Germany | A junior synonym of Nothosaurus. |
  