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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoriclife 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 1831.
Pterosaurs
August Goldfuss depicted pterosaurs as flying reptiles that used their wing claws to climb cliffs. He hypothesized that on land, they would have had to travel on all fours. He also suggested they may have been covered in hair.
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^ Goldfuss, G.A. (1831). Beiträge zur Kenntniss verschiedener reptilien der Vorwelt. Carlton. p. 66.
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Münster, G.G. (1831). "Beschreibung Einer Neuen Art Der Gattung Pterodactylus Cuv., Ornithocephalus Sömmer". Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum. 15: 49–60.
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