1862 in paleontology explained

Dinosaurs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dimodosaurus		Nomen dubium	Pidancet Chopard				Possible subjective synonym of Plateosaurus.
Griphornis	Gen. nov.	Nomen rejectum	Sir Richard Owen vide Woodward	Kimmeridgian	Solnhofen Limestone	Germany	Rejected in favor of Archaeopteryx.
Griphosaurus[1]	Gen. nov.	Nomen rejectum	Andreas Wagner	Kimmeridgian	Solnhofen Limestone	Germany	Named for a skeleton with feathers considered by Wagner to represent a reptile unrelated to the origin of birds, specifically opposing Darwinian evolution and Hermann von Meyer's taxon Archaeopteryx.

Paleontologists

• Birth of Eberhard Fraas.^[2]

References

1. Wagner. A.. April 1862. On a new Fossil Reptile supposed to be furnished with Feathers. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9. 52. 261–267. 10.1080/00222936208681227.
2. Book: Farlow, James O.. M. K. Brett-Surmann. The Complete Dinosaur. Indiana University Press. 1999. Bloomington, Indiana. 18. 0-253-21313-4.