page_title: 1914 in paleontology
section_title: New taxa
hierarchical_section_title: 1914 in paleontology / Pterosaurs / New taxa
caption_attribution_description: Fig. 8. Left side of two portions of the upper jaw of Pterodactylus compressirostris (BMNH 39410), nat. size&#160;; a, a, alveoli; n, nostril. Fig. 9. Right side of the same two portions of jaw; n, nostril. Fig. 9*. Transverse section of the jaw at the fore part of the hinder fragment. Fig. 10. Palatal surface of the same two portions of jaw&#160;; p, the naso-palatine aperture. From the Burham Chalk-pit, Kent; in the Cabinet of James S. Bowerbank, Esq., F.R.S.
context_page_description: 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, burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces, 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.
caption: Lonchodectes compressirostris
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