Pterosaurs Edward Newman interpreted pterosaurs as mammals in a similar fashion to Soemmering. However, Newman specifically considered pterosaurs to be carnivorous flying marsupials.
Sharks Louis Agassiz named a new taxon, Otodus and renamed Lamna obliqua as new Otodus species, the O. obliquus. Louis Agassiz named and renamed species, such as the Oxyrhina xiphodon, Oxyrhina hastalis, a new species of White Shark, the Carcharodon subauriculatus (now, replaced in Otodus genus and known as O. chubutensis) was named also.
New taxa Name Status Authors NotesPachyrhamphusPreoccupiedFitzingerPreoccupied name; now known as Scaphognathus.
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