1990 in paleontology
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Template:Redirect category shell Template:Sister project Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.[1] 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 Template:Show by date published in the year 1990.
Plants
Conifers
Pinaceae
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Syn nov |
valid |
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A possible bristlecone fir species |
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Syn nov |
Valid |
Knowlton |
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A bristle cone pine species |
Angiosperms
Basal eudicots
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Syns nov |
Valid |
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A barberry species |
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Comb et syn nov |
valid |
(Knowlton) Schorn & Wolfe |
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An Mahonia species |
Superroids
Malpighiales
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Comb et syn nov |
valid |
(Knowlton) Schorn & Wolfe |
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First identified as a possible Alder species |
Paleomycology
newly named fungi
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Poinar & Singer |
first mushroom genus described from the fossil record |
Arthropods
Newly named crustaceans
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Tucker & Feldmann |
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A euryplacid crab, type species is O. plafkeri. |
Newly named insects
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
valid |
Pagliano & Scaramozzino |
A replacement name for "Protamblyopone" Dlussky 1981. |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Séméria & Nel |
A green lacewing. |
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Comb nov |
Valid |
(Wheeler) |
A pseudomyrmecine ant. |
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Vertebrates
Conodonts
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
Valid |
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Gen nov |
Valid |
Newly named Actinopterygii ("Ray-finned Fish")
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Bannikov |
Eocene |
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Pseudosuchians
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Willis, Murray & Megirian |
Miocene |
Bullock Creek |
A mekosuchine crocodilian. Originally material from the Riversleigh WHA was also assigned to this species, but later research found these fossils to have belonged to a distinct taxon. |
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Dinosaurs
- All Anatosaurus species except A. copei were moved to the previously existing genus Edmontosaurus by Brett-Surman
- "Seismosaurus" gastroliths documented.[11]
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[12]
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Newly named birds
| Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Phoenicopteriformes, Agnopteridae Lambrecht, 1933. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Hemphillian, |
An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Alcidae. |
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Not Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Hemphillian, |
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An Anatidae, placed in synonymy with Bonibernicla ponderosa Kurochkin, 1985 by Zelenkov, 2012.[28] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Alcidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Otididae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Hemphillian, |
A Corvidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Hemphillian, |
An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Marine Beds |
A Diomedeidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Hemphillian, |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Eocene |
Possibly an Enantiornithes Walker, 1981. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Aves Incertae Sedis, possibly a Procelariiformes or a Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Histrionicus Lesson, 1828 by Storrs L. Olson & Pamela C. Rasmussen, 2001 [32] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Spheniscidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Marine Beds |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Spain: Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, |
A Procellariidae, Mourer-Chauviré & Antunes, 2000 [35] emended the spelling to Puffinus holeae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Laridae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Ralliformes, Songziidae Hou, 1990, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Phalacrocoracidae, transferred to the genus Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Sulidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Alcidae. |
References
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- ↑ Gillette, D. (1990). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
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- ↑ Peng, G-Z. 1990. A new small ornithopod (Agilisaurus louderbacki gen et sp. nov.) from Zigong, Sichuan, China. Zigong Dinosaur Museum Newsletter 2: pp. 19 - 27.
- ↑ Brett-Surman vide Chapman, R.E., and M.K. Brett- Surman. 1990. Morphometric observations on hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Chapter 12). In: Dinosaurs Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches (K. Carpenter. and P.J. Currie, P.J., eds.). Cambridge University Press, New York: pp. 163- 177.
- ↑ Dong, Z. 1990. Sauropoda from the Kelameili Region of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang Autonomous Region. (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica) Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28 (1 - January): pp. 43-58.
- ↑ Kurzanov, S.M. 1991. A new Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid genus from Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 1990: pp. 85-91.
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- ↑ Bakker, R.T., P. Galton, J. Siegwarth, and J. Filla. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology Part IV. The dinosaurs: a new Othnielia-like hypsilophodontoid. Hunteria, 2: pp. 8-13.
- ↑ Haubold, H. 1990. Ein neuer dinosaurier (Ornithischa, Thyreophora) aus dem unteren Jura des Hordlichen Mitteleuropa: Reviue de Paleobiologie 9 (1) : pp. 149-177.
- ↑ Powell, J.E. 1986. Revision de los titanosauridos de America del Sur Argentina. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina.
- ↑ a b c d e f Lambert, D., and the Diagram Group. 1990. The Dinosaur Data Book. Avon Books (320 pages).
- ↑ Zhao vide Dong, Z. 1990. Stegosaurs of Asia. In: Dinosaur systematics: approaches and perspectives (K. Carpenter and P.J. Currie, eds.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK: pp. 255- 268.
- ↑ Bai, Z., J. Yang, and G. Wang. 1990. A new genus of prosauropod from the Yuxi (region) of Yunnnan Province [Yunnan Yuxi yuanxijiao lei yi xin shu]. Yuxi Cultural Organization [Yuxi Wen Tuan] 1 (October 1990): pp. 14-23 + plate 1.
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Works cited
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- Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.