List of years in paleontology (table)
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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 occurred or were published in the year 1890.

Plants

Angiosperms

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Carpolithes dentatus[2]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Penhallow (in Dawson)[3]

Ypresian

"Stump lake", Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A small betulaceous fruit;
moved to Palaeocarpinus dentatus in 2003

Comptonia columbiana[3]

Sp nov

valid

Dawson

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada
 British Columbia

A Sweet fern

Pteridophyta

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Azollophyllum primaevum[4]

Sp nov

jr synonym

Penhallow

Ypresian

Allenby Formation

 Canada

moved to Azolla primaeva in 1955

Arthropods

Insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Cymatomera maculata[5]

Sp nov

Jr synonym

Scudder

Late Eocene

Florissant Formation

 United States
 Colorado

A palaeorehniid ensiferan.
Synonymized with Palaeorehnia maculata in 1908

Palaeorehnia maculata

Florissantia[5]

gen et sp nov

Valid

Scudder

Late Eocene

Florissant Formation

 United States
 Colorado

A dictyopharine planthopper.
Type species F. elegans

Archosauromorphs

Pseudosuchians

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Suchodus[6]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Lydekker

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Oxford Clay Formation

 UK

A metriorhynchid thalattosuchian,
type species S. durobrivensis

Dinosaurs

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Barosaurus

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Marsh

Kimmeridgian-Tithonian

Morrison Formation

 United States
 South Dakota

A diplodocid,
Type species B. lentus

Claosaurus

gen et comb nov

Valid

Marsh

Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian)

Niobrara Formation

 United States
 Kansas

A hadrosaur. New comb for Hadrosaurus agilis Marsh 1872

Ornithomimus

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Marsh

Late Cretaceous (Lancian)

Denver Formation

 United States
 Colorado

An ornithomimid.
Type species O. velox

Sauropterygia

Nothosauroidea

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Anarosaurus

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Dames

Middle Triassic

Lower Muschelkalk

 Germany

A pachypleurosaur.
Type species B. pumilio

References

  1. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
  2. Pigg, K.B.; Manchester S.R.; Wehr W.C. (2003). "Corylus, Carpinus, and Palaeocarpinus (Betulaceae) from the Middle Eocene Klondike Mountain and Allenby Formations of Northwestern North America". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 164 (5): 807–822. doi:10.1086/376816. S2CID 19802370.
  3. 1 2 Dawson, J. W. (1890). On fossil plants from the Similkameen Valley and other places in the southern interior of British Columbia. Royal Society of Canada.
  4. Arnold, C.A. (1955). "A Tertiary Azolla from British Columbia" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of. Paleontology, University of Michigan. 12 (4): 37–45.
  5. 1 2 Scudder, S. H. (1890). "The Tertiary insects of North America". United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Washington: 615.
  6. Lydekker, R. 1890, Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV. Containing the orders Anomodontia, Ecaudata, Caudata, and Labyrinthodonta, and Supplement, p. 1-295.
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