1890 in paleontology

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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Suchodus[2]

Valid

Richard Lydekker

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Oxford Clay Formation

 France
 UK

A metriorhynchid thalattosuchian.

Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Barosaurus

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Kimmeridgian-Tithonian

Morrison Formation

 United States

A diplodocid.

Claosaurus

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian)

Niobrara Formation

 United States

A nodosaurid.

Ornithomimus

Valid

Othniel Charles Marsh

Late Cretaceous (Lancian)

Lance Formation

 United States

An ornithomimid.
Ornithomimus.

Sauropterygia

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Anarosaurus

Valid

Dames

Middle Triassic

Karlstadt Formation
Lower Muschelkalk

 Germany
 Netherlands

A pachypleurosaur.

Plants

Pteridophyta

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Azollophyllum primaevum[3]

jr synonym

Ypresian (Early Eocene)

Allenby Formation

 Canada

redescribed in 1955 by Arnold as Azolla primaeva

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. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Arnold, C.A. (1955). "A Tertiary Azolla from British Columbia" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of. Paleontology, University of Michigan. 12 (4): 37–45.
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