1990 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 1990.

Fungal paleontology

newly named fungi

Paleozoology

Arthropods

newly named insects

Conodont paleozoology

German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genera Clarkina and Chiosella.^[4]

Vertebrate paleozoology

Actinopterygii ("Ray-finned Fish")

Newly named taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Veronavelifer	Valid	Bannikov	Eocene	Monte Bolca	Italy		Veronavelifer sorbiniis

Dinosaurs

• All Anatosaurus species except A. copei were moved to the previously existing genus Edmontosaurus by Brett-Surman
• "Seismosaurus" gastroliths documented.^[5]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[6]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Agilisaurus[7]	Valid taxon	Peng G.			Agilisaurus Anatotitan copei Bellusaurus Epachthosaurus "Kitadanisaurus" "Gryposaurus"
Anatotitan[8]	Valid taxon formerly called Anatosaurus copei	Brett-Surman vide: Chapman	Michael K. Brett-Surman
Bellusaurus[9]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming
Breviceratops[10]	Valid taxon	Kurzanov
Drinker[11]	Valid taxon	Robert Bakker Galton	Siegwarth Filla
Emausaurus[12]	Valid taxon	Haubold
Epachthosaurus[13]	Valid taxon	Jaime Eduardo Powell
"Futabasaurus"	Nomen nudum; later applied to a plesiosaur.	David Lambert
“Hadrosauravus"[14]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
“Hisanohamasaurus”[14]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
“Katsuyamasaurus"[14]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
"Kitadanisaurus"[14]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
"Madsenius"[14]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
Monkonosaurus[15]	Valid taxon	Zhao X. vide: Dong Zhiming
Richardoestesia	Valid taxon	Phillip Currie Rigby and	R.E. Sloan
“Sugiyamasaurus"[14]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
Yimenosaurus[16]	Valid taxon	Bai vide: Bai Yang J.	Wang G.H.

Newly named birds

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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. ↑ Poinar, G.; Singer, R. (1990). "Upper Eocene gilled mushroom from the Dominican Republic". Science. 248 (4959): 1099–1101. doi:10.1126/science.248.4959.1099. PMID 17733372. 
3. ↑ Dlussky, G.M.; Putyatina, T.S. (2014). "Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 272 (3): 237–285. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0409. 
4. ↑ Kozur, Cour Forschungsinst Senckenb, 1990, volume 117, page 414
5. ↑ Gillette, D. (1990). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
6. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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.
10. ↑ Kurzanov, S.M. 1991. A new Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid genus from Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 1990: pp. 85-91.
11. ↑ 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.
12. ↑ Haubold, H. 1990. Ein neuer dinosaurier (Ornithischa, Thyreophora) aus dem unteren Jura des Hordlichen Mitteleuropa: Reviue de Paleobiologie 9 (1) : pp. 149-177.
13. ↑ Powell, J.E. 1986. Revision de los titanosauridos de America del Sur Argentina. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina.
14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Lambert, D., and the Diagram Group. 1990. The Dinosaur Data Book. Avon Books (320 pages).
15. ↑ 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.
16. ↑ 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.
17. ↑ Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga (1990). "Flamingos Fósseis da Bacia de Taubaté, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil: Descrição de Nova Espécie". Anais da Academia Brasileira Ciências. 62 (1): 335–345. 
18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 K. Jeffrey Bickart (1990). "The Birds of the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Big Sandy Formation, Mohave County, Arizona" (PDF). Ornithological Monographs. 44 (1): 1–72. doi:10.2307/40166673. 
19. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Robert M. Chandler (1990). "Fossil Birds of the San Diego Formation, Late Pliocene, Blancan, San Diego County, California" (PDF). Ornithological Monographs. 44 (2): 73–161. doi:10.2307/40166674. 
20. ↑ Nikita V. Zelenkov (2012). "Neogene Geese and Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from Localities of the Great Lakes Depression, Western Mongolia". Paleontological Journal. 46 (1): 607–619. 
21. ↑ Antonio Sanchez Marco (1990). "A New Bustard (Otididae; Aves) from the Early Pliocene of Layna (Soria, Spain)". Paleontologia i Evolució. 23: 223–229. 
22. ↑ Lev A. Nessov (1990). "Small Ichthyonithiform Bird and Other Bird Remains from Bissekty Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Central Kizylkum Desert". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR. 210: 59–62. 
23. ↑ Alexander O. Averianov, Olga R. Potapova & Lev A. Nessov (1990). "On the First Findings of Ancient Bird Bones in the Fatherland". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR. 210: 3–9. 
24. ↑ Storrs L. Olson & Pamela C. Rasmussen (2001). "Miocene and Pliocene Birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 90: 233–365. 
25. ↑ Andrezej Myrcha, Andrzej Tatur & Rodolfo Del Valle (1990). "A New Species of Fossil Penguin from Seymour Island, West Antarctica". Alcheringa. 14 (3): 195–205. doi:10.1080/03115519008619055. 
26. ↑ Cyril A. Walker, Graham M. Wragg & Colin J. O. Harrison (1990). "A New Shearwater from the Pleistocene of the Canary Islands and Its Bearings on the Evolution of Certain Puffinus Shaerwaters". Historical Biology. 3 (3): 203–224. doi:10.1080/08912969009386522. 
27. ↑ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré & Miguel Telles Antunes (2000). "L'Avifane Pléistocène et Holocène de Gruta da Figueira Brava (Arrabida, Portugal)". Memorias da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Ciências. 38: 117–149. 
28. ↑ Miquel McMinn, Damià Jaume & Josep A. Alcover (1990). "Puffinus olsoni n.sp.: Nova Espècie de Baldritja Recentment Extingida Provinent de Depòsits Espeleològics de Fuerteventura i Lanzarote (Illes Canàries, Atlàntic Oriental)". Endins. 16: 63–71. 
29. ↑ Hou LianHai (1990). "An Eocene Bird from Songzi, Hubei Province" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 28 (1): 34–42. 
30. ↑ Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich & Abesalom K. Vekua (1990). "The Fossil Ostrich Struthio dmanisensis sp. n. from the Lower Pleistocene of Eastern Georgia". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 33 (7): 121–132. 
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• Gillette, D (1990). "Gastrolithes of a sauropod dinosaur from New Mexico". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 10 (suppl. 3): 24A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1990.10011841. 
• 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.