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            List of years in paleontology       (table)
 1980 .  1981 .  1982 .  1983  . 1984  . 1985  . 1986 
1987 1988 1989 -1990- 1991 1992 1993
 1994 .  1995 .  1996 .  1997  . 1998  . 1999  . 2000 

Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (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. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, coprolites, palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because mankind has 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 in the year 1990.

Dinosaurs[]

Classification events[]

Newly named dinosaurs[]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list[1] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.[2]

Name Status Authors Notes Images
Agilisaurus[3] Valid taxon
  • Peng G.
Fukuiraptor BW

"Kitadanisaurus"

Anatotitan[4] Valid taxon formerly called Anatosaurus copei

Brett-Surman vide:

  • Chapman
  • Michael K. Brett-Surman
Bellusaurus[5] Valid taxon
Breviceratops[6] Valid taxon
  • Kurzanov
Drinker[7] Valid taxon
  • Siegwarth
  • Filla
Emausaurus[8] Valid taxon
  • Haubold
Epachthosaurus[9] Valid taxon
  • Jaime Eduardo Powell
"Futabasaurus" Nomen nudum; later applied to a plesiosaur.
  • David Lambert
Hadrosauravus"[10] Nomen nudum
  • David Lambert
Hisanohamasaurus[10] Nomen nudum
  • David Lambert
Katsuyamasaurus"[10] Nomen nudum
  • David Lambert
"Kitadanisaurus"[10] Nomen nudum
  • David Lambert
"Madsenius"[10] Nomen nudum
  • David Lambert
Monkonosaurus[11] Valid taxon
"Ricardoestesia" Name accidentally invalidated and replaced with misspelling.
  • Phillip Currie
  • Rigby and
  • R.E. Sloan
Sugiyamasaurus"[10] Nomen nudum
  • David Lambert
Yimenosaurus[12] Valid taxon

Bai vide:

  • Bai
  • Yang J.
  • Wang G.H.

References[]

  1. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-07. 
  2. ^ Montague, Jeremy. "Dr. Montague's Database". http://www.barry.edu/bio300/pdf/montague%20dino%20web%20data%2012-3-2005.pdf. Retrieved on 2008-10-29. 
  3. ^ Peng, G-Z. 1990. A new small ornithopod (Agilisaurus louderbacki gen et sp. nov.) from Zigong, Sichuan, China. Zigong Dinosaur Mueseum Newsletter 2: pp. 19 - 27.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Kurzanov, S.M. 1991. A new Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid genus from Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 1990: pp. 85-91.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Haubold, H. 1990. Ein neuer dinosaurier (Ornithischa, Thyreophora) aus dem unteren Jura des Hordlichen Mitteleuropa: Reviue de Paleobiologie 9 (1) : pp. 149-177.
  9. ^ Powell, J.E. 1986. Revision de los titanosauridos de America del Sur Argentina. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina.
  10. ^ a b c d e f Lambert, D., and the Diagram Group. 1990. The Dinosaur Data Book. Avon Books (320 pages).
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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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