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            List of years in paleontology       (table)
 1982 .  1983 .  1984 .  1985  . 1986  . 1987  . 1988 
1989 1990 1991 -1992- 1993 1994 1995
 1996 .  1997 .  1998 .  1999  . 2000  . 2001  . 2002 

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 1992.

Birds[]

Newly named birds[]

Currently valid genera[]

  • Kuszholia, Lev A. Nesov

Dinosaurs[]

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
Archaeornithoides Valid taxon
  • Elzanowski
  • Peter Wellnhofer


TarbosaurusDB

"Maleevosaurus"

"Chinshakiangosaurus" [3]
  • Yeh, 1975 [nomen nudum]
Dyslocosaurus[4] Valid taxon
  • McIntosh
  • Coombs
Edmarka[5] Valid taxon
  • Siegwarth
  • Filla
Gigantspinosaurus Valid taxon
  • Ouyang
"Jurassosaurus"[6] Nomen nudum later named Tianchisaurus

Dong Zhiming vide

  • Holden
Kuszholia Valid non-dinosaurian taxon
  • Lev A. Nesov
"Maleevosaurus"[7] Junior synonym of Tarbosaurus
Neuquensaurus[8] Valid taxon
  • Jaime Eduardo Powell
Udanoceratops[9] Valid taxon
  • Sergei Kurzanov
"Umarsaurus"[10] Nomen nudum later named Barsboldia

Maryanska and Halszka Osmólska vide:

Wakinosaurus[11] Valid taxon
  • Okazaki

Plesiosaurs[]

New taxa[]

Name Status Authors Notes

Sulcusuchus

Valid

Gasparini Spalletti

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. ^ Yeh, H. 1975. Mesozoic Redbeds of Yunnan. Academia Sinica, Beijing.
  4. ^ McIntosh, J.S., W.P. Coombs, and D.A. Russell. 1992. A new diplodocid sauropod (Dinosauria) from Wyoming, USA. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 12 (2): pp. 158-167.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Dong vide Holden, C. 1992. Paleontology's Jurassic windfall. Science 258 (18 December): p. 1879.
  7. ^ Carpenter, K. 1992. Tyrannosaurids (Dinosauria) of Asia and North America. In: Aspects of nonmarine cretaceous geology (N. Mateer and P.J. Chen, eds.). China Ocean Press, Beijing: pp. 250-268.
  8. ^ Novas, F.E. and D. Pott. 2005. New evidence on deinonychosaurian dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 433: pp. 858- 861.
  9. ^ Kurzanov, S.M. 1992. Gigantskiy protoseratopsid iz verkhnengo mela Mongolii. Paleontologischeskii Zhural (1992) 3: pp. 81-93.
  10. ^ Maryanska, T. and H. Osmólska. 1981. First lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Nemegt Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 26 (3-4): pp. 243-255, vide Olshevsky, G. 1992. A Revision of the Parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, Excluding the Advanced Crocodylia. Mesozoic Meanderings #2 (2nd printing): iv + 268 pages.
  11. ^ Okazaki, Y. 1992. A new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kwanmon Group, Northern Kyushu. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11: pp. 87-90.
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