1990 in paleontology

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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.^[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (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 or were published in the year 1990.

Fungi

newly named

Actinopterygii ("Ray-finned Fish")

Newly named taxa

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

Newly named Dinosaurs

• All Anatosaurus species except A. copei were moved to the previously existing genus Edmontosaurus by Brett-Surman
• "Seismosaurus" gastroliths documented.^[3]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Agilisaurus[5]	Valid taxon	Peng G.			Agilisaurus Anatotitan copei Bellusaurus Epachthosaurus "Kitadanisaurus" "Gryposaurus"
Anatotitan[6]	Valid taxon formerly called Anatosaurus copei	Brett-Surman vide: Chapman	Michael K. Brett-Surman
Bellusaurus[7]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming
Breviceratops[8]	Valid taxon	Kurzanov
Drinker[9]	Valid taxon	Robert Bakker Galton	Siegwarth Filla
Emausaurus[10]	Valid taxon	Haubold
Epachthosaurus[11]	Valid taxon	Jaime Eduardo Powell
"Futabasaurus"	Nomen nudum; later applied to a plesiosaur.	David Lambert
“Hadrosauravus"[12]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
“Hisanohamasaurus”[12]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
“Katsuyamasaurus"[12]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
"Kitadanisaurus"[12]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
"Madsenius"[12]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
Monkonosaurus[13]	Valid taxon	Zhao X. vide: Dong Zhiming
Richardoestesia	Valid taxon	Phillip Currie Rigby and	R.E. Sloan
“Sugiyamasaurus"[12]	Nomen nudum	David Lambert
Yimenosaurus[14]	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. ↑ Gillette, D. (1990). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
4. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ Kurzanov, S.M. 1991. A new Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid genus from Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 1990: pp. 85-91.
9. ↑ 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.
10. ↑ Haubold, H. 1990. Ein neuer dinosaurier (Ornithischa, Thyreophora) aus dem unteren Jura des Hordlichen Mitteleuropa: Reviue de Paleobiologie 9 (1) : pp. 149-177.
11. ↑ Powell, J.E. 1986. Revision de los titanosauridos de America del Sur Argentina. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 Lambert, D., and the Diagram Group. 1990. The Dinosaur Data Book. Avon Books (320 pages).
13. ↑ 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.
14. ↑ 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.
15. ↑ 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. 
16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4 16.5 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. 
17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 17.8 17.9 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. 
18. ↑ 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. 
19. ↑ Antonio Sanchez Marco (1990). "A New Bustard (Otididae; Aves) from the Early Pliocene of Layna (Soria, Spain)". Paleontologia i Evolució 23: 223–229. 
20. ↑ 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. 
21. ↑ 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. 
22. ↑ 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. 
23. ↑ 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. 
24. ↑ 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. 
25. ↑ 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. 
26. ↑ 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. 
27. ↑ Hou LianHai (1990). "An Eocene Bird from Songzi, Hubei Province" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28 (1): 34–42. 
28. ↑ 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
• 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.