1993 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 1993.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Anasazisaurus[4]	Valid taxon	Hunt	S. G. Lucas		Argentinosaurus Eoraptor Mononykus was originally spelled "Mononychus." Utahraptor with a human to scale.
Argentinosaurus[5]	Valid taxon	Jose Bonaparte	Rodolfo Coria
"Elvisaurus"	nomen nudum later named Cryolophosaurus	Holmes
Eoraptor[6]	Valid taxon	Paul Sereno Catherine Forster	Rogers Monetta
Iuticosaurus[7]	Valid taxon	Le Loeuff
Klamelisaurus[8]	Valid taxon	Zhao X.
Malawisaurus[9]	Valid taxon	Jacobs Winkler	W. R. Downs Gomani,
"Mononychus"[10]	Preoccupied name, later respelled Mononykus	Perle Mark Norell	Luis M. Chiappe Clark, /Schueppel
Mononykus	Valid taxon	Perle Mark Norell	Luis M. Chiappe Clark
Naashoibitosaurus[4]	Valid taxon	Hunt	S. G. Lucas,
Pararhabdodon[11]	Valid taxon	Casanovas-Cladellas Santafé-Llopis	Isidro-Llorens
Tianchisaurus[12]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming
Tsagantegia[13]	Valid taxon	Tumanova
Utahraptor[14]	Valid taxon	James Kirkland Burge	Gaston

Newly named birds

Newly described Plesiosaurs

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. ↑ Chatterjee, S. 1993. Shuvosaurus a new theropod. Nat Geogr. Res. Exploration 9 (3): pp. 274-285.
3. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
4. 1 2 Hunt, A.P. and S.G. Lucas. 1993. Cretaceous vertebrates of New Mexico. In: Vertebrate Paleontology in New Mexico (A.P. Hunt and S.G. Lucas, eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2: pp. 77-91.
5. ↑ Bonaparte, J.F. and R.A. Coria. 1993. Un nuevo y gigantesco sauropodo titanosaurio de la Formacion Rio Limay (Albiano- Cenomaniano) de la Provincia de Neuquen, Argentina. Ameghiniana 30 (3): pp. 271-282.
6. ↑ Sereno, P.C., C.A. Forster, R.R. Rogers, and A.M. Monetta. 1993. Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria. Nature 361: pp. 64-66.
7. ↑ Le Loeuff, J. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Mém. Sp. 7: pp. 105 - 117.
8. ↑ Zhao, X. 1993. A new Middle Jurassic sauropod subfamily (Klamelisaurinae subfam.nov.) from Xinjiang Autonomous Region. China Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica Vertebrata PalAsiatica 31 (2 – April 2, 1993): pp. 132-138.
9. ↑ Jacobs, L. D. Winkler, and E. Gomani. 1993. New material of an Early Cretaceous titanosaurid dinosaur from Malawi. Paleontology 36 (3): pp. 523-534.
10. ↑ Perle A., Norell M.A., Chiappe L.M., Clark J.M. (1993). "Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia". Nature 362: 632–626. 
11. ↑ Casanovas-Cladellas, M.L., J.V. Santafe-Llopis, and A. Isidro-Llorens. 1993. Pararhabdodon isonense n. gen. n. sp. (Dinosauria) Estudio morfologico, radio-tomografico y consideraciones biomecanicas. Paleontologia I Evolucio, tomo 26- 27: pp. 121-131.
12. ↑ Dong, Z. 1993. An ankylosaur (Ornithischian dinosaur) from the Middle Jurassic of the Juanggar Basin, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica [no volume number available]: pp. 257-266.
13. ↑ Tumanova, T.A. 1993. On a new armoured dinosaur from Southeastern Gobi. Paleontologischeskii Zhurnal (1993) 2: pp. 92-98 (Paleontological Journal 27 (2): pp. 119-125).
14. ↑ Kirkland, J.I., D. Burge, and R. Gaston. 1993. A large dromaeosaur (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretcaeous of eastern Utah. Hunteria 2 (10): pp. 1-16.
15. ↑ Peter Wellnhofer (1993). "Das Siebte Exemplar von Archaeopteryx aus den Solnhofer Schichten". Archaeopteryx, Jahreszeitschrift der Freunde des Jura-Museums Eichstätt 11: 1–48. 
16. ↑ Lianhai Hou & Jiangyong Zhang (1993). "A New Fossil Bird from Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica 31 (3): 217–224. 
17. ↑ Lianhai Hou (1997). "Mesozoic Birds of China" (PDF). Natou, Taiwan: Taiwan Feng Huang Gu Bird Garden, English Translation: 1–153. 
18. ↑ Hou Lianhai (1993). "Avian Fossils of Pleistocene from Zhoukoudian". Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology. Academia Sinica. Science Press, Beijing 19: 165–297. 
19. ↑ Damià Jaume, Miguel McMinn & Josep A. Alcover (1993). "The Fossil Birds from the Bujero del Silo, La Gomera (Canary Islands) with a Description of a New Species of Quail (Galliformes, Phasianidae)" (PDF). Boletim do Museo Municipal Funchal, suplemento 2: 147–165. 
20. ↑ Steven M. Goodman & Florent Ravoavy (1993). "Identification of Bird Subfossils from Cave surface Deposits at Ahjohibe, Madagascar, With a Description of a New Giant Coua (Cuculidae: Couinae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington lume=106 (1): 24–33. 
21. 1 2 Lev A. Nessov & Andrei V. Panteleyev (1993). "About Similarities of the Late Cretaceous Ornithofauna of South America and Western Asia". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 252: 84–94. 
22. 1 2 Andrei V. Panteleyev (1998). "New Species of Enantiornithines (Aves: Enantiornithes) from Upper Cretaceous of Central Kyzylkum". Russian Journal of Ornithology, Express-issue 35: 3–15. 
23. ↑ Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich, I. M. Ganea et K. I. Shushpanov (1993). "[New Gallus species from Upper Pliocene in Moldova.]". Buletinul Academiei de Şţiince a Republicii Moldova 265 (=Şţiince Biologice şi Chimice 4): 45–48; 77. 
24. ↑ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (1993). "INFORMATION LETTER". SOCIETY OF AVIAN PALEONTOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 7. 
25. ↑ Lev A. Nessov & A. A. Yarkov (1993). "Hesperornithiformes in Russia". Russian Journal of Ornithology 2: 37–54. 
26. 1 2 3 Luis M. Chiappe (1993). "Enantiotnithine (Aves) Tarsometatarsi from the Cretaceous Lecho Formation of Northwestern Argentina" (PDF). American Museum Novitates 3083: 1–27. 
27. ↑ Andrei V. Panteleyev & Lev A. Nessov (1993). "A Small Tubunare (Aves: Procellariiformes) from the Eoceen of Middle Asia". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 252: 95–103. 
28. ↑ Walter E. Boles (1993). "A Logrunner Orthonyx (Passeriformes: Orthonychidae) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland" (PDF). Emu 93 (1): 44–49. doi:10.1071/mu9930044. 
29. 1 2 Robert F. Baird (1993). "Pleistocene Avian Fossils from Pyramids Cave (M-89), Eastern Victoria, Australia". Alcheringa 17 (4): 383–404. doi:10.1080/03115519308619600. 
30. ↑ Walter E. Boles (1993). "Pengana robertbolesi, a Peculiar Bird of Prey from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, Australia". Alcheringa 17 (1): 19–25. doi:10.1080/03115519308619485. 
31. ↑ Sop & Lim Yong Nam (1996). "Section 5. Mesozoic Era". in: Paek Ryong Jun & Kang Hyong Gap, 1996: Geology of Korea Institute of Geology, State Academy of Sciences, DPR of Korea, Foreign Languages Books Publishing House: 155–188, 584–599. 
32. ↑ Michael K. Brett-Surman & Gregory S. Paul (1985). "A New Family of Bird-Like Dinosaurs Linking Laurasia and Gondwanaland" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5 (2): 133–138. doi:10.1080/02724634.1985.10011851. 
33. ↑ LianHai Hou (1993). "Avian Fossils on the Jinniushan Paleolithic Site" (PDF). Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Palaeoanthropology 19: 39–40 + 153–159. 
34. ↑ Bakker, R. T., 1993, Plesiosaur Extinction Cycles – events that mark the beginning, middle and end of the Cretaceous: In: Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada, edited by Caldwell, W. G. E., and Kauffman, E. G., Special Paper 39, p. 641-664.