1998 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 1998.

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Acanthostichus hispaniolicus[2]	Sp. nov	Valid	De Andrade	Burdigalian	Dominican amber	Dominican Republic	A Dorylinae ant	Acanthostichus hispaniolicus

Molluscs

Bivalves

Amphibians

newly named anurans

Archosauromorpha

Dinosaurs

• A paper in the journal Nature is published by Karen Chin and others announcing the earlier discovery of a "king-sized coprolite" attributed to Tyrannosaurus rex.
• Lourinhasaurus gastroliths documented.^[5]
• Cedarosaurus gastroliths documented.^[6]
• Caudipteryx gastroliths documented.^[7]

• Volunteers from the Denver Museum of Natural History discovered Tony's Bone Bed in the Cedar Mountain Formation's Poison Strip Member.^[8]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[9]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Altirhinus[10]	Valid taxon	David Norman			Caudipteryx Cristatusaurus Gargoyleosaurus Gastonia Lourinhanosaurus Megaraptor Rahonavis Scipionyx Variraptor Zuniceratops
Augustia	Preoccupied	Bonaparte Zariquiey
Camposaurus[11]	Valid taxon	Hunt, Lucas, Heckert,	Sullivan, and Lockley
Caseosaurus[11]	Valid taxon	Hunt, Lucas, Heckert,	Sullivan, and Lockley
Caudipteryx[12]	Valid taxon	Ji Q., Phillip Currie,	Mark Norell and Ji S.
Cristatusaurus[13]	Valid taxon	Philippe Taquet	Dale A. Russell
Eobrontosaurus[14]	Valid taxon	Robert Bakker
Eolambia[15]	Valid taxon	James Kirkland
Gargoyleosaurus[16]	Valid taxon	Kenneth Carpenter Miles	Cloward
Gastonia[17]	Valid taxon	James Kirkland
Gongxianosaurus[18]	Valid taxon	He, Wang C., Liu S., Zhou F.,	Liu T., Cai and Dai
Histriasaurus[19]	Valid taxon	Dalla Vecchia
Lourinhanosaurus[20]	Valid taxon	Mateus
Lourinhasaurus[21]	Valid taxon	Dantas, Sanz, Da Silva,	Ortega, Dos Santos and Cachao
Megaraptor[22]	Valid taxon	Novas
Nedcolbertia[23]	Valid taxon	James Kirkland, Britt, Whittle,	S. K. Madsen and Burge
Notohypsilophodon[24]	Valid taxon	Martínez
Ozraptor[25]	Valid taxon	J. A. Long and	Ralph Molnar
Protohadros[26]	Valid taxon	Head
Rahona[27]	Preoccupied	Forster Sampson	Luis M. Chiappe and Krause
Rahonavis[28]	Valid taxon	Forster, Sampson,	Luis M. Chiappe and Krause
Scipionyx[29]	Valid taxon	Dal Sasso and	Signore
Shanxia[30]	Valid taxon	Barrett, You,	Upchurch and Burton
Shuvuuia[31]	Valid taxon	Luis M. Chiappe, Mark Norell and	Clark
Sonorasaurus[32]	Valid taxon	Ratkevich, Sidor, Varricchio,	G. P. Wilson and Jeffrey A. Wilson.
Tianzhenosaurus[33]	Valid taxon	Pang and	Cheng Z.
Variraptor[34]	Valid taxon	Le Loeuff and	Buffetaut
Zuniceratops[35]	Valid taxon	Wolfe and	James Kirkland

Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

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. ↑ De Andrade, M. L. (1998). "First description of fossil Acanthostichus from Dominican amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 71: 269–274. 
3. ↑ Elicki, O.; Gürsu, S. (2009). "First record of Pojetaia runnegari Jell, 1980 and Fordilla Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves" (PDF). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 83 (2): 267–291. doi:10.1007/s12542-009-0021-9. 
4. ↑ Henrici, A. C. (1998). "A new pipoid anuran from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation at Dinosaur National Monument, Utah". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 (2): 321–332. doi:10.1080/02724634.1998.10011060. 
5. ↑ Dantas et al. (1998). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
6. ↑ Sanders and Carpenter (1998). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
7. ↑ Qiang et al. (1998). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167.
8. ↑ "Introduction," DiCroce and Carpenter (2001). Page 185.
9. ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07. 
10. ↑ Norman, D.B. 1998. On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). 3. A new species of Iguanodontid dinosaur. Zool. Journal Linn. Soc. 122: pp. 291-348.
11. 1 2 Hunt, A.P., Lucas, S.G., Heckert, A.B., R.M. Sullivan, and M.G. Lockley. 1998. Late Triassic Dinosaurs from the Western United States. Geobios 31 (4): pp. 511-531.
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23. ↑ Kirkland, J.I., B.B. Britt, C.H. Whittle, S.K. Madsen, and D.L. Burge. 1998. A small coelurosaurian theropod from the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of eastern Utah. In: Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial ecosystems (S.G. Lucas, J.I. Kirkland, and J.W. Estep, eds.). Bull. New Mexico Mus. Nat. Hist. Sci.14: pp. 239-248.
24. ↑ Tapia, A. 1919. Una mandibula de dinosaurio procedente de Patagonia. Rev. Soc. Arg. Cienc. Nat. Vil. 4: pp. 369-370.
25. ↑ Long, J.A. and R.E. Molnar. 1998. A new Jurassic theropod dinosaur from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum. 19: pp. 121-129.
26. ↑ Head, J.J. 1998. A new species of basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Cenomanian of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18 (4):pp. 718-738.
27. ↑ Forster, C.A., S.D. Sampson, L.M. Chiappe, and D.W. Krause. 1998. The theropod ancestry of birds: new evidence from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Science. 279: pp. 1915-1919.
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29. ↑ Dal Sasso C. and M. Signore. 1998. Scipionyx samniticus (Saurischia, Theropoda): the first Italian dinosaur. Third European Workshop on Vertebrate Paleontology (abstract): p. 23.
30. ↑ Barrett, P. M., Y. Hailu, R. Upchurch, and A.C. Burton. 1998. A new ankylosaurian Dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shanxi Province, People’s Republic of China. J. Vert. Paleontol. 18 (2): pp. 376-384.
31. ↑ Chiappe,L.P., M.A. Norell, and J.M. Clark. 1998. The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus. Nature. 392: pp. 275-278.
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• Dantas,P.M., Freitas,C., Azevedo,T. Sanz,J.L., Galopim de Carvalho, A.M., Santos,D., Ortega, F., Santos, V., Sanz, J.L., Silva, C.M. & Cachão, M. (1998). Estudo dos Gastrólitos do Dinossáurio Lourinhasaurus do Jurássico Superior Português. Actas do V Congresso Nacional de Geologia. 84 (1): A87-A90.
• DiCroce, K. and K. Carpenter. (2001). "New ornithopod from the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Eastern Utah". pp. 183–196 in: Tanke, D. & K. Carpenter (eds.) Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
• Qiang, J., .Currie, P.J., Norell., M.A. & Shu-An, J., 1998. Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China. Nature 393 753-761.
• Sanders, F.H. & Carpenter, K. (1998). Gastroliths from a camarasaurid in the Cedar Mountain Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Abstracts with program. 18 (3): 74A.