1890 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology 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 humans have 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 1890.
Plants
Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Carpolithes dentatus[2] | Sp nov | jr synonym | Penhallow (in Dawson)[3] | "Stump lake", Allenby Formation | A small betulaceous fruit; | |||
Sp nov | valid | A Sweet fern | ![]() |
Pteridophyta
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | jr synonym | moved to Azolla primaeva in 1955 | ![]() |
Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Cymatomera maculata[5] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | A palaeorehniid ensiferan. | ![]() | ||||
Florissantia[5] | gen et sp nov | Valid | A dictyopharine planthopper. | ![]() |
Archosauromorphs
Pseudosuchians
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Suchodus[6] | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Middle Jurassic (Callovian) | A metriorhynchid thalattosuchian, | ![]() |
Dinosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | A diplodocid, | ![]() | |||||
gen et comb nov | A hadrosaur. New comb for Hadrosaurus agilis Marsh 1872 | ![]() | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Late Cretaceous (Lancian) | An ornithomimid. | |
Sauropterygia
Nothosauroidea
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Dames | Middle Triassic | A pachypleurosaur. | ![]() |
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ Pigg, K.B.; Manchester S.R.; Wehr W.C. (2003). "Corylus, Carpinus, and Palaeocarpinus (Betulaceae) from the Middle Eocene Klondike Mountain and Allenby Formations of Northwestern North America". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 164 (5): 807–822. doi:10.1086/376816. S2CID 19802370.
- ^ a b Dawson, J. W. (1890). On fossil plants from the Similkameen Valley and other places in the southern interior of British Columbia. Royal Society of Canada.
- ^ Arnold, C.A. (1955). "A Tertiary Azolla from British Columbia" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of. Paleontology, University of Michigan. 12 (4): 37–45.
- ^ a b Scudder, S. H. (1890). "The Tertiary insects of North America". United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Washington: 615.
- ^ Lydekker, R. 1890, Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British Museum (Natural History), Part IV. Containing the orders Anomodontia, Ecaudata, Caudata, and Labyrinthodonta, and Supplement, p. 1-295.