1890_in_paleontology
1890 in paleontology
Overview of the events of 1890 in paleontology
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.
Angiosperms
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Carpolithes dentatus[2] |
Sp nov |
jr synonym |
"Stump lake", Allenby Formation |
A small betulaceous fruit; |
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Sp nov |
valid |
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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 |
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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. |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A dictyopharine planthopper. |
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Pseudosuchians
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Middle Jurassic (Callovian) |
A metriorhynchid thalattosuchian, |
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Dinosaurs
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
A diplodocid, |
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gen et comb nov |
Valid |
A hadrosaur. New comb for Hadrosaurus agilis Marsh 1872 |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Late Cretaceous (Lancian) |
An ornithomimid. |
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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. |
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.