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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 1993.
Arthropods[]
Newly named insects[]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Voisin & Nel |
Turolian |
A Curculionid weevil |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Nel & Henrotay |
A dragonfly. Type species M. veronicae |
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Gen et sp nov |
jr synonym |
Nel |
Late Miocene |
An inocellid snakefly, |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Nel |
Turolian |
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A snakefly |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Nel & Henrotay |
A dragonfly, type species P. marcusi |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Nel & Escuillé |
Turolian |
A damselfly, type species P. miocenicus |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Nel & Henrotay |
A dragonfly, type species P. loneuxi |
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Archosauromorphs[]
Newly named pseudosuchians[]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid taxon |
Late Triassic (mid Norian) |
A shuvosaurid. |
Newly named dinosaurs[]
Data courtesy of 's dinosaur genera list.[7]
Name | Status | Authors | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Anasazisaurus[8] | Valid taxon |
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Argentinosaurus[9] | Valid taxon |
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A sauropod of 75 to 100 tons and 35 meters in length. | |||
"Elvisaurus" | nomen nudum later named Cryolophosaurus |
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Eoraptor[10] | Valid taxon |
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A primitive saurischian. | |||
Iuticosaurus[11] | Valid taxon |
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Klamelisaurus[12] | Valid taxon |
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Malawisaurus[13] | Valid taxon |
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A Sauropod dinosaur from Malawi. | ||
"Mononychus"[14] | Preoccupied name, later respelled Mononykus |
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Mononykus | Valid taxon |
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A small Mongolian alvaresaur. | ![]() | |
Naashoibitosaurus[8] | Valid taxon |
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Pararhabdodon[15] | Valid taxon |
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A Spanish Tsintaosaurin Hadrosaur. | ||
Tianchisaurus[16] | Valid taxon | |||||
Tsagantegia[17] | Valid taxon |
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Utahraptor[18] | Valid taxon |
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A bear-size Dromaeosaur. | ![]() Utahraptor with a human to scale. |
Newly named birds[]
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Archaeopteryx bavarica[19] |
Valid ? |
Sp. nov. |
L |
Portlandian,
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An , the 7th Archaeopteryx specimen (Solnhofer Aktien-Verein specimen). Often seen as synonymous with Archaeopteryx lithographica von Meyer, 1861. |
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Chaoyangia beishanensis[20] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Valanginian, |
An Ornithurae, Hou, 1997, Chaoyangiidae Hou, 1997.[21] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Cave deposits |
A Corvidae. |
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Coturnix gomerae[23] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Late Pleistocene |
Cave deposits |
A Phasianidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Cave deposits |
A Cuculidae. |
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Enantiornis martini[25] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Coniacian, |
An Enantiornithidae, transferred to the New genus Incolornis Panteleyev, 1998 by Panteleyev, 1998[26] |
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Enantiornis walkeri[25] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Coniacian, |
An Enantiornithidae, transferred to the New genus Explorornis Panteleyev, 1998 by Panteleyev[26] |
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1993, In press. |
Sp. nov. |
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Late Pliocene |
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Phasianidae, I have not seen the paper, but it is mentioned in the Sape Newsletter, 1993[28] and in Mlíkovský, 2002. . |
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Hesperornis rossicus[29] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Late Campanian |
A Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888, Hesperornithidae Marsh, 1872. |
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Lectavis bretincola[30] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Middle Eocene |
Central |
A Diomedeidae |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Middle-Late Miocene |
Riversleigh |
An Orthonychidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Late Pleistocene |
Cave deposits |
An Orthonychidae. |
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Pengana robertbolesi[34] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Sticky Beak Local Fauna |
An Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Proornis coreae[35] |
Nomen Nudum |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Lin ? |
A possible Confuciusornithidae, the famous "Archaopteryx of Korea", there is not a valid description of this specimen, so the name is a Nomen Nudum. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Late Pleistocene |
Cave deposits |
An Acanthizidae. |
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Soroavisaurus australis[30] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Avisauridae Brett-Surman et Paul, 1985,[36] this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Cave deposits |
A Tytonidae. |
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Yungavolucris brevipedalis[30] |
Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the type species of the new genus. |
Newly described Plesiosaurs[]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Bakker |
Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian) |
A plesiosaurid. |
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.
- ^ Voisin, J. F.; Nel, A. (1993). "Un Lixus fossile du Miocène français (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 98: 19–21.
- ^ a b c Nel, A.; Henrotay, M. (1993). "Taxonomy; Les "Anisozygoptera" fossiles Phylogenie et classification (Odonata)". Martinia. 3: 1–311.
- ^ a b Nel, A. (1993). "Nouveaux Raphidioptères fossiles du Cénozoïque de France et d'Espagne". École Pratique des Hautes Études, Biologie et Évolution des Insectes. 6: 99–108.
- ^ Nel, A; Escuillé, F. (1993). "Découverte d'un nouveau genre de Sieblosiidae dans le Miocène supérieur de l'Ardèche (France) [Odonata, Zygoptera, Lestoidea, Sieblosiidae)". Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie. Nouvelle Série. 10: 233–242.
- ^ Chatterjee S (1993). "Shuvosaurus a new theropod". Nat Geogr. Res. Exploration. 9 (3): 274–285.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Bonaparte J.F., Coria R.A. (1993). "Un nuevo y gigantesco sauropodo titanosaurio de la Formacion Rio Limay (Albiano- Cenomaniano) de la Provincia de Neuquen, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 30 (3): 271–282.
- ^ Sereno P.C.; Forster C.A.; Rogers R.R.; Monetta A.M. (1993). "Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria". Nature. 361: 64–66.
- ^ Le Loeuff, J. 1993. European titanosaurids. Revue de Paléobiologie, Mém. Sp. 7: pp. 105 - 117.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jacobs L. D. Winkler, Gomani E. (1993). "New material of an Early Cretaceous titanosaurid dinosaur from Malawi". Palaeontology. 36 (3): 523–534.
- ^ Perle A.; Norell M.A.; Chiappe L.M.; Clark J.M. (1993). "Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia". Nature. 362 (6421): 623–626. doi:10.1038/362623a0.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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).
- ^ Kirkland J.I.; Burge D.; Gaston R. (1993). "A large dromaeosaur (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretcaeous of eastern Utah". Hunteria. 2 (10): 1–16.
- ^ Peter Wellnhofer (1993). "Das Siebte Exemplar von Archaeopteryx aus den Solnhofer Schichten". Archaeopteryx. 11: 1–48.
- ^ Lianhai Hou; Jiangyong Zhang (1993). "A New Fossil Bird from Lower Cretaceous of Liaoning" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 31 (3): 217–224.
- ^ Lianhai Hou (1997). "Mesozoic Birds of China" (PDF). Natou, Taiwan: Taiwan Feng Huang Gu Bird Garden, English Translation: 1–153.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-08-19. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
- ^ 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. 106 (1): 24–33.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (1993). "INFORMATION LETTER". Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. 7.
- ^ Lev A. Nessov; A. A. Yarkov (1993). "Hesperornithiformes in Russia". Russian Journal of Ornithology. 2: 37–54.
- ^ a b c Luis M. Chiappe (1993). "Enantiotnithine (Aves) Tarsometatarsi from the Cretaceous Lecho Formation of Northwestern Argentina" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3083: 1–27.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b Robert F. Baird (1993). "Pleistocene Avian Fossils from Pyramids Cave (M-89), Eastern Victoria, Australia". Alcheringa. 17 (4): 383–404. doi:10.1080/03115519308619600.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
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