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Revision as of 03:31, 25 February 2014

List of years in paleontology (table)
In science
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1991
1992
1993
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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.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Shuvosaurus[2] Valid taxon

Late Triassic (mid Norian)

Cooper Canyon Formation

 United States

A shuvosaurid.

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
"Elvisaurus" nomen nudum later named Cryolophosaurus
  • Holmes
Eoraptor[6] Valid taxon
  • 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
Mononykus Valid taxon
Naashoibitosaurus[4] Valid taxon
  • Hunt
  • S. G. Lucas,
Pararhabdodon[11] Valid taxon
  • Casanovas-Cladellas
  • Santafé-Llopis
  • Isidro-Llorens
Tianchisaurus[12] Valid taxon
Tsagantegia[13] Valid taxon
  • Tumanova
Utahraptor[14] Valid taxon
  • Gaston

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Attenborosaurus[15]

Valid

Bakker

Early Jurassic (Hettangian-Sinemurian)

Blue Lias

 United Kingdom

A pliosaurid.

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. ^ 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.
  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., M.A. Norell, L.M. Chiappe, and J.M. Clark. 1993. Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature 362: pp. 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. ^ 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.