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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	Sankar Chatterjee		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		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	Jose Bonaparte	Rodolfo Coria
"Elvisaurus"	nomen nudum later named Cryolophosaurus	Holmes
Eoraptor^[6]	Valid taxon	Paul Sereno Forster	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	Perle Mark Norell	Luis M. Chiappe Clark, /Schueppel
Mononykus	Valid taxon	Perle Mark Norell	Luis M. Chiappe Clark
Naashoibitosaurus^[4]	Valid taxon	Hunt	S. G. Lucas,
Pararhabdodon^[11]	Valid taxon	Casanovas-Cladellas Santafé-Llopis	Isidro-Llorens
Tianchisaurus^[12]	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming
Tsagantegia^[13]	Valid taxon	Tumanova
Utahraptor^[14]	Valid taxon	James Kirkland Burge	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

^ 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.
^ Chatterjee, S. 1993. Shuvosaurus a new theropod. Nat Geogr. Res. Exploration 9 (3): pp. 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. 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.
^ 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.
^ 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, and E. Gomani. 1993. New material of an Early Cretaceous titanosaurid dinosaur from Malawi. Paleontology 36 (3): pp. 523-534.
^ 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.
^ 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., D. Burge, and R. Gaston. 1993. A large dromaeosaur (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretcaeous of eastern Utah. Hunteria 2 (10): pp. 1-16.
^ 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.

[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.

[ddinogeorge-3] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[huntlucas93nm-4] 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.

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