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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 1990.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Syn nov | valid | A possible bristlecone fir species | ![]() | ||||||
Syn nov | Valid | Knowlton | A bristle cone pine species | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Syns nov | Valid | A barberry species | |||||||
Comb et syn nov | valid | (Knowlton) Schorn & Wolfe | synonymy
| An Mahonia species | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Comb et syn nov | valid | (Knowlton) Schorn & Wolfe | synonymy
| First identified as a possible Alder species | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Poinar & Singer | first mushroom genus described from the fossil record | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Tucker & Feldmann | A euryplacid crab, type species is O. plafkeri. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov | valid | Pagliano & Scaramozzino | A replacement name for "Protamblyopone" Dlussky 1981. | ![]() | ||||
Gen et sp nov | valid | Séméria & Nel | A green lacewing. | ![]() | ||||
Comb nov | Valid | (Wheeler) | A pseudomyrmecine ant. | ![]() | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov | Valid | |||||||
Gen nov | Valid | |||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Bannikov | Eocene | ![]() |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [12]
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Sp. nov. | A Phoenicopteriformes, Agnopteridae Lambrecht, 1933. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Late Hemphillian, |
| An Anatidae. | ||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| An Anatidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| An Alcidae. | |||||
Not Valid | Sp. nov. | Late Hemphillian, |
| An Anatidae, placed in synonymy with Bonibernicla ponderosa Kurochkin, 1985 by Zelenkov, 2012. [28] | ||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| An Alcidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Otididae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Late Hemphillian, |
| A Corvidae. | ||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Late Hemphillian, |
| An Anatidae. | ||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Marine Beds |
| A Diomedeidae. | ||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Late Hemphillian, |
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Valid | Sp. nov. | Late Eocene | Possibly an Enantiornithes Walker, 1981. | |||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | An Aves Incertae Sedis, possibly a Procelariiformes or a Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Histrionicus Lesson, 1828 by Storrs L. Olson & Pamela C. Rasmussen, 2001 [32] | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Spheniscidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
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Valid | Sp. nov. | Marine Beds |
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Valid | Sp. nov. | Spain: Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, | A Procellariidae, Mourer-Chauviré & Antunes, 2000 [35] emended the spelling to Puffinus holeae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| A Laridae. | |||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | A Ralliformes, Songziidae Hou, 1990, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| A Phalacrocoracidae, transferred to the genus Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| A Sulidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| An Alcidae. | |||||
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