1890 in paleontology

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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Suchodus[2] Valid Richard Lydekker Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Oxford Clay Formation  France  UK A metriorhynchid thalattosuchian.

Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Barosaurus Valid Othniel Charles Marsh Kimmeridgian-Tithonian Morrison Formation  United States A diplodocid. Claosaurus Valid Othniel Charles Marsh Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) Niobrara Formation  United States A nodosaurid. Ornithomimus Valid Othniel Charles Marsh Late Cretaceous (Lancian) Lance Formation  United States An ornithomimid.		Ornithomimus.

Sauropterygia

New taxa

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Anarosaurus Valid Dames Middle Triassic Karlstadt Formation Lower Muschelkalk  Germany  Netherlands A pachypleurosaur.

Plants

Pteridophyta

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Azollophyllum primaevum[3]	jr synonym	Penhallow	Ypresian (Early Eocene)	Allenby Formation	Canada	redescribed in 1955 by Arnold as Azolla primaeva

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. 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.
3. Arnold, C.A. (1955). "A Tertiary Azolla from British Columbia" (PDF). Contributions from the Museum of. Paleontology, University of Michigan. 12 (4): 37–45.