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none 1890 paleontology science 1890 Plants Angiosperms Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesCarpolithes dentatusPigg K.B. Manchester S.R. Wehr W.C. 2003 Corylus, Carpinus, and Palaeocarpinus (Betulaceae) from the Middle Eocene Klondike Mountain and Allenby Formations of Northwestern North America International Journal of Plant Sciences 164 5 807–822 10.1086/376816 19802370 Sp novjr synonymPenhallow (in Dawson)EoceneYpresianOkanagan Highlands"Stump lake", Coldwater BedsCanadaBritish ColumbiaA small betulaceous fruit; moved to Palaeocarpinus dentatus in 2003 Comptonia columbianaDawson J. W. 1890 On fossil plants from the Similkameen Valley and other places in the southern interior of British Columbia. Royal Society of Canada https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=aeu.ark:/13960/t0xp7hf36&view=1up&seq=11Sp novvalidDawsonEoceneYpresianOkanagan HighlandsAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaA Sweet fern thumb|center|upright|Comptonia columbiana Pteridophyta Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesAzollophyllum primaevumArnold C.A. 1955 A Tertiary Azolla from British Columbia Contributions from the Museum of. Paleontology, University of Michigan 12 4 37–45 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/48289/2/ID129.pdfSp novjr synonymPenhallowYpresianAllenby FormationCanadamoved to Azolla primaeva in 1955 thumb|center|upright|Azolla primaeva Arthropods Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes ImagesCymatomera maculataScudder S. H. 1890 The Tertiary insects of North America. United States Geological Survey of the Territories, Washington 615 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/97070#page/640/mode/2upSp novJr synonymScudderLate EoceneFlorissant FormationUnited StatesColoradoA palaeorehniid ensiferan. Synonymized with Palaeorehnia maculata in 1908thumb|center|upright|Palaeorehnia maculataFlorissantiagen et sp novValidScudderLate EoceneFlorissant FormationUnited StatesColoradoA dictyopharine planthopper. Type species F. elegansthumb|center|upright|Florissantia elegansTelmatrechusGen et sp et comb novValidScudderEarly EoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsAllenby FormationCanadaBritish ColumbiaA gerrine water strider genus.Type species is Hygrotrechus stali (1879)Includes the new species T. parallelus.Synonymized into Gerris (1910)Handlirsch A. 1910 Canadian fossil Insects. 5. Insects from the Tertiary lake deposits of the southern interior of British Columbia, collected by Mr. Lawrence M. Lambe Contributions to Canadian Palaeontology 2 3 93–129Resurrected as a valid genus in 1998.Andersen N.M. 1998 Water striders from the Paleogene of Denmark and review of fossil record and evolution of semi aquatic bugs (Hemiptera Gerromorpha) Biologiske Skrifter 50 1–157thumb|center|upright|Telmatrechus parallelus Archosauromorphs Pseudosuchians Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images SuchodusLydekker, 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.Gen et sp nov Valid LydekkerMiddle Jurassic (Callovian)Oxford Clay FormationUKA metriorhynchid thalattosuchian,type species S. durobrivensisthumb|center|upright|Suchodus brachyrhynchus Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images BarosaurusMarsh O.C. 1890 Description of new dinosaurian reptiles The American Journal of Science Series 3 39 81-86 Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Marsh Kimmeridgian-Tithonian Morrison Formation South Dakota A diplodocid 200px Ceratops paucidens Comb. nov. Nomen dubium Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming A new combination for Hadrosaurus paucidens ClaosaurusMarsh O.C. 1890 Additional characters of the Ceratopsidae, with notice of new Cretaceous dinosaurs American Journal of Science 39 418-426 Gen. nov. Valid Marsh Santonian Niobrara Formation Kansas A new genus for Hadrosaurus agilis 150px Ornithomimus Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Colorado An ornithomimid 200px Trachodon longiceps Sp. nov. Nomen dubium Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming A species of Trachodon Triceratops prorsus Sp. nov. Jr. synonym Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming A species of Triceratops Triceratops serratus Sp. nov. Jr. synonym Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming A species of Triceratops Triceratops sulcatus Sp. nov. Jr. synonym Marsh Maastrichtian Laramie Formation Wyoming A species of Triceratops Sauropterygia Nothosauroidea Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images AnarosaurusGen et sp nov Valid DamesMiddle TriassicLower MuschelkalkGermanyA pachypleurosaur. Type species B. pumiliothumb|center|upright|Anarosaurus heterodontus References Paleontology