1990 in paleontology

none 1990 paleontology science 1990 Plants Conifers Pinaceae Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesAbies rigidaKnowlton F.H. 1923 Fossil plants from the Tertiary lake beds of South-Сentral Colorado Professional Paper United States Geological Survey 131-G 183–197 10.3133/pp131G free Wolfe J.A. Schorn H.E. 1990 Taxonomic revision of the Spermatopsida of the Oligocene Creede flora, southern Colorado Bulletin United States Geological Survey 1923 1–40 10.3133/b1923 free Syn novvalidKnowltonOligoceneChattianCreede FormationUSColoradoAbies longirostris (1923)A possible bristlecone fir speciesthumb|center|upright|Abies rigidaPinus crossiiSyn novValidKnowltonOligoceneChattianCreede FormationUSColoradoPinus aristata fossilis(1934) Pinus coloradensis (1923) Pinus similis (1923) Pinus wasonii (1987)A bristle cone pine species Angiosperms Basal eudicots Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesBerberis coloradensisSyns novValidAxelrodOligoceneChattianCreede FormationUSColorado true synonymy Berberis riogrande (1987) Fendlera coloradensis p.p. (1987) Philadelphus creedensis (1987) Vaccinium creedensis (1987)A barberry speciesMahonia aceroidesComb et syn novvalid(Knowlton) Schorn & WolfeOligoceneChattianCreede FormationUSColorado true synonymy Mahonia creedensis (1956) Mahonia hakeaefolia p.p. (1936) Mahonia marginata p.p. (1936)An Mahonia speciesMoved from Sterculia aceroides (1923) Superroids Malpighiales Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesPopulus larseniiComb et syn novvalid(Knowlton) Schorn & WolfeOligoceneChattianCreede FormationUSColorado true synonymy Betula smithiana p.p. 1987 Populus cedrusensisauct. non Wolfe, nec Axelrod, 1987 Populus creedensis (1987) Populus lesquereuxiauct. non Cockerell, nec Knowlton, 1923 Populus pliotremuloidesauct. non Axelrod, 1937 nec Axelrod, 1987First identified as a possible Alder species Moved from Alnus? larseni (1923) Paleomycology newly named fungi Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesCoprinitesPoinar G. Singer, R. 1990 Upper Eocene gilled mushroom from the Dominican Republic Science 248 1099–1101 17733372 10.1126/science.248.4959.1099 4959 1990Sci...248.1099P 42236437 Gen et sp novValidPoinar & SingerBurdigalianDominican amber.Dominican Republicfirst mushroom genus described from the fossil record Arthropods Newly named crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesOrbitoplaxTucker Annette B. Feldmann Rodney M. May 1990 Fossil decapod crustaceans from the lower Tertiary of the Prince William Sound Region, Gulf of Alaska https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/fossil-decapod-crustaceans-from-the-lower-tertiary-of-the-prince-william-sound-region-gulf-of-alaska/8BE8DE3CD98A870B12FA1615AA029EDE Journal of Paleontology en 64 3 409–427 10.1017/S0022336000018643 1990JPal...64..409T 0022-3360 subscription Gen. et sp. novValidTucker & FeldmannEarly Oligocene Poul Creek FormationUSA(Alaska)A euryplacid crab, type species is O. plafkeri. Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesCasaleiaDlussky G.M. Putyatina T.S. 2014 Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 272 3 237–285 10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0409 2014NJGPA.272..237D Gen novvalidPagliano & ScaramozzinoMiddle Miocene Chon-Tyz mineKyrgyzstan A replacement name for "Protamblyopone" Dlussky 1981. thumb|center|upright|Casaleia eocenicaPaleochrysopaSéméria Y. Nel A. 1990 Paleochrysopa monteilsensis gen. et sp. nov., a new fossil of Chrysopidae from the Upper Eocene formation of Monteils (France with a review of the known chrysopid fossils (Insecta, Neuroptera). Advances in Neuropterology, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Neuropterology 27–32Gen et sp novvalidSéméria & NelPriabonianMonteils FormationFranceA green lacewing. The type species is P. monteilsensisthumb|center|upright|Paleochrysopa monteilsensisTetraponera klebsiWard P. S. 1990 The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids Systematic Entomology 15 4 449–489 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1990.tb00077.x 1990SysEn..15..449W 86012514 https://zenodo.org/record/24961 Comb novValid(Wheeler)LutetianBaltic amberEuropeA pseudomyrmecine ant. Moved from Sima klebsi (Wheeler, 1915)thumb|center|upright|Tetraponera klebsi Vertebrates Conodonts Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesChiosellaKozur, Cour Forschungsinst Senckenb, 1990, volume 117, page 414Gen novValidKozur ClarkinaGen novValidKozur Newly named Actinopterygii ("Ray-finned Fish") Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type unit Location Notes ImagesVeronaveliferGen et sp novValidBannikovEoceneMonte BolcaItaly thumb|150px|center|Veronavelifer sorbinii Pseudosuchians NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeType localityCountryNotesImagesBaru darrowiWillis P.M. Murray P. Megirian D. 1990 Baru darrowi gen. et sp. nov., a large, broad-snouted crocodyline (Eusuchia: Crocodylidae) from mid-Tertiary freshwater limestones in Northern Australia. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/partpdf/74496 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 29 2 521–540Gen. et sp. novValidWillis, Murray & MegirianMioceneBullock CreekAustraliaA mekosuchine crocodilian. Originally material from the Riversleigh WHA was also assigned to this species, but later research found these fossils to have belonged to a distinct taxon.center|frameless Dinosaurs All Anatosaurus species except A. copei were moved to the previously existing genus Edmontosaurus by Brett-Surman "Seismosaurus" gastroliths documented.Gillette, D. (1990). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html Name Status Authors LocationImages AgilisaurusPeng, G-Z. 1990. A new small ornithopod (Agilisaurus louderbacki gen et sp. nov.) from Zigong, Sichuan, China. Zigong Dinosaur Museum Newsletter 2: pp. 19 - 27. Valid taxon Peng G. Chinathumb|200px|center|Agilisaurus AnatotitanBrett-Surman vide Chapman, R.E., and M.K. Brett- Surman. 1990. Morphometric observations on hadrosaurid dinosaurs (Chapter 12). In: Dinosaurs Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches (K. Carpenter. and P.J. Currie, P.J., eds.). Cambridge University Press, New York: pp. 163- 177. Junior synonym of Edmontosaurus. Brett-Surman vide: ChapmanMichael K. Brett-Surman Canada (Alberta) thumb|center|200px|Anatotitan copei BellusaurusDong, Z. 1990. Sauropoda from the Kelameili Region of the Junggar Basin, Xinjiang Autonomous Region. (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica) Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28 (1 - January): pp. 43-58. Valid taxon Dong Zhiming Chinathumb|center|200px|Bellusaurus BreviceratopsKurzanov, S.M. 1991. A new Late Cretaceous protoceratopsid genus from Mongolia. Paleontological Journal 1990: pp. 85-91. Valid taxon Kurzanov Mongolia ColoradisaurusGalton P.M. Weishampel D.B. Dodson P. Osmólska H. The Dinosauria Berkeley, CA University of California Press 1990 320–344 Basal Sauropodomorpha - Prosauropoda 0-520-06726-6Greenfield T. Bivens G. Fonseca A. 2020 The correct authorship of Coloradisaurus (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): Galton, 1990, not Lambert, 1983 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 77 1 153–155 10.21805/bzn.v77.a050 229723564 Valid taxon Peter Galton Argentinathumb|center|200px|Coloradisaurus DrinkerBakker, R.T., P. Galton, J. Siegwarth, and J. Filla. 1990. A new latest Jurassic vertebrate fauna, from the highest levels of the Morrison Formation at Como Bluff, Wyoming, with comments on Morrison biochronology Part IV. The dinosaurs: a new Othnielia-like hypsilophodontoid. Hunteria, 2: pp. 8-13. Junior synonym of Nanosaurus. Robert Bakker GaltonSiegwarth Filla USA (Wyoming) EmausaurusHaubold, H. 1990. Ein neuer dinosaurier (Ornithischa, Thyreophora) aus dem unteren Jura des Hordlichen Mitteleuropa: Reviue de Paleobiologie 9 (1) : pp. 149-177. Valid taxon Haubold Germany EpachthosaurusPowell, J.E. 1986. Revision de los titanosauridos de America del Sur Argentina. Unpublished doctoral thesis. Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina. Valid taxon Jaime Eduardo Powell Argentinathumb|200px|center|Epachthosaurus "Futabasaurus" Nomen nudum; later applied to a plesiosaur. David Lambert Japan "Hadrosauravus"Lambert, D., and the Diagram Group. 1990. The Dinosaur Data Book. Avon Books (320 pages). Nomen nudum David Lambert USA (Montana, Utah) Canada "Hisanohamasaurus" Nomen nudum David Lambert Japan "Katsuyamasaurus" Nomen nudum David Lambert "Kitadanisaurus" Nomen nudum David Lambert "Madsenius" Nomen nudum David Lambert USA MonkonosaurusZhao vide Dong, Z. 1990. Stegosaurs of Asia. In: Dinosaur systematics: approaches and perspectives (K. Carpenter and P.J. Currie, eds.). Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK: pp. 255- 268. Valid taxon Zhao X. vide: Dong Zhiming China Richardoestesia Valid taxon Phillip Currie Rigby andR.E. Sloan Canada (Alberta) USA (Montana, New Mexico , North Dakota, South Dakota , Texas, Utah and Wyoming) "Sugiyamasaurus" Nomen nudum David Lambert YimenosaurusBai, Z., J. Yang, and G. Wang. 1990. A new genus of prosauropod from the Yuxi (region) of Yunnnan Province [Yunnan Yuxi yuanxijiao lei yi xin shu]. Yuxi Cultural Organization [Yuxi Wen Tuan] 1 (October 1990): pp. 14-23 + plate 1. Valid taxonBai vide: Bai Yang J.Wang G.H. China Newly named birds Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAgnopterus sicki Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga 1990 Flamingos Fósseis da Bacia de Taubaté, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil: Descrição de Nova Espécie Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 62 1 335–345 ValidSp. nov.Herculano M. F. de AlvarengaLate Oligocene / Early MioceneBacia de TaubateBrazilA Phoenicopteriformes, Agnopteridae Lambrecht, 1933.Anser arenosus K. Jeffrey Bickart 1990 The Birds of the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Big Sandy Formation, Mohave County, Arizona https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/om/om044.pdf Ornithological Monographs 44 1 1–72 10.2307/40166673 40166673 ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian, Big Sandy FormationUSA: ArizonaAn Anatidae.Anser arizonae ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian, Big Sandy FormationUSA: ArizonaAn Anatidae.Brachyramphus dunkeli Robert M. Chandler 1990 Fossil Birds of the San Diego Formation, Late Pliocene, Blancan, San Diego County, California https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/om/om044.pdf Ornithological Monographs 44 2 73–161 10.2307/40166674 40166674 ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA: CaliforniaAn Alcidae.Branta woolfendeni Not ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian, Big Sandy FormationMongolia; USA: ArizonaAn Anatidae, placed in synonymy with Bonibernicla ponderosa Kurochkin, 1985 by Zelenkov, 2012.Nikita V. Zelenkov 2012 Neogene Geese and Ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from Localities of the Great Lakes Depression, Western Mongolia https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257843235 Paleontological Journal 46 1 607–619 10.1134/S0031030112060123 2012PalJ...46..607Z 84232041 Cerorhinca reai ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA: CaliforniaAn Alcidae.Chlamydotis mesetaria Antonio Sanchez Marco 1990 A New Bustard (Otididae; Aves) from the Early Pliocene of Layna (Soria, Spain) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259621730 Paleontologia i Evolució 23 223–229 ValidSp. nov.Antonio Sanchez MarcoEarly PlioceneMN 15Spain: Castile and LeónAn Otididae.Corvus galushai ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian, Big Sandy FormationUSA: ArizonaA Corvidae.Cygnus mariae ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian, Big Sandy FormationUSA: ArizonaAn Anatidae.Diomedea howardae ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneMarine BedsUSA: CaliforniaA Diomedeidae.Himantopus olsoni ValidSp. nov.K. Jeffrey BickartLate MioceneLate Hemphillian, Big Sandy FormationUSA: ArizonaA Recurvirostridae"Ichthyornis" minusculus Lev A. Nessov 1990 Small Ichthyonithiform Bird and Other Bird Remains from Bissekty Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Central Kizylkum Desert Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 210 59–62 ValidSp. nov.Lev A. NessovLate EoceneConiacian, Bisekty FormationUzbekistanPossibly an Enantiornithes Walker, 1981.Kievornis rogovitshi Alexander O. Averianov, Olga R. Potapova & Lev A. Nessov 1990 On the First Findings of Ancient Bird Bones in the Fatherland Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 210 3–9 ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Alexander O. Averianov Olga R. Potapova Lev A. NessovLate EoceneMP 17-20UkraineAn Aves Incertae Sedis, possibly a Procelariiformes or a Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus.Melanitta ceruttii ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA: CaliforniaAn Anatidae, transferred to the genus Histrionicus Lesson, 1828 by Storrs L. Olson & Pamela C. Rasmussen, 2001 Storrs L. Olson & Pamela C. Rasmussen 2001 Miocene and Pliocene Birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_lo/sctp-0090.pdf Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 90 233–365 10.5479/si.00810266.90.233 Palaeeudyptes klekowskii Andrezej Myrcha, Andrzej Tatur & Rodolfo Del Valle 1990 A New Species of Fossil Penguin from Seymour Island, West Antarctica Alcheringa 14 3 195–205 10.1080/03115519008619055 1990Alch...14..195M ValidSp. nov.Andrezej Myrcha Andrzej Tatur Rodolfo Del ValleLate EoceneLa Meseta Formatie on Seymour IslandAntarcticaA Spheniscidae.Podiceps arndti ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA: CaliforniaA Podicipedidae.Puffinus gilmorei ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneMarine BedsUSA: CaliforniaA Procellariidae.Puffinus holei Cyril A. Walker, Graham M. Wragg & Colin J. O. Harrison 1990 A New Shearwater from the Pleistocene of the Canary Islands and Its Bearings on the Evolution of Certain Puffinus Shaerwaters Historical Biology 3 3 203–224 10.1080/08912969009386522 1990HBio....3..203W ValidSp. nov.Cyril A. Walker Graham M. Wragg Colin J. O. HarrisonLate Pleistocene MQ 2C; Late Pleistocene MQ 2C-D; Early Holocene MQ 2EPortugal, Spain: Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, PortugalPortugal; Spain: Canary IslandsA Procellariidae, Mourer-Chauviré & Antunes, 2000 Cécile Mourer-Chauviré & Miguel Telles Antunes 2000 L'Avifane Pléistocène et Holocène de Gruta da Figueira Brava (Arrabida, Portugal) Memorias da Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Ciências 38 117–149 emended the spelling to Puffinus holeae.Puffinus olsoni Miquel McMinn, Damià Jaume & Josep A. Alcover 1990 Puffinus olsoni n.sp.: Nova Espècie de Baldritja Recentment Extingida Provinent de Depòsits Espeleològics de Fuerteventura i Lanzarote (Illes Canàries, Atlàntic Oriental) Endins 16 63–71 ValidSp. nov.Miquel McMinn Damià Jaume Josep A. AlcoverHoloceneFuerteventuraSpain: Canary IslandsA Procellariidae.Rissa estesi ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA: CaliforniaA Laridae.Songzia heidangkouensis Hou Lianhai 1990 An Eocene Bird from Songzi, Hubei Province http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200901/P020100930440051880050.pdf Vertebrata PalAsiatica 28 1 34–42 ValidGen. nov. et Sp. nov.Hou LianhaiEarly EoceneYangxi FormationChinaA Ralliformes, Songziidae Hou, 1990, this is the type species of the new genus.Stictocarbo kumeyaay ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA: CaliforniaA Phalacrocoracidae, transferred to the genus Phalacrocorax Brisson, 1760.Sula clarki ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA: CaliforniaA Sulidae.Struthio dmanisensis Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich & Abesalom K. Vekua 1990 The Fossil Ostrich Struthio dmanisensis sp. n. from the Lower Pleistocene of Eastern Georgia Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 33 7 121–132 ValidSp. nov.Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich Abesalom K. VekuaEarly PleistoceneDmanisiGeorgiaA Struthionidae.Synthliboramphus rineyi ValidSp. nov.Robert M. ChandlerLate PlioceneBlancan, San Diego FormationUSA: CaliforniaAn Alcidae. Synapsids Newly named mammals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesRussellmysEstravís Carmen 1990 Russellmys denisae, un nouvel Apatémyidé (Mammalia) de Silveirinha, eocène inférieur du Portugal https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016699506803426 Geobios 23 6 761–765 10.1016/S0016-6995(06)80342-6 1990Geobi..23..761E subscription Gen et sp novValidEstravísEarly EoceneSilveirinha FormationPortugalAn apatemyid, type species is R. denisae References Paleontology Works cited Gillette D 1990 Gastrolithes of a sauropod dinosaur from New Mexico 10.1080/02724634.1990.10011841 Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10 suppl. 3 24A Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180. 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