1991 in paleontology
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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 1991.
Plants
[edit]Angiosperms
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Gen et comb nov |
valid |
A walnut relative. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Erwin & Stockey |
A lilialean genus of uncertain placement |
Arthropods
[edit]Insects
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Sp nov |
Valid |
MacKay |
A ponerin ant |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Nel |
A sieblosiid damselfly |
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Mollusca
[edit]Newly named bivalves
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Sp nov |
Valid |
Isakar |
Archosauromorphs
[edit]- Sankar Chatterjee's discovery of a possible Triassic bird, Protoavis, if genuine, would push avian origins back almost 70 million years. The find ignites controversy over the connection between dinosaurs and birds.
Newly named dinosaurs
[edit]Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid taxon |
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) |
An alvarezsaurid. |
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Valid taxon |
Salgado and Jose Bonaparte |
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) |
A dicraeosaurid. with Spines on its Neck |
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Valid taxon |
Bolotsky & Kurzanov |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
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Valid taxon |
Calvo and Bonaparte |
Late Cretaceous (Santonian) |
An alvarezsaurid. |
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Junior synonym |
George Olshevsky. |
Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) |
A junior objective synonym of Altispinax; new genus for "Acrocanthosaurus" altispinax Paul (1988). |
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Valid taxon |
Telles-Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell |
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
A troodontid. |
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| Janenschia[15] |
Valid taxon |
Wild |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) |
A non-titanosauriform macronarian; new genus for "Gigantosaurus" robustus E. Fraas (1908). |
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Valid taxon |
George Olshevsky |
Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) |
A sauropod of uncertain affinities. |
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Junior synonym |
Hunt & S.G. Lucas |
A junior synonym of Coelophysis. |
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Gillette |
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Valid taxon |
Le Loeuff and Buffetaut |
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Valid taxon |
Telles-Antunes & Sigogneau-Russell |
Late Cretaceous |
An ornithischian of unknown affinities. |
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| Tochisaurus[19] |
Valid taxon |
Kurzanov and Osmolska |
Cretaceous |
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Junior synonym |
George Olshevsky |
Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) |
Junior synonym of Supersaurus; replacement name for Ultrasaurus Jensen 1985 (preoccupied). |
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Valid taxon |
George Olshevsky |
Early Cretaceous (late Valanginian) |
An ornithomimosaur; new genus for "Megalosaurus" oweni Lydekker (1889). |
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Valid taxon |
A Noasaur. |  |
Newly named birds
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Late Campanian-Early Maastrichtian, |
A Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888, Hesperornithidae Marsh, 1872. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae, a moa-nalo, this is the type species of the genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
An Accipitridae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Corvidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Corvidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
An Acanthisittidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae, the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Strigidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, transferred to the genus Akialoa Olson et James, 1995 by Olson et James, 1995.[24] |
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Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
An Accipitriformes, Horusornithidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1991, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Phasianidae, transferred to the genus Plioperdix Kretzoi, 1955 as Plioperdix hungarica Comb. nov. by Nikita V. Zelenkov & Andrey V. Panteleyev.[27] |
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Valid |
Subsp. nov. |
A member of the family Phasianidae. Originally described as a subspecies of Pavo aesculapi; Zelenkov (2016) transferred it to the genus Syrmaticus and raised it to the rank of a separate species Syrmaticus phasianoides.[28] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Early Miocene |
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Valid |
Subsp. nov. |
A member of the family Rallidae. Originally described as a subspecies of Porzana estramosi; Zelenkov (2017) transferred it to the genus Zapornia and raised it to the rank of a separate species Zapornia veterior.[31] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Protoaviformes Chatterjee, 1991, Protoaviformes Chatterjee, 1991, the type and only species of the genus, no longer considered a bird. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Pseudodontornithidae Lambrecht, 1933. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Furnariidae, Philydorinae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Anatidae, a moa-nalo, this is the type species of the genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A member of the family Rallidae. Originally described as a species of Rallicrex; Zelenkov (2017) transferred this species to the genus Rallus.[31] |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Tytonidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
A Fringillidae, Carduelinae, the type species of the new genus. |
Genera no longer considered to be birds
[edit]- Protoavis. The avian status of Protoavis has since been almost universally rejected by paleontologists.
Pseudosuchians
[edit]| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Willis & Molnar |
Late Oligocene - Early Miocene |
A mekosuchine crocodilian described from a multitude of skeletons. |
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Pterosaurs
[edit]New taxa
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Synapsids
[edit]Non-mammalian
[edit]| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
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Lower Permian |
Formerly assigned as an eosuchian diapsid, was restudied and classified as a varanopid synapsid.[37] |
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Valid |
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Upper Permian |
A sphenacodontid synapsid. |
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