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Paleontology, palaeontology or palæontology (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 mankind has 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 1992.
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Arthropods
Insects
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Comb nov |
jr synonym |
(Mayr) |
A Dolichoderin ant, |
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Comb nov |
Jr synonym |
(Wheeler) |
A Dolichoderin ant |
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Gen et sp nov. |
valid |
Ponomarenko |
A hemerobiid lacewing, type species, C. disjunctus |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Martins-Neto |
A Kalligrammatid lacewing, syn of Makarkinia adamsi |
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sp. nov |
valid |
Poinar & Doyen |
first fossil species of Termitaradus |
Archosauromorphs
- During the 1992 field season a concerted effort was undertaken by the Royal Tyrell Museum to recover the remains of young hadrosaurs.[6] The researchers describe the acquisition that season of 43 specimens as being a success.[6] Most of the recovered fossils were of dentaries missing their teeth, bones from limbs and feet, as well as vertebral centra.[6]
- Jack Horner speculated that transitional species evolved in the uppermost part of the Two Medicine Formation during the Bearpaw Transgression. This was during a half-million year span as the transgression inundated the Judith River Formation and, later, the Two Medicine area, gradually destroying the local dinosaurs' preferred habitats.[7] Horner cited certain ceratopsid and pachycephalosaurid species as possible evidence for his hypothesis.[7]
Newly named non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[8]
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| Archaeornithoides | Valid taxon |
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| Chinshakiangosaurus [9] | Valid taxon |
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| Dyslocosaurus[10] | Valid taxon |
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| Edmarka[11] | Valid taxon |
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| Gigantspinosaurus[12] | Valid taxon |
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| Kunmingosaurus[9] | Valid taxon |
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| "Maleevosaurus"[13] | Junior synonym of Tarbosaurus | ||||
| Neuquensaurus[14] | Valid taxon | ||||
| Udanoceratops[15] | Valid taxon | ||||
| Wakinosaurus[16] | Valid taxon |
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Newly named birds
| Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Early Eocene |
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A Coliiformes, Sandcoleidae Houde et Olson, 1992, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Middle-Late Oligocene |
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Described in the Gallinuloididae Lucas, 1900, but transferred to the Cracidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
MP 16 or 28 |
A Pteroclidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Miocene |
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A Gruidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Late Pliocene |
An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Cathayornithiformes Zhou, Jin et Zhang, 1992, Cathayornithidae Zhou, Jin et Zhang, 1992, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Early Eocene |
Early Wasatchian, |
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A Coliiformes, Chascacocoliidae Zelenkov et Dyke, 2008, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Pleistocene |
A Ciconiidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Early Miocene |
Fissure fillings in Early Eocene Cristal River Limestone |
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A Columbidae, in 2008 David W. Steadman made it the type species of his new genus Arenicolumbina.[25] |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Iberomesornithiformes Sanz et J. F. Bonaparte, 1992, Concornithidae Kurochkin, 1996, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Late Early Eocene |
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An Opisthocomiformes, Foratidae Olson, 1992. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Columbidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Paleocene |
A Gastornithidae Fürbringer, 1888. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Late Pliocene |
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An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Hauterivian-Early Barremian |
An Enantiornithes, Iberomesornithiformes Sanz et J. F. Bonaparte, 1992, Iberomesornithidae Sanz et J. F. Bonaparte, 1992. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Late Miocene |
A big Anhingidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Columbidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Columbidae. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Middle Miocene |
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An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Early Eocene |
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A Ralliformes, Messelornithidae Hesse, 1988. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Pliocene |
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An Anatidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Dieter S. Peters |
Middle Eocene |
MP 11 |
A Strigiformes, Palaeoglaucidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1987. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Ornithuromorphae Chiappe, Ji, Ji et Norell, 1999, Patagopterygiformes Alvarenga et J. F. Bonaparte, 1992, Patagopterygidae Alvarenga et J. F. Bonaparte, 1992, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Ornithuromorphae Chiappe, Ji, Ji et Norell, 1999, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Craciformes Sibley, Ahlquist et Monroe, 1988, Quercymegapodiidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1992. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Late Eocene |
A Psittaciformes, Quercypsittidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1992. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Cécile Mourer-Chauviré |
A Psittaciformes, Quercypsittidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1992, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
Middle Clarkforkian, |
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A Coliiformes, Sandcoleidae Houde et Olson, 1992, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Cathayornithiformes Zhou, Jin et Zhang, 2006, Cathayornithidae Zhou, Jin et Zhang, 2006, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
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Valid |
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, this is the typespecies of the new genus. |
Footnotes
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- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Faunal Turnover, Migration, and Evolution," Trexler (2001); page 307.
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- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Dong, Zhiming (1992). Dinosaurian faunas of China. China Ocean Press. ISBN 9783540520849.
- ↑ McIntosh, J.S., W.P. Coombs, and D.A. Russell. 1992. A new diplodocid sauropod (Dinosauria) from Wyoming, USA. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 12 (2): pp. 158-167.
- ↑ Bakker, 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.
- ↑ Ouyang, H. (1992). "Discovery of Gigantspinosaurus sichanensis and its scapular spine orientation". Abstracts and Summaries for Youth Academic Symposium on New Discoveries and Ideas in Stratigraphic Paleontology (in Chinese) null: 47–49.
- ↑ Carpenter, K. 1992. Tyrannosaurids (Dinosauria) of Asia and North America. In: Aspects of nonmarine cretaceous geology (N. Mateer and P.J. Chen, eds.). China Ocean Press, Beijing: pp.250-268.
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- ↑ Kurzanov, S.M. 1992. Gigantskiy protoseratopsid iz verkhnengo mela Mongolii. Paleontologischeskii Zhural (1992) 3: pp. 81-93.
- ↑ Okazaki, Y. 1992. A new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kwanmon Group, Northern Kyushu. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11: pp. 87-90.
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References
- Tanke, D.H. and Brett-Surman, M.K. 2001. Evidence of Hatchling and Nestling-Size Hadrosaurs (Reptilia:Ornithischia) from Dinosaur Provincial Park (Dinosaur Park Formation: Campanian), Alberta, Canada. pp. 206–218. In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life—New Research Inspired by the Paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Edited by D.H. Tanke and K. Carpenter. Indiana University Press: Bloomington. xviii + 577 pp.
- Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.
