1893 in paleontology

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 1893.

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Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bothriomyrmex goepperti[2]	Comb nov	Jr synonym	(Mayr, 1868)	Middle Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Iridomyrmex goepperti in 1915, jr synonym of Ctenobethylus goepperti	Ctenobethylus goepperti
Dolichoderus balticus[2]	Comb nov	valid	(Mayr, 1868)	Middle Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea balticus	Dolichoderus balticus
Dolichoderus cornutus[2]	Comb nov	valid	(Mayr, 1868)	Middle Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea cornuta	Dolichoderus cornutus
Dolichoderus longipennis[2]	Comb nov	Valid	Mayr	Middle Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea longipennis	Dolichoderus longipennis
Dolichoderus sculpturata[2]	Comb nov	Valid	Mayr	Middle Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea sculpturata	Dolichoderus sculpturatus
Dolichoderus tertiaria[2]	Comb nov	Valid	Mayr	Middle Eocene	Baltic amber	Europe	Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved from Hypoclinea tertiaria	Dolichoderus tertiarius
Iridomyrmex haueri[3]	Sp nov	Synonym	(Mayr, 1868)	Burdigalian	Radoboj	Croatia	A dolichoderine ant. synonym of Emplastus haueri

Fish

Newly named Ray-finned fish

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Type locality	Location	Notes	Images
Amyzon brevipinne[4][5]	Sp nov	Jr synonym	Cope	Early Eocene	Allenby Formation	Canada ( British Columbia)	A catostomid sucker fish. Moved to Wilsonium brevipinne (2021).

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Argyrosaurus Valid Richard Lydekker Late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Bajo Barreal Formation  Argentina Nomen dubium Microcoelus Nomen dubium Richard Lydekker Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Bajo de la Carpa Formation  Argentina Possible subjective synonym of Neuquensaurus. Sarcolestes Valid Richard Lydekker Middle Jurassic (Callovian) Oxford Clay  United Kingdom An ankylosaur.

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Pantosaurus	Gent et comb nov	Valid	Marsh	Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)	Sundance Formation	United States	A cryptoclidid

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Callibrachion	Gen et sp nov	valid	Boule and Glangeau	Late Carboniferous-Early Permian		France	A basal Caseidae; Type species C. gaudryi	Callibrachion gaudryi
Gordonia	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Newton	Late Permian	Lossiemouth Sandstone	Scotland	A dicynodont. Type species G. traquairi	Gordonia traquairi

References

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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. Wheeler, W. M. (1915). "The ants of the Baltic amber". Schriften der Physikalisch-Okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigsberg. 55 (4): 56–59.
3. Dlussky, 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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.692.9292. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0409.
4. Cope, E. (1893). "Fossil fishes from British Columbia". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 45: 401–402.
5. Liu, J. (2021). "Redescription of "Amyzon" brevipinne and remarks on North American Eocene catostomids (Cypriniformes: Catostomidae)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19 (9): 677–689. doi:10.1080/14772019.2021.1968966.