Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoriclife 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 1993.
An Archaopterygidae, the 7th Archaeopteryx specimen (Solnhofer Aktien-Verein specimen). Often seen as synonymous with Archaeopteryx lithographica von Meyer, 1861.
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^Tidwell, W.D.; Medlyn, D.A. (1993). "Conifer wood from the Upper Jurassic of Utah, Part II—Araucarioxylon hoodii sp. nov". The Palaeobotanist. 42: 1–7.
^Voisin, J. F.; Nel, A. (1993). "Un Lixus fossile du Miocène français (Coleoptera, Curculionidae)". Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France. 98: 19–21. doi:10.3406/bsef.1993.17854. S2CID131790696.
^ abcNel, A.; Henrotay, M. (1993). "Taxonomy; Les "Anisozygoptera" fossiles Phylogenie et classification (Odonata)". Martinia. 3: 1–311.
^ abNel, A. (1993). "Nouveaux Raphidioptères fossiles du Cénozoïque de France et d'Espagne". École Pratique des Hautes Études, Biologie et Évolution des Insectes. 6: 99–108.
^Nel, A; Escuillé, F. (1993). "Découverte d'un nouveau genre de Sieblosiidae dans le Miocène supérieur de l'Ardèche (France) [Odonata, Zygoptera, Lestoidea, Sieblosiidae)". Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie. Nouvelle Série. 10: 233–242.
^Chatterjee S (1993). "Shuvosaurus a new theropod". Nat Geogr. Res. Exploration. 9 (3): 274–285.
^ abHunt, A.P. and S.G. Lucas. 1993. Cretaceous
vertebrates of New Mexico. In: Vertebrate
Paleontology in New Mexico (A.P. Hunt and S.G.
Lucas, eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural
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^Bonaparte J.F., Coria R.A. (1993). "Un nuevo y gigantesco sauropodo titanosaurio de la Formacion Rio Limay (Albiano- Cenomaniano) de la Provincia de Neuquen, Argentina". Ameghiniana. 30 (3): 271–282.
^Sereno P.C.; Forster C.A.; Rogers R.R.; Monetta A.M. (1993). "Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria". Nature. 361 (6407): 64–66. Bibcode:1993Natur.361...64S. doi:10.1038/361064a0. S2CID4270484.
^Le Loeuff, J. 1993. European titanosaurids.
Revue de Paléobiologie, Mém. Sp. 7: pp. 105 -
117.
^Zhao, X. 1993. A new Middle Jurassic sauropod
subfamily (Klamelisaurinae subfam.nov.) from
Xinjiang Autonomous Region. China Institute of
Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,
Academia Sinica Vertebrata PalAsiatica 31 (2 –
April 2, 1993): pp. 132-138.
^Jacobs L. D. Winkler, Gomani E. (1993). "New material of an Early Cretaceous titanosaurid dinosaur from Malawi". Palaeontology. 36 (3): 523–534.
^Casanovas-Cladellas, M.L., J.V. Santafe-Llopis,
and A. Isidro-Llorens. 1993. Pararhabdodon
isonense n. gen. n. sp. (Dinosauria) Estudio
morfologico, radio-tomografico y consideraciones
biomecanicas. Paleontologia i Evolució, tomo 26-
27: pp. 121-131.
^Dong, Z. 1993. An ankylosaur (Ornithischian
dinosaur) from the Middle Jurassic of the
Juanggar Basin, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica
[no volume number available]: pp. 257-266.
^Tumanova, T.A. 1993. On a new armoured
dinosaur from Southeastern Gobi.
Paleontologischeskii Zhurnal (1993) 2: pp. 92-98
(Paleontological Journal 27 (2): pp. 119-125).
^Kirkland J.I.; Burge D.; Gaston R. (1993). "A large dromaeosaur (Theropoda) from the Lower Cretcaeous of eastern Utah". Hunteria. 2 (10): 1–16.
^Lianhai Hou (1997). "Mesozoic Birds of China"(PDF). Natou, Taiwan: Taiwan Feng Huang Gu Bird Garden, English Translation: 1–153.
^Hou Lianhai (1993). "Avian Fossils of Pleistocene from Zhoukoudian". Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology. Academia Sinica. Science Press, Beijing. 19: 165–297.
^ abLev A. Nessov; Andrei V. Panteleyev (1993). "About Similarities of the Late Cretaceous Ornithofauna of South America and Western Asia". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR. 252: 84–94.
^ abAndrei V. Panteleyev (1998). "New Species of Enantiornithines (Aves: Enantiornithes) from Upper Cretaceous of Central Kyzylkum". Russian Journal of Ornithology, Express-issue. 35: 3–15.
^Nikolay I. Burchak-Abramovich, I. M. Ganea et K. I. Shushpanov (1993). "[New Gallus species from Upper Pliocene in Moldova.]". Buletinul Academiei de Şţiince a Republicii Moldova 265 (=Şţiince Biologice şi Chimice 4): 45–48, 77.
^Cécile Mourer-Chauviré (1993). "INFORMATION LETTER". Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution. 7. Archived from the original on 2015-11-30. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
^Lev A. Nessov; A. A. Yarkov (1993). "Hesperornithiformes in Russia". Russian Journal of Ornithology. 2: 37–54.
^Andrei V. Panteleyev; Lev A. Nessov (1993). "A Small Tubunare (Aves: Procellariiformes) from the Eoceen of Middle Asia". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR. 252: 95–103.
^ abRobert F. Baird (1993). "Pleistocene Avian Fossils from Pyramids Cave (M-89), Eastern Victoria, Australia". Alcheringa. 17 (4): 383–404. doi:10.1080/03115519308619600.
^Walter E. Boles (1993). "Pengana robertbolesi, a Peculiar Bird of Prey from the Tertiary of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland, Australia". Alcheringa. 17 (1): 19–25. doi:10.1080/03115519308619485.
^Sop & Lim Yong Nam (1996). "Section 5. Mesozoic Era". In: Paek Ryong Jun & Kang Hyong Gap, 1996: Geology of Korea Institute of Geology, State Academy of Sciences, DPR of Korea, Foreign Languages Books Publishing House: 155–188, 584–599.
^Bakker, R. T., 1993, Plesiosaur Extinction Cycles – events that mark the beginning, middle and end of the Cretaceous: In: Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada, edited by Caldwell, W. G. E., and Kauffman, E. G., Special Paper 39, p. 641-664.