Flora

Lycophytes

Lycophyte research

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(1998) reports, without description, ''

Selaginella ''Selaginella'' is the sole genus of vascular plants in the family Selaginellaceae, the spikemosses or lesser clubmosses. This family is distinguished from Lycopodiaceae (the clubmosses) by having scale-leaves bearing a ligule and by having ...

'' species

spikemoss ''Selaginella'' is the sole genus of vascular plants in the family Selaginellaceae, the spikemosses or lesser clubmosses. This family is distinguished from Lycopodiaceae (the clubmosses) by having scale-leaves bearing a ligule and by having ...

fossils occurring in the

Eocene Okanagan highlands The Eocene Okanagan Highlands or Eocene Okanogan Highlands are a series of Early Eocene geological formations which span a transect of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state, United States. Known for a highly diverse and detailed Paleoflo ...

Klondike Mountain Formation The Klondike Mountain Formation is an Early Eocene (Ypresian) geological formation located in the northeast central area of Washington state. The formation, named for the type location designated in 1962, Klondike Mountain north of Republic, Wash ...

Fungi

Fungal research

*Currah, Stockey, & LePage (1998) describe the a phyllachoralean " tar spot" parasitizing ''

Uhlia ''Uhlia'' is an extinct genus of coryphoid palm containing a single species ''Uhlia allenbyensis''. The species is known from permineralized remains recovered from the Princeton Chert in British Columbia, Canada. Leaves of ''Uhlia'' have "tar s ...

'' palm leaves, and host for a hyperparasitic pleosporalean fungus. They note them to be one of the first occurrences of hyperparasitic relationships in the fossil record.

Arthropods

Insects

Molluscs

Bivalves

Amphibians

newly named anurans

Archosauromorpha

Dinosaurs

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Karen Chin Karen Chin is an American paleontologist and taphonomist who is considered one of the world's leading experts in coprolites. Biography Chin loved studying living things as a child, and enjoyed memorizing the names of species that she read about ...

and others announcing the earlier discovery of a "king-sized coprolite" attributed to ''

Tyrannosaurus rex ''Tyrannosaurus'' is a genus of large theropod dinosaur. The species ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' (''rex'' meaning "king" in Latin), often called ''T. rex'' or colloquially ''T-Rex'', is one of the best represented theropods. ''Tyrannosaurus'' live ...

''. * ''Lourinhasaurus'' gastroliths documented.Dantas et al. (1998). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. * ''Cedarosaurus'' gastroliths documented.Sanders and Carpenter (1998). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. * ''Caudipteryx'' gastroliths documented.Qiang et al. (1998). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. * Volunteers from the

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discovered Tony's Bone Bed in the

Cedar Mountain Formation The Cedar Mountain Formation is the name given to a distinctive sedimentary geologic formation in eastern Utah, spanning most of the early and mid-Cretaceous. The formation was named for Cedar Mountain (Utah), Cedar Mountain in northern Emery Coun ...

's Poison Strip Member."Introduction," DiCroce and Carpenter (2001). Page 185. Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

References

{{portal, Paleontology * Dantas, P.M., Freitas, C., Azevedo, T. Sanz, J.L., Galopim de Carvalho, A.M., Santos, D., Ortega, F., Santos, V., Sanz, J.L., Silva, C.M. & Cachão, M. (1998). Estudo dos Gastrólitos do Dinossáurio Lourinhasaurus do Jurássico Superior Português. Actas do V Congresso Nacional de Geologia. 84 (1): A87-A90. * DiCroce, K. and K. Carpenter. (2001). "New ornithopod from the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of Eastern Utah". pp. 183–196 in: Tanke, D. & K. Carpenter (eds.) ''Mesozoic Vertebrate Life''. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. * Qiang, J., .Currie, P.J., Norell., M.A. & Shu-An, J., 1998. Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China. Nature 393 753–761. * Sanders, F.H. & Carpenter, K. (1998). Gastroliths from a camarasaurid in the Cedar Mountain Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Abstracts with program. 18 (3): 74A. 1990s in paleontology

Paleontology Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...