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 1902.
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Ctenopteris columbiensis[2] |
Sp nov |
A Ctenopteris pinnule |
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Sagenopteris oblongifolia[2] |
Sp nov |
A Sagenopteris pinnule |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Pseudotsuga miocena[2] |
Sp nov |
valid |
Okanagan Highlands |
A douglas fir wood morphospecies |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Clintonia oblongifolia[2] |
Sp nov |
A Clintonia leaf morphospecies |
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Majanthemophyllum grandifolium[2] |
Sp nov |
A green briar leaf morphospecies |
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Viburnum ovatum[2] |
Sp nov |
A viburnum leaf morphospecies |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Preoccupied |
A junior homonym of Rileya Ashmead, 1888 (hymenopteran). Renamed Rileyasuchus Kuhn, 1961. |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
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Dacentrurus[5] | Gen. nov. | Valid taxon | Frederic Augustus Lucas | Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian | Kimmeridge Clay | France, Spain, Portugal, UK | A dacentrurine stegosaurid. New name for Omosaurus armatus Owen, 1875 non Leidy, 1856. | |
Didanodon[6] | Gen. nov. | Nomen nudum | Henry Fairfield Osborn | Late Cretaceous, Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Canada | A dubious hadrosaurid, possibly Lambeosaurus. Didanodon was a new genus name for Trachodon altidens Lambe, 1902. | |
Elosaurus parvus[7] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Junior synonym | O.A. Peterson & Charles Whitney Gilmore | Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian | Morrison Formation | US | Genus is a junior synonym of Brontosaurus, while the species has been reassigned as Brontosaurus parvus. | |
Hoplitosaurus[5] | Gen. nov. | Valid taxon | Frederic Augustus Lucas | Early Cretaceous, Barremian | Lakota Formation | USA | New genus name for Stegosaurus marshi (Lucas, 1901). | |
Onychosaurus[8] |
gen et sp nov |
Nomen dubium |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
Canada, USA | ||||||
gen et sp nov |
Preoccupied |
Later renamed Euoplocephalus. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
jr synonym |
jr synonym of Tanystropheus. |