page_title: 1998 in paleontology
section_title: Dinosaurs
hierarchical_section_title: 1998 in paleontology / Archosauromorpha / Dinosaurs
caption_attribution_description: (Original desription: "Suchomimus tenerensis") English: Suchomimus tenerensis was a large spinosaurid dinosaur from Africa in the middle Cretaceous period, 120 to 110 million years ago. Deutsch: Suchomimus tenerensis war ein großer spinosaurider Dinosaurier aus Afrika in der mittleren Kreidezeit vor 120 bis 110 Mio. Jahren.
context_page_description: Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks, burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces, 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.
context_section_description: A paper in the journal Nature is published by Karen Chin and others announcing the earlier discovery of a "king-sized coprolite" attributed to Tyrannosaurus rex.
  Lourinhasaurus gastroliths documented.
  Cedarosaurus gastroliths documented.
  Caudipteryx gastroliths documented.
  Volunteers from the Denver Museum of Natural History discovered Tony's Bone Bed in the Cedar Mountain Formation's Poison Strip Member.
  Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
caption: Suchomimus
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