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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 1989.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Cevallos-Ferriz & Stockey |
A permineralized
waterlily genus |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp nov |
Waters |
A dance fly fly. |
||||||
Gen et sp nov |
Waters |
A
hybotine fly. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp nov |
Jarzembowski |
A gymnosperm feeding aphid |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
dolichoderine ant |
||||
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
myrmicine ant |
||||
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
myrmicine ant genus |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A dolichoderine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A dolichoderine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
dolichoderine ant |
||||
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
ponerine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
ponerine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
jr homonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
myrmicine ant |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
leptomyrmecine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A ponerine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
myrmicine ant genus |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A amblyoponine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
formicine ant genus |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
formicine ant genus |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fam nov |
valid |
A scorpionfly family, |
German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genus Mesogondolella.
Name | Status | Authors | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Preoccupied |
Chatterjee Small |
preoccupied by the ant genus
Turneria Forel, 1895; |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Revueltosaurus [17] | Valid non-dinosaurian taxon |
|
Late Triassic (early-middle Norian) |
A suchian. |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [18]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abrosaurus [19] | Valid taxon |
|
A macronarian. |
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Asiaceratops [20] | Valid taxon |
|
|
Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian) |
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Atlascopcosaurus [21] | Valid taxon |
Early Cretaceous (early Albian) |
An ornithopod. |
|||||
Bihariosaurus [22] | Valid taxon |
|
Early Cretaceous ( Berriasian) |
Bauxite deposits |
An iguanodont |
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" Daptosaurus" [23] | Junior synonym of Deinonychus |
Brown vide:
|
|
|||||
" Eucentrosaurus" [24] | Junior synonym of Centrosaurus |
|
|
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Leaellynasaura [21] | Valid taxon |
Early Cretaceous (early Albian) |
An ornithopod. |
|||||
" Tenantosaurus" [24] | Misspelling of Tenontosaurus |
Brown vide:
|
|
|||||
Turanoceratops | Valid taxon |
|
|
Late Cretaceous ( Turonian) |
A ceratopsid. |
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
An Accipitridae. |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
An Accipitridae. |
|||||
Valid |
Gen et Sp nov. |
Miocene |
An
Accipitridae |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Sturnidae. |
||||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Columbidae. |
|||||
Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
A
Ciconiidae |
||||||
Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
First described as a
Nyctibiidae |
||||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Columbidae. |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Megapodiidae. |
||||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Holocene |
Cave deposits |
A Megapodiidae. |
||||
Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Early Cretaceous |
A
Concornithidae
enantiornithine |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Rallidae. |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
||||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A
Podargidae |
||||||
Disputed |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A
rhynochetid kagu. |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
|||||||
Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Nessov & Yarkov |
An
Alexornithidae
Enantiornithes |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Tytonidae. |
|||||
Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
Nessov & Yarkov |
Late Cretaceous |
A
limnofregatine
fregatid |
||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
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+... |
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 1989.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Cevallos-Ferriz & Stockey |
A permineralized
waterlily genus |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp nov |
Waters |
A dance fly fly. |
||||||
Gen et sp nov |
Waters |
A
hybotine fly. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sp nov |
Jarzembowski |
A gymnosperm feeding aphid |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
dolichoderine ant |
||||
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
myrmicine ant |
||||
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
myrmicine ant genus |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A dolichoderine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A dolichoderine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
dolichoderine ant |
||||
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
ponerine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
ponerine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
jr homonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
myrmicine ant |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
leptomyrmecine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A ponerine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
myrmicine ant genus |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A amblyoponine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
formicine ant genus |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
||||
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
||||
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A
formicine ant genus |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fam nov |
valid |
A scorpionfly family, |
German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genus Mesogondolella.
Name | Status | Authors | Notes | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Preoccupied |
Chatterjee Small |
preoccupied by the ant genus
Turneria Forel, 1895; |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Revueltosaurus [17] | Valid non-dinosaurian taxon |
|
Late Triassic (early-middle Norian) |
A suchian. |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [18]
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Abrosaurus [19] | Valid taxon |
|
A macronarian. |
|||||
Asiaceratops [20] | Valid taxon |
|
|
Late Cretaceous ( Cenomanian) |
||||
Atlascopcosaurus [21] | Valid taxon |
Early Cretaceous (early Albian) |
An ornithopod. |
|||||
Bihariosaurus [22] | Valid taxon |
|
Early Cretaceous ( Berriasian) |
Bauxite deposits |
An iguanodont |
|||
" Daptosaurus" [23] | Junior synonym of Deinonychus |
Brown vide:
|
|
|||||
" Eucentrosaurus" [24] | Junior synonym of Centrosaurus |
|
|
|||||
Leaellynasaura [21] | Valid taxon |
Early Cretaceous (early Albian) |
An ornithopod. |
|||||
" Tenantosaurus" [24] | Misspelling of Tenontosaurus |
Brown vide:
|
|
|||||
Turanoceratops | Valid taxon |
|
|
Late Cretaceous ( Turonian) |
A ceratopsid. |
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
An Accipitridae. |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
An Accipitridae. |
|||||
Valid |
Gen et Sp nov. |
Miocene |
An
Accipitridae |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Sturnidae. |
||||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Columbidae. |
|||||
Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
A
Ciconiidae |
||||||
Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
First described as a
Nyctibiidae |
||||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Columbidae. |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Megapodiidae. |
||||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Holocene |
Cave deposits |
A Megapodiidae. |
||||
Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Early Cretaceous |
A
Concornithidae
enantiornithine |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Rallidae. |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
||||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A
Podargidae |
||||||
Disputed |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A
rhynochetid kagu. |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
|||||||
Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Nessov & Yarkov |
An
Alexornithidae
Enantiornithes |
|||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
A Tytonidae. |
|||||
Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
Nessov & Yarkov |
Late Cretaceous |
A
limnofregatine
fregatid |
||||
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Rallidae. |
|
|