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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 |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Cevallos-Ferriz & Stockey |
A permineralized waterlily genus |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Empis orapaensis[4] |
Sp nov |
Waters |
A dance fly fly. |
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Pseudoacarterus[5] |
Gen et sp nov |
Waters |
A hybotine fly. |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Penaphis woollardi[6] |
Sp nov |
Jarzembowski |
A gymnosperm feeding aphid |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A dolichoderine ant |
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Aphaenogaster lapidescens[7] |
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A myrmicine ant |
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Aphaenogaster paludosa[7] |
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A myrmicine ant genus |
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Camponotus ambon[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
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Camponotus ampullosus[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
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Camponotus curviansatus[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
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Camponotus gracilis[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
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Camponotus longus[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
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Camponotus microthoracus[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
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Camponotus plenus[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A camponotine formicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A dolichoderine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A dolichoderine ant. |
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Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A dolichoderine ant |
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Euponera minutansata[7] |
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
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Euponera nubeculata[7] |
Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
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Formica ceps[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
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Formica linquensis[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
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Formica ovala[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant. |
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Heteromyrmex[7] |
Gen et sp. nov |
jr homonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A myrmicine ant |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A leptomyrmecine ant. |
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Lasius mordicus[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
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Lasius validus[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
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Lasius validus[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A lasiine ant. |
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Leptogenys lacerata[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A ponerine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
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Miosolenopsis[7] |
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A myrmicine ant genus |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A amblyoponine ant. |
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Shanwangella[7] |
Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant genus |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
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Technomyrmex septentrionalis[7] |
Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A tapinomine ant. |
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Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
A formicine ant genus |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Fam nov |
valid |
Willmann |
A scorpionfly family, |
German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genus Mesogondolella.
Name | Status | Authors | Notes | |
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Preoccupied |
Chatterjee Small |
preoccupied by the ant genus Turneria Forel, 1895; |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Revueltosaurus[17] | Valid non-dinosaurian taxon |
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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 | |
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Abrosaurus[19] | Valid taxon |
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A macronarian. |
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Asiaceratops[20] | Valid taxon |
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Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) |
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Atlascopcosaurus[21] | Valid taxon |
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Early Cretaceous (early Albian) |
An ornithopod. |
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Bihariosaurus[22] | Valid taxon |
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Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) |
Bauxite deposits |
An iguanodont |
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"Daptosaurus"[23] | Junior synonym of Deinonychus |
Brown vide:
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"Eucentrosaurus"[24] | Junior synonym of Centrosaurus |
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Leaellynasaura[21] | Valid taxon |
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Early Cretaceous (early Albian) |
An ornithopod. |
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"Tenantosaurus"[24] | Misspelling of Tenontosaurus |
Brown vide:
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Turanoceratops | Valid taxon |
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Late Cretaceous (Turonian) |
A ceratopsid. |
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Balouet & Olson |
Cave deposits |
An Accipitridae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Balouet & Olson |
Cave deposits |
An Accipitridae. |
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Valid |
Gen et Sp nov. |
Feduccia & Voorhies |
Miocene |
An Accipitridae |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Sturnidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Balouet & Olson |
Cave deposits |
A Columbidae. |
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Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
Hou |
Yixibaila Formation |
A Ciconiidae |
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Euronyctibius [29] |
Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
First described as a Nyctibiidae |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Balouet & Olson |
Cave deposits |
A Columbidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Megapodiidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Balouet & Olson |
Holocene |
Cave deposits |
A Megapodiidae. |
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Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Ruiz |
Early Cretaceous |
A Concornithidae enantiornithine |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Balouet & Olson |
Cave deposits |
A Rallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Alcover |
Cave deposits |
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Quercypodargus [29] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
A Podargidae |
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Disputed |
Sp. nov. |
Balouet & Olson |
Cave deposits |
A rhynochetid kagu. |
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Rostratula minator [35] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Olson & Eller |
Varswater Formation |
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Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Nessov & Yarkov |
An Alexornithidae Enantiornithes |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Balouet & Olson |
Cave deposits |
A Tytonidae. |
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Volgavis [36] |
Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
Nessov & Yarkov |
Late Cretaceous |
A limnofregatine fregatid |
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Youngornis qiluensis [37] |
Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Yeh & Sun |
A Rallidae. |
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