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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 1995.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
Hinz-Schallreuter |
The type species is C. asy |
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sp nov |
Hinz-Schallreuter |
Probable synonym of P. runnegari |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
valid |
Perry |
only scorpion from the Green River Formation |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
De Andrade |
A myrmicine ant |
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Sp nov |
Valid |
De Andrade |
A myrmicine ant |
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gen et comb nov |
valid |
Skalski |
A micropterigid moth |
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sp nov |
valid |
Olmi |
A Dryinus lamellatus group wasp |
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subfam, gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Eocene |
sister taxon to the rest of Inocelliidae |
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sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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Exocryptocerus elevatus[9] |
sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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Exocryptocerus serratus[9] |
sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
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sp nov |
Jr synonym |
Vierbergen & Scheven |
Burdigalian |
Dominican amber |
A myrmicinae ant, |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
dubious |
Nesov |
A possible ichthyodectid. Originally described as possible spinosaurid teeth. |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[13]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Le Loeuff |
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Redman |
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Gen et sp nov |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Long & Murry |
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A herrerasaurid | ||||
Gen et sp nov |
Olshevsky |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Sampson |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Accarie et al. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Coria & Salgado |
A carcharodontosaurid | |||||
Valid |
Hunt, Lockley, Lucas, & Meyer |
India | ||||||
Olshevsky |
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Valid |
Zhang & Yang |
China | ||||||
Valid |
Nesov |
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Welles, Powell, & Pickering |
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Welles, Powell, & Pickering |
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Valid |
Carpenter, Dilkes, & Weishampel |
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Valid |
Chure |
An allosaurid |
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Gen nov |
Olshevsky |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Coombs |
late Albian-early Cenomanian |
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Welles, Powell & Pickering vide: Pickering |
Material later named Duriavenator |
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Ajaia chione [28] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Early Irvingtonian, |
USA: |
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Ameripodius silvasantosi [29] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga |
Tremembé Formation |
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Anhinga malagurala [30] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Brian Mackness |
Early Pliocene |
Allingham Formation |
An anhingid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
USA: |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Hou Lianhai Gu Yucai |
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Corvus moravicus [34] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Jiri Mlikovsky |
Stránská Skála |
A corvid |
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Eudocimus leiseyi [28] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Early Irvingtonian, |
USA: |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Kenneth E. Campbell, jr. |
Late Pleistocene |
Rancho la Brea |
USA: |
A gruid |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Claudia P. Tambussi |
Middle-Late Pliocene |
Monte Hermoso Formation |
A rheid |
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Idiornis tuberculata [37] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Dieter S. Peters |
Middle Eocene |
An idiornithid gruiform; the genus was synonymized with the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Mourer-Chauviré, 2013 [38] |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Lagopus balcanicus [40] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
ppZlatozar N. Boev |
Late Pliocene |
Middle Villafranchian |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
USA: |
A larid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
USA: |
A larid |
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Meganhinga chilensis [42] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga |
An anhingid |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Walter E. Boles |
?Early Miocene |
A menurid |
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Messelornis russelli [39] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Paleocene |
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Phalacrocorax filyawi [41] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Steven D. Emslie |
Late Pliocene |
Late Blancan |
USA: |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Xue Xiangxu |
Early-Middle Paleocene |
Shimen Basin |
An indeterminate neognath |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Howse and Milner |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen. et sp. nov |
Valid |
Spassov and Lange-Badré |
Type species is A. altidens, though this later became a junior synonym of A. gracilis. |