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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 1984.
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Valid | Wing | A Platycaryeae fruit morphospecies. | |||||
Comb nov | valid | (Chandler) Wing & Hickey | Moved from Pterocaryopsis bognorensis (1961) | |||||
Comb nov | valid | (Lesquereux) Wing & Hickey | Moved from Quercus castaneopsis (1883) | |||||
Sp nov | valid | Wing & Hickey | A Platycarya fruit morphospecies. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Valid | Schawaller | A selenopid wall spider | ![]() | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Schram | A mantis shrimp, type species is G. peleron | ![]() | ||||
Sp nov | Valid | Schram | Upper Pennsylvanian | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Schmalfuss | A delatorreid isopod | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Schmalfuss | A delatorreid isopod | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Valid | Schram | ||||||
Willi Ziegler and Charles A. Sandberg described the conodont genus Alternognathus .
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Originally described as a fabrosaurid; | ||||||
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [7]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | He | A tetanuran theropod | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Dong & Tang | A Mamenchisaurid sauropod | ![]() | ||||
Fam., gen et sp nov | Valid | ![]() | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | He | A tetanuran theropod | |||||
Gen nov | Valid | Welles | ![]() | |||||
Gen nov | Jr. synonym of Coelophysis. | Welles | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | A megalosauroid. Before it was believed that this animal was a quadruped, but now it is known that this was a biped. | ||||||
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Sp. nov. | MN 11-15 | An Anatidae. | |||||
Disputed | Sp. nov. | An Archaeopterygidae, the 5th specimen, this species becomes the type species of the new genus Jurapteryx Howgate, 1985. [15] | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | A Strigidae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | Early Miocene | : | A Cuculiformes, Neomorphidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Dromaiidae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
| An Apodiformes, Eocypselidae Harrison, 1984, this is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
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Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | An Ornithuromorphae Chiappe, Ji, Ji et Norell, 1999, Gansuiformes Hou et Liu, 1984, Gansuidae Hou et Liu, 1984, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | MN 9? | A Gaviidae. | |||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Alexornithiformes, Brodkorb, 1976, Alexornithidae Brodkorb, 1976, Alexornithinae Brodkorb, 1976, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Laridae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | An Accipitridae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits |
| A Strigidae. | ||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
| A Hesperornithiformes Fürbringer, 1888, Hesperornithidae Marsh, 1872, this is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| A Rallidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| A Rallidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| A Rallidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| Described as a Rallidae, transferred to the genus Lithornis Owen, 1840 by Houde, 1988, [31] a Palaeognathae, Lithornithiformes Houde, 1988, Lithornithidae Houde, 1988. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| Described as a Rallidae, transferred to the genus Lithornis Owen, 1840 by Houde, 1988, [31] a Palaeognathae, Lithornithiformes Houde, 1988, Lithornithidae Houde, 1988. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid ? | Sp. nov. | Late Miocene | A Phalacrocoracidae, possibly a synonym of Phalacrocorax aristotelis. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits | A Phasianidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | An Apodidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Scopidae | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. |
| Described as a Falconidae, placed in Aves Incertae Sedis by Mlíkovský, 2002. [35] | |||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, Alexornithiformes, Brodkorb, 1976, Alexornithidae Brodkorb, 1976, Zhyraornithinae Nessov, 1984, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
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