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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 1985.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov | He & Pei | Henan province | synonym of Pojetaia runnegari | |||||
Ord, Supfam, fam, gen et sp nov | valid | MacKinnon | one of four accepted Cambrian bivalves | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | valid | A dolichoderine ant | ![]() | |||||
Sp nov | valid | A dolichoderine ant | ||||||
gen et sp. nov | valid | A castniid butterfly-moth, monotypic | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Ubaghs & Robison | A solutan. | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Ubaghs & Robison | An eocrinoid. | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | jr synonym | Duffin | A hybodont, moved to Reesodus wirksworthensis in 2013 [8] | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | A rauisuchid. | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp | Valid | Campos & Kellner | A pterodactyloid belonging to Anhangueridae. | ![]() | ||||
Gen et sp nov | Jurcsák & Kessler | Early Cretaceous | Bauxite mine | An informal name applied to Palaeocursornis . An azhdarchoid pterosaur. [12] | ||||
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [13]
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Abelisaurus [14] | Valid taxon |
| A short-handed Flesh-eating Dinosaur. | ![]() | ||
"Aliwalia" [15] | Junior subjective synonym of Eucnemosaurus . | |||||
Blikanasaurus [16] | Valid taxon |
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Camelotia [17] | Valid taxon | A British Melanorosaur. | ![]() | |||
Carnotaurus [18] | Valid taxon | An Abelisaurid. The Horned Cheetah of the Cretaceous. | ![]() | |||
"Dachungosaurus" [19] |
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"Dystylosaurus" [20] | Junior synonym of Supersaurus . | |||||
Gasosaurus [21] | Valid taxon | ![]() | ||||
"Mifunesaurus" |
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"Moshisaurus" |
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"Oshanosaurus" [19] |
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"Sanchusaurus" |
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Supersaurus [20] | Valid taxon | ![]() | ||||
"Ultrasaurus" [20] | Preoccupied by Kim H. M., 1983 and renamed Ultrasauros . | |||||
"Xuanhuasaurus" [19] |
| Later renamed Xuanhuaceratops in 2006 | ||||
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Anatidae, transferred to the genus Aythya by Nikita V. Zelenkov [25] | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Motacillidae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et Sp. nov. |
| An Enantiornithes, Avisauridae Brett-Surman & Paul, 1985 this is the type species of the new genus. | |||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Anatidae, Nikita V. Zelenkov, 2012 transferred the species to his genus Protomelanitta Zelenkov, 2011. [29] | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | An Anatidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et Sp nov. | A Cathartidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Robert F. Baird | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Coliidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Corvidae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | A Phasianidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. |
| An Ardeidae. | |||||
Valid | Nom. nov. | A Tinamidae, new name for the preoccupied Tinamisornis intermedius Dabbene et Lillo, 1913 = Eudromia elegans intermedia (Dabbene et Lillo, 1913). | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | MN 12 | A Gruidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Accipitridae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | A Phaethontidae, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Scolopacidae. | ||||||
Not Valid | Sp. nov. | A Phasianidae, not a Lophura, the holotype is not diagnostic to genus.[ citation needed ] | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cayman Brac cave deposits | A Thraupidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Oceanitidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Sharga | A Muscicapidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Robert F. Baird | An Orthonychidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Storrs L. Olson | ||||||
Valid | Gen. nov. et Sp. nov. | A Gruiformes, Phorusrhacidae Ameghino, 1889, Psilopterinae Mathilde Dolgopol de Sáez, 1927, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Todidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Todidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Latest Clarendonian | A Pandionidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Phasianidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Phalaropidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Phasianidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Hyargas-Nuur 2: MN 13; | ||||||
Valid ? | Sp. nov. | Colin J. O. Harrison |
| A Pseudontornithidae, possibly a synonymym of Pseudodontornis longidentata[ citation needed ] | ||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Storrs L. Olson | Quaternary, probably Holocene | Cave deposits | A Caprimulgidae, may still be living. | |||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Phasianidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Pteroclidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et Sp nov. | A Passeriformes, family Incertae Sedis, this is the type species of the new genus. | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Zhang | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov | Jr. synonym | Cooke | A mustelid, reassigned to the genus Propoecilogale in 1987. [46] | |||||