List of years in paleontology |
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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 1987.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov | Valid | First described as a witch-hazel genus | ![]() | ||||||
Gen et comb nov | Valid | A platanaceous genus | synonymy
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov | Valid | A dove-tree relative | ![]() | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Comb nov | Valid | First suggested to be a Schoepfia relative, | ![]() | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Comb nov | Valid | An alder species | ![]() | ||||||
sp nov | Valid | A birch species | ![]() | ||||||
sp nov | Valid | Badger Pocket-Squaw Creek, Wanapum Basalts | described from one of the oldest rodent nut caches known | ||||||
Comb nov | Valid | synonymy
| A fagaceous species | ![]() | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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sp nov | Valid | A linden species | ![]() | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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sp nov | Valid | A Photinia species | ![]() | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Sect and sp nov | Valid | Oldest Acer sp in Alaska; Only species of the section Alaskana | |||||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | extinct member of section Ginnala | ||||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Collawash flora and several other floras | extinct member of section Parviflora | |||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Beaver Creek Flora | extinct member of section Macrantha | |||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Late Eocene | John Day Formation | extinct member of section Macrantha | ||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Late Eocene - early Oligocene | extinct member of section Macrantha | |||||
sect and sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Only species of the section Douglasa | ||||||
Sp. nov. | valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Middle-Late Eocene | "Bull Run" Flora | extinct species of Acer sect. Negundo | ||||
sp nov | valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Late Miocene | Lolo pass flora | Member of Acer Section Rubra | ||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | one of two species in the extinct section Stewarta | ||||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Latest Eocene - Early Oligocene | Meshik Volcanics | extinct member of section Glabra | ||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Oligocene | extinct member of section Rubra | |||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | extinct member of Acer section Macrantha | ||||||
Sp. nov. | valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Late Eocene | Beaver Creek Flora | A possible member of Acer sect. Cissifolia | ||||
Sect and sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | type and only species in the extinct section Republica | ||||||
sp nov | Valid | only species in the extinct section Rousea | |||||||
sp nov | Valid | Clarkia and other formations | extinct member of section Parviflora | ||||||
sp nov | Valid | one of two species in the extinct section Stewarta | |||||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | one of three species in the extinct section Torada | ||||||
sp nov | valid | Wolfe & Tanai | Middle Miocene | Member of Acer Section Rubra | |||||
sp nov | Valid | Bull Run Flora | extinct member of section Rubra | ||||||
sp nov | Valid | one of three species in the extinct section Torada | |||||||
sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | extinct member of section Glabra | ||||||
Sect and sp nov | Valid | Wolfe & Tanai | type species in the extinct section Torada | ||||||
Comb nov | Valid | (Ashlee) Wolfe & Tanai | member of Acer section Rubra | ||||||
gen et sp nov | Valid | A burseraceous genus | ![]() | ||||||
gen et comb nov | Valid |
| A sapindaceous genus | ![]() | |||||
sp nov | Valid | A sumac relative | ![]() | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Synonymized taxa | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Stockey | An angiosperm flower genus of uncertain affiliation. | ||||||
gen, sp, et comb nov | Valid | An incertae sedis angiosperm | ![]() | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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sp nov | valid | Berg-Madsen | second Tuarangia species named | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov | Valid | Shear et al. | one of the oldest spiders | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Valid | Quayle | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Dlussky | A sphecomyrmine ant. | ![]() | ||||
Sp nov. | Valid | Nel | A Calopterygid damselfly. | ![]() | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov | Valid taxon | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid taxon | |||||||
gen et sp nov | Valid taxon | |||||||
gen et sp nov | determined to be a junior synonym of Nanotyrannus | |||||||
nomen nudum | ![]() | ![]() | ||||||
gen et sp nov | Valid taxon | |||||||
Pseudolagosuchus [17] | Gen et sp nov | Valid taxon | Ladinian (Middle Triassic) | possibly a jr synonym of Lewisuchus | ||||
Ugrosaurus [18] | gen et sp nov | ![]() | ||||||
" Unicerosaurus " | Baugh vide: Armstrong | Possibly a Fish neural spine, never formally described | ||||||
gen et sp nov | name preoccupied | Name preoccupied by a bryozoan. Renamed Alwalkeria in 1994. | ![]() | |||||
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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jr synonym | Gen et sp. nov. | An Ameghinornithidae, jr synonym of Strigogyps sapea . [21] it is the type species of the genus Aenigmavis Peters, 1987. | ||||||
Valid | Sp nov. | An Anatidae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | Monotypic with C. junnei. Originally classified as a member of Ardeidae; this interpretation was rejected by Mayr, Gingerich & Smith (2019), who considered this bird to be a member of Telluraves, and claimed that it resembled parrot-like taxon Vastanavis . [24] | ||||||
Valid | Sp nov. | |||||||
jr synonym | Sp nov. | A Dromaiidae, jr synonym of Emuarius gidju . [27] | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Columbidae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Sandcoleid, monotypic with E. pallas. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Jacanidae, monotypic with J. nymphaeobates | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
jr synonym | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Gen et sp. nov. | A Jacanidae, | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | An Otidid | ||||||
Valid | Sp nov. | An Otididae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Threskiornithid, monotypic with P. songlinensis. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Sophiornithid, monotypic with P. cracrafti. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Palaeoglaucid, monotypic with P. perrierensis. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Sophiornithid, [36] monotypic with P. cadurcensis. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | Monotypic with P. austriaca. Originally thought to be an auk; Göhlich & Mayr (2018) reinterpreted it as a member of Gaviiformes. [38] | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Phasianid. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Steatornithidae, Preficinae, monotypic with P. nivea | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Sophiornithid, monotypic with S. quercynus | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Holocene | A Psittacidae, Loriinae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Psittacidae, Loriinae. | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Tytthostonychid, monotypic with T. glauconiticus | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | A Xenerodiopid, monotypic with X. mycter |
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Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen. nov | Valid | Petter | A mustelid, type species is P. bolti originally named as Ictonyx bolti in 1985. | |||||