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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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Sp nov | Waters | A dance fly fly. | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Waters | A hybotine fly. | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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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 | ||||
Sp. nov | jr synonym | Zhang | Miocene | A myrmicine ant | ||||
Sp. nov | jr synonym | Zhang | Miocene | A myrmicine ant genus | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A camponotine formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A camponotine formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A camponotine formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A camponotine formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A camponotine formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A camponotine formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A camponotine formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A dolichoderine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A dolichoderine ant. | ||||
Gen et sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A dolichoderine ant | ||||
Sp. nov | jr synonym | Zhang | Miocene | A ponerine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | jr synonym | Zhang | Miocene | A ponerine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A formicine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A formicine ant. | ||||
Gen et sp. nov | jr homonym | Zhang | Miocene | A myrmicine ant | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A leptomyrmecine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A lasiine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A lasiine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A lasiine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A ponerine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A tapinomine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A tapinomine ant. | ||||
Gen et sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A myrmicine ant genus | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A amblyoponine ant. | ||||
Gen et sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A formicine ant genus | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A tapinomine ant. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Zhang | Miocene | A tapinomine ant. | ||||
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 | 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; | ||
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Revueltosaurus [17] | Valid non-dinosaurian taxon |
| 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 |
| A macronarian. | ![]() | ||||
Asiaceratops [20] | Valid taxon |
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| Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) | ||||
Atlascopcosaurus [21] | Valid taxon | Early Cretaceous (early Albian) | An ornithopod. | |||||
Bihariosaurus [22] | Valid taxon |
| Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) | Bauxite deposits | An iguanodont | |||
"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 | Early Cretaceous (early Albian) | An ornithopod. | ![]() | ||||
"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. | Cave deposits | An Accipitridae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits | An Accipitridae. | |||||
Valid | Gen et Sp nov. | Miocene | An Accipitridae | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Sturnidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits | A Columbidae. | |||||
Valid | Gen et sp. nov. | A Ciconiidae | ||||||
Valid | Gen et sp. nov. | First described as a Nyctibiidae | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits | A Columbidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Megapodiidae. | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Holocene | Cave deposits | A Megapodiidae. | ||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | Early Cretaceous | A Concornithidae enantiornithine | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits | A Rallidae. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits | ||||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Podargidae | ||||||
Disputed | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits | A rhynochetid kagu. | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | |||||||
Valid | Gen et sp nov. | Nessov & Yarkov | An Alexornithidae Enantiornithes | |||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | Cave deposits | A Tytonidae. | |||||
Valid | Gen et sp. nov. | Nessov & Yarkov | Late Cretaceous | A limnofregatine fregatid | ||||
Valid | Sp. nov. | A Rallidae. | ||||||
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