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 1995.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov | valid | 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 | ![]() | ||||
Sp nov | Valid | De Andrade | A myrmicine ant | |||||
gen et comb nov | valid | A micropterigid moth | ||||||
sp nov | valid | A Dryinuslamellatus group wasp | ![]() | |||||
subfam, gen et sp nov | Valid | Eocene | sister taxon to the rest of Inocelliidae | |||||
sp nov | Jr synonym | Vierbergen & Scheven | Burdigalian | Dominican amber | A myrmicinae ant, | ![]() | ||
sp nov | Jr synonym | Vierbergen & Scheven | Burdigalian | Dominican amber | A myrmicinae ant, | |||
sp nov | Jr synonym | Vierbergen & Scheven | Burdigalian | Dominican amber | A myrmicinae ant, | ![]() | ||
sp nov | Jr synonym | Vierbergen & Scheven | Burdigalian | Dominican amber | A myrmicinae ant, | ![]() | ||
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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Sp nov | Valid | Herrera | A species of Boucotia | |||||
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 | |||||
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 | dubious | A possible ichthyodectid. Originally described as possible spinosaurid teeth. | ||||||
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. [14]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | ![]() | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Le Loeuff | ![]() | |||||
Redman | ||||||||
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Long & Murry |
| A herrerasaurid | ![]() | |||
Gen et sp nov | Olshevsky | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Sampson | ![]() | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Accarie et al. | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Coria & Salgado | A carcharodontosaurid | ![]() | ||||
Valid | Hunt, Lockley, Lucas, & Meyer | ![]() | ||||||
Olshevsky | ![]() | |||||||
Valid | Zhang & Yang | ![]() | ![]() | |||||
Valid | ||||||||
Welles, Powell, & Pickering | ||||||||
Valid | Carpenter, Dilkes, & Weishampel | |||||||
Valid | Chure | An allosaurid | ||||||
Gen nov | Olshevsky | |||||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Coombs | late Albian-early Cenomanian | |||||
Material later named Duriavenator | ||||||||
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. | Valid |
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Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Pliocene | An anhingid | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid |
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Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
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Sp. nov. | Valid | A corvid | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid |
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Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pleistocene |
| A gruid | ||||
Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Middle-Late Pliocene | A rheid | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle Eocene | An idiornithid gruiform; the genus was synonymized with the genus Dynamopterus Milne-Edwards, 1892 by Mourer-Chauviré, 2013 [39] | |||||
Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | |||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | ppZlatozar N. Boev | Late Pliocene | Middle Villafranchian | ||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pliocene | Late Blancan |
| A larid | |||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pliocene | Late Blancan |
| A larid | |||
Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | An anhingid | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | ?Early Miocene | A menurid | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Paleocene | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pliocene | Late Blancan |
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Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Early-Middle Paleocene | 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. | ![]() |