Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life formsonEarth 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 |
Adance fly fly. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Waters |
Ahybotine 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 |
Adolichoderine ant |
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Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Amyrmicine ant |
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Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Amyrmicine ant genus |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Acamponotine formicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Acamponotine formicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Acamponotine formicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Acamponotine formicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Acamponotine formicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Acamponotine formicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Acamponotine formicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Adolichoderine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Adolichoderine ant. |
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Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Adolichoderine ant |
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Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aponerine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aponerine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aformicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aformicine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aformicine ant. |
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Gen et sp. nov |
jr homonym |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Amyrmicine ant |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aleptomyrmecine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Alasiine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Alasiine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Alasiine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aponerine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Atapinomine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Atapinomine ant. |
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Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Amyrmicine ant genus |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aamblyoponine ant. |
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Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aformicine ant genus |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Atapinomine ant. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Atapinomine ant. |
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Gen et sp. nov |
valid |
Zhang |
Miocene |
Aformicine ant genus |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Fam nov |
valid |
A scorpionfly family, |
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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; |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
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Revueltosaurus[17] | Valid non-dinosaurian taxon |
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Late Triassic (early-middle Norian) |
Asuchian. |
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 |
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Asiaceratops[20] | Valid taxon |
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Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) |
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Atlascopcosaurus[21] | Valid taxon |
Early Cretaceous (early Albian) |
Anornithopod. |
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Bihariosaurus[22] | Valid taxon |
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Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) |
Bauxite deposits |
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"Daptosaurus"[23] | Junior synonymofDeinonychus |
Brown vide:
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"Eucentrosaurus"[24] | Junior synonymofCentrosaurus |
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Leaellynasaura[21] | Valid taxon |
Early Cretaceous (early Albian) |
Anornithopod. |
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"Tenantosaurus"[24] | Misspelling of Tenontosaurus |
Brown vide:
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Turanoceratops | Valid taxon |
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Late Cretaceous (Turonian) |
Name | Status | Novelty | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
AnAccipitridae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
AnAccipitridae. |
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Valid |
Gen et Sp nov. |
Miocene |
AnAccipitridae |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
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Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
ACiconiidae |
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Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
First described as a Nyctibiidae |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Holocene |
Cave deposits |
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Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Early Cretaceous |
AConcornithidae enantiornithine |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
ARallidae. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
APodargidae |
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Disputed |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
Arhynochetid kagu. |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
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Valid |
Gen et sp nov. |
Nessov & Yarkov |
AnAlexornithidae Enantiornithes |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
Cave deposits |
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Valid |
Gen et sp. nov. |
Nessov & Yarkov |
Late Cretaceous |
Alimnofregatine fregatid |
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Valid |
Sp. nov. |
ARallidae. |
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