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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.

Plants

Angiosperms

Nymphaeales

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes Images

Allenbya[2]

Gen et sp nov

valid

Cevallos-Ferriz & Stockey

Eocene
Ypresian

Eocene Okanagan Highlands
Princeton Chert

 Canada
 British Columbia

A permineralized waterlily genus
The type species is A. collinsonae
Not to be confused with the odonate Allenbya from the Allenby Formation.[3]

Arthropods

Insects

Dipterans

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Empis orapaensis[4]

Sp nov

Waters

Cretaceous
Turonian

Orapa Formation

 Botswana

A dance fly fly.

Pseudoacarterus[5]

Gen et sp nov

Waters

Cretaceous
Turonian

Orapa Formation

 Botswana

A hybotine fly.
The type species is P. orapaensis

Hemiptera

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Penaphis woollardi[6]

Sp nov

Jarzembowski

Cretaceous
Hauterivian

Weald Clay

 England

A gymnosperm feeding aphid

Hymenoptera

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Alloiomma[7]

Gen et sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A dolichoderine ant
The type species is A. changweiensis

Aphaenogaster lapidescens[7]

Sp. nov

jr synonym

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A myrmicine ant
Moved to Paraphaenogaster lapidescens (2014)[8]

Aphaenogaster paludosa[7]

Sp. nov

jr synonym

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A myrmicine ant genus
Moved to Paraphaenogaster paludosa (2014)[8]

Camponotus ambon[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A camponotine formicine ant.

Camponotus ampullosus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A camponotine formicine ant.

Camponotus curviansatus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A camponotine formicine ant.

Camponotus gracilis[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A camponotine formicine ant.

Camponotus longus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A camponotine formicine ant.

Camponotus microthoracus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A camponotine formicine ant.

Camponotus plenus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A camponotine formicine ant.

Dolichoderus evolans[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A dolichoderine ant.

Dolichoderus lacinius[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A dolichoderine ant.

Elaphrodites[7]

Gen et sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A dolichoderine ant
The type species is E. scutulatus
Also includes E. mutatus

Euponera minutansata[7]

Sp. nov

jr synonym

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A ponerine ant.
Moved to Pachycondyla minutansata (2014)[9]

Euponera nubeculata[7]

Sp. nov

jr synonym

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A ponerine ant.
Moved to Pachycondyla nubeculata (2014)[9]

Formica ceps[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A formicine ant.

Formica linquensis[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A formicine ant.

Formica ovala[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A formicine ant.

Heteromyrmex[7]

Gen et sp. nov

jr homonym

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A myrmicine ant
The type species is H. atopogaster
Jr homonym of Heteromyrmex Wheeler (1920)
Renamed Zhangidris (2003)[10]

Iridomyrmex shandongicus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A leptomyrmecine ant.
Heterick and Shattuck (2011) considered unidentifiable.[11]

Lasius mordicus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A lasiine ant.

Lasius validus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A lasiine ant.

Lasius validus[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A lasiine ant.

Leptogenys lacerata[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A ponerine ant.

Liometopum eremicum[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A tapinomine ant.

Liometopum potamophilum[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A tapinomine ant.

Miosolenopsis[7]

Gen et sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A myrmicine ant genus
The type species is M. fossilis

Myopopone sinensis[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A amblyoponine ant.

Shanwangella[7]

Gen et sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A formicine ant genus
The type species is S. palaeoptera
Considered a jr synonym of Camponotus (2000)[12]
Resurrected as valid (2022)[13]

Tapinoma baculum[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A tapinomine ant.

Technomyrmex septentrionalis[7]

Sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A tapinomine ant.

Tylolasius[7]

Gen et sp. nov

valid

Zhang

Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A formicine ant genus
The type species is T. inflatus
Deemed a jr synonym of Lasius (2001)[14]

Mecoptera

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Holcorpidae[15]

Fam nov

valid

Willmann

Eocene
Priabonian

Florissant Formation

 USA
 Colorado

A scorpionfly family,
The type genus is Holcorpa
The type species is H. maculosa

Holcorpa maculosa

Conodonts

German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genus Mesogondolella.

Sauropterygians

Plesiosaurs

Name Status Authors Notes

Turneria

Preoccupied

Chatterjee Small

preoccupied by the ant genus Turneria Forel, 1895;
renamed Morturneria(1994)

Plesiosaur research

Archosauriformes

Archosauromorphs

Pseudosuchians

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Revueltosaurus[17] Valid non-dinosaurian taxon
  • Hunt

Late Triassic (early-middle Norian)

Bull Canyon Formation
Petrified Forest Member

 United States

A suchian.

Non avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[18]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Abrosaurus[19] Valid taxon
  • Ouyang

Middle Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian)

Xiashaximiao Formation

 China

A macronarian.

Abrosaurus
Asiaceratops[20] Valid taxon
  • Lev A. Nesov and Kaznyshkina vide:
  • Lev A. Nesov
  • Kaznyshkina
  • Cherepanov

Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

Khodzhakul Formation

 Uzbekistan

A leptoceratopsid.

Atlascopcosaurus[21] Valid taxon
  • Thomas H. Rich

Early Cretaceous (early Albian)

Eumeralla Formation

 Australia

An ornithopod.

Bihariosaurus[22] Valid taxon
  • Marinescu

Early Cretaceous (Berriasian)

Bauxite deposits

 Romania

An iguanodont

"Daptosaurus"[23] Junior synonym of Deinonychus

Brown vide:

  • Chure
  • McIntosh
"Eucentrosaurus"[24] Junior synonym of Centrosaurus
  • Chure
  • McIntosh
Leaellynasaura[21] Valid taxon
  • Thomas H. Rich

Early Cretaceous (early Albian)

Eumeralla Formation

 Australia

An ornithopod.

Leaellynasaura
"Tenantosaurus"[24] Misspelling of Tenontosaurus

Brown vide:

  • Chure
  • McIntosh
Turanoceratops Valid taxon
  • Lev A. Nesov and Kaznyshkina vide:
  • Lev A. Nesov
  • Kaznyshkina
  • Cherepanov

Late Cretaceous (Turonian)

Bissekty Formation

 Uzbekistan

A ceratopsid.

Birds

Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Accipiter efficax [25]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Balouet & Olson

Holocene

Cave deposits

 New Caledonia

An Accipitridae.

Accipiter quartus [25]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Balouet & Olson

Holocene

Cave deposits

 New Caledonia

An Accipitridae.

Apatosagittarius [26]

Valid

Gen et Sp nov.

Feduccia & Voorhies

Miocene
Late Clarendonian

Ash Hollow Formation

 USA
 Nebraska

An Accipitridae
The type species is A. terrenus

Aplonis diluvialis [27]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Steadman

Holocene

Huahine, Society Islands

 French Polynesia

A Sturnidae.

Caloenas canacorum [25]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Balouet & Olson

Holocene

Cave deposits

 New Caledonia

A Columbidae.

Eociconia [28]

Valid

Gen et sp. nov.

Hou

Middle Eocene

Yixibaila Formation

 China

A Ciconiidae
The type species is E. sangequanensis

Euronyctibius [29]

Valid

Gen et sp. nov.

Mourer-Chauviré

Eocene
Late Eocene

Quercy Phosphorites Formation

 France

First described as a Nyctibiidae
transferred to Steatornithidae in 2013,[30]
The type species is E. kurochkini

Gallicolumba longitarsus [25]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Balouet & Olson

Holocene

Cave deposits

 New Caledonia

A Columbidae.

Megapodius alimentum [31]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Steadman

Holocene

Lifuka

 Tonga

A Megapodiidae.

Megapodius molistructor [25]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Balouet & Olson

Holocene
1750 ± 70 YBP (Years Before Present)

Cave deposits

 New Caledonia

A Megapodiidae.

Noguerornis [32]

Valid

Gen et sp nov.

Ruiz

Early Cretaceous
Late Berriasian-Early Valanginian

 Spain
 Catalonia

A Concornithidae enantiornithine
The type species is N. gonzalezi.

Porphyrio kukwiedei [25]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Balouet & Olson

Holocene

Cave deposits

 New Caledonia

A Rallidae.

Puffinus nestori [33]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Alcover

Late Pliocene

Cave deposits

 Spain
 Ibiza

A Procellariidae.

Quercypodargus [29]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Mourer-Chauviré

Eocene
Late Eocene

Quercy Phosphorites Formation

 France

A Podargidae
The type species is Q. olsoni.

Rhynochetos orarius [25]

Disputed

Sp. nov.

Balouet & Olson

Holocene

Cave deposits

 New Caledonia

A rhynochetid kagu.
Theuerkauf & Gula (2018) considered this a jr synonym of the extant R. jubatus.[34]

Rostratula minator [35]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Olson & Eller

Pliocene

Varswater Formation

 South Africa

A Rostratulidae.

Sazavis [36]

Valid

Gen et sp nov.

Nessov & Yarkov

Late Cretaceous
Coniacian

Bissekty Formation

 Uzbekistan

An Alexornithidae Enantiornithes
The type species is S. prisca

Tyto letocarti [25]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Balouet & Olson

Holocene

Cave deposits

 New Caledonia

A Tytonidae.

Volgavis [36]

Valid

Gen et sp. nov.

Nessov & Yarkov

Late Cretaceous
Latest Maastrichtian

 Russia

A limnofregatine fregatid
The type species is V. marina

Youngornis qiluensis [37]

Valid

Sp. nov.

Yeh & Sun

Middle Miocene

Shanwang Formation

 China

A Rallidae.

Pterosaurs

Name Status Authors Notes

Bogolubovia

Valid

Nesov A. A. Yarkov

Mesadactylus

Valid

Jensen Padian

Tapejara

Valid

Kellner

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