1989 in paleontology


Paleozoology

Arthropods

Newly named insects

NameNoveltyStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages

Aphaenogaster avita

Sp nov

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Fujiyama

early - middle Miocene

Chojabaru Formation


A myrmicin ant

Holcorpidae

Fam nov

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Willmann

Priabonian

Florissant Formation


A scorpionfly family, type sp. H. maculosa

Conodont paleozoology

German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur described the conodont genus Mesogondolella.

Vertebrate paleozoology

Plesiosaurs

Archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian
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