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none 1989 paleontology science 1989 Plants Angiosperms Nymphaeales Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Synonymized taxa Notes ImagesAllenbyaCevallos-Ferriz S. R. Stockey R. A. 1989 Permineralized fruits and seeds from the Princeton chert (Middle Eocene) of British Columbia: Nymphaeaceae Botanical Gazette 150 2 207–217 10.1086/337765 86651676 Gen et sp novvalidCevallos-Ferriz & StockeyEoceneYpresianEocene Okanagan HighlandsPrinceton ChertCanadaBritish ColumbiaA permineralized waterlily genusThe type species is A. collinsonae Not to be confused with the odonate Allenbya from the Allenby Formation.Archibald S. B. Cannings R. A. 2022 The first Odonata from the early Eocene Allenby Formation of the Okanagan Highlands, British Columbia, Canada (Anisoptera, Aeshnidae and cf. Cephalozygoptera, Dysagrionidae) The Canadian Entomologist 154 1 e29 10.4039/tce.2022.16 250035713 free Arthropods Insects Dipterans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesEmpis orapaensisWaters S.B. 1989 A cretaceous dance fly (Diptera: Empididae) from Botswana Systematic Entomology 14 2 233–241 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1989.tb00280.x 1989SysEn..14..233W 83996156 Sp novWatersCretaceousTuronianOrapa FormationBotswanaA dance fly fly.PseudoacarterusWaters S.B. 1989 A new hybotine dipteran from the Cretaceous of Botswana Palaeontology 32 3 657–667Gen et sp novWatersCretaceousTuronianOrapa FormationBotswanaA hybotine fly. The type species is P. orapaensis Hemiptera Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPenaphis woollardiJarzembowski E.A. 1989 A fossil aphid (Insecta: Hemiptera) from the early Cretaceous of southern England Cretaceous Research 10 3 239–248 10.1016/0195-6671(89)90020-7 1989CrRes..10..239J Sp novJarzembowskiCretaceous HauterivianWeald ClayEnglandA gymnosperm feeding aphid Hymenoptera Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAlloiommaZhang J. 1989 Fossil insects from Shanwang, Shandong, China. Chinese Jinan, China Shandong Science and Technology Publishing House 1–459Gen et sp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA dolichoderine antThe type species is A. changweiensisAphaenogaster lapidescensSp. novjr synonymZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA myrmicine antMoved to Paraphaenogaster lapidescens (2014)Dlussky G.M. Putyatina T.S. 2014 Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 272 3 237–285 10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0409 2014NJGPA.272..237D http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/5/55/Dlussky%2C_G.M._%26_Putyatina%2C_T.S._2014._Early_Miocene_ants_from_Radoboj%2C_Croatia.pdfAphaenogaster paludosaSp. novjr synonymZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA myrmicine ant genusMoved to Paraphaenogaster paludosa (2014)Camponotus ambonSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA camponotine formicine ant.Camponotus ampullosusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA camponotine formicine ant.Camponotus curviansatusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA camponotine formicine ant.Camponotus gracilisSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA camponotine formicine ant.Camponotus longusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA camponotine formicine ant.Camponotus microthoracusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA camponotine formicine ant.Camponotus plenusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA camponotine formicine ant.Dolichoderus evolansSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA dolichoderine ant.Dolichoderus laciniusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA dolichoderine ant.ElaphroditesGen et sp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA dolichoderine antThe type species is E. scutulatus Also includes E. mutatusEuponera minutansataSp. novjr synonymZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA ponerine ant.Moved to Pachycondyla minutansata (2014)Schmidt C.A. Shattuck S.O. 2014 The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior Zootaxa 3817 1–242 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 24943802 Euponera nubeculataSp. novjr synonymZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA ponerine ant.Moved to Pachycondyla nubeculata (2014)Formica cepsSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA formicine ant.Formica linquensisSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA formicine ant.Formica ovalaSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA formicine ant.HeteromyrmexGen et sp. novjr homonymZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA myrmicine antThe type species is H. atopogaster Jr homonym of Heteromyrmex Wheeler (1920) Renamed Zhangidris (2003)Bolton B. 2003 Synopsis and classification of Formicidae Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71 1–370 http://antcat.org/documents/3806/20263.pdfIridomyrmex shandongicusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA leptomyrmecine ant. Heterick and Shattuck (2011) considered unidentifiable.Shattuck S. Heterick B.E. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) 2011 Zootaxa 2845 1–74 10.11646/zootaxa.2743.1.1 978-1-86977-676-3 http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/images/a/ab/Heterick_%26_Shattuck.pdf 1175-5334Lasius mordicusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA lasiine ant.Lasius validusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA lasiine ant.Lasius validusSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA lasiine ant.Leptogenys lacerataSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA ponerine ant.Liometopum eremicumSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA tapinomine ant.Liometopum potamophilumSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA tapinomine ant.MiosolenopsisGen et sp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA myrmicine ant genusThe type species is M. fossilisMyopopone sinensisSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA amblyoponine ant.ShanwangellaGen et sp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA formicine ant genusThe type species is S. palaeoptera Considered a jr synonym of Camponotus (2000)Hong Y. Wu J. 2000 The emendation of Shanwangella palaeoptera Zhang and its concerned problems Chinese Geoscience (Beijing) 14 15–20 Resurrected as valid (2022)Perfilieva K.S. 2022 Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from localities of the Russian Far East (Amgu, Velikaya Kema) Paleontological Journal 56 4 412–425 10.1134/S0031030122040086 2022PalJ...56..412P 251519052 Tapinoma baculumSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA tapinomine ant.Technomyrmex septentrionalisSp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA tapinomine ant.TylolasiusGen et sp. novvalidZhangMioceneShanwang FormationChinaA formicine ant genusThe type species is T. inflatus Deemed a jr synonym of Lasius (2001)Hong Y. Wu J. Ren D. 2001 Emendation of Heteromyrmex Zhang, 1989 and Tylolasius Zhang, 1989 (Hymenoptera, Formicoidae [Formicidae]) from the Miocene Shanwang Basin, Shandong Province, China Chinese Geological Review (Beijing) 47 345–349 Mecoptera Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesHolcorpidaeArchibald SB 2010 Revision of the scorpionfly family Holcorpidae (Mecoptera), with description of a new species from Early Eocene McAbee, British Columbia, Canada Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46 1–2 173–182 10.1080/00379271.2010.10697654 2010AnSEF..46..173A free Fam novvalidWillmannEocenePriabonianFlorissant FormationUSAColoradoA scorpionfly family, The type genus is HolcorpaThe type species is H. maculosathumb|center|upright|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 Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.Chatterjee and Small (1989). Sanders, Manley, and Carpenter (2001), "Table 12.1" page 167. Archosauriformes Archosauromorphs Pseudosuchians Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images RevueltosaurusHunt, A.P. 1989. A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Bull Canyon Formation (Upper Triassic) of East Central New Mexico. In: The dawn of the age of dinosaurs in the American Southwest (S.G. Lucas and A.P. Hunt, eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque: pp. 355-358. Valid non-dinosaurian taxon HuntLate Triassic (early-middle Norian)Bull Canyon Formation Petrified Forest MemberUnited StatesA suchian. Non avian dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html Name Status Authors Age Unit Location NotesImages AbrosaurusOuyang, H. 1989. A new sauropod from Dashanopu, Zigong, Co., Sichuan Province (Abrosaurus dongpoensis gen. et sp. nov.). Zigong Dinosaur Museum Newsletter 2: pp. 10-14. Valid taxon OuyangMiddle Jurassic (Bathonian-Callovian)Xiashaximiao FormationChinaA macronarian.thumb|Abrosaurus AsiaceratopsNesov, L.A. 1989. Ceratopsian dinosaurs and crocodiles of the middle Mesozoic of Asia. In: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Modern Paleontology (T.N. Bogdanova and L.I. Kozhatsky, eds.) Valid taxon Lev A. Nesov and Kaznyshkina vide: Lev A. Nesov Kaznyshkina CherepanovLate Cretaceous (Cenomanian)Khodzhakul FormationUzbekistanA leptoceratopsid. AtlascopcosaurusRich, T.H.V. and P. Rich. 1989. Polar dinosaurs and biotas of the Early Cretaceous of southeastern Australia. Natl. Geogr. Res. 5: pp. 15-53. Valid taxon Thomas H. Rich Patricia Vickers-RichEarly Cretaceous (early Albian)Eumeralla FormationAustraliaAn ornithopod. BihariosaurusMarinescu, F. 1989. Lentila de bauxcifti 204 de la Brusturi Cornet (Jud. Bior.), zefimint fosilifer cu dinozauri. Ocrot. Nat. Mediul. Inconjur. 33: 125- 133. Valid taxon MarinescuEarly Cretaceous (Berriasian)Bauxite depositsRomaniaAn iguanodont "Daptosaurus"Brown vide Chure, D.J. and J.S. McIntosh. 1989. A Bibliography of the Dinosauria (Exclusive of the Aves) 1677-1986. Paleontology Series No. 1. Museum of Western Colorado. Junior synonym of Deinonychus Brown vide: Chure McIntosh "Eucentrosaurus"Chure, D.J. and J.S. McIntosh. 1989. A Bibliography of the Dinosauria (Exclusive of the Aves) 1677-1986. Paleontology Series No. 1 Museum of Western Colorado. Junior synonym of Centrosaurus Chure McIntosh Leaellynasaura Valid taxon Thomas H. Rich Patricia Vickers-RichEarly Cretaceous (early Albian)Eumeralla FormationAustraliaAn ornithopod.center|thumb|200x200px|Leaellynasaura "Tenantosaurus" Misspelling of TenontosaurusBrown vide: Chure McIntosh Turanoceratops Valid taxon Lev A. Nesov and Kaznyshkina vide: Lev A. Nesov Kaznyshkina CherepanovLate Cretaceous (Turonian)Bissekty FormationUzbekistanA ceratopsid. Birds Name Status Novelty Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAccipiter efficax Jean C. Balouet & Storrs L. Olson 1989 Fossil Birds from Late Quaternary Deposits in New Caledonia https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5164/SCtZ-0469-Hi_res.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 469 1 1–38 ValidSp. nov.Balouet & OlsonHoloceneCave depositsNew CaledoniaAn Accipitridae.Accipiter quartus ValidSp. nov.Balouet & OlsonHoloceneCave depositsNew CaledoniaAn Accipitridae.Apatosagittarius Alan Feduccia & Michael R. Voorhies 1989 A Miocene Hawk Converges on Secretarybird Ibis 131 3 349–354 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1989.tb02784.xValidGen et Sp nov.Feduccia & VoorhiesMioceneLate ClarendonianAsh Hollow FormationUSANebraskaAn Accipitridae The type species is A. terrenusAplonis diluvialis David W. Steadman 1989 A New Species of Starling (Sturnidae, Aplonis) from an Archaeological Site on Huahine, Society Islands http://extinct-website.com/pdf/Notornis_36_3_161_169.pdf Notornis 36 3 161–169 10.63172/129494xrrqxw 2014-08-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20140826120615/http://extinct-website.com/pdf/Notornis_36_3_161_169.pdf 2014-08-26 ValidSp. nov.SteadmanHoloceneHuahine, Society IslandsFrench PolynesiaA Sturnidae.Caloenas canacorum ValidSp. nov.Balouet & OlsonHoloceneCave depositsNew CaledoniaA Columbidae.Eociconia Hou LianHai 1989 A Middle Eocene Bird from Sangequan, Xinjiang http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/200902/W020090813372959703985.pdf Vertebrata PalAsiatica 27 1 65–70 ValidGen et sp. nov.HouMiddle EoceneYixibaila FormationChinaA CiconiidaeThe type species is E. sangequanensisEuronyctibius Cécile Mourer-Chauviré 1989 Les Caprimulgiformes et les Coraciiformes de l'Éocène et de l'Oligocène des Phosphorites du Quercy et Descriptions de Deux Genres Nouveaux de Podargidae et Nyctibiidae Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Ornithological Congress 19 2047–2055 ValidGen et sp. nov.Mourer-ChauviréEoceneLate EoceneQuercy Phosphorites FormationFranceFirst described as a Nyctibiidae transferred to Steatornithidae in 2013,Cécile Mourer-Chauviré 2013 New Data Concerning the Familial Position of the Genus Euronyctibius (Aves, Caprimulgiformes) from the Paleogene of the Phosphorites du Quercy, France Paleontological Journal 47 11 1315–1322 10.1134/s0031030113110117 2013PalJ...47.1315M 84167622 The type species is E. kurochkiniGallicolumba longitarsus ValidSp. nov.Balouet & OlsonHoloceneCave depositsNew CaledoniaA Columbidae.Megapodius alimentum David W. Steadman 1989 New Species and Records of Birds (Aves: Megapodiidae, Columbidae) from an Archeological Site on Lifuka, Tonga https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofb1021989bio Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102 3 537–552 ValidSp. nov.SteadmanHoloceneLifukaTongaA Megapodiidae.Megapodius molistructor ValidSp. nov.Balouet & OlsonHolocene1750 ± 70 YBP (Years Before Present)Cave depositsNew CaledoniaA Megapodiidae.Noguerornis A. Lacasa Ruiz 1989 Nuevo Género de Ave Fósil del Yacimiento Neocomiense del Montsec (Provincia de Lerida, España) Estudios Geológicos 45 5–6 417–425 10.3989/egeol.89455-6513 free ValidGen et sp nov.RuizEarly CretaceousLate Berriasian-Early ValanginianSpainCataloniaA Concornithidae enantiornithineThe type species is N. gonzalezi.Porphyrio kukwiedei ValidSp. nov.Balouet & OlsonHoloceneCave depositsNew CaledoniaA Rallidae.Puffinus nestori Josep A. Alcover 1989 Les Aus Fòssils de la Cova de Ca Na Reia http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Endins/article/viewFile/104331/153448 Endins 14-15 95–100 ValidSp. nov.AlcoverLate PlioceneCave depositsSpainIbizaA Procellariidae.Quercypodargus ValidSp. nov.Mourer-ChauviréEoceneLate EoceneQuercy Phosphorites FormationFranceA PodargidaeThe type species is Q. olsoni.Rhynochetos orarius DisputedSp. nov.Balouet & OlsonHoloceneCave depositsNew CaledoniaA rhynochetid kagu. Theuerkauf & Gula (2018) considered this a jr synonym of the extant R. jubatus.2018 Indirect evidence for body size reduction in a flightless island bird after human colonisation Journal of Ornithology 159 3 823–826 10.1007/s10336-018-1545-0 free Theuerkauf Jörn Gula Roman 2018JOrni.159..823TRostratula minator 1989 A New Species of Painted Snipe (Charadriiformes: Rostratulidae) from the Early Pliocene at Langebaanweg, Southwestern Cape Province, South Africa https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/6523/VZ_215_Pliocene_Rostratula.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Ostrich 60 3 118–121 10.1080/00306525.1989.9633737 Olson Storrs L. Eller Kimberley G. 1989Ostri..60..118O ValidSp. nov.Olson & EllerPlioceneVarswater FormationSouth AfricaA Rostratulidae.Sazavis Lev A. Nessov & A.A. Yarkov 1989 [New Cretaceous-Paleogene Birds of the USSR and Some Remarks on the Origin and Evolution of the Class Aves] Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR 197 1 78–97 ValidGen et sp nov.Nessov & YarkovLate CretaceousConiacianBissekty FormationUzbekistanAn Alexornithidae Enantiornithes The type species is S. priscaTyto letocarti ValidSp. nov.Balouet & OlsonHoloceneCave depositsNew CaledoniaA Tytonidae.Volgavis ValidGen et sp. nov.Nessov & YarkovLate CretaceousLatest MaastrichtianRussiaA limnofregatine fregatid The type species is V. marinaYoungornis qiluensis Xiangkui Yeh & Bo Sun 1989 Fossil Rail and Crow from Linqu, Shandong http://www.zoores.ac.cn/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=305 Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 62 1 335–345 2014-08-23 2014-08-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20140826115302/http://www.zoores.ac.cn/EN/article/downloadArticleFile.do?attachType=PDF&id=305 ValidSp. nov.Yeh & SunMiddle MioceneShanwang FormationChinaA Rallidae. Pterosaurs Name Status Authors Notes Bogolubovia Valid Nesov A. A. Yarkov Mesadactylus Valid Jensen Padian Tapejara Valid Kellner Synapsids Newly named mammals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesDiacodexis antunesiEstravis Carmen Russell Donald E. 1989 Decouverte d'un nouveau Diacodexis (Artiocactyla, Mammalia) dans l'Eocène inférieur de Silveirinha, Portugal. https://palaeovertebrata.com/articles/view/245 PalaeoVertebrata 19 29–44 En Institut des sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier and Association Palaeovertebrata 10.18563/pv.19.1.29-44 2274-0333Sp novValidEstravís & RussellEarly EoceneSilveirinha FormationPortugalA diacodexeidframeless References Paleontology Chatterjee, Sankar and Small, Bryan J.; 1989; New plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica; 47 pp. 197–215 in Origins and Evolution of the Antarctic Biota, Geological Society Special Pub., edited by Crame, J.A. Sanders F, Manley K, Carpenter K. 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