1984 in paleontology

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Arachnids

Newly named crustaceans

Newly named eurypterids

Conodont paleozoology

Willi Ziegler and Charles A. Sandberg described the conodont genus Alternognathus.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

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References

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