1988 in paleontology

Plants

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Crustaceans

Insects

Archosauromorphs

Newly named non-avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

• The dubious family, Ornitholestidae is named by Gregory Scott Paul.

Newly named birds

Pterosaurs

New taxa

References

References

1. (1988). "''Hemiptelea mikii'' sp. nov. (Ulmaceae), fossil fruits and woods from the Pleistocene of central Japan.". The Botanical Magazine - Shokubutsu-gaku-zasshi.
2. (1988). "Permineralized fruits and seeds from the Princeton Chert (Middle Eocene) of British Columbia: Araceae". American Journal of Botany.
3. (1988). "A fossil flower with in situ ''Pistillipollenites'' from the Eocene of British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Botany.
4. (1988). "Rosaceous ''Chamaebatiaria''-like foliage from the Paleogene of western North America". Aliso.
5. (1988). "Pseudotealliocaris palincsari n. sp., a pygocephalomorph from the Pocono Formation, Mississippian of Pennsylvania". Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History.
6. Clark, Neil D.L.. (2013-12-20). "Tealliocaris: a decapod crustacean from the Carboniferous of Scotland". Palaeodiversity.
7. (2016). "The Proof is in the Pouch: Tealliocaris is a Peracarid". Palaeodiversity.
8. (August 2018). "Ants of Sakhalin amber (Paleocene?)". Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal.
9. (2012). "The poneromorph ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae: Amblyoponinae, Ectatomminae, Ponerinae) of Grube Messel, Germany: High biodiversity in the Eocene". [[Journal of Systematic Palaeontology]].
10. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
11. Barsbold, R. 1988. A new late Cretaceous ornithomimid of Mongolia [in Russian]. Paleontol. J. 1: pp. 122-125.
12. Horner, John R.. (1988-09-23). "A new hadrosaur (Reptilia, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
13. (2015-11-11). "A New Brachylophosaurin Hadrosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) with an Intermediate Nasal Crest from the Campanian Judith River Formation of Northcentral Montana". PLOS ONE.
14. Jensen, J.A. 1988. A fourth new sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of the Colorado Plateau and sauropod bipedalism. Great Basin Nat. 48 (2), pp. 121-145.
15. Mateus, O., & Tschopp E. (2013). ''Cathetosaurus'' as a valid sauropod genus and comparisons with ''Camarasaurus''. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Program and Abstracts, 2013. 173.
16. Bakker, R. T. 1988. Review of the late Cretaceous Nodosaurid Dinosauria,'' Denversaurus schlessmani'', a new armor-plated dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of South Dakota, the Last Survivor of the Nodosaurians, with comments on Stegosaur-Nodosaur Relationships. Hunteria 1 (3), pp. 3-23.
17. Yadagiri, P. 1988. A new sauropod ''Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis'' from Lower Jurassic Kota Formation of India. Records of the Geological Survey of India 116 (3-8): pp. 102-127.
18. Bakker, R.T., M. Williams, and P. Currie. 1988. ''Nanotyrannus'', a new genus of pygmy tyrannosaur, from the latest Cretaceous of Montana. Hunteria 1: pp. 1-30.
19. Horner, J.R. and D.B. Weishampel. 1988. A comparative embryological study of two ornithischian dinosaurs. Nature 332: pp. 256- 257.
20. Olshevsky, G. 1991. A Revision of the Parainfraclass Archosauria Cope, 1869, Excluding the Advanced Crocodylia. Mesozoic Meanderings 2 (1st printing): iv + 196 pages.
21. Giffin, E. B., D.L. Gabriel, and R.E. Johnson. 1987. A new pachycephalosaurid skull (Ornithischia) from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of Montana. J. Vert. Palaeontol. 7 (4); pp. 398-407.
22. Philippa J. Haarhoff. (1988). "A New Fossil Stork (Aves, Ciconiidae) from the Late Tertiary of Langebaanweg, South Africa". Annals of the South African Museum.
23. (1988). "New Contributions to the Knowledge of the Sarmatian Birds from South Dobrogea in the Frame of the Eastern Paratethyan Avifauna". Revue Roumaine de Géologie, Géophysique et Géographie, Série Géologie.
24. Steven D. Emslie. (1988). "The Fossil History and Phylogenetic Relationships of Condors (Ciconiiformes: Vulturidae) in the New World". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
25. Steven D. Emslie. (1988). "An Early Condor-like Vulture from North America". The Auk.
26. Aleksandr A. Karkhu. (1988). "A New Family of Swift-Like Birds from the Paleogene of Europe". Paleontological Journal.
27. Peter W. Houde. (1988). "Paleognathous Birds from the Early Tertiary of the Northern Hemisphere". Publication of the Nuttall Ornithological Club.
28. Angelika Hesse. (1988). "Die †Messelornithidae-Ein Neue Familie der Kranichartigen (Aves: Gruiformes: Rhynocheti) aus dem Tertiär Europas und Nordamerikas". Journal für Ornithologie.
29. Philip R. Millener. (1988). "Contributions to New Zealand's Late Quaternary Avifauna. I: ''Pachyplichas'', a New Genus of Wren (Aves: Acanthisittidae), with Two New Species". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
30. James L. Goedert. (1988). "A New Late Eocene Species of Plotopteridae (Aves: Pelecaniformes) from Northwestern Oregon". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.
31. David W. Steadman. (1988). "A New Species of ''Porphyrio'' (Aves: Rallidae) from Archeological Sites in the Marquesas Islands". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
32. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré. (1988). "Le Gisement du Bretou (Phosphorites du Quercy, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) et sa Faune de Vertébrés de l'Éocène Supérieur II. Oiseaux". Palaeontographica A.
33. (1988). "Un Nuevo Psilopterninae (Aves: Ralliformes) del Mioceno Tardio de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Republica Argentina". Ameghiniana.
34. (1988). "Osteological Differences Between Sula and Morus, and a Description of an Extinct New Species of Sula from Lord Howe and Norfolk islands, Tasman Sea". Notornis.
35. Herculano M. F. de Alvarenga. (1988). "Ave Fóssil (Gruiformes: Rallidae) dos Folhelhos da Bacia de Taubaté, Estado de São Paulo, Brasil". Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências.
36. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré. (2000). "A New Species of Ameripodius (Aves: Galliformes: Quercymegapodiidae) from the Lower Miocene of France". Palaeontology.
37. Lev A. Nessov. (1988). "Novyye ptitsy mela i paleogena Sredney Azii i Kazakhstana i usloviya na mestakh ikh obitaniya. [New Cretaceous and Paleogene Birds from Middle Asia and Kazakhstan, and the Condition Existing at Theire Places of Residence.] [in Russian, with English sum.].". Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR.
38. Kellner, A.W.A., and Campos, D.A. (1988). "Sobre un novo pterossauro com crista sagital da Bacia do Araripe, Cretaceo Inferior do Nordeste do Brasil. (Pterosauria, Tupuxuara, Cretaceo, Brasil)." ''Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências'', '''60''': 459–469. [in Portuguese]