1989 in paleontology

Plants

Angiosperms

Nymphaeales

Arthropods

Insects

Dipterans

Hemiptera

Hymenoptera

Mecoptera

Conodonts

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

Sauropterygians

Plesiosaurs

Plesiosaur research

• Plesiosaur gastroliths documented.

Archosauriformes

Archosauromorphs

Pseudosuchians

Non avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Birds

Pterosaurs

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References

• 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. Gastroliths from the Lower Cretaceous sauropod Cedarosaurus weiskopfae. In: Tanke D.H, Carpenter K, editors. Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie. Indiana University Press; Bloomington, IN: 2001. pp. 166–180.

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