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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks ( ichnites ), burrows , cast-off parts, fossilised feces ( coprolites ), palynomorphs and chemical residues .
Ahvaytum [5] Gen. et sp. nov Lovelace et al. Late Triassic Popo Agie Formation United States ( Wyoming) An early saurischian, possibly a basal sauropodomorph. The type species is A. bahndooiveche. Archaeocursor [6] Gen. et sp. nov Valid Yao et al. Early Jurassic (Sinemurian–Pliensbachian) Ziliujing Formation China. A basal ornithischian.
This paleobotany list records new fossil plant taxa that were to be described during the year 2025, as well as notes other significant paleobotany discoveries and events which occurred during 2025. Lycophytes
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, and the final minute. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
Index fossils (also known as guide fossils or indicator fossils) are fossils used to define and identify geologic periods (or faunal stages). Index fossils must have a short vertical range, wide geographic distribution and rapid evolutionary trends.
The Carthage Institute of Paleontology is set to lose funding for its preparator, who is responsible for maintaining and curating fossils. Two years after juvenile T. rex discovery, rare college ...
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List of years in paleontology This page was last edited on 26 December 2023, at 23:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...