List of years in paleontology (table)
In paleobotany
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
In arthropod paleontology
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
In paleoentomology
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
In paleomalacology
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
In reptile paleontology
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
In archosaur paleontology
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
In paleomammalogy
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
In paleoichthyology
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027

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. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2024.

Flora

Plants


Arthropods

Molluscs

Echinoderms

New taxa

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Research

  • A review of the early evolution of echinoderms is published by Rahman and Zamora (2024). [2]
  • Bohatý et al. (2024) describe new fossil material of Monstrocrinus from the Devonian strata in Germany, and reinterpret Monstrocrinus as an attached, stalked echinoderm.[3]

Conodonts

New taxa

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Neogondolella excentrica primitiva[4]

Ssp. nov

Valid

Orchard & Golding

Middle Triassic

 United States
( Nevada)

Neogondolella excentrica sigmoidalis[4]

Ssp. nov

Valid

Orchard & Golding

Middle Triassic

 United States
( Nevada)

Neogondolella quasiconstricta[4]

Sp. nov

Valid

Orchard & Golding

Middle Triassic

 United States
( Nevada)

Neogondolella quasicornuta[4]

Sp. nov

Valid

Orchard & Golding

Middle Triassic

 United States
( Nevada)

Fish

Amphibians

New taxa

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Stenokranio[5]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Werneburg et al.

Carboniferous-Permian transition (Gzhelian/Asselian)

Remigiusberg Formation

 Germany

An eryopid temnospondyl. The type species is S. boldi.

Ymboirana[6]

Gen. et sp. nov

Valid

Santos et al.

Oligocene

Tremembé Formation

 Brazil

A typhlonectid caecilian. The type species is Y. acrux.

Research

  • A study on the affinities of Chinlestegophis jenkinsi is published by Marjanović et al. (2024), whose phylogenetic analysis doesn't support the interpretation of C. jenkinsi and stereospondyls in general as stem caecilians.[7]
  • A diverse assemblage of amphibian fossils is described from the Miocene and Pliocene strata from the Hambach surface mine (Germany) by Villa, Macaluso & Mörs (2024), who interpret the studied fossils as indicative of a humid climate persisting in the area throughout the Neogene.[8]

Reptiles

Synapsids

Non-mammalian synapsids

New taxa

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Docodon hercynicus[9]

Sp. nov

Valid

Martin et al.

Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian)

Süntel Formation

 Germany

Ergetiis[10]

Gen. et sp. nov

Averianov et al.

Early Cretaceous

Batylykh Formation

 Russia
( Sakha Republic)

A tegotheriid docodont. The type species is E. ichchi.

Mammals

Other animals

New taxa

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Type locality Location Notes Images

Lobodiscus[11]

Gen. et sp. nov

Zhao et al.

Ediacaran

Dengying Formation

 China

A possible member Trilobozoa. The type species is L. tribrachialis.

Timorebestia[12]

Gen. et sp. nov

Park et al.

Cambrian

Sirius Passet Lagerstätte

 Greenland

A member of the stem group of Chaetognatha. The type species is K. koprii.

Other organisms

Research

  • Demoulin et al. (2024) interpret Polysphaeroides filiformis from the Proterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup (Democratic Republic of the Congo) as a photosynthetic cyanobacterium representing the oldest unambiguous complex fossil member of Stigonemataceae known to date.[13]
  • Evidence of preservation of thylakoid membranes within 1.78 to 1.73-billion-years-old fossils of Navifusa majensis from the McDermott Formation (Tawallah Group; Australia) and in 1.01 to 0,9-billion-years-old specimens from the Grassy Bay Formation (Shaler Supergroup; Canada) is reported by Demoulin et al. (2023).[14]
  • A study on the depositional setting of the strata of the Diabaig and Loch na Dal formations (Scotland, United Kingdom) preserving approximately 1-billion-years-old eukaryotic microfossils is published by Nielson, Stüeken & Prave (2024), who interpret their findings as indicating that early eukaryotes from the studied formations lived in estuaries rather than lakes, and were likely exposed to frequently changing water conditions.[15]

History of life in general

  • Evidence from calcareous nannofossils and small foraminifera from the Transylvanian Basin (Romania), interpreted as indicative of the appearance of a diverse continental vertebrate faunal assemblage on Hațeg Island by the second half of the late Campanian, presence of kogaionid multituberculates in the earliest known Hațeg faunas, and post-Campanian arrivial of hadrosauroids and titanosaur sauropods on the island, is presented by Bălc et al. (2024).[16]

References

  1. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
  2. Rahman, I; Zamora, S (January 2, 2024). "Origin and Early Evolution of Echinoderms". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 52. doi:10.1146/annurev-earth-031621-113343.
  3. Bohatý, J.; Poschmann, M. J.; Müller, P.; Ausich, W. I. (2024). "Putting a crinoid on a stalk: new evidence on the Devonian diplobathrid camerate Monstrocrinus". Journal of Paleontology: 1–18. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.84.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Orchard, M. J.; Golding, M. L. (2024). "The Neogondolella constricta (Mosher and Clark, 1965) group in the Middle Triassic of North America: speciation and distribution". Journal of Paleontology: 1–31. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.52.
  5. Werneburg, R.; Witzmann, F.; Rinehart, L.; Fischer, J.; Voigt, S. (2024). "A new eryopid temnospondyl from the Carboniferous–Permian boundary of Germany". Journal of Paleontology: 1–31. doi:10.1017/jpa.2023.58.
  6. Santos, R. O.; Wilkinson, M.; Couto Ribeiro, G.; Carvalho, A. B.; Zaher, H. (2024). "The first fossil record of an aquatic caecilian (Gymnophiona: Typhlonectidae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad188.
  7. Marjanović, D.; Maddin, H. C.; Olori, J. C.; Laurin, M. (2024). "The new problem of Chinlestegophis and the origin of caecilians (Amphibia, Gymnophionomorpha) is highly sensitive to old problems of sampling and character construction". Fossil Record. 27 (1): 55–94. doi:10.3897/fr.27.e109555.
  8. Villa, A.; Macaluso, L.; Mörs, T. (2024). "Miocene and Pliocene amphibians from Hambach (Germany): new evidence for a late Neogene refuge in northwestern Europe". Palaeontologia Electronica. 27 (1). 27.1.a3. doi:10.26879/1323.
  9. Martin, T.; Averianov, A. O.; Lang, A. J.; Schultz, J. A.; Wings, O. (2024). "Docodontans (Mammaliaformes) from the Late Jurassic of Germany". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. doi:10.1080/08912963.2023.2300635.
  10. Averianov, A. O.; Martin, T.; Lopatin, A. V.; Skutschas, P. P.; Vitenko, D. D.; Schellhorn, R.; Kolosov, P. N. (2024). "Docodontans from the Lower Cretaceous of Yakutia, Russia: new insights into diversity, morphology, and phylogeny of Docodonta". Cretaceous Research. 105836. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105836.
  11. Zhao, M.; Mussini, G.; Li, Y.; Tang, F.; Vickers-Rich, P.; Li, M.; Chen, A. (2024). "A putative triradial macrofossil from the Ediacaran Jiangchuan Biota". iScience: 108823. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.108823.
  12. Park, T.Y. S.; Nielsen, M. L.; Parry, L. A.; Sørensen, M. V.; Lee, M.; Kihm, J.H.; Ahn, I.; Park, C.; De Vivo, G.; Smith, M. P.; Harper, D. A. T.; Nielsen, A. T.; Vinther, J. (2024). "A giant stem-group chaetognath". Science Advances. 10 (1): eadi6678. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adi6678. PMID 38170772.
  13. Demoulin, C. F.; Sforna, M. C.; Lara, Y. J.; Cornet, Y.; Somogyi, A.; Medjoubi, K.; Grolimund, D.; Sanchez, D. F.; Tachoueres, R. T.; Addad, A.; Fadel, A.; Compère, P.; Javaux, E. J. (2024). "Polysphaeroides filiformis, a Proterozoic cyanobacterial microfossil and implications for cyanobacteria evolution". iScience. 108865. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.108865.
  14. Demoulin, C. F.; Lara, Y. J.; Lambion, A.; Javaux, E. J. (2024). "Oldest thylakoids in fossil cells directly evidence oxygenic photosynthesis". Nature: 1–6. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-06896-7. PMID 38172638.
  15. Nielson, G. C.; Stüeken, E. E.; Prave, A. R. (2024). "Estuaries house Earth's oldest known non-marine eukaryotes". Precambrian Research. 401. 107278. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107278.
  16. Bălc, R.; Bindiu-Haitonic, R.; Kövecsi, S.-A.; Vremir, M.; Ducea, M.; Csiki-Sava, Z.; Tabără, D.; Vasile, Ș. (2024). "Integrated biostratigraphy of Upper cretaceous deposits from an exceptional continental vertebrate-bearing marine section (Transylvanian Basin, Romania) provides new constraints on the advent of 'dwarf dinosaur' faunas in Eastern Europe". Marine Micropaleontology. 187. 102328. doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2023.102328.
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