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 2025.
nov Valid Collado & Galleguillos Paleocene Trihueco Formation Chile A member of the family Meandrinidae.
nov Valid Krutykh, Mirantsev & Rozhnov Carboniferous (Gzhelian) Moscow Syneclise Russia A favositid coral.
nov Valid Baranov, Kebrie-ee Zade & Blodgett Devonian (Famennian) Khoshyeilagh Formation Iran A member of the family Athyrididae.
nov Valid Roux, Thuy & Gale Pliocene Indian Ocean (Rodrigues Ridge) A crinoid belonging to the family Rhizocrinidae.
nov Valid Bohatý, Ausich & Ebert Devonian United States( New York) A crinoid belonging to the group Eucladida; a replacement name for Schultzicrinus(?)
nov Valid Rozhnov Ordovician (Darriwilian and Sandbian) Estonia A crinoid belonging to group Camerata and to the family Colpodecrinidae.
nov Valid Roux, Thuy & Gale Pliocene Indian Ocean (Rodrigues Ridge) A crinoid belonging to the family Rhizocrinidae.
nov Liu et al. Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation China A tritylodontid cynodont.
nov Valid Peel Cambrian (Drumian) Fimbuldal Formation China Greenland A relative of gnathiferans.
nov Ghanbarloo, Safari & Görmüş Late Cretaceous (Campanian to Maastrichtian) Tarbur Formation Iran A member of the family Siderolitidae.
nov Valid Kaminski & Korin Eocene Rashrashiyah Formation Saudi Arabia A member of Pseudogaudryininae.
nov Ghanbarloo, Safari & Görmüş Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tarbur Formation Iran A member of the family Loftusiidae.
nov Ghanbarloo, Safari & Görmüş Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tarbur Formation Iran A member of the family Orbitoididae.
nov Ghanbarloo, Safari & Görmüş Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Tarbur Formation Iran A member of the family Siderolitidae.