1998 in paleontology

Lycophyte research

 * Wehr (1998) reports, without description, Selaginella species spikemoss fossils occurring in the Eocene Okanagan Highlands Klondike Mountain Formation.

Fungal research

 * Currah, Stockey, & LePage (1998) describe the a phyllachoralean "tar spot" parasitizing Uhlia palm leaves, and host for a hyperparasitic pleosporalean fungus. They note them to be one of the first occurrences of hyperparasitic relationships in the fossil record.

Dinosaurs

 * A paper in the journal Nature is published by Karen Chin and others announcing the earlier discovery of a "king-sized coprolite" attributed to Tyrannosaurus rex.
 * Lourinhasaurus gastroliths documented.
 * Cedarosaurus gastroliths documented.
 * Caudipteryx gastroliths documented.
 * Volunteers from the Denver Museum of Natural History discovered Tony's Bone Bed in the Cedar Mountain Formation's Poison Strip Member.

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.