2000 in paleontology

Plants

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Arachnids

Crustaceans

Insects

Molluscs

Bivalves

Fishes

Newly named placoderms

Newly named cartilaginous fish

Amphibians

Ichthyosaurs

Archosauromorphs

Newly named crurotarsans

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Newly named pterosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Footnotes

Complete author list

As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.

References

References

1. (2000). "''Chaneya'', a new genus of winged fruit from the Tertiary of North America and eastern Asia". International Journal of Plant Sciences.
2. (2000). "A new species of ''Palaeocarpinus'' (Betulaceae) from the Paleogene of Eastern Sikhote-Alin". Paleontological Journal.
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4. (January 2000). "Additions to Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from Hokkaido, Japan – Part 2. Chilenophoberidae". Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum.
5. (2016). "A new gigantic lacewing species (Insecta: Neuroptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil confirms the occurrence of Kalligrammatidae in the Americas". Cretaceous Research.
6. (2009). "First record of ''Pojetaia runnegari'' Jell, 1980 and ''Fordilla'' Barrande, 1881 from the Middle East (Taurus Mountains, Turkey) and critical review of Cambrian bivalves". Paläontologische Zeitschrift.
7. Johnson, H.G.. (2000). "A new actinolepid arthrodire (Class Placodermi) from the Lower Devonian Sevy Dolomite, East-Central Nevada". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
8. (2000). "''Debeerius ellefseni'' (Fam. Nov., Gen. Nov., Spec. Nov.), an autodiastylic chondrichthyan from the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana (USA), the relationships of the chondrichthyes, and comments on gnathostome evolution". Journal of Morphology.
9. Baez, A.M.. (2000). "The earliest known pioid frog from South America: a new genus from the middle Cretaceous of Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
10. (2000). "''Banksiops'', a replacement name for ''Banksia townrowi'' (Amphibia, Temnospondyli)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
11. Wang, Y.. (2000). "A new salamander (Amphibia: Caudata) from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota". Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
12. (2000). "A new temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Triassic of Texas". Journal of Paleontology.
13. (2000). "A new ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic lithographic limestones of Bavaria". Journal of Paleontology.
14. (2000). "The Ichthyosauria". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie).
15. (2000). "A preliminary study on the Early Late Triassic marine reptiles from Guanling Guizhou, China". Geology, Geochemistry.
16. Efimov, M.B.. (2000). "New primitive crocodile (Crocodylomorpha: Shartegosuchidae) from the Jurassic of Mongolia". Paleontological Journal.
17. Efimov, M.B. & Leshchinskiy, S.V. (2000). First finding of the fossil crocodile skull in Siberia [in Russian]. ''In:'' Komarov, A.V., ed., ''Materialy regional’noj konferencii geologov Sibiri, Dal’nego Vostoka i Severo−Vostoka Rossii''. Tom II, 361–363. GalaPress, Tomsk.
18. Buckley, G.A.. (2000). "A pug-nosed crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar". Nature.
19. (2000). "A new early Cretaceous crocodyliform from Niger". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen.
20. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
21. Burnham, D.A., K.L. Derstler, P.J. Currie, R.T. Bakker, Z. Zhou, and J.H. Ostrom. 2000. Remarkable new birdlike dinosaur (Theropoda: Maniraptora) from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 13: pp. 1-14.
22. Norell, M.A., P.J. Makovicky, and J.M. Clark. 2000. A new troodontid theropod from Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. Jpornal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20: pp. 1-11.
23. (2000). "A New Species of Caudipteryx from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, Northeast China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
24. Godefroit P., S. Zan, and L. Jin. 2000. Charonosaurus jiayinensis n.g., n.sp., a lambeosaurine dinosaur from the Late Maastrichtian of northeastern China. Comptes Rendus Académie des Sciences du Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 330: pp. 875–882 (Paléontologie des Vertébrés).
25. Fang, Pang, Lü, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li, and Cheng. 2000. Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan Province. Pp. 208-214 in: Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Conference of China. Geological Publishing House, Beijing.
26. Azuma, Y. and P.J. Currie. 2000. A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. Can. J. Earth Sci. 37: pp. 1735-1753.
27. Ford, T.L. 2000. A review of ankylosaur osteoderms from New Mexico and a preliminary review of ankylosaur armor. In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico (S.G. Lucas and A.B. Heckert, eds.). New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 17: pp. 157-176.
28. Sereno, P.C. 2000. The fossil record, systematics and evolution of pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians from Asia. In The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia (M.J. Benton, M.A. Shishkin, D.M. Unwin, and E.N. Kurochkin, eds.). Cambridge University Press, New York: pp. 480-516.
29. Pang and Cheng. 2000. A new family of sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Tianzhen, Shanxi Province, China. Acta Geologica Sinica 74 (2): pp. 117-125.
30. Coria, R.A. and L. Salgado. 2000. A basal Abelisauria Novas 1992 (Theropoda- Ceratosauria) from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Gaia 15: pp. 89-102
31. (2000). "The earliest known sauropod dinosaur". Nature.
32. Xu, X., X. Wang, and H. You. 2000. A primitive ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 38 (4): pp. 318-325.
33. (2000). "The smallest known non-avian theropod dinosaur". Nature.
34. Xu, Z., X.J. Zhao, J.-C. Lu, W.-B. Huang, Z.-Y. Li Z., and Z.-M. Dong. 2000. A new Iguanodontian from Sangping Formation of Neixiang, Henan and its stratigraphical implications. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 38 (3): pp. 176-191.
35. (2000). "A new oviraptorosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Mongolia: the first dinosaur with a pygostyle". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
36. (2000). "A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
37. Olshevsky, G. 2000. An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continent. Mesozoic Meanderings 3: pp. 1-157.
38. (2000). "A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
39. Salgado L., Azpilicueta C.. (2000). "Un nuevo saltasaurino (Sauropoda, Titanosauridae) de la provincia de Rio Negro (Formacion Allen, Cretacico Superior), Patagonia, Argentina". Ameghiniana.
40. Wedel M.J., R.L. Cifelli, and R.K. Sanders. 2000. Osteology, paleobiology, and relationships of the sauropod dinosaur Sauroposeidon. Acta Palaeontologica Polinica 45 (4): pp. 343–388
41. (2000). "A New Species of Large Auk from the Pliocene of Belgium". Oryctos.
42. Cécile Mourer-Chauviré. (2000). "A New Species of Ameripodius (Aves: Galliformes: Quercymegapodiidae) from the Lower Miocene of France". Palaeontology.
43. Steven M. Goodman. (2000). "A Description of a New Species of Brachypteracias (Family Brachypteraciidae) from the Holocene of Madagascar". Ostrich.
44. Gerald Mayr. (2000). "Charadriiform Birds from the Early Oligocene of Céreste (France) and the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)". Géobios.
45. Zlatozar N. Boev. (2000). "''Cygnus verae'' sp. n. (Anseriformes: Anatidae) from the Early Pliocene of Sofia (Bulgaria)". Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia.
46. (2000). "Rollers (Aves: Coraciiformes s.s.) from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Germany) and the Upper Eocene of the Quercy (France)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
47. (2000). "A New Species of Extinct Late Pleistocene Puffin (Aves: Alcidae) rom the Southern California Channel Islands". Proceedings of the Fifth California Islands Symposium.
48. (2000). "''Frigidafons babaheydariensis'' n. sp., ein Sturmvogel aus dem Oligozän des Irans (Aves: Procellariidae)". Senckenbergiana Lethaea.
49. (2000). "New Species and Records of Birds from Prehistoric Sites on Niue, Southwest Pacific". The Wilson Bulletin.
50. Lianhai Hou. (2000). "Mesozoic Birds of China (1997); Picture Book of Chinese Fossil Birds". Picture Book of Chinese Fossil Birds (2000).
51. Trevor H. Worthy. (2000). "The Fossil Megapodes (Aves: Megapodiidae) of Fiji with Descriptions of a New Genus and Two New Species". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
52. Gerald Mayr. (2000). "Tiny Hoopoe-like Birds from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)". The Auk.
53. Gerald Mayr. (2000). "A New Mousebird (Coliiformes: Coliidae) from the Oligocene of Germany". Journal für Ornithologie.
54. Gerald Mayr. (2000). "A New Basal Galliform Bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)". Senckenbergiana Lethaea.
55. (2000). "A New Wood-hoopoe (Aves: Phoeniculidae) from the Early Miocene of Germany and France". Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae.
56. (2000). "Two New Species of Flightless Rails (Aves: Rallidae) from the Middle Pleistocene "Crane Fauna" of Bermuda". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
57. (2000). "An Avian Quadrate from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation of Wyoming". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
58. (2000). "A primitive Enantiornithine bird and the Origin of Feathers". Science.
59. (2000). "A New Psittaciform Bird from the London Clay (Lower Eocene) of England". Palaeontology.
60. (2000). "A New Vulture from the Miocene of Shandong, Eastern China". Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
61. Gerald Mayr. (2000). "A Remarkable New "Gruiform" Bird from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)". Paläontologische Zeitschrift.
62. Gerald Mayr. (2000). "New or Previously Unrecorded Avian Taxa from the Middle Eocene of Messel (Hessen, Germany)". Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe.
63. Gerald Mayr. (2000). "A New Raptor-like Bird from the Lower Eocene of North America and Europe". Senckenbergiana Lethaea.
64. (2000). "Reinterpretation of a Chilean pterosaur and the occurrence of Dsungaripteridae in South America". Geological Magazine.
65. (2000). "Description of a new species of Anhangueridae (Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian), northeastern Brazil". National Science Museum Monograph.
66. (2006). "''Coloborhynchus'' from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation, Brazil (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea, Anhangueridae): an update". Vertebrate Paleontology.
67. Kurkin, A.A.. (2000). "New dicynodonts from the Upper Permian of the Vyatka Basin". Paleontological Journal.
68. (2000). "A new therioherpetid cynodont from the Santa Maria Formation (middle Late Triassic), southern Brazil". Geodiversitas.
69. Flynn, J.J.. (2000). "New traversodontids (Synapsida: Eucynodontia) from the Triassic of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
70. Ivakhnenko, M.F.. (2000). "The Nikkasauridae—Problematic primitive therapsids from the Late Permian of the Mezen Localities". Paleontological Journal.
71. Tatarinov, L.P.. (2000). "New material on Scaloposaurians (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Upper Permian of the Kotelnich Locality, Kirov Region". Paleontological Journal.
72. Tatarinov, L.P.. (2000). "A new gorgonopid (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Upper Permian of the Vologda Region". Paleontological Journal.
73. (2000). "A new Permian dicynodont and the question of the origin of the kannemeyeroidea". Paleontological Journal.