2001 in paleontology

Plants

Pteridophyta

[[Conifers]]

Angiosperms

Arthropods

Crustaceans

Research

• Guinot and Tavares (2001) reviews the concept of Podotremata and establishes the family Etyidae.

New taxa

Insects

Fishes

Newly named bony fishes

Amphibians

Newly named amphibians

Ichthyosaurs

Turtles

Newly named turtles

Lepidosauromorphs

Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Newly named sphenodonts

Archosauromorphs

Newly named basal archosauromorphs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Newly named pterosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

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

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2. (2001). "Diversity among Taxodioid Conifers: ''Metasequoia foxii'' sp. nov. from the Paleocene of Central Alberta, Canada". International Journal of Plant Sciences.
3. (2001). "''Trochodendron'' and ''Nordenskioldia'' (Trochodendraceae) from the Middle Eocene of Washington State, U.S.A.". International Journal of Plant Sciences.
4. (2001). "Une nouvelle famille de crabes du Crustacés et la notion de Podotremata Guinot, 1977 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura).". Zoosystema.
5. (2001). "New Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans from western North America". Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum.
6. (2001). "''Acropyga'' and ''Azteca'' Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Scale Insects (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea): 20 Million Years of Intimate Symbiosis". American Museum Novitates.
7. (2001). "Silky lacewings (Neuroptera: Psychopsidae) from the Eocene-Paleocene transition of Denmark with a review of the fossil record and comments on phylogeny and zoogeography". Insect Systematics & Evolution.
8. (2001). "''Tainosia quisqueyae'' gen. and sp. nov. from the Oligocene/Miocene Dominican amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Nogodinidae)". Genus.
9. Zhu, M. (2001). "A primitive sacropterygian fish with an eyestock". Nature.
10. Schultze, H.-P.. (2001). "''Melanognathus'', a primitive dipnoan from the Lower Devonian of the Canadian Arctic and the interrelationships of Devonian dipnoans". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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12. Blob, R.W.. (2001). "A new fossil frog from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
13. (2001). "A new genus of ichthyosaur from the Late Triassic Pardonet Formation of British Columbia: bridging the Triassic-Jurassic gap". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
14. (2001). "A new pleurodiran turtle from the Jagua Formation (Oxfordian) of western Cuba". Journal of Paleontology.
15. Gaffney, E.S.. (2001). "''Cearachelys'', a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil". American Museum Novitates.
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17. (2001). "A new and unusual aquatic reptile from the Lockatong Formation of New Jersey (Late Triassic, Newark Supergroup)". American Museum Novitates.
18. O'Keefe, F.R.. (2001). "A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia)". Acta Zoologica Fennica.
19. Evans, S.E.. (2001). "Rhynchocephalians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
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23. Wu, X.-C.. (2001). "Cranial anatomy of a new crocodyliform (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of Song-Liao Plain, northeastern China". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
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29. (2001). "Two new oviraptorids (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria), Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
30. Mateus, O. and M.T. Antunes. 2001. Draconyx loureiroi, a new Camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinha, Portugal. Annales Paleontol. 87 (1): pp. 61-73.
31. (2001). "A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England". Cretaceous Research.
32. (2001). "A new therizinosaur from the Lower Jurassic lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
33. (2001). "A new ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with comments on ankylosaurian relationships. In: The Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project 3". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
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38. Wang X., Xu X.. (2001). "A new iguanodontid (Jinzhousaurus yangi gen. et sp. nov.) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China". Chinese Science Bulletin.
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42. Ivie, M.A., S.A. Slipinski, and P. Wegrzynowicz. 2001. Generic homonyms in the Colydiinae (Coleoptera: Zopheridae). Insecta Mundi 15: pp.63-64.
43. Zhang, X-H., X. Xu, P. Sereno, X.-W. Kuang, and L. Tan. 2001. A long-necked therizionosauroid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Iran Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol, People's Republic of China. Vertebrate Palasiatica 39 (4): pp. 282-290.
44. (2001). "First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria; theropoda) from North America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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52. Tidwell, V., K. Carpenter, and S. Meyer. 2001. New Titanosauriform (Sauropoda) from the Poison Strip Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Utah. In: Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie (D.H. Tanke and K. Carpenter, eds.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, IA, xviii + 542 pages): pp. 139-165.
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56. (2001). "Fossil that fills a critical gap in avian evolution". Nature.
57. (2001). "Ducks, Rails and Limicoline Waders (Aves: Anseriformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes) from the Lowermost Oligocene of Belgium". Géobios.
58. Walter E. Boles. (2001). "A Swiftlet (Apodidae: Collocaliini) from the Miocene of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland ''In'': Hand, S. J. & Laurie J. R.: Riversleigh Symposium 1998: Proceedings of a Research Symposium on Fossils from Riversleigh and Murgon, Queensland, Held at the University of New South Wales, December, 1998.". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists.
59. Trevor H. Worthy. (2001). "A Giant Flightless Pigeon gen. et sp. nov. and a New Species of ''Ducula'' (Aves: Columbidae), from Quaternary Deposits in Fiji". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
60. Walter E. Boles. (2001). "A New Emu (Dromaiinae) from the Late Oligocene Etadunna Formation". Emu.
61. (2001). "A Mousebird (Aves, Coliiformes) from the Eocene of England". Journal für Ornithologie.
62. Andrei V. Panteleyev. (2001). "New Species of Rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from Paleogene of Tadjikistan". Russian Journal of Ornithology, Express-issue.
63. (2001). "A Remarkable New Species of Small Falcon from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Falconidae: ''Falco'')". Russian Journal of Ornithology, Express-issue.
64. (2001). "A New Short-legged Landbird from the Early Eocene of Wyoming and Contemporaneous European Sites". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
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66. (2001). "A new carinate bird from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina)". American Museum Novitates.
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68. Bartomeu Seguí. (2001). "A New Species of Pica (Aves: Corvidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Mallorca, Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean)". Géobios.
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70. (2001). "Una Especie Extinta de Pseudoseisura Reichenbach 1853 (Passeriformes: Furnariidae) del Pleistoceno de la Argentina: Comentarios Filogenéticos". Ornitologia Neotropical.
71. (2001). "A New Genus of Fulmarine Petrel (Aves: Procelariiformes) from the Upper Miocene of Menorca, Western Mediterranean". Palaeontology.
72. (2001). "A New Species of Large Flightless Rail of the Rallus longirostris/elegans Complex (Aves: Rallidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Bermuda". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.
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74. (2001). "Two new ornithurine birds from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China". Chinese Science Bulletin.
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83. Gheerbrant, Emmanuel. (2001). "First ascertained African "Condylarth" mammals (primitive ungulates: cf. Bulbulodentata and cf. Phenacodonta) from the earliest Ypresian of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
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