2003 in paleontology

Plants

Conifers

Angiosperms

Gnetophytes

Fungi

Arthropods

Arachnids

Insects

Conodont paleozoology

German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur (1942-2013) described the conodont genus Carnepigondolella.

Vertebrate paleozoology

Parareptiles

Non-avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Plesiosaurs

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Pterosaurs

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Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Mammals

References

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