2001 in paleontology

Plants

Pteridophyta

[Conifers]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Metasequoia foxii	sp nov	Valid	Stockey, Rothwell, & Falder	late Tiffanian	Munce's Hill and Gao mine sites, Paskapoo Formation

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Trochodendron nastae	sp nov	Valid	Pigg, Wehr, & Ickert-Bond	Ypresian	Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation			''

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Electromyrmococcus	Valid	Williams	Burdigalian	Dominican amber			-
Tainosia	Valid	Szwedo Stroiński	Burdigalian	Dominican amber			-

Fishes

Newly named bony fishes

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Achoania	Valid	Zhu Yu Ahlberg	Early Devonian	Xitun Formation		The type species is Achoania jarvikii.
Westollrhynchus	Valid	Schultze	Early Devonian	Bear Rock Formation		A new genus for "Speonesydrion" lehmanni.
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Amphibians

Newly named amphibians

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Mesophryne	Valid	Gao Shubin	Late Jurassic	Yixian Formation		The type species is Mesophryne beipiaoensis.
Nezpercius	Valid	Blob Carrano Rogers Forster Espinoza	Upper Cretaceous	Judith River Formation		The type species is Nezpercius dodsoni.
Sinerpeton	Valid	Gao Shubin	Late Jurassic	Zhangjiakou Formation		The type species is Sinerpeton fengshanensis.
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Ichthyosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Metashastasaurus	Synonymy	Nichollis Manabe	Late Triassic	Pardonet Formation		A new genus for "Shastasaurus" neoscapularis. A junior synonymy of Callawayia Maisch & Matzke, 2000.
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Turtles

Newly named turtles

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Caribemys	Valid	de la Fuente Iturralde-Vinent	Upper Jurassic	Jagua Formation		The type species is Caribemys oxfordiensis.
Cearachelys	Valid	Gaffney Campos Hirayama	Early Cretaceous	Santana Formation		The type species is Cearachelys placidoi.
Kurmademys	Valid	Gaffney Chatterjee Rudra	Late Cretaceous	Kallamedu Formation		The type species is Kurmademys kallamedensis.
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Lepidosauromorphs

Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Hypuronector	Valid	Colbert Olsen	Late Triassic	Lockatong Formation		The type species is Hypuronector limnaios.
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Newly named plesiosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Hauffiosaurus	Valid	O'Keefe	Lower Jurassic	Posidonia Shale Formation		The type species is Hauffiosaurus zanoni.
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Newly named sphenodonts

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Godavarisaurus	Valid	Evans Prasad Manhas	Early Jurassic	Kota Formation		The type species is Godavarisaurus latefi.
Rebbanasaurus	Valid	Evans Prasad Manhas	Early Jurassic	Kota Formation		The type species is Rebbanasaurus jani.
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Archosauromorphs

Newly named basal archosauromorphs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Yonghesuchus	Valid	Wu Liu Li	Upper Triassic	Tongchuan Formation		The type species is Yonghesuchus sangbiensis.
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Newly named crurotarsans

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Pabwehshi	Valid	Wilson Malkani Gingerich	Upper Cretaceous	Pab Formation		The type species is Pabwehshi pakistanensis.
Rugosuchus	Valid	Wu Wu Russell	Lower Cretaceous	?Nenjiang Formation		The type species is Rugosuchus nonganensis.
Stratiotosuchus	Valid	Campos Suarez Riff Kellner	Upper Cretaceous	Adamantina Formation		The type species is Stratiotosuchus maxhechti.
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Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images	-
Aletopelta	Valid taxon	Ford James Kirkland		Point Loma Formation		A ankylosaurid. Apparently, before being fossilized, the animal's bloated carcass had floated out to sea and formed a miniature reef environment after it sank to the bottom.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Bienosaurus	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming		Lower Lufeng Formation		A primitive scelidosaurid known from scant remains.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Cedarpelta	Valid taxon	Kenneth Carpenter James Kirkland et al.		Cedar Mountain Formation		The most basal known ankylosaurid.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Citipati	Valid taxon	James M. Clark Mark Norell Rinchen Barsbold		Djadokhta Formation		A relatively large oviraptorid known to brood its nests.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Draconyx	Valid taxon	Octávio Mateus Antunes		Lourinhã Formation		A relative of Camptosaurus.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Eotyrannus	Valid taxon	Hutt Naish et al.		Wessex Formation		A twenty-foot tyrannosauroid.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Eshanosaurus	Valid taxon	Xu Xing Zhao Xijin James M. Clark		Lower Lufeng Formation		A therizinosaur, possibly the earliest known coelurosaur.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Gobisaurus	Valid taxon	Matthew K. Vickaryous Anthony P. Russell et al.		Ulansuhai Formation		An ankylosaurid that resembled Shamosaurus.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
"Hanwulosaurus"	Nomen nudum	Anonymous				A thirty-foot ankylosaur.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
"Heilongjiangosaurus"	Nomen nudum	Li W. Jin J.				A hadrosaur, possibly synonymous with Charonosaurus.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Hesperosaurus	Valid taxon	Kenneth Carpenter Miles Cloward		Morrison Formation		A stegosaurid slightly older and more primitive than Stegosaurus, although the genera may be synonymous.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Jiangshanosaurus	Valid taxon	Tang F. Kang et al.				A titanosaur known only from a partial skeleton found near Lixian Village, China.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Jinzhousaurus	Valid taxon	Wang X. Xu Xing		Yixian Formation		A hadrosauroid known from a nearly complete skeleton.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Khaan	Valid taxon	James M. Clark Mark Norell Rinchen Barsbold		Djadochta Formation		A fairly typical oviraptorid once misidentified as Ingenia.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
"Kittysaurus"	Junior synonym of Eotyrannus	Hargreaves		Wessex Formation			had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Liaoningosaurus	Valid taxon	Xu Xing Wang X. You		Yixian Formation		A bizarre ankylosaur of uncertain classification. Known from the complete specimen of a juvenile 34 cm long, it's the smallest known ankylosaur to date.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Losillasaurus	Valid taxon	Maria Lourdes Casanovas-Cladellas Santafe Sanz		Villar del Arzobispo Formation		A large turiasaur known from a partial subadult skeleton.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Masiakasaurus	Valid taxon	Sampson Carrano Forster	Late Cretaceous	Maevarano Formation		A 2-meter noasaurid with unusual forward-pointing teeth.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Megapnosaurus	Valid taxon	Ivie Slipinski Wegrzynowicz				Replacement name for Syntarsus Raath, 1969 non Fairmaire, 1869; a coelophysid theropod.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Neimongosaurus	Valid taxon	Zhang X. H. Xu Xing et al.		Iren Dabasu Formation		A therizinosaur about 2.3 meters in length.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Nothronychus	Valid taxon	James Kirkland Wolfe	Late Cretaceous	Moreno Hill Formation		A therizinosaur.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Paralititan	Valid taxon	J. B. Smith Lamanna et al.		Bahariya Formation		A titanosaur and of the most massive dinosaurs ever discovered, with an estimated weight of 59 tonnes and length of around 26 meters.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Planicoxa	Valid taxon	DiCroce Kenneth Carpenter		Cedar Mountain Formation		An advanced iguanodontian.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Pukyongosaurus	Valid taxon	Dong Zhiming Paik Kim H. J.		Hasandong Formation		A titanosauriform related to Euhelopus.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Quilmesaurus	Valid taxon	Rodolfo Coria		Allen Formation		A 5–6 meter theropod known from a partial leg.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Rapetosaurus	Valid taxon	Kristina Curry-Rogers Catherine A. Forster	Late Cretaceous	Maevarano Formation		A 15 metres titanosaur.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Ruehleia	Valid taxon	Peter Galton.		Knollenmergel		A prosauropod named for Hugo Ruehle von Lilienstern.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Wellnhoferia	Valid non-dinosaurian taxon.	Andrzej Elżanowski		Solnhofen Limestone		Very similar to Archaeopteryx, which may be its senior synonym.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Venenosaurus	Valid taxon	Tidwell Kenneth Carpenter S. Meyer	Early Cretaceous	Cedar Mountain Formation		A relatively small titanosauriform sauropod, known from an incomplete skeleton of an adult and a juvenile. Its tail vertebrae articulated in a unique fashion that may be of evolutionary significance.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
"Yibinosaurus"	Nomen nudum	Ouyang vide: Anonymous				A undescribed sauropod.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.	-
Yunxianosaurus	Valid taxon	Li	Late Cretaceous			A titanosaur sauropod.	had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.
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Haopterus	Valid	Wang Lü	Early Cretaceou	Yixian Formation		The type species is Haopterus gracilis.
Istiodactylus	Valid	Howse Milner Martill	Early Cretaceous	Vectis Formation		A new genus for Ornithodesmus latidens.
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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.

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