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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.^[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2000.

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Prehistoric insects described in 2000

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Baltocteniza^[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Eskov & Zonstein	Early Eocene (Miocene)	Baltic amber	Europe	The type and only species is Baltocteniza kulickae
Electrocteniza^[2]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Eskov & Zonstein	Early Eocene (Miocene)	Baltic amber	Europe	The type and only species is Electrocteniza sadilenkoi

Molluscs

Bivalves

Prehistoric bivalves described in 2000

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Camyidae^[3]	fam nov	valid	Hinz-Schallreuter	Early Cambrian	Bornholm	Denmark	type and only genus Camya

Fishes

Newly named placoderms

Prehistoric placoderms described in 2000

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aleosteus^[4]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Johnson, Elliott, & Wittke	Lower Devonian	Sevy Dolomite Formation, Nevada	USA	The type species is Aleosteus eganensis.

Amphibians

Prehistoric amphibians described in 2000

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Avitabatrachus^[5]	Valid	Baez Trueb Calvo	Middle Cretaceous	Candeleros Formation	Argentina	The type species is Avitabatrachus uliana.
Banksiops^[6]	Valid	Warren Mariscano				A replacement genus for Banksia Warren & Mariscano, 1998 preoccupied for arachnid Banksia Voigt & Oudermans, 1905.
Jeholotriton^[7]	Valid	Wang	Early Cretaceous	Daohugou Bed Formation	China	The type species is Jeholotriton paradoxus.
Rileymillerus^[8]	Valid	Bolt Chatterjee	Upper Triassic	Cooper Canyon Formation	USA	The type species is Rileymillerus cosgriffi.

Ichthyosaurs

Ichthyosaurs described in 2000

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Aegirosaurus^[9]	Valid	Bardet Fernández	Upper Jurassic		Germany	The type species is Aegirosaurus leptospondylus.
Callawayia^[10]	Valid	Maisch Matzke	Upper Triassic	Pardonet Formation	Canada	A new genus for “Shastasaurus” neoscapularis.
Guizhouichthyosaurus^[11]	Valid	Cao Luo	Upper Triassic	Falang Formation	China	The type species is Guizhouichthyosaurus tangae.
Phantomosaurus^[10]	Valid	Maisch Matzke	Middle Triassic	Upper Muschelkalk Formation	Germany	A new genus for "Shastasaurus" neubigi.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named crurotarsans

Prehistoric crurotarsans described in 2000

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Adzhosuchus^[12]	Valid	Efimov Gubin Kurzanov	Late Jurassic	Shar Teg Beds	Mongolia	A basal crocodylomorph. The type species is Adzhosuchus fuscus.
Kyasuchus^[13]	Valid	Efimov Leshchinskiy	Early Cretaceous	Ilek Formation	Russia	A basal crocodilomorph. The type species is Kyasuchus saevi.
Simosuchus^[14]	Valid	Buckley Brochu Krause Pol	Late Cretaceous	Maevarano Formation	Madagascar	A notosuchian. The type species is Simosuchus clarki.
Stolokrosuchus^[15]	Valid	Larrson Gabo	Early Cretaceous	El Rhaz Formation	Niger	A neosuchian. The type species is Stolokrosuchus lapparenti.

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list^[16] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.^[17]

Name	Status	Authors	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bambiraptor^[18]	Valid	Burnham Derstler et al.^{[CAL 1]}	Two Medicine Formation	USA	A very bird-like two foot long dromaeosaurid. May be a juvenile Saurornitholestes.	Bambiraptor Charonosaurus Fukuiraptor Graciliceratops Microraptor Nanyangosaurus Nomingia Pyroraptor with a human to show scale. Sauroposeidon with a human to show scale.
Byronosaurus^[19]	Valid	Mark Norell Makovicky Clark	Djadochta Formation	Mongolia	A five foot long troodontid. Mysteriously, skulls of extremely small juveniles have been recovered from an oviraptorosaur nest. This may be evidence of brood parasitism or predator-prey relationships between the two species.
Charonosaurus^[20]	Valid	Godefroit Zan Jin L.	Yuliangze Formation	China	A 13 m (42.5 ft) long Parasaurolophus-like lambeosaur.
Chuanjiesaurus^[21]	Valid	Fang Pang et al.^{[CAL 2]}	Chuanjie Formation	China	A mamenchisaurid.
Fukuiraptor^[22]	Valid	Azuma Phillip Currie	Kitadani Formation	Japan	A neovenatorid known only from juvenile specimens.
"Ginnareemimus"	Nomen nudum	Kaneko	Sao Khua Formation	Thailand	Formally named Kinnareemimus in 2009 in paleontology.
Glyptodontopelta^[23]	Valid	Ford	Ojo Alamo Sandstone	USA	Named after the armored mammal Glyptodon.
Graciliceratops^[24]	Valid	Paul Sereno	Sheeregeen Gashoon Formation	Mongolia	Primitive ceratopsian. Only a partial skeleton has been found.
Huabeisaurus^[25]	Valid	Pang Cheng Z.	Huiquanpu Formation	China	Opisthocoelicaudia-like titanosaurid.
“Iguanoides”	Nomen nudum; synonym of Iguanodon	Conybeare vide: Cadbury			Junior synonym of Iguanodon.
Ilokelesia^[26]	Valid	Rodolfo Coria Salgado	Rio Limay Formation	Argentina	A primitive abelisaur who name is derived from "flesh lizard" in Mapuche.
Isanosaurus^[27]	Valid	Buffetaut Suteethorn et al.^{[CAL 3]}	Nam Phong Formation	Thailand	A small, 6.5 metres (21 ft) long sauropod.
Jeholosaurus^[28]	Valid	Xu Xing Wang X. You	Yixian Formation	China	A 71.1 centimetres (28.0 in) long hypsilophodont.
Microraptor^[29]	Valid	Xu Xing Zhou Z. Wang X.	Jiufotang Formation	China	A tiny "four-winged" dromaeosaurid.
Nanyangosaurus^[30]	Valid	Xu Xing Zhao X. et al.^{[CAL 4]}	Sangping Formation	China	A hadrosauroid.
Nomingia^[31]	Valid	Rinchen Barsbold Halszka Osmólska et al.^{[CAL 5]}	Beds of Bugeen Tsav	Mongolia	The first non-avian dinosaur known to have a pygostyle at the end of its tail. In life this structure probably supported a fan of feathers.
Nqwebasaurus^[32]	Valid	de Klerk Forster et al.^{[CAL 6]}	Kirkwood Formation	South Africa	The earliest known coelurosaur from Gondwana, the type specimen was a three foot long juvenile with preserved gastroliths in its stomach.
"Ponerosteus"^[33]	Nomen dubium; possibly non-dinosaurian	George Olshevsky,			A dubious taxon whose name means "useless bone" to reflect the low quality of the material, which had fueled taxonomic confusion.
Pyroraptor^[34]	Valid	Allain Philippe Taquet	Grès à Reptiles	France	A dromaeosaurid known from a single specimen.
Rocasaurus^[35]	Valid	Salgado Azpilicueta	Allen Formation	Argentina	A small, 8 meter long titanosaur.
“Saltriosaurus”	Nomen nudum	Dal Sasso			An Allosaurus-like theropod estimated to be 8 meters (26 ft) long. Only ten percent of its skeleton is known.
Sauroposeidon^[36]	Valid	Wedel Cifelli Sanders	Antlers Formation	USA	A gigantic brachiosaur with an estimated length of up to 34 m (112 ft) and a mass of 50–60 t (55–66 short tons). It is known from four neck vertebrae.
Tendaguria^[37]	Valid	Jose Bonaparte Heinrich Wild	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	A 20 meters (66 ft) long sauropod.

Newly named birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Longipteryx chaoyangensis^[38]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Fucheng Zhang Zhou Zhonghe Hou Lianhan Gu Gang	Early Cretaceous	Jiufotang Formation	China	The type species of the new genus.
Protopteryx^[39]	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Valid	Zhang Zhou	Early Cretaceous	Huajiying Formation	China	An enanthornithine. The type species is Protopteryx fengningensis.

Newly named pterosaurs

Pterosaurs described in 2000

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Domeykodactylus^[40]	Valid	Martill Frey Diaz Bell	Early Cretaceous	Santa Ana Formation	Chile	A pterodactyloid. The type species is Domeykodactylus ceciliae.
Anhanguera piscator^[41]	Valid	Kellner Tomida	Early Cretaceous	Santana Formation	Brazil	A pterodactyloid. Reclassified in 2006 to the genus Coloborhynchus.^[42]

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Prehistoric synapsids described in 2000

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Australobarbarus^[43]	Valid	Kurkin	Upper Permian	Sokolki Faunal Assemblage	Russia	A dicynodont. Two species are described Australobarbarus kotelnitshi (type) and A. platycephalus.
Charruodon^[44]	Valid	Abdala Ribeiro	Upper Triassic	Santa Maria Formation	Brazil	A cynodont. The type species is Charruodon tetracuspidatus.
Chlynovia^[45]	Valid	Tatarinov	Upper Permian	Sokolki Faunal Assemblage	Russia	A therocephalian. The type species is Chlynovia serridentatus.
Dadadon^[46]	Valid	Flynn Parrish Rakotosamimanana Ranivoharimanana Simpson Wyss	Middle-Upper Triassic	Makay Formation	Madagascar	An eucynodont. The type species is Dadadon isaloi.
Menadon^[46]	Valid	Flynn Parrish Rakotosamimanana Ranivoharimanana Simpson Wyss	Middle-Upper Triassic	Makay Formation	Madagascar	A eucynodont. The type species is Menodon besairiei.
Nikkasaurus^[47]	Valid	Ivakhnenko	Upper Permian	Mezen Faunal Assemblage	Russia	A nikkasaurid. The type species is Nikkasaurus tatarinovi.
Reiszia^[47]	Valid	Ivakhnenko	Upper Permian	Mezen Faunal Assemblage	Russia	A nikkasaurid. Two species are described Reiszia gubini (type) and R. tippula.
Scalopodontes^[45]	Valid	Tatarinov	Upper Permian	Sokolki Faunal Assemblage	Russia	A theriocephalian. The type species is Scalopodontes kotelnichi
Suchogorgon^[48]	Valid	Tatarinov	Upper Permian	Sokolki Faunal Assemblage	Russia	A gorgonopsid. The type species is Suchogorgon golubevi.
Vivaxosaurus^[49]	Valid	Kalandadze Kurkin	Upper Permian	Sokolki Faunal Assemblage	Russia	A dicynodont. The type species is Vivaxosaurus permicus.

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.

^ Burnham, Derstler, Phillip Currie, Robert Bakker, Zhou Z., John Ostrom.
^ Fang, Pang, Lu, Zhang Z., Pan, Wang Y., Li X. K., Cheng Z.
^ Buffetaut, Suteethorn, Cuny, Tong, Le Loeuff, Khansubha, Jongautchariyakul.
^ Xu Xing, Zhao X., Lü, Huang W., Li Z., Dong Zhiming.
^ Rinchen Barsbold, Halszka Osmólska, Watabe, Phillip Currie, Tsogtbaatar.
^ de Klerk, Forster, Sampson, Chinsamy, Ross.

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[bambiraptor-authors-19] Burnham, Derstler, Phillip Currie, Robert Bakker, Zhou Z., John Ostrom.

[chuanjiesaurus-authors-23] Fang, Pang, Lu, Zhang Z., Pan, Wang Y., Li X. K., Cheng Z.

[isanosaurus-authors-30] Buffetaut, Suteethorn, Cuny, Tong, Le Loeuff, Khansubha, Jongautchariyakul.

[nanyangosaurus-authors-34] Xu Xing, Zhao X., Lü, Huang W., Li Z., Dong Zhiming.

[nomingia-authors-36] Rinchen Barsbold, Halszka Osmólska, Watabe, Phillip Currie, Tsogtbaatar.

[nqwebasaurus-authors-38] Klerk, Forster, Sampson, Chinsamy, Ross.

[1] Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.

[Eskov2000-2] Eskov, K. Y.; Zonstein, S. L. (2000). "The First Ctenizoid Mygalomorph Spiders from Eocene Baltic Amber (Araneida: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)". Paleontological Journal. 34 (suppl. 3): S268–S274. Part 1; Part 2 (PDF).

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