2010 in paleontology

Plants

Bennettitales

Cycadales

Czekanowkiales

Pinales

Pteridospermopsida

Angiosperms

Other plants

Molluscs

Main article: List of gastropods described in 2010#Fossil gastropods

Newly named bivalves

Arthropods

Main article: 2010 in arthropod paleontology

Fishes

Main article: 2010 in paleoichthyology

Amphibians

Newly named amphibians

Basal reptiles

Newly named basal reptiles

Ichthyopterygians

Newly named ichthyopterygians

Lepidosauromorphs

Newly named plesiosaurs

Newly named basal lepidosaurs

Newly named lizards

Newly named snakes

Turtles

Newly named turtles

Archosauromorphs

Newly named basal archosauromorphs

Archosaurs

Main article: 2010 in archosaur paleontology

Synapsids

Newly named non-mammalian synapsids

Mammals

Main article: 2010 in mammal paleontology

Other animals

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. (2010). "The fossil flora of the Winthrop Formation (Albian-Early Cretaceous) of Washington State, USA. Part II: Pinophytina". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.
2. (2010). "Fruits of Cornelian Cherries (Cornaceae: ''Cornus'' Subg. ''Cornus'') in the Paleocene and Eocene of the Northern Hemisphere".
3. (2010). "Miocene ''Hymenaea'' flowers preserved in amber from Simojovel de Allende, Chiapas, Mexico". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.
4. (2010). "''Lagokarpos lacustris'', a new winged fruit from the Paleogene of western North America". International Journal of Plant Sciences.
5. (2010). "''Ploufolia cerciforme'' gen. et comb. nov.: Aquatic angiosperm leaves from the Upper Albian of north-eastern Spain". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.
6. (March 2019). "Sagaria cilentana gen. et sp. nov.-A New Angiosperm Fructification from the Middle Albian of Southern Italy". Cretaceous Research.
7. (2010). "An Undercover Angiosperm from the Jurassic of China". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition.
8. (2010). "Xingxueanthus: An Enigmatic Jurassic Seed Plant and Its Implications for the Origin of Angiospermy". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition.
9. (2010). "''Emiliodonta'', New Name for ''Emiliania'' Sánchez, 1999, Not ''Emiliania'' Hay and Mohlen, 1967". Journal of Paleontology.
10. (October 2010). "Paleoecological and Paleobiogeographic Significance of Two New Species of Bivalves in the Paraná Formation (Late Miocene) of Entre Ríos Province, Argentina". Malacologia.
11. (2010). "''Deltaherpeton hiemstrae'', a New Colosteid Tetrapod from the Mississippian of Iowa". Journal of Paleontology.
12. Berman, D.S.. (2010). "A new trematopid amphibian (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the Upper Pennsylvanian of western Pennsylvania: earliest record of terrestrial vertebrates responding to a warmer, drier climate". Annals of the Carnegie Museum.
13. (2010). "An advanced anuran from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) of Hungary". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen.
14. (2010). "A chroniosuchid from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and analysis of chroniosuchian relationships". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
15. (2010). "Microleter mckinzieorum gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma: the basalmost parareptile from Laurasia". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
16. Modesto, S.P.. (2010). "A new and unusual procolophonid parareptile from the Lower Triassic Katberg Formation of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
17. Sumida, S.S.. (2010). "Reiszorhinus olsoni, a new single-tooth-rowed captorhinid reptile of the Lower Permian of Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
18. Maxwell, E. E. (2010). "Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
19. (June 2017). "A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
20. Michael W. Maisch. (2010). "Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art". Palaeodiversity.
21. (2010). "A new species of Mixosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Pu'an, Guizhou, China". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica.
22. (2010). "On a Typical Jurassic Sauropterygian from the Upper Triassic of Wilczek Land (Franz Josef Land, Arctic Russia)". Paleontological Journal.
23. (2010). "A new genus of pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany". Palaeontology.
24. (2010). "La Fauna local de faxinal do soturno, Triasico tardio de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil". Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia.
25. (2010). "A new species of marine ophidiomorph lizard, ''Adriosaurus skrbinensis'', from the Upper Cretaceous of Slovenia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
26. Madelaine Böhme. (2010). "Ectothermic vertebrates (Actinopterygii, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (Germany, Bavaria) and their implications for environment reconstruction and palaeoclimate". Paläontologische Zeitschrift.
27. (2010). "Anguimorph lizards (Squamata, Anguimorpha) from the Middle and Late Eocene of the Hampshire Basin of southern England". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
28. (2010). "Inventaire systématique des Invertebrata, Vertebrata, Plantae et Fungi des Sables de Bruxelles à Zaventem". Geominpal Belgica Découvertes Géologiques, Minéralogiques et Paléontologiques en Belgique.
29. (2010). "Borioteiioidean lizard skulls from Kleskun Hill (Wapiti Formation; upper Campanian), west-central Alberta, Canada". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
30. (2010). "A new lizard (Reptilia: Squamata) with exquisite preservation of soft tissue from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
31. (March 2019). "A new lizard from the early cretaceous of catalonia (Spain), and the mesozoic lizards of the iberian peninsula". Cretaceous Research.
32. (2010). "Reappraisal of the South American Miocene snakes of the genus ''Colombophis'', with description of a new species". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
33. Laduke, T.C.. (2010). "A Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) snake assemblage from the Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
34. (2010). "Fossil Snakes of the Clarendonian (Late Miocene) Pratt Slide Local Fauna of Nebraska, with the Description of a New Natricine Colubrid". Journal of Herpetology.
35. Wilson, J.A.. (2010). "Predation upon Hatchling Dinosaurs by a New Snake from the Late Cretaceous of India". PLOS Biology.
36. (2010). "New podocnemidid turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the middle-upper Paleocene of South America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
37. (2010). "''Chupacabrachelys complexus'', n. gen. n. sp. (Testudines: Bothremydidae), from the Aguja Formation (Campanian) of West Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
38. (2010). "A new baenid turtle from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota and a preliminary taxonomic review of Cretaceous Baenidae". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
39. Danilov, I.G.. (2010). "''Itilochelys rasstrigini'' gen. et sp. nov., a new hard-shelled sea turtle (Cheloniidae ''sensu lato'') from the Lower Palaeocene of Volgograd Province, Russia". Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS.
40. (2010). "''Jiangxichelys'', a new nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China". Geological Magazine.
41. Chang-Fu Zhou. (2010). "A new eucryptodiran turtle from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China". Zootaxa.
42. (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous". Journal of Paleontology.
43. DONALD BRINKMAN. (2010). "Euclastes coahuilaensis sp. nov., a basal cheloniid turtle from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Coahuila State, Mexico". Journal of Paleontology.
44. (2010). "''Pangshura tatrotia'', a new species of pond turtle (Testudinoidea) from the Pliocene Siwaliks of Pakistan". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
45. (2010). "New Material and a Reassessment of Soft-Shelled Turtles (Trionychidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
46. Flynn, J.J.. (2010). "A new species of Azendohsaurus (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic Isalo Group of southwestern Madagascar: cranium and mandible". Palaeontology.
47. (2010). "On ''Fodonyx spenceri'' and a new rhynchosaur from the Middle Triassic of Devon". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
48. Ezcurra, M.D.. (2010). "A new basal archosauriform diapsid from the Lower Triassic of Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
49. (2010). "The taxonomy and paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin.
50. (June 2017). "Cranial anatomy of a new genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
51. (2020). "The Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation at Cerro Las Lajas (La Rioja, Argentina): fossil tetrapods, high-resolution chronostratigraphy, and faunal correlations". Scientific Reports.
52. Mitchell, Jonathan S.. (2010). "Grooves to tubes: evolution of the venom delivery system in a Late Triassic "reptile"". Naturwissenschaften.
53. (2010). "A new nonmammalian eucynodont (Synapsida, Therapsida) from the Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and its biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications". American Museum Novitates.
54. (2010). "The first record of a probainognathian (Cynodontia: Chiniquodontidae) from the Triassic of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
55. (2010). "The Triassic dicynodont ''Kombuisia'' (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass extinction". Naturwissenschaften.
56. (2010). "A new pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Middle Permian of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
57. (2010). "''Trucidocynodon riograndensis'' gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Eucynodontia), a new cynodont from the Brazilian Upper Triassic (Santa Maria Formation)". Zootaxa.
58. Ed Landing. (2010). "Cambrian origin of all skeletalized metazoan phyla—Discovery of Earth's oldest bryozoans (Upper Cambrian, southern Mexico)". Geology.
59. Ed Landing. (2015). "Distinguishing Earth's oldest known bryozoan (''Pywackia'', late Cambrian) from pennatulacean octocorals (Mesozoic—Recent)". Journal of Paleontology.
60. Paul D. Taylor. (2013). "Reinterpretation of the Cambrian 'bryozoan' ''Pywackia'' as an octocoral". Journal of Paleontology.