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==Plants==

===Pteridophyta===
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''[[Wessiea]]''<ref name="Pigg2001">{{cite journal |last1=Pigg |first1=K.B. |year=2001 |title=Anatomically preserved ''Woodwardia virginica'' (Blechnaceae) and a new Filicalean fern from the Middle Miocene Yakima Canyon Flora of central Washington, USA |journal= American Journal of Botany |volume=88 |issue=5 |pages=777–787 |doi=10.2307/2657030|jstor=2657030 |pmid=11353703 }}</ref>
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gen et sp nov
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Valid
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Pigg & Rothwell
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[[Langhian]] (Middle Miocene)
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"Ho ho" site, [[Columbia River Basalt Group#Grande Ronde Basalt|Grande Ronde Basalt]].
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{{flag|USA}}
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A [[fern]], type sp ''W. yakimaensis''
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===[[Conifers]]===

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''[[Metasequoia foxii]]''<ref name="Stockey2001">{{cite journal |last1=Stockey |first1=R. A. |last2=Rothwell |first2=G. W. |last3=Falder |first3=A. B. |year=2001 |title=Diversity among Taxodioid Conifers: ''Metasequoia foxii'' sp. nov. from the Paleocene of Central Alberta, Canada |journal= International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=162 |issue=1 |pages=221–234 |doi= 10.1086/317914|s2cid=85772126 }}</ref>
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sp nov
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Valid
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[[Ruth A. Stockey|Stockey]], [[Gar W. Rothwell|Rothwell]], & [[Amy B. Falder|Falder]]
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[[Tiffanian|late Tiffanian]]
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Munce's Hill and Gao mine sites, [[Paskapoo Formation]]
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{{flag|Canada}}
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===Angiosperms===

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''[[Trochodendron nastae]]''<ref name="Pigg2001B">{{cite journal |last1=Pigg |first1=K.B. |last2=Wehr |first2=W.C. |last3=Ickert-Bond |first3=S.M. |year=2001 |title=''Trochodendron'' and ''Nordenskioldia'' (Trochodendraceae) from the Middle Eocene of Washington State, U.S.A. |journal= International Journal of Plant Sciences |volume=162 |issue= 5 |pages=1187–1198 |doi= 10.1086/321927|s2cid=45399415 }}</ref>
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sp nov
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Valid
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Pigg, [[Wesley C. Wehr|Wehr]], & Ickert-Bond
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[[Ypresian]]
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[[Klondike Mountain Formation|Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation]]
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{{flag|USA}}
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A ''[[Trochodendron]]'' species
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[[File:Trochodendron nastae SR 08-44-01 A.jpg|thumb|150px|center|''[[Trochodendron nastae]]'']]
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==Arthropods==
===Crustaceans===
====Research====
*Guinot and Tavares (2001) reviews the concept of [[Podotremata]] and establishes the family [[Etyidae]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Guinot |first=Danièle |last2=Tavares |first2=Marcos |date=2001 |title=Une nouvelle famille de crabes du Crustacés et la notion de Podotremata Guinot, 1977 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura). |url=https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/z2001n3a10.pdf |journal=Zoosystema |language=fr |volume=23 |pages=507–546}}</ref>

====New taxa====
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''[[Archaeopus lunicarina ]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001">{{cite journal |last1=Schweitzer |first1=C.E. |last2=Feldmann |first2=R.M. |year=2001 |title=New Cretaceous and Tertiary decapod crustaceans from western North America |journal=Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum |volume=28 |pages=173–210}}</ref>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Cretaceous]]<br/>[[Late Campanian]] - [[Maastrichtian]]
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[[Matanuska Formation]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Alaska}}
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A [[Retroplumidae|retroplumid]] [[crab]]
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''[[Brecanclawu]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Gen et sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Eocene]]
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[[Twin River Group]]<br/>[[Hoko River Formation]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Washington}}
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A possible [[Callianassidae|callianassid ghost shrimp]]<br/>The type species is ''B. rathbunae''
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''[[Callianopsis? inornatus]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Eocene]]
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[[Twin River Group]]<br/>[[Hoko River Formation]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Washington}}
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A [[Callianassidae|callianassid ghost shrimp]] of uncertain generic affinity.
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''[[Ctenocheles hokoensis]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Eocene]]
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[[Twin River Group]]<br/>[[Hoko River Formation]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Washington}}
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A possible [[Ctenochelidae|ctenochelid ghost shrimp]]
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''[[Eucorystes platys]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Cretaceous]]<br/>[[Albian]]
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[[Hudspeth Formation]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Oregon}}
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A [[Palaeocorystinae|palaeocorystine]] [[Raninidae|frog crab]].
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|''[[Feldmannia]]''<ref name=":0" />
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Gen et comb nov
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Valid
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Guinot & Tavares
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Early Cretaceous ([[Albian]])
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[[Paw Paw Formation]]
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* {{Flag|USA}}<br>({{Flag|Texas}})
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An [[Etyiidae|etyid]] crab, type species is ''F. wintoni'', originally named as ''Xanthosia wintoni'' in [[1935 in paleontology|1935]].
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''[[Glyphea micheleae]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Eocene]]<br/>[[Lutetian]]
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[[Aldwell Formation]]?
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{{Flag|USA}}<br/>{{Flag|Washington}}
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A [[Glypheidae|glypheid]] [[Glypheoidea|glypheoid lobster]] species.
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''[[Hoploparia tshudy]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Cretaceous]]<br/>late [[Albian]] - late [[Cenomanian]]
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[[Moonshine Creek Formation]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Alaska}}
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A [[Nephropidae|nephropid]] lobster sp.
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''[[Paguristes hokoensis]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Eocene]]
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[[Twin River Group]]<br/>[[Hoko River Formation]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Washington}}
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A [[Diogenidae|Diogenid]] [[hermit crab]] species.
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''[[Pagurus malloryi]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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Oligocene
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[[Makah Formation]]<br/>Jansen Creek Member
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Washington}}
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A [[Diogenidae|Diogenid]] [[hermit crab]] species.
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''[[Palaeastacus trisulcatus]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Cretaceous]]<br/>[[Cenomanian]]
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[[Antelope Shale]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|California}}
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A [[Erymidae|erymid]] [[Glypheoidea|glypheoid lobster]] species.
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''[[Palaeopentacheles? starri]]''<ref name="Schweitzer2001"/>
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Sp nov
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Schweitzer & Feldmann
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[[Oligocene]]
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[[Makah Formation]]
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{{Flag|US}}<br/>{{Flag|Washington}}
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A [[Polychelidae|Polychelid benthic crustacean]] sp. of uncertain generic affinity.
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|''[[Secretanella]]''<ref name=":0" />
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Gen et comb nov
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Valid
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Guinot & Tavares
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Late Cretaceous ([[Cenomanian]])
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* {{Flag|Madagascar}}
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A crab belonging to [[Heterotremata]], type species is ''S. arcuata'', originally named as ''Xanthosia arcuata'' in [[1964 in paleontology|1964]].
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===Insects===
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''[[Electromyrmococcus]]''<ref name="johnsonetal1995">{{cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=M.S. |year=2001 |title=''Acropyga'' and ''Azteca'' Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Scale Insects (Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea): 20 Million Years of Intimate Symbiosis |journal= American Museum Novitates |issue=3335 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2001)335<0001:AAAAHF>2.0.CO;2|s2cid=55067700 |url=https://zenodo.org/record/5370690 |display-authors=etal}}</ref>
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Gen et sp nov 
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Valid
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[[Douglas John Williams|Williams]]
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[[Burdigalian]] ([[Miocene]])
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[[Dominican amber]]
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{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
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A [[Coccoidea]] scale insect 
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[[File:Acropyga glaesaria SMFBE457B2 01.jpg|thumb|center|upright|''[[Electromyrmococcus abductus]]'' in the jaws of ''[[Acropyga glaesaria]]'']]
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''[[Palaeopsychops]]''<ref name="Andersen2001">{{cite journal |last1=Andersen |first1=S. |year=2001 |title=Silky lacewings (Neuroptera: Psychopsidae) from the Eocene-Paleocene transition of Denmark with a review of the fossil record and comments on phylogeny and zoogeography |journal=Insect Systematics & Evolution |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=419–438 |doi=10.1163/187631201X00290 |url=https://lacewing.tamu.edu/neuropterida/neur_bibliography/edoc12/andersen2001ref10152s-16458.pdf}}</ref>
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Gen et 4 sp nov
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valid
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Andersen
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[[Ypresian]]
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[[Fur Formation]]
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{{Flag|Denmark}}
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An [[Ithonidae|ithionid]] giant lacewing<br/> Type species ''P. latifasciatus'', also includes ''P. abruptus'', ''P. angustifasciatus'', and ''P. maculatus''
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''[[Tainosia]]''<ref name="Szwedo2001">{{cite journal |last1=Szwedo |first1=J. |last2=Stroiński |first2=A. |year=2001 |title=''Tainosia quisqueyae'' gen. and sp. nov. from the Oligocene/Miocene Dominican amber (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Nogodinidae) |journal=Genus |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=29–34 |url=http://ag.udel.edu/delpha/5325.pdf |access-date=2011-04-17 |archive-date=2011-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719015811/http://ag.udel.edu/delpha/5325.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Gen et sp nov 
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Valid
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Szwedo & Stroiński
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[[Burdigalian]] ([[Miocene]])
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[[Dominican amber]]
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{{Flag|Dominican Republic}}
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A [[Nogodinidae|nogodinid]] [[Fulgoroidea|frog hopper]]
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==Fishes==

===Newly named bony fishes===

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''[[Achoania]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Zhu, M|author2= Yu, X.|author3=Ahlberg, P.E.|name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=A primitive sacropterygian fish with an eyestock|journal=Nature|volume=410|pages=81–84 | doi=10.1038/35065078|pmid= 11242045|issue=6824|s2cid= 4416579}}</ref>
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Valid
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* Zhu
* Yu
* Ahlberg
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Early Devonian
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[[Xitun Formation]]
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{{flag|China}}
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The type species is ''Achoania jarvikii''.
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''[[Westollrhynchus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Schultze, H.-P.|year=2001|title=''Melanognathus'', a primitive dipnoan from the Lower Devonian of the Canadian Arctic and the interrelationships of Devonian dipnoans|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=21|issue=4|pages=781–794|doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0781:mapdft]2.0.co;2|s2cid=85888892 }}</ref>
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Valid
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* Schultze
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Early Devonian
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[[Bear Rock Formation]]
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{{flag|Canada}}
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A new genus for ''"Speonesydrion" lehmanni''.
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==Amphibians==

===Newly named amphibians===

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''[[Mesophryne]]''<ref name="Gao&Shubin">{{Cite journal|author1=Gao, K.-Q.  |author2=Shubin, N.H.|year=2001|title=Late Jurassic salamanders from northern China|journal=Nature|volume=410|pages=574–577|bibcode=2001Natur.410..574G|doi=10.1038/35069051|pmid=11279493|issue=6828|s2cid=205015580|url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/14911/files/PAL_E2053.pdf }}</ref>
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Valid
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* Gao
* Shubin
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Late Jurassic
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[[Yixian Formation]]
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{{flag|China}}
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The type species is ''Mesophryne beipiaoensis''.
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''[[Nezpercius]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Blob, R.W.|author2=Carrano, M.T.|author3=Rogers, R.R.|author4=Forster, C.A.|author5=Espinoza, N.R.|name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=A new fossil frog from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|volume=21|issue=1|pages=190–194|doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0190:ANFFFT]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=130230958 }}</ref>
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Valid
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* Blob
* Carrano
* Rogers
* Forster
* Espinoza
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Upper Cretaceous
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[[Judith River Formation]]
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{{flag|USA}}
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The type species is ''Nezpercius dodsoni''.
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''[[Sinerpeton]]''<ref name="Gao&Shubin"/>
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Valid
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* Gao
* Shubin
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Late Jurassic
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[[Zhangjiakou Formation]]
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{{flag|China}}
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The type species is ''Sinerpeton fengshanensis''.
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==Ichthyosaurs==

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''[[Metashastasaurus]]''<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Nichollis, E.L.  |author2=Manabe, M.|year=2001|title=A new genus of ichthyosaur from the Late Triassic Pardonet Formation of British Columbia: bridging the Triassic-Jurassic gap|journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences|volume=38|pages=983–1002|doi=10.1139/cjes-38-6-983|issue=6|bibcode = 2001CaJES..38..983N }}</ref>
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Synonymy
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* Nichollis
* Manabe
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Late Triassic
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[[Pardonet Formation]]
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{{Flag|Canada}}
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A new genus for ''"Shastasaurus" neoscapularis''. A junior synonymy of ''[[Callawayia]]'' Maisch & Matzke, 2000.
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==Turtles==

===Newly named turtles===

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''[[Caribemys]]''<ref>{{cite journal|author1=de la Fuente, M.S.  |author2=Iturralde-Vinent, M.|year=2001|title=A new pleurodiran turtle from the Jagua Formation (Oxfordian) of western Cuba|journal=Journal of Paleontology|volume=75|issue=4|pages=860–869|doi=10.1666/0022-3360(2001)075<0860:anptft>2.0.co;2|url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/14982/files/PAL_E2132.pdf }}</ref>
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Valid
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* de la Fuente
* Iturralde-Vinent
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Upper Jurassic
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[[Jagua Formation]]
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{{flag|Cuba}} 
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The type species is ''Caribemys oxfordiensis''.
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''[[Cearachelys]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Gaffney, E.S.|author2=de Almedia Campos, D.|author3=Hirayama, R.|name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=''Cearachelys'', a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=3319|pages=1–20}}</ref>
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Valid
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* Gaffney
* Campos
* Hirayama
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Early Cretaceous
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[[Santana Formation]]
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{{flag|Brazil}}
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The type species is ''Cearachelys placidoi''.
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''[[Kurmademys]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Gaffney, E.S.|author2=Chatterjee, S.|author3=Rudra, D.K.|year=2001|title=''Kurmademys'', a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Late Cretaceous of India|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=3321}}</ref>
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Valid
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* Gaffney
* Chatterjee
* Rudra
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Late Cretaceous
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[[Kallamedu Formation]]
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{{flag|India}}
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The type species is ''Kurmademys kallamedensis''.
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==Lepidosauromorphs==

===Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs===

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''[[Hypuronector]]''<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Colbert, E.H.  |author2=Olsen, P.E.|year=2001|title=A new and unusual aquatic reptile from the Lockatong Formation of New Jersey (Late Triassic, Newark Supergroup)|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=3334|pages=1–15|doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2001)334<0001:anauar>2.0.co;2|hdl=2246/2887|s2cid=17294610 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/178820}}</ref>
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Valid
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* Colbert
* Olsen
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Late Triassic
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[[Lockatong Formation]]
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{{flag|USA}} 
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The type species is ''Hypuronector limnaios''.
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===Newly named plesiosaurs===

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''[[Hauffiosaurus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=O'Keefe, F.R.|year=2001|title=A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia)|journal=Acta Zoologica Fennica|volume=213|pages=1–63}}</ref>
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Valid
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* O'Keefe
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Lower Jurassic
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[[Posidonia Shale Formation]]
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{{flag|Germany}}
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The type species is ''Hauffiosaurus zanoni''.
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[[File:Hauffiosaurus 1.JPG|thumb|150px|center|''[[Hauffiosaurus]]'']]
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===Newly named sphenodonts===

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''[[Godavarisaurus]]''<ref name="Evansetal">{{Cite journal|author=Evans, S.E.|author2=Prasad, G.V.R.|author3=Manhas, B.K.|name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=Rhynchocephalians (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=133|pages=309–334|doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb00629.x|issue=3|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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Valid
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* Evans
* Prasad
* Manhas
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Early Jurassic
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[[Kota Formation]]
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{{flag|India}}
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The type species is ''Godavarisaurus latefi''.
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''[[Rebbanasaurus]]''<ref name="Evansetal"/>
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Valid
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* Evans
* Prasad
* Manhas
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Early Jurassic
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[[Kota Formation]]
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{{flag|India}}
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The type species is ''Rebbanasaurus jani''.
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==Archosauromorphs==

===Newly named basal archosauromorphs===

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''[[Yonghesuchus]]''<ref>{{cite journal |author=Wu, X.-C. |author2=Liu, J. |author3=Li, J.-L. |name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=The anatomy of the first archosauriform (Diapsida) from the terrestrial Upper Triassic of China|journal=Vertebrata PalAsiatica|volume=39|issue=4|pages=251–265 |doi=10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2001.04.002 }}</ref>
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Valid
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* Wu
* Liu
* Li
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Upper Triassic
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[[Tongchuan Formation]]
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{{flag|China}} 
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The type species is ''Yonghesuchus sangbiensis''.
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===Newly named pseudosuchians===

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''[[Mekosuchus sanderi]]''<ref name=W01>{{Cite book|last1=Willis|first1=P. M. A.|year=2001|title= Crocodilian biology and evolution|chapter=New crocodilian material from the Miocene of Riversleigh (northwestern Queensland, Australia)|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328369151|publisher=Surrey Beatty & Sons}}</ref>
|Sp. nov.
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Valid
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Willis
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Early Miocene
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Ringtail Site of the [[Riversleigh World Heritage Area]]
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{{flag|Australia}}
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A [[mekosuchinae]] crocodilian. It is the youngest known species of ''Mekosuchus'' from the Australian mainland.
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''[[Pabwehshi]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Wilson, J. A.|author2=Malkani, M.S.|author3=Gingerich, P.D.|name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=New crocodyliform (Reptilia, Mesoeurocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous Pab Formation of Vitakri, Balochistan (Pakistan)|journal=Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, the University of Michigan|volume=30|issue=12|pages=321–336}}</ref>
|Gen. et sp. nov
|
Valid
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Wilson, Malkani & Gingerich
|
Upper Cretaceous
|
[[Pab Formation]]
|
{{flag|Pakistan}}
|
The type species is ''Pabwehshi pakistanensis''.
|
|-
|
''[[Rugosuchus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Wu, X.-C.|author2=Wu, Z.-W.|author3=Russell, A.P.|name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=Cranial anatomy of a new crocodyliform (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous of Song-Liao Plain, northeastern China|journal=Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences|volume=38|issue=12|pages=1653–1663|doi=10.1139/cjes-38-12-1653|bibcode = 2001CaJES..38.1653W }}</ref>
|Gen. et. sp. nov
|
Valid
|
Wu, Wu & Russell
|
Lower Cretaceous
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?[[Nenjiang Formation]]
|
{{flag|China}}
|
The type species is ''Rugosuchus nonganensis''.
|
|-
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''[[Stratiotosuchus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Campos, D. de A.|author2=Suarez, J.M.|author3=Riff, D.|author4=Kellner, A.W.A.|name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=Short note on a new Baurusuchidae (Crocodyliformes, Metasuchia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil|journal=Boletim do Museu Nacional, Geologia|issue=57|pages=1–7}}</ref>
|Gen. et sp. nov.
|
Valid
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Campos ''et al.''
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Upper Cretaceous
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[[Adamantina Formation]]
|
{{flag|Brazil}}
|
The type species is ''Stratiotosuchus maxhechti''.
|-
|}

===Newly named dinosaurs===
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.<ref name="ddinogeorge">{{cite web | last = Olshevsky | first = George | title = Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List | url = http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | access-date = 2008-08-07 | archive-date = 2011-07-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|- 
! Name
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! width="33%" class="unsortable" | Notes
! class="unsortable"| Images
|-
| 
''[[Aletopelta]]''<ref>Ford, T.L. and J.I. Kirkland. 2001. Carlsbad ankylosaur (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria): an ankylosaurid and not a nodosaurid. Chapter 12 (pp. 239-260) in: The Armored Dinosaurs (K. Carpenter, ed.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, IA (483 pages): 239-260.</ref>
| 
Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Ford <br>
[[James Kirkland (paleontologist)|James Kirkland]] <br>
|
|
[[Point Loma Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}
({{Flag|California}})
|
A {{convert|20|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} 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.
| rowspan="110" |
[[File:Aletopelta coombsi.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Aletopelta]]'']]

[[File:Citipati profiles1.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Citipati (dinosaur)|Citipati]]'']]
[[File:Gobisaurus.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Gobisaurus]]'']]
[[File:Hesperosaurus mjosi skeleton.JPG|thumb|center|200px|''[[Hesperosaurus]]'']]
[[File:Khaan mckennai profile1.jpg|center|thumb|200px|''[[Khaan]]'']]
[[File:Masiakosaurus skull FMNH.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Masiakasaurus]]'' had a unique jaw configuration with projecting teeth.]]
[[File:Nothronychus mckinleyi Restoration.png|thumb|center|200px|''[[Nothronychus]]'']]
[[File:SyntarsusDB.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Megapnosaurus]]'']]
[[File:Paralititan stromeri.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Paralititan]]'']]
[[File:Rapetosaurus BW.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Rapetosaurus]]'']]
|-
| ''[[Bienosaurus]]''<ref>Dong Z. 2001. Primitive Armored Dinosaur from the Lufeng Basin, China. pp. 237-242 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.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[Dong Zhiming]]  
|
|
[[Lower Lufeng Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A primitive scelidosaurid known from scant remains.
|-
| ''[[Cedarpelta]]''<ref>Carpenter, K., J.I. Kirkland, D. Burge, and J. Bird. 2001. Disarticulated Skull of a New Primitive Ankylosaurid from the Lower Cretaceous of Eastern Utah. Chapter 11 of The Armored Dinosaurs (K. Carpenter, ed.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, IA: pp. 211-238.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[Kenneth Carpenter]]<br>
[[James Kirkland (paleontologist)|James Kirkland]]<br>
et al.<ref name="cedarpelta-authors" group="CAL">[[Kenneth Carpenter]], [[James Kirkland (paleontologist)|James Kirkland]], Burge, Bird.</ref>
|
|
[[Cedar Mountain Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}
|
The most basal known ankylosaurid.
|-
| ''[[Citipati (dinosaur)|Citipati]]''<ref name="clarketal01oviraptorids">{{cite journal | last1 = Clark | first1 = J.M. | last2 = Norell | first2 = M.A. | last3 = Barsbold | first3 = P. | year = 2001 | title = Two new oviraptorids (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria), Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta Formation, Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 21 | issue = 2| pages = 209–213 | doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0209:tnotou]2.0.co;2| s2cid = 86076568 }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[James M. Clark]]<br>
[[Mark Norell]]<br>
[[Rinchen Barsbold]] 
|
|
[[Djadokhta Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A relatively large oviraptorid known to brood its nests.
|-
| ''[[Draconyx]]''<ref>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.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[Octávio Mateus]]<br>
Antunes 
|
|
[[Lourinhã Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Portugal}}
|
A relative of ''[[Camptosaurus]]''.
|-
| ''[[Eotyrannus]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hutt | first1 = S. | last2 = Naish | first2 = D. | last3 = Martill | first3 = D.M. | last4 = Barker | first4 = M.J. | last5 = Newbery | first5 = P. | s2cid = 16881410 | year = 2001 | title = A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England | journal = Cretaceous Research | volume = 22 | issue = 2| pages = 227–242 | doi=10.1006/cres.2001.0252| url = http://doc.rero.ch/record/14510/files/PAL_E1710.pdf }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Hutt<br>
Naish <br>
et al.<ref name="eotyrannus-authors" group="CAL">Hutt, Naish, Martill, Barker, Newberry.</ref>
|
|
[[Wessex Formation]]
|
{{Flag|UK}}
|
A twenty-foot tyrannosauroid.
|-
| ''[[Eshanosaurus]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Xu | first1 = X. | last2 = Zhao | first2 = X. | last3 = Clark | first3 = J.M. | year = 2001 | title = A new therizinosaur from the Lower Jurassic lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 21 | issue = 3| pages = 477–483 | doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0477:antftl]2.0.co;2| s2cid = 131298010 }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[Xu Xing (paleontologist)|Xu Xing]]<br>
[[Zhao Xijin]]<br>
[[James M. Clark]]
|
|
[[Lower Lufeng Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A therizinosaur, possibly the earliest known coelurosaur.
|-
| ''[[Gobisaurus]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Vickaryous | first1 = M.K. | last2 = Russell | first2 = A.P. | last3 = Currie | first3 = P.J. | last4 = Zhao | first4 = X.- J. | year = 2001 | title = A new ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with comments on ankylosaurian relationships. In: The Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project 3 | journal = Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences | volume = 38 | issue = 12| pages = 1767–1780 | doi=10.1139/cjes-38-12-1767|bibcode = 2001CaJES..38.1767V | url = http://doc.rero.ch/record/14311/files/PAL_E1469.pdf }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
[[Matthew K. Vickaryous]]<br>
[[Anthony P. Russell]]<br>
et al.<ref name="gobisaurus-authors" group="CAL">[[Matthew K. Vickaryous]], [[Anthony P. Russell]], [[Philip J. Currie|Phillip Currie]], [[Zhao Xijin]].</ref>
|
|
[[Ulansuhai Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An ankylosaurid that resembled ''[[Shamosaurus]]''.
|-
| "[[Hanwulosaurus]]"<ref name="hanwulosaurus">Xinhua News Service news articles</ref>
| ''[[Nomen nudum]]''
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[Anonymity|Anonymous]]
|
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A thirty-foot ankylosaur.
|-
| "[[Heilongjiangosaurus]]"<ref>Li, W. and J. Jin. 2001. On the Upper Cretaceous Jiayin Group of Heilongjiang Province, China (Deng and Wang, eds): 65-74.</ref>
| ''[[Nomen nudum]]''
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Li W.<br>
Jin J.
|
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A hadrosaur, possibly synonymous with ''[[Charonosaurus]]''.
|-
| ''[[Hesperosaurus]]''<ref>Carpenter, K., C.A. Miles, and K. Cloward. 2001. New primitive stegosaur from the Morrison Formation, Wyoming. In: The Armored Dinosaurs (Carpenter, K., ed.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IA: pp. 55-75.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[Kenneth Carpenter]]<br>
Miles<br>
Cloward 
|
|
[[Morrison Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}
|
A stegosaurid slightly older and more primitive than ''[[Stegosaurus]]'', although the genera may be synonymous.
|-
| ''[[Jiangshanosaurus]]''<ref>Tang F., X.-M. Kang, X.-S. Jin., F. Wei, and W.- T. Wu. 2001. A new sauropod dinosaur of Cretaceous from Jiangshan, Zhejiang Province. Vertebrate Palasiatica 39 (4): pp. 272-281.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Tang F.<br>
Kang  <br>
et al.<ref name="jiangshanosaurus-authors" group="CAL">Tang F., Kang, Jin X., Wei, Wu W. T.</ref>
|
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A titanosaur known only from a partial skeleton found near Lixian Village, China.
|-
| ''[[Jinzhousaurus]]''<ref>{{cite journal | author = Wang X., Xu X. | year = 2001 | title = A new iguanodontid (Jinzhousaurus yangi gen. et sp. nov.) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China | journal = Chinese Science Bulletin | volume = 46 | issue = 19| pages = 1669–1672 | doi = 10.1007/bf02900633 | bibcode = 2001ChSBu..46.1669W | s2cid = 128837848 }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Wang X. <br>
[[Xu Xing (paleontologist)|Xu Xing]]  
|
|
[[Yixian Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A hadrosauroid known from a nearly complete skeleton.
|-
| ''[[Khaan]]''<ref name="clarketal01oviraptorids" />
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[James M. Clark]]<br>
[[Mark Norell]]<br>
[[Rinchen Barsbold]]
|
|
[[Djadochta Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
|
A fairly typical oviraptorid once misidentified as ''[[Ingenia]]''.
|-
| "[[Kittysaurus]]"
| [[Junior synonym]] of ''[[Eotyrannus]]''
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Hargreaves
|
|
[[Wessex Formation]]
|
{{Flag|UK}}
|
|-
| ''[[Liaoningosaurus]]''<ref>Xu, X., X.-L. Wang, and H.-L. You. 2001. A juvenile ankylosaur from China [Liaoningosaurus paradoxus]. Die Naturwissenshaften 88 (7): pp 297-300.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[Xu Xing (paleontologist)|Xu Xing]]<br>
Wang X.<br>
You
|  
|
[[Yixian Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A bizarre ankylosaur of uncertain classification. Known from the complete specimen of a juvenile 34&nbsp;cm long, it's the smallest known ankylosaur to date.
|-
| ''[[Losillasaurus]]''<ref>Casanovas, M.L., J.V. Santafe, and J.L. Sanz. 2001. Losillasaurus giganteus, un nuevo sauropodo del transito Jurasico-Cretacico de la cuenca de "Los Serranos" (Valencia, España). Paleontologia i Evolució, 32-33: pp. 99-122.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[Maria Lourdes Casanovas-Cladellas]]<br>
Santafe<br>
Sanz 
|
|
[[Villar del Arzobispo Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Spain}}
|
A large turiasaur known from a partial subadult skeleton.
|-
| ''[[Masiakasaurus]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Sampson | first1 = S. D. M.T. Carrano | last2 = Forster | first2 = C.A. | year = 2001 | title = A bizarre predatory dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar | journal = Nature | volume = 409 | issue = 6819| pages = 504–509 | doi=10.1038/35054046 | pmid=11206544|bibcode = 2001Natur.409..504S | s2cid = 205013285 }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Sampson<br>
Carrano<br>
Forster 
|
Late Cretaceous ([[Maastrichtian]])
|
[[Maevarano Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Madagascar}}
|
A 2-meter (about 6–7 feet) noasaurid with unusual forward-pointing teeth.
|-
| ''[[Megapnosaurus]]''<ref>Ivie, M.A., S.A. Slipinski, and P. Wegrzynowicz. 2001. Generic homonyms in the Colydiinae (Coleoptera: Zopheridae). Insecta Mundi 15: pp.63-64.</ref> 
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Ivie<br>
Slipinski<br>
Wegrzynowicz
|
|
|
{{Flag|South Africa}}<br>
{{Flag|Zimbabwe}}
|
Replacement name for ''[[Megapnosaurus|Syntarsus]]'' Raath, 1969 ''non'' Fairmaire, 1869; a [[coelophysid]] theropod.
|-
| ''[[Neimongosaurus]]''<ref>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.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Zhang X. H.<br>
[[Xu Xing (paleontologist)|Xu Xing]]<br>
et al.<ref name="neimongosaurus-authors" group="CAL">Zhang X. H., [[Xu Xing (paleontologist)|Xu Xing]], Zhao X., [[Paul Sereno]], Kuang, Tan L.</ref>
|
|
[[Iren Dabasu Formation]]
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A therizinosaur about 2.3 meters in length.
|-
| ''[[Nothronychus]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Kirkland | first1 = J.I. | last2 = Wolf | first2 = D.G. | year = 2001 | title = First definitive therizinosaurid (Dinosauria; theropoda) from North America | journal = Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 21 | issue = 3| pages = 410–414 | doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0410:fdtdtf]2.0.co;2| s2cid = 85705529 }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
[[James Kirkland (paleontologist)|James Kirkland]] 
Wolfe 
|
Late Cretaceous ([[Turonian]])
|
[[Moreno Hill Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}
|
A therizinosaur.
|-
| ''[[Paralititan]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Smith | first1 = J.B. | last2 = Lamanna | first2 = M.C. | last3 = Lacovara | first3 = K.J. | last4 = Dodson | first4 = P. | last5 = Smith | first5 = J.R. | last6 = Poole | first6 = J.C. | last7 = Giegengack | first7 = R. | last8 = Attia | first8 = Y. | year = 2001 | title = A Giant Sauropod Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Mangrove Deposit in Egypt | journal = Science | volume = 292 | issue = 5522| pages = 1704–1706 | doi=10.1126/science.1060561 | pmid=11387472|bibcode = 2001Sci...292.1704S | s2cid = 33454060 | url = http://doc.rero.ch/record/14792/files/PAL_E1924.pdf }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
J. B. Smith<br>
Lamanna<br>
et al.<ref name="paralititan-authors" group="CAL">J. B. Smith, Lamanna, Lacovara, Dodson, J. R. Smith, Poole, Giegengack, Attia.</ref>
|
|
[[Bahariya Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Egypt}}
|
A titanosaur and of the most massive dinosaurs ever discovered, with an estimated weight of 59 tonnes (65 short tons) and length of around 26 meters (85&nbsp;ft).
|-
| ''[[Planicoxa]]''<ref>DiCroce, T. and K. Carpenter. 2001. New ornithopod from the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of eastern Utah. In: Mesozoic vertebrate life: new research inspired by the paleontology of Philip J. Currie (D.H. Tanke, Darren and K. Carpenter, eds.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, IA (xviii + 542 pages): pp. 183-196.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
DiCroce<br>
[[Kenneth Carpenter]] 
|
|
[[Cedar Mountain Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}
|
An advanced iguanodontian.
|-
| ''[[Pukyongosaurus]]''<ref>Dong Z., I.-S. Paik, H.-J. Kim. 2001. A preliminary report on a sauropod from the Hasandong Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Korea. In: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (Deng & Wang, eds.). China Ocean Press, Beijing: pp. 41-53.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
[[Dong Zhiming]]<br>
Paik<br>
Kim H. J.  
|
|
[[Hasandong Formation]]
|
{{Flag|South Korea}}
|
A titanosauriform related to ''[[Euhelopus]]''.
|-
| ''[[Quilmesaurus]]''<ref>Coria, R.A. 2001. New Theropod from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. 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. 3-9.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
[[Rodolfo Coria]]   
|
|
[[Allen Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
|
A 5–6 meter (16–20&nbsp;feet) theropod known from a partial leg.
|-
| ''[[Rapetosaurus]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Curry-Rogers | first1 = K. | last2 = Forster | first2 = C.A. | year = 2001 | title = The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar | journal = Nature | volume = 412 | issue = 6846| pages = 530–534 | doi = 10.1038/35087566 | pmid=11484051 | bibcode = 2001Natur.412..530C| s2cid = 4347583 }}</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
[[Kristina Curry-Rogers]]<br>
[[Catherine Forster|Catherine A. Forster]] 
|
Late Cretaceous ([[Maastrichtian]])
|
[[Maevarano Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Madagascar}}
|
A 15 metres (49&nbsp;ft) titanosaur.
|-
| ''[[Ruehleia]]''<ref>Galton, P. M. 2001. Prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of Germany. In: Colectivo Arqueologico-Paleontologico de Salas, C.A.S. (eds.). Actas de las I Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontologia de Dinosaurios y su Entorno (Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Paleontology of Dinosaurs and their Environment). Burgos (Spain),: pp. 25-92.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
[[Peter Galton]]. 
|
|
[[Knollenmergel]]
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
A prosauropod named for Hugo Ruehle von Lilienstern.
|-
| 
''[[Wellnhoferia]]''<ref>{{cite journal | author = Elzanowski A | year = 2001 | title = A new genus and species for the largest specimen of Archaeopteryx | journal = Acta Palaeontologica Polonica | volume = 46 | issue = 4| pages = 519–532 }}</ref>
| Valid [[Bird|non-dinosaurian]] taxon.
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
[[Andrzej Elżanowski]]
|
|
[[Solnhofen Limestone]]
|
{{Flag|Germany}}
|
Very similar to ''[[Archaeopteryx]]'', which may be its senior synonym.
|-
| ''[[Venenosaurus]]''<ref>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.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
Tidwell<br>
[[Kenneth Carpenter]]<br>
S. Meyer
|
Early Cretaceous (early [[Aptian]])
|
[[Cedar Mountain Formation]] (Poison Strip Member)
|
{{Flag|USA}}
|
A relatively small (probably around 10&nbsp;m (33&nbsp;ft) long) 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.
|-
| "[[Yibinosaurus]]"<ref name="yibinosaurus">Chongqing Natural History Museum guidebook.</ref>
| ''[[Nomen nudum]]''
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
Ouyang vide:
[[Anonymity|Anonymous]]
|
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
An undescribed sauropod.
|-
| ''[[Yunxiansaurus|Yunxianosaurus]]''<ref>Li Zhengqi (2001) Distribution, burying and classification of dinosaur fossils in Upper Cretaceous strata at Meipu Town, Yunxian County of Hubei Province. Hubei Geology & Mineral Resources 15(4)(Total No 37): 25-31 http://www.cqvip.com/QK/82916X/200104/5847919.html</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"|
Li
|
Late Cretaceous
|
|
{{Flag|China}}
|
A [[titanosaur]] sauropod.
|
|}

===Newly named birds===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|- 
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''[[Aegypius prepyrenaicus]]'' <ref name="Aegypius">{{Cite journal | author=Hernández Carrasquilla | year = 2001 | title = A New Species of Vulture (Aves, Aegypiinae) from the Upper Pleistocene of Spain | url =http://www.ardeola.org/files/468.pdf | journal =Ardeola | volume = 48 | issue = 1 | pages = 47–53 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid ?
|
[[Hernández Carrasquilla]]
|
Late [[Pleistocene]]
|
Cave depositions
|
{{Flag|Spain}}:

{{Flag|Aragon}}
| 
According to Sanchez Marco (2007) it is a Nomen Dubium.
|
|-
|
''[[Apsaravis ukhaana]]'' <ref>{{cite journal|author1=Norell, M.A.  |author2=Clarke, J.A.|year=2001|title=Fossil that fills a critical gap in avian evolution|journal=Nature|volume=409|pages=181–184|doi=10.1038/35051563|issue=6817|pmid=11196639|bibcode=2001Natur.409..181N|s2cid=4377596}}</ref>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Mark A. Norell]]

[[Julia A. Clarke]]
|
[[Late Cretaceous]]
|
[[Djadokhta Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Mongolia}}
| 
The type species of the new genus.
| rowspan="47"|
|-
|
''[[Belgirallus minutus]]'' <ref name="Belgirallus">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/s0016-6995(01)80069-3|author1=Gerald Mayr  |author2=Richard Smith | year = 2001 | title = Ducks, Rails and Limicoline Waders (Aves: Anseriformes, Gruiformes, Charadriiformes) from the Lowermost Oligocene of Belgium | url =http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/abteilung/terrzool/ornithologie/belgium_geobios.pdf | journal =Géobios | volume = 34 | issue = 5 | pages = 547–561 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Gerald Mayr]]

[[Richard Smith (palaeontologist)|Richard Smith]]
|
Early [[Oligocene]]
|
[[MP 21]]
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}:

{{Flag|Flemish Brabant}}
| 
A [[Rallidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Belgirallus oligocaenus]]'' <ref name="Belgirallus"/>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Gerald Mayr]]

[[Richard Smith (palaeontologist)|Richard Smith]]
|
Early [[Oligocene]]
|
[[MP 21]]
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}:

{{Flag|Flemish Brabant}}
| 
A [[Rallidae]], the type species of the new genus.
|
|-
|
''[[Boutersemia belgica]]'' <ref name="Belgirallus"/>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Gerald Mayr]]

[[Richard Smith (palaeontologist)|Richard Smith]]
|
Early [[Oligocene]]
|
[[MP 21]]
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}:

{{Flag|Flemish Brabant}}
| 
A [[Glareolidae]], the type species of the new genus.
|
|-
|
''[[Boutersemia parvula]]'' <ref name="Belgirallus"/>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Gerald Mayr]]

[[Richard Smith (palaeontologist)|Richard Smith]]
|
Early [[Oligocene]]
|
[[MP 21]]
|
{{Flag|Belgium}}:

{{Flag|Flemish Brabant}}
| 
A [[Glareolidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Calonectris krantzi]]'' <ref name="Calonectris"/>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Storrs L. Olson]]

[[Pamela C. Rasmussen]]
|
Early [[Pliocene]]
|
[[Yorktown Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}:

{{Flag|North Carolina}}
| 
A [[Procellariidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Collocalia buday]]'' <ref name="Collocalia">{{Cite journal | author=Walter E. Boles | year = 2001 | title = 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. | journal =Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists | volume = 25 | pages = 45–52 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Walter E. Boles]]
|
Early [[Miocene]]
|
[[Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh)|Riversleigh]]
|
{{Flag|Australia}}:

{{Flag|Queensland}}
| 
An [[Apodidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Ducula lakeba]]'' <ref name="Ducula">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1080/03014223.2001.9517673| author=Trevor H. Worthy | year = 2001 | title = A Giant Flightless Pigeon gen. et sp. nov. and a New Species of ''Ducula'' (Aves: Columbidae), from Quaternary Deposits in Fiji | url = https://www.academia.edu/attachments/3197214/download_file?st=MTQwNjg3OTkxNyw0Ni4xMjkuNTcuMTU0LDQ1MDUyNg%3D%3D&s=sidebar | journal =Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand | volume = 31 | issue = 4 | pages = 763–794 | s2cid=83708873 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Trevor H. Worthy]]
|
[[Quaternary]]
|
[[Lakeba Island]]
|
{{Flag|Fiji}}
| 
A [[Columbidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Emuarius guljaruba]]'' <ref name="Emuarius">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1071/MU00052 | author=Walter E. Boles | year = 2001 | title = A New Emu (Dromaiinae) from the Late Oligocene Etadunna Formation | url =http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/96/paper/MU00052.htm | journal =Emu | volume = 101 | issue = 4 | pages = 317–321 | s2cid=1808852 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Walter E. Boles]]
|
Late [[Oligocene]]
|
[[Etadunna Formation]]
|
{{Flag|Australia}}:

{{Flag|South Australia}}
| 
A [[Dromaiidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Eocolius walkeri]]'' <ref name="Eocolius">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1007/bf01651734|author1=Gareth J. Dyke  |author2=David M. Waterhouse | year = 2001 | title = A Mousebird (Aves, Coliiformes) from the Eocene of England | journal =Journal für Ornithologie | volume = 142 | issue = 1 | pages = 7–15 |s2cid=35303477 }}</ref>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Gareth J. Dyke]]

[[David M. Waterhouse]]
|
Early [[Eocene]]
|
[[Ypresian|MP 8]]
|
{{flag|UK}}:

{{Flag|England}}
| 
A stem [[Coliiformes]].
|
|-
|
''[[Eocrex tagusevae]]'' <ref name="Eocrex">{{Cite journal | author=Andrei V. Panteleyev | year = 2001 | title = New Species of Rails (Aves: Gruiformes: Rallidae) from Paleogene of Tadjikistan | journal =Russian Journal of Ornithology, Express-issue | volume = 135 | pages = 199–201 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Andrei V. Panteleyev]]
|
[[Paleogene]] (Late [[Eocene]]-?Early [[Oligocene]])
|
|
{{Flag|Tajikistan}}
| 
A [[Rallidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Falco kurochkini]]'' <ref name="Falco">{{Cite journal | author1 = William Suárez Duque | author2 = Storrs L. Olson | year = 2001 | title = A Remarkable New Species of Small Falcon from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves: Falconidae: ''Falco'') | url = http://extinct-website.com/pdf/80982a.pdf | journal = Russian Journal of Ornithology, Express-issue | volume = 135 | pages = 199–201 | access-date = 2014-08-01 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140808052357/http://extinct-website.com/pdf/80982a.pdf | archive-date = 2014-08-08 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[William Suárez Duque]]

[[Storrs L. Olson]]
|
[[Quaternary]]
|
Cave deposits
|
{{Flag|Cuba}}
| 
A [[Falconidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Fluvioviridavis platyrhamphus]]'' <ref name="MayrDaniels">{{Cite journal |author1=Gerald Mayr  |author2=Michael Daniels | year = 2001 | title = A New Short-legged Landbird from the Early Eocene of Wyoming and Contemporaneous European Sites | url= https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app46/app46-393.pdf | journal =Acta Palaeontologica Polonica | volume = 46 | issue = 3 | pages = 393–402 }}</ref>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Gerald Mayr]]

[[Michael Daniels (palaeontologist)|Michael Daniels]]
|
Early [[Eocene]]
|
[[Green River Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}:

{{Flag|Wyoming}}
| 
A [[Podargiformes]], [[Fluvioviridavidae]] G. Mayr, 2005, the type species of the new genus.
|
|-
|
''[[Gavia fortis]]'' <ref name="Calonectris"/>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Storrs L. Olson]]

[[Pamela C. Rasmussen]]
|
Early [[Pliocene]]
|
[[Yorktown Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}:

{{Flag|North Carolina}}
| 
A [[Gaviidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Laputavis robusta]]'' <ref name="Laputavis">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0195:apsftl]2.0.co;2| author=Gareth J. Dyke | year = 2001 | title = A Primitive Swift from the London Clay and the Relationships of Fossil Apodiform Birds | journal =Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology | volume = 21 | issue = 1; 2 | pages = 195–200; 401 | s2cid=85904467 }}</ref>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Gareth J. Dyke]]
|
Early [[Eocene]]
|
[[Ypresian]],

[[London Clay Formation]],

[[Ypresian|MP 8]]
|
{{flag|UK}}:

{{Flag|England}}
| 
A stem [[Apodiformes]], the genus was originally named ''Laputa'' but that name was preoccupied, the type species of the new genus.
|
|-
|
''[[Limenavis patagonica]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Clarke, J.A.  |author2=Chiappe, L.M.|year=2001|title=A new carinate bird from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina)| url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/2940/n3323.pdf?sequence=1|journal=American Museum Novitates|issue=3323|pages=1–23|doi=10.1206/0003-0082(2001)323<0001:ANCBFT>2.0.CO;2|hdl=2246/2940|s2cid=55064310 }}</ref>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Julia A. Clarke]]

[[Luis M. Chiappe]]
|
[[Late Cretaceous]]
|
[[Allen Formation]]
|
{{flag|Argentina}}
|
An [[Avialae]] Gauthier, 1985. The type species of the new genus.
|
|-
|
''[[Natunaornis gigoura]]'' <ref name="Ducula"/>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Trevor H. Worthy]]
|
[[Holocene]]
|
[[Viti Levu]]
|
{{Flag|Fiji}}
| 
A flightless [[Columbidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Phoebastria rexsularum]]'' <ref name="Calonectris">{{Cite journal |author1=Storrs L. Olson  |author2=Pamela C. Rasmussen | year = 2001 | title = Miocene and Pliocene Birds from the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina | url =http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_lo/sctp-0090.pdf | journal =Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology | volume = 90 | pages = 233–365 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Storrs L. Olson]]

[[Pamela C. Rasmussen]]
|
Early [[Pliocene]]
|
[[Yorktown Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}:

{{Flag|North Carolina}}
| 
A [[Diomedeidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Pica mourerae]]'' <ref name="Pica">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/s0016-6995(01)80080-2| author=Bartomeu Seguí | year = 2001 | title = A New Species of Pica (Aves: Corvidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Mallorca, Balearic Islands (Western Mediterranean) | journal= Géobios | volume = 34 | issue = 3 | pages = 339–347 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Bartomeu Seguí]]
|
Plio-Pleistocene
|
[[Majorca]],

[[Balearic Islands]]
|
{{Flag|Spain}}:

{{Flag|Majorca}}
| 
A [[Corvidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Podiceps howardae]]'' <ref name="Podiceps">{{Cite journal | author=Robert W. Storer | year = 2001 | title = A New Pliocene Grebe from the Lee Creek Deposits | url =http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/paleobiology/pdf_lo/sctp-0090.pdf | journal =Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology | volume = 90 | pages = 227–231 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Robert W. Storer]]
|
Early [[Pliocene]]
|
[[Yorktown Formation]]
|
{{Flag|USA}}:

{{Flag|North Carolina}}
| 
A [[Podicipedidae]], possibly a synonym of ''Podiceps auritus''.
|
|-
|
''[[Pseudoseisura cursor]]'' <ref name="Pseudoseisura">{{Cite journal |author1=Eduardo P. Tonni  |author2=Jorge Noriega | year = 2001 | title = Una Especie Extinta de Pseudoseisura Reichenbach 1853 (Passeriformes: Furnariidae) del Pleistoceno de la Argentina: Comentarios Filogenéticos | url =http://www.ibiologia.unam.mx/pdf/links/neo/rev12/vol_12_1/orni_12_1_29-44.pdf | journal =Ornitologia Neotropical | volume = 12 | pages = 29–44 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Eduardo P. Tonni]]

[[Jorge Noriega]]
|
Early [[Pleistocene]]
|
[[Ensenadan]]
|
{{Flag|Argentina}}
| 
A [[Furnariidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Pterodromoides minoricensis]]'' <ref name="Pterodromoides">{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1111/1475-4983.00209|author1=Bartomeu Seguí |author2=Josep Quintana |author3=Joan J. Fornos |author4=Josep A. Alcover | year = 2001 | title = A New Genus of Fulmarine Petrel (Aves: Procelariiformes) from the Upper Miocene of Menorca, Western Mediterranean | journal =Palaeontology | volume = 44 | issue = 5 | pages = 933–948 |hdl=10261/54307 |s2cid=129148277 | doi-access =free }}</ref>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Bartomeu Seguí]]

[[Josep Quintana]]

[[Joan J. Fornos]]

[[Josep A. Alcover]]
|
Late [[Miocene]]-[[Pliocene]]

Early [[Pliocene]]
|
[[Menorca]];

[[Yorktown Formation]], North America
|
{{Flag|Spain}}:

{{flag|Menorca}};

{{Flag|USA}}:

{{Flag|North Carolina}}
| 
A [[Procellariidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Rallus recessus]]'' <ref name="Rallus">{{Cite journal |author1=Storrs L. Olson  |author2=David B. Wingate | year = 2001 | title = A New Species of Large Flightless Rail of the Rallus longirostris/elegans Complex (Aves: Rallidae) from the Late Pleistocene of Bermuda | url =https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/1734/VZ_307_Rallus_recessus.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y | journal =Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | volume = 114 | issue = 2 | pages = 509–516 }}</ref>
|
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Storrs L. Olson]]

[[David B. Wingate]]
|
Late [[Pleistocene]]
|
[[Bermuda]]
|
{{Flag|Bermuda}}
| 
A flightless [[Rallidae]].
|
|-
|
''[[Wellnhoferia grandis]]'' <ref name="Wellnhoferia">{{Cite journal | author=Andrei Elzanowski | year = 2001 | title = A New Genus and Species for the Largest Specimen of ''Archaeopteryx'' | url =https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app46/app46-519.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y | journal =Acta Palaeontologica Polonica | volume = 46 | issue = 4 | pages = 519–532 }}</ref>
|
Gen. nov et Sp. nov.
|
Valid ?
|
[[Andrei Elzanowski]]
|
[[Late Jura]]
|
[[Portlandian]]

[[Solnhofer Plattenkalk]]
|
{{Flag|Germany}}:

{{Flag|Bavaria}}
| 
A new name for ''Archaeopteryx lithographica'' von Meyer, 1861, specimen No 6, the "Solnhofer specimen".
|
|-
|
''[[Yanornis martini]]'' <ref name="ZhouZhang">{{Cite journal|author1=Zhou, Z.|author2=Zhang, F.|year=2001|title=Two new ornithurine birds from the Early Cretaceous of western Liaoning, China|url=http://www.ivpp.ac.cn/qt/papers/201206/P020120604520649848519.pdf|journal=Chinese Science Bulletin|volume=46|issue=15|pages=1258–1264|doi=10.1007/bf03184320|bibcode=2001ChSBu..46.1258Z|s2cid=132303803|access-date=2014-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208204115/http://www.ivpp.ac.cn/qt/papers/201206/P020120604520649848519.pdf|archive-date=2015-02-08|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Zhou Zhonghe]]

[[Fucheng Zhang]]
|
[[Early Createcous]]
|
[[Jiufotang Formation]]
|
{{flag|China}}
|
An [[Ornithuromorphae]] Chiappe, Ji, Ji et Norell, 1999, [[Yanornithiformes]] Zhou et Zhang, 2001, [[Yanornithidae]] Zhou et Zhang, 2001. The type species of the new genus.
|
|-
|
''[[Yixianornis grabaui]]'' <ref name="ZhouZhang"/>
|
Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.
|
Valid
|
[[Zhou Zhonghe]]

[[Zhang Fucheng]]
|
[[Early Cretaceous]]
|
[[Jiufotang Formation]]
|
{{flag|China}}
|
An [[Ornithuromorphae]] Chiappe, Ji, Ji et Norell, 1999, [[Yixianornithiformes]] Zhou et Zhang, 2006, [[Yixianornithidae]] Zhou et Zhang, 2006. The type species of the new genus.
|
|-
|}

===Newly named pterosaurs===

{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|- 
! Name
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
|-
|
''[[Haopterus]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Wang, X.  |author2=Lu, J.|year=2001|title=Discovery of a pterodactylid pterosaur from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China|journal=Chinese Science Bulletin|volume=46|issue=13|pages=A3–A8|doi=10.1007/BF02900690|bibcode=2001ChSBu..46A...3X|s2cid=129300905}}</ref>
|
Valid
|
* Wang
* Lü
|
Early Cretaceou
|
[[Yixian Formation]]
|
{{flag|China}}
|
The type species is ''Haopterus gracilis''.
| rowspan="47" | 
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|-
|
''[[Istiodactylus]]''<ref>Howse, S.C.B., Milner A.R., and Martill, D.M., 2001, Pterosaurs: In: Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight, edited by Martill, D.M., and Naish, D., The Palaeontological Association, p. 324-335.</ref>
|
Valid
|
* Howse
* Milner
* Martill
|
Early Cretaceous
|
[[Vectis Formation]]
|
{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|
A new genus for ''Ornithodesmus latidens''.
|}

==Synapsids==

===Non-mammalian===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|- 
! Name
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! width="33%" class="unsortable" | Notes
! class="unsortable"| Images
|-
|
''[[Delectosaurus]]''<ref name="Kurkin">{{Cite journal|author=Kurkin, A.A.|year=2001|title=New Late Permian dicynodonts from the Vyazniki Assemblage of terrestrial tetrapods of Eastern Europe|journal=Paleontological Journal|volume=35|issue=1|pages=53–59}}</ref>
|
Valid
|
* Kurkin
|
Late Permian
|
[[Vyazniki Assemblage]] 
|
{{flag|Russia}}
|
A [[dicynodont]]. Two species are described ''Delectosaurus arefjevi'' and ''D. berezhanensis''.
| rowspan="99"|
[[File:Lumkuia.jpg|thumb|150px|center|''[[Lumkuia]]'']]
|-
|
''[[Interpresosaurus]]''<ref name="Kurkin"/>
|
Valid
|
* Kurkin
|
Late Permian
|
[[Vyazniki Assemblage]] 
|
{{flag|Russia}}
|
A dicynodont. The [[type species]] is ''Interpresosaurus blomi''.
|-
|
''[[Lumkuia]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hopson | first1 = J.A. | last2 = Kitching | first2 = J.W. | year = 2001 | title = A Probainognathian cynodont from South Africa and the phylogeny of nonmammalian cynodonts": In: Studies in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in honor of A. W. Crompton | editor = Jenkins Jr, F.A. | editor2 = Shapiro, M.D. | editor3 = Owerkowicz, T. | journal = Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | volume = 156 | issue = 1| pages = 5–35 }}</ref>
|
Valid
|
* Hopson
* Kitching
|
Middle Triassic
|
[[Burgersdorp Formation]]
|
{{flag|South Africa}}
|
A [[cynodont]]. The type species is ''Lumkuia fuzzi''.
|-
|
''[[Malasaurus]]''<ref name="Tatarinov">{{Cite journal|author=Tatarinov, L.P.|year=2002|title=Gomphodont cynodonts (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Middle Triassic of Orenburg Region|journal=Paleontological Journal|volume=36|issue=3|pages=176–179}}</ref>
|
Valid
|
* Tatarinov
|
Late Triassic
|
Vyazniki Assemblage
|
{{flag|Russia}}
|
A [[therocephalian]]. The type species is ''Malasaurus germanus''.
|-
|
''[[Mitredon]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Shapiro | first1 = M.D. | last2 = Jenkins | year = 2001 | title = A cynodont from the Upper Triassic of East Greenland: tooth replacement and double-rootedness": In: Studies in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in honor of A. W. Crompton | editor = Jenkins Jr, F.A. | editor2 = Shapiro, M.D. | editor3 = Owerkowicz, T. | journal = Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | volume = 156 | issue = 1| pages = 49–58 }}</ref>
|
Valid
|
* Shapiro
* Jenkins
|
Late Triassic
|
[[Fleming Fjord Formation]]
|
{{flag|Greenland}}
|
A cynodont. The type species is ''Mitredon cromptoni''.
|-
|
''[[Prozostrodon]]''<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Bonaparte | first1 = J.F. | last2 = Barberena | first2 = M.C. | year = 2001 | title = On two advanced carnivorous cynodonts from the Late Triassic of Southern Brazil": In: Studies in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology in honor of A. W. Crompton | editor = Jenkins Jr, F.A. | editor2 = Shapiro, M.D. | editor3 = Owerkowicz, T. | journal = Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology | volume = 156 | issue = 1| pages = 59–80 }}</ref>
|
Valid
|
* Bonaparte
* Barberena
|
Late Triassic
|
[[Santa Maria Formation]]
|
{{flag|Brazil}}
|
New genus for ''"Thrinaxodon" brasiliensis'' Barberena, Bonaparte & Sá Teixeira, 1987
|-
|
''[[Riograndia]]''<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Bonaparte, J.F.|author2=Ferigolo, J.|author3=Ribeiro, A.M.|name-list-style=amp|year=2001|title=A primitive Late Triassic 'Ictidosaur' from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil|journal=Palaeontology|volume=44|issue=4|pages=623–638|doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00194|doi-access=free}}</ref>
|
Valid
|
* Bonaparte
* Ferigolo
* Ribeiro
|
Late Triassic
|
[[Caturrita Formation]]
|
{{flag|Brazil}}
|
A cynodont. The type species is ''Riograndia guaibensis''.
|-
|}

===Mammalian===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
|- 
! Name
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! width="33%" class="unsortable" | Notes
! class="unsortable"| Images
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''[[Abdounodus ]]''<ref name=GBEA2001>{{cite journal|last=Gheerbrant|first=Emmanuel|author2=Sudre, Jean|author3= Iarochene, Mohamed|author4= Moumni, Abdelkader|title=First ascertained African "Condylarth" mammals (primitive ungulates: cf. Bulbulodentata and cf. Phenacodonta) from the earliest Ypresian of the Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco|journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology|date=2001|volume=21|issue=1|pages=107–118|doi=10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0107:FAACMP]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=85966740 }}</ref> 
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* Sudre
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early Eocene
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[[Ouled Abdoun Basin]]
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{{flag|Morocco}}
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A Mioclaneid [[condylarth]] assigned to [[Bulbulodentata]]. The type species is ''Abdounodus hamdii''.
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[[File:Ocepeia daouiensis skull reconstruction (lateral).png|thumb|center|150px|''[[Ocepeia]]'']]
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''[[Ocepeia]]''<ref name=GBEA2001/>
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Valid
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* Gheerbrant
* Sudre
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early Eocene
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[[Ouled Abdoun Basin]]
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{{flag|Morocco}}
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A condylarth assigned to [[Phenacodonta]], later assigned to stem-[[Paenungulata]].
<ref name="GBEA2014">{{cite journal|last1=Gheerbrant|first1=E.|last2=Amaghzaz|first2=M.|last3=Bouya|first3=B.|last4=Goussard|first4=F.|last5=Letenneur|first5=C.|year=2014|title=''Ocepeia'' (Middle Paleocene of Morocco): The Oldest Skull of an Afrotherian Mammal|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=9|issue=2|pages=e89739|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0089739|pmid=24587000|bibcode = 2014PLoSO...989739G|pmc=3935939|doi-access=free}}</ref> The type species is ''Ocepeia daouiensis''.
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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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===References===
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