2011_in_paleontology

2011 in paleontology

2011 in paleontology

Overview of the events of 2011 in paleontology


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 2011.

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Protozoa

New taxa

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Plants

Ferns and fern allies

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Gymnosperms

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Gymnosperm research

  • An amplified whole plant reconstruction of the Ypresian Princeton chert pine Pinus arnoldii, expanding the diagnosis to include P. similkameenensis (Miller, 1973) foliage and wood plus unnamed pollens cones found in attachment to the P. arnoldii ovulate cones is published by Klymiuk, Stockey, & Rothwell.[9]

Angiosperms

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Nematoda

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Lobopods

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Vetulicolians

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Molluscs

Arthropods

Fishes

Amphibians

Newly named lepospondyls

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Newly named temnospondyls

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Newly named lissamphibians

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Basal reptiles

Newly named captorhinids

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Newly named basal diapsids

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Newly named ichthyosaurs

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Lepidosauromorphs

Newly named saurosphargids

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Newly named sauropterygians

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Newly named lizards

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Turtles

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Archosauromorphs

Newly named basal archosauromorphs

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Archosaurs

Synapsids

Newly named non-mammalian synapsids

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Mammals


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.

  1. Henrici, Martens, Berman, Sumida.
  2. Berman, Henrici, Martens, Sumida, Anderson
  3. Reisz, Liu, Li, Müller.
  4. Fischer, Masure, Arkhangelsky, Godefroit.
  5. Li, Rieppel, Wu, Zhao, Wang.
  6. Liu, Rieppel, Jiang, Aitchison, Motani, Zhang, Zhou, Sun.
  7. Benson, Ketchum, Noè, Gómez-Pérez.
  8. Vincent, Bardet, Suberbiola, Bouya, Amaghzaz, Meslouh.
  9. Müller, Hipsley, Head, Kardjilov, Hilger, Wuttke, Reisz.
  10. Gaffney, Meylan, Wood, Simons and Campos
  11. Slater, Reolid, Wood, Schouten and Benton
  12. Knauss, Joyce, Lyson and Pearson
  13. de la Fuente, Umazano, Sterli and Carballido
  14. Danilov, Zvonok, Syromyatnikova and Udovichenko
  15. De Oliveira, Schultz, Soares, Rodrigues.
  16. Fröbisch, Schoch, Müller, Schindler, Schweiss.
  17. Reisz, Maddin, Fröbisch, Falconnet.
  18. Cisneros, Abdala, Rubidge, Dentzien-Dias, Bueno.

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  2. Su, T.; Jacques, F.; Liu, Y.; Xiang, J.; Xing, Y.; Huang, Y.; Zhou, Z. (2011). "A new Drynaria (Polypodiaceae) from the upper Pliocene of Southwest China". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 164 ((1-2)): 132–142. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.11.011.
  3. Oh, C.; Kim, K.; Paik, I.; Lim, J. (2011). "Cretaceous conifer woods of Korea: Occurrences and palaeobiological implications". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 164 (1–2): 67–83. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.11.007.
  4. Kunzmann, L.; Mohr, B.A.R.; Wilde, V.; Bernardes-de-Oliveira, M.E.C. (2011). "A putative gnetalean gymnosperm Cariria orbiculiconiformis gen. nov. et spec. nov. from the Early Cretaceous of northern Gondwana". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 165 (1–2): 75–95. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2011.02.005.
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  6. Rothwell, G.; Stockey, R.; Mapes, G.; Hilton, J. (2011). "Structure and relationships of the Jurassic conifer seed cone Hughmillerites juddii gen. et comb. nov.: implications for the origin and evolution of Cupressaceae". Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 164 (1–2): 45–59.
  7. Klymiuk, A. A.; Stockey, R. A.; Rothwell, G. W. (2011). "The first organismal concept for an extinct species of Pinaceae: Pinus arnoldii Miller". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 172 (2): 294–313. doi:10.1086/657649. S2CID 84137991.
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  9. Valentin Krassilov; Eckart Schrank (2011). "New Albian macro- and palynoflora from the Negev (Israel) with description of a new gymnosperm morphotaxon". Cretaceous Research. 32 (1): 13–29. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2010.10.001.
  10. Zhang, J.; D'Rozario, A.; Yao, J.; Wu, Z.; Wang, L. (2011). "A new species of the extinct genus Schizolepis from the Jurassic Daohugou Flora, Inner Mongolia, China with special reference to the fossil diversity and evolutionary implications". Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition. 85 (2): 471–481. doi:10.1111/j.1755-6724.2011.00415.x. S2CID 129785532.
  11. Ge Sun; David L. Dilcher; Hongshan Wang; Zhiduan Chen (2011). "A eudicot from the Early Cretaceous of China". Nature. 471 (7340): 625–628. Bibcode:2011Natur.471..625S. doi:10.1038/nature09811. PMID 21455178. S2CID 205224036.
  12. Benedict, JC; DeVore, ML; Pigg, KB (2011). "Prunus and Oemleria (Rosaceae) Flowers from the Late Early Eocene Republic Flora of Northeastern Washington State, U.S.A.". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 172 (7): 948–958. doi:10.1086/660880. S2CID 39391439.
  13. Poinar, G.; Heiss, E. (2011). "New Termitaphididae and Aradidae (Hemiptera) in Mexican and Dominican amber" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 4: 51–62.
  14. Liu, J.; Steiner, M.; Dunlop, J. A.; Keupp, H.; Shu, D.; Ou, Q.; Han, J.; Zhang, Z.; Zhang, X. (2011). "An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages". Nature. 470 (7335): 526–530. Bibcode:2011Natur.470..526L. doi:10.1038/nature09704. PMID 21350485. S2CID 4324509.
  15. Vinther, J.; Smith, M. P.; Harper, D. A. T. (2011). "Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland, and the polarity of morphological characters in basal deuterostomes". Palaeontology. 54 (3): 711–719. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01034.x. S2CID 85602402.
  16. Henrici, A.C.; Martens, T.; Berman, D.S.; Sumida, S.S. (2011). "An ostodolepid 'microsaur' (Lepospondyli) from the Lower Permian Tambach Formation of central Germany". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 997–1004. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.596601. S2CID 129710688.
  17. Polley, Brendan P.; Reisz, Robert R. (2011). "A new Lower Permian trematopid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from Richards Spur, Oklahoma". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (4): 789–815. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00668.x. hdl:1807/18982.
  18. Fortuny, Josep; Galobart, Àngel; De Santisteban, Carles (2011). "A new capitosaur from the Middle Triassic of Spain and the relationships within the Capitosauria" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (3): 553–66. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0025. S2CID 55068128. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-05-22.
  19. David S. Berman; Amy C. Henrici; Thomas Martens; Stuart S. Sumida; Jason S. Anderson (2011). "Rotaryus gothae, a New Trematopid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the Lower Permian of Central Germany". Annals of Carnegie Museum. 80 (1): 49–65. doi:10.2992/007.080.0106. S2CID 84780478.
  20. Bourget, Hélène; Anderson, Jason S. (2011). "A new amphibamid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the Early Permian of Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (1): 32–49. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.539652. S2CID 85856972.
  21. P.P. Skutschas; S.A. Krasnolutskii (2011). "A new genus and species of basal salamanders from the Middle Jurassic of western Siberia, Russia" (PDF). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 315 (2): 167–175.
  22. Robert R. Reisz; Jun Liu; Jin-Ling Li; Johannes Müller (2011). "A new captorhinid reptile, Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Permian of China". Naturwissenschaften. 98 (5): 435–441. Bibcode:2011NW.....98..435R. doi:10.1007/s00114-011-0793-0. PMID 21484260. S2CID 20274349.
  23. Robert R. Reisz; Sean P. Modesto; Diane M. Scott (2011). "A new Early Permian reptile and its significance in early diapsid evolution". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 278 (1725): 3731–3737. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0439. PMC 3203498. PMID 21525061.
  24. Fischer, V.; Masure, E.; Arkhangelsky, M.S.; Godefroit, P. (2011). "A new Barremian (Early Cretaceous) ichthyosaur from western Russia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (5): 1010–1025. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.595464. hdl:2268/92828. S2CID 86036325.
  25. Li, Chun; Olivier Rieppel; Xiao-Chun Wu; Li-Jun Zhao; Li-Ting Wang (2011). "A new Triassic marine reptile from southwestern China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (2): 303–312. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.550368. S2CID 130698779.
  26. A. Yu. Berezin (2011). "A new plesiosaur of the family Aristonectidae from the early cretaceous of the center of the Russian platform". Paleontological Journal. 45 (6): 648–660. doi:10.1134/S0031030111060037. S2CID 129045087.
  27. Shang Qing-Hua; Wu Xiao-Chun; Li Chun (2011). "A new eosauropterygian from Middle Triassic of eastern Yunnan Province, southwestern China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 49 (2): 155–171. doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.2011.02.002.
  28. Tamaki Sato; Yen-Nien Cheng; Xiao-Chun Wu; Hsi-Yin Shan (2013). "Diandongosaurus acutidentatus Shang, Wu & Li, 2011 (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) and the relationships of Chinese eosauropterygians". Geological Magazine. 151 (1): 121–133. Bibcode:2014GeoM..151..121S. doi:10.1017/S0016756813000356. S2CID 131666596.
  29. Jun Liu; Olivier Rieppel; Da-Yong Jiang; Jonathan C. Aitchison; Ryosuke Motani; Qi-Yue Zhang; Chang-Yong Zhou; Yuan-Yuan Sun (2011). "A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the lower Middle Triassic of southwestern China and the phylogenetic relationships of Chinese pachypleurosaurs". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (2): 292–302. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.550363. S2CID 86594206.
  30. Leonie Schwermann; Martin Sander (2011). Osteologie und Phylogenie von Westphaliasaurus simonsensii: Ein neuer Plesiosauride (Sauropterygia) aus dem Unteren Jura (Pliensbachium) von Sommersell (Kreis Höxter), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland [=Osteology and Phylogeny of Westphaliasaurus simonsensii, a new plesiosaurid (Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic (Pliensbachian) of Sommersell (Höxter district), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]. Vol. 79. pp. 56 pp. ISBN 978-3-940726-14-8. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  31. Peggy Vincent; Nathalie Bardet; Xabier Pereda Suberbiola; Baâdi Bouya; Mbarek Amaghzaz; Saïd Meslouh (2011). "Zarafasaura oceanis, a new elasmosaurid (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and the palaeobiogeography of latest Cretaceous plesiosaurs". Gondwana Research. 19 (4): 1062–1073. Bibcode:2011GondR..19.1062V. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2010.10.005.
  32. Nava, William R.; Agustín G. Martinelli (2011). "A new squamate lizard from the Upper Cretaceous Adamantina Formation (Bauru Group), São Paulo State, Brazil" (PDF). Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 83 (1): 291–299. doi:10.1590/S0001-37652011000100017. ISSN 0001-3765. PMID 21437386.
  33. Müller, Johannes; Christy A. Hipsley; Jason J. Head; Nikolay Kardjilov; André Hilger; Michael Wuttke; Robert R. Reisz (2011). "Eocene lizard from Germany reveals amphisbaenian origins". Nature. 473 (7347): 364–367. Bibcode:2011Natur.473..364M. doi:10.1038/nature09919. PMID 21593869. S2CID 205224382.
  34. Konishi, Takuya; Michael W. Caldwell (2011). "Two new plioplatecarpine (Squamata, Mosasauridae) genera from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, and a global phylogenetic analysis of plioplatecarpines". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (4): 754–783. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.579023. S2CID 85972311.
  35. Krister T. Smith (2011). "The Evolution of Mid-Latitude Faunas During the Eocene: Late Eocene Lizards of the Medicine Pole Hills Reconsidered". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 52 (1): 3–105. doi:10.3374/014.052.0101. S2CID 140545447.
  36. Krister T. Smith (2011). "Oreithyia, a Replacement Name for Orithyia Smith, 2011, nec Orithyia Fabricius, 1798". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 52 (2): 273. doi:10.3374/014.052.0205. S2CID 83777646.
  37. Dhananjay M. Mohabey; Jason J. Head; Jeffrey A. Wilson (2011). "A new species of the snake Madtsoia from the Upper Cretaceous of India and its paleobiogeographic implications". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (3): 588–595. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.560220. S2CID 129792355.
  38. Eugene S. Gaffney; Peter A. Meylan; Roger C. Wood; Elwyn Simons; Diógenes de Almeida Campos (2011). "Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the family Podocnemididae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 350: 1–237. doi:10.1206/350.1. hdl:2246/6110. S2CID 83775718.
  39. Walter G. Joyce; Tyler R. Lyson (2011). "New Material of Gilmoremys lancensis nov. comb. (Testudines: Trionychidae) from the Hell Creek Formation and the Diagnosis of Plastomenid Turtles". Journal of Paleontology. 85 (3): 442–459. doi:10.1666/10-127.1. S2CID 129918006.
  40. Dana J. Ehret; Jason R. Bourque (2011). "An extinct map turtle Graptemys (Testudines, Emydidae) from the late Pleistocene of Florida". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (3): 575–587. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.562267. S2CID 83693680.
  41. Ben J. Slater; Matías Reolid; Remmert Schouten; Michael J. Benton (2011). "Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the family Podocnemididae". Palaeontology. 54 (6): 1393–1414. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01100.x. S2CID 86788319.
  42. Georgia E. Knauss; Walter G. Joyce; Tyler R. Lyson; Dean Pearson (2011). "A new kinosternoid from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota and Montana and the origin of the Dermatemys mawii lineage". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 85 (2): 124–142. doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0081-x. S2CID 129123961.
  43. Natasha Vitek (2011). "Insights into the Taxonomy and Systematics of North American Eocene Soft-Shelled Turtles from a Well-Preserved Specimen". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 52 (2): 189–208. doi:10.3374/014.052.0201. S2CID 86206091.
  44. Marcelo S. de la Fuente; Aldo M. Umazano; Juliana Sterli; José L. Carballido (2011). "New chelid turtles of the lower section of the Cerro Barcino formation (Aptian-Albian?), Patagonia, Argentina". Cretaceous Research. 32 (4): 527–537. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.03.007.
  45. Pérez-García, Adán; Ortega, Francisco (2011). "Selenemys lusitanica, gen. et sp. nov., a new pleurosternid turtle (Testudines: Paracryptodira) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (1): 60–69. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.540054. S2CID 129187024.
  46. I.G. Danilov; E.A. Zvonok; E.V. Syromyatnikova; N.I. Udovichenko (2011). "A new species of soft-shelled turtle (Trionychidae) from the Middle Eocene of Ukraine" (PDF). Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 315 (4): 399–411.
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  48. Julia B. Desojo; Martin D. Ezcurra; Cesar L. Schultz (2011). "An unusual new archosauriform from the Middle–Late Triassic of southern Brazil and the monophyly of Doswelliidae". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (4): 839–871. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00655.x. hdl:11336/160636.
  49. Martín D. Ezcurra; Lucas E. Fiorelli; Agustín G. Martinelli; Sebastián Rocher; M. Belén von Baczko; Miguel Ezpeleta; Jeremías R. A. Taborda; E. Martín Hechenleitner; M. Jimena Trotteyn; Julia B. Desojo (2017). "Deep faunistic turnovers preceded the rise of dinosaurs in southwestern Pangaea". Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1 (10): 1477–1483. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0305-5. hdl:11336/41466. PMID 29185518. S2CID 10007967.
  50. Sennikov, A.G. (2011). "New Tanystropheids (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic of Europe". Paleontological Journal. 45 (1): 95–104. doi:10.1134/S0031030111010151. S2CID 85193597.
  51. V. R. Alifanov; E. N. Kurochkin (2011). "Kyrgyzsaurus bukhanchenkoi gen. et sp. nov., a new reptile from the triassic of southwestern Kyrgyzstan". Paleontological Journal. 45 (6): 639–647. doi:10.1134/S0031030111060025. S2CID 84563146.
  52. Ivakhnenko, M.F. (2011). "Permian and Triassic therocephals (Eutherapsida) of Eastern Europe". Paleontological Journal. 45 (9): 981–1144. doi:10.1134/S0031030111090012. S2CID 128958135.
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  54. Téo Veiga De Oliveira; Cesar Leandro Schultz; Marina Bento Soares; Carlos Nunes Rodrigues (2011). "A new carnivorous cynodont (Synapsida, Therapsida) from the Brazilian Middle Triassic (Santa Maria Formation): Candelariodon barberenai gen. et sp. nov" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3027: 19–28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3027.1.3. ISSN 1175-5334.
  55. Jörg Fröbisch; Rainer R. Schoch; Johannes Müller; Thomas Schindler; Dieter Schweiss (2011). "A new basal sphenacodontid synapsid from the Late Carboniferous of the Saar-Nahe Basin, Germany" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 56 (1): 113–120. doi:10.4202/app.2010.0039. S2CID 45410472.
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