2010 in paleontology explained
Plants
Angiosperms
Molluscs
Newly named bivalves
Arthropods
See main article: 2010 in arthropod paleontology.
Fishes
See 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 lizards
Newly named snakes
Turtles
Newly named turtles
Archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs
Archosaurs
See main article: 2010 in archosaur paleontology.
Synapsids
Newly named non-mammalian synapsids
Mammals
See main article: 2010 in mammal paleontology.
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.
- Manchester . S.R. . Xiang . X-P. . Xiang . Q-Y . 2010 . [ftp://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/Projects/PaleobotanyWyoFieldtripReadings/ManchesterReprints/2010%20Cornelian%20Cherries%20%20Cornus.pdf Fruits of Cornelian Cherries (Cornaceae: ''Cornus'' Subg. ''Cornus'') in the Paleocene and Eocene of the Northern Hemisphere ]. International Journal of Plant Sciences . 171 . 8 . 882–891 . 10.1086/655771 . 83524109 .
- Calvillo-Canadell . L. . Cevallos-Ferriz . S.R.S. . Rico-Arce . L. . Miocene Hymenaea flowers preserved in amber from Simojovel de Allende, Chiapas, Mexico . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . 2010 . 160 . 3–4 . 126–134 . 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.02.007. 2010RPaPa.160..126C .
- McMurran . D. M. . Manchester . S. R. . Lagokarpos lacustris, a new winged fruit from the Paleogene of western North America . International Journal of Plant Sciences . 2010 . 171 . 2 . 227–234 . 10.1086/648994. 85399829 .
- Sender . L.M. . Gomez . B. . Diez . J.B. . Coiffard . C. . Martín-Closas . C. . Villanueva-Amadoz . U. . Ferrer . J. . 2010 . Ploufolia cerciforme gen. et comb. nov.: Aquatic angiosperm leaves from the Upper Albian of north-eastern Spain . Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology . 161 . 1–2 . 77–86. 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.03.001. 2010RPaPa.161...77S .
- Sergio Bravia . Maria Rosaria Barone Lumagab . James E. Mickle . 2010 . Sagaria cilentana gen. et sp. nov.-A New Angiosperm Fructification from the Middle Albian of Southern Italy. Cretaceous Research . 31 . 3 . 285–290 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2009.12.001 . 2010CrRes..31..285B .
- Shaolin ZHENG . Xin WANG . 2010 . An Undercover Angiosperm from the Jurassic of China . Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition . 84 . 4 . 895–902 . 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00252.x. 2010AcGlS..84..895S . 84697587 .
- Xin WANG . Shijun WANG . 2010 . Xingxueanthus: An Enigmatic Jurassic Seed Plant and Its Implications for the Origin of Angiospermy. Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition . 84 . 1 . 47–55 . 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00169.x. 2010AcGlS..84...47W . 140739086 .
- Sánchez . T.M. . 2010 . Emiliodonta, New Name for Emiliania Sánchez, 1999, Not Emiliania Hay and Mohlen, 1967 . Journal of Paleontology . 84 . 4 . 781 . 10.1666/10-023.1 . 2010JPal...84..781S . 84229307 .
- Péreza . Leandro M. . Iturrería . Santiago F. Genta . Griffini . Miguel . October 2010 . Paleoecological and Paleobiogeographic Significance of Two New Species of Bivalves in the Paraná Formation (Late Miocene) of Entre Ríos Province, Argentina . Malacologia . en . 53 . 1 . 61–76 . 10.4002/040.053.0104 . 85017087 . 0076-2997.
- 2010 . Deltaherpeton hiemstrae, a New Colosteid Tetrapod from the Mississippian of Iowa . Journal of Paleontology . 84 . 6 . 1135–1151 . 10.1666/10-020.1 . John R. Bolt . R. Eric Lombard . 2010JPal...84.1135B . 83774501 .
- Berman . D.S. . Henrici, A.C. . Brezinski, D.K. . Kollar, A.D. . amp . 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 . 78 . 4 . 289–318 . 14 January 2011 . 10.2992/007.078.0401 . 85974488 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100414161141/http://www.carnegiemnh.org/news/10-jan-mar/fedexia/Annals-15Mar2010-Fedexia.pdf . 14 April 2010 .
- Berman, Henrici, Brezinski, Kollar.
- Zoltán Szentesi . Márton Venczel . 2010 . An advanced anuran from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) of Hungary . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen . 256 . 3 . 291–302 . 10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0054 . 12 February 2011 . 13 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220313235901/http://www.schweizerbart.de/resources/downloads/paper_previews/75036.pdf . live .
- 2010 . A chroniosuchid from the Triassic of Kyrgyzstan and analysis of chroniosuchian relationships . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 160 . 3 . 515–530 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00613.x . Rainer R. Schoch . Sebastian Voigt . Michael Buchwitz . free .
- Linda A. Tsuji . Johannes Muller . Robert R. Reisz . 2010 . Microleter mckinzieorum gen. et sp. nov. from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma: the basalmost parareptile from Laurasia . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 8 . 2 . 245–255 . 10.1080/14772010903461099 . 2010JSPal...8..245T . 129529082 .
- Modesto . S.P. . Scott, D.M. . Botha-Brink, J. . Reisz, R.R. . amp . 2010 . A new and unusual procolophonid parareptile from the Lower Triassic Katberg Formation of South Africa . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 3 . 715–723 . 10.1080/02724631003758003. 2010JVPal..30..715M . 84563475 .
- Modesto, Scott, Botha-Brink, Reisz.
- Sumida . S.S. . Dodick, J. . Metcalf, A. . Albright, G. . amp . 2010 . Reiszorhinus olsoni, a new single-tooth-rowed captorhinid reptile of the Lower Permian of Texas . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 3 . 704–714 . 10.1080/02724631003758078 . 2010JVPal..30..704S . 31500853 .
- Sumida, Dodick, Metcalf, Albright.
- 10.1080/02724631003617944 . Maxwell . E. E . 2010 . Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 2 . 403–415. 2010JVPal..30..403M . 85143039 .
- Patrick S. Druckenmiller . Erin E. Maxwell . 2010 . A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences . 47 . 8 . 1037–1053 . 10.1139/E10-028 . 14 January 2011 . 2010CaJES..47.1037D .
- 2010 . Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art . Palaeodiversity . 3 . 151–214 . Michael W. Maisch . 14 January 2011 . 30 September 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180930174257/http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/03/Palaeodiversity_Bd3_Maisch.pdf . live .
- 2010 . A new species of Mixosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Pu'an, Guizhou, China . Acta Palaeontologica Sinica . 2 . 251–260 . Chen Xiao-hong . Cheng Long .
- A. G. Sennikov . M. S. Arkhangelsky . 2010 . On a Typical Jurassic Sauropterygian from the Upper Triassic of Wilczek Land (Franz Josef Land, Arctic Russia). Paleontological Journal . 44 . 5 . 567–572 . 10.1134/S0031030110050126. 2010PalJ...44..567S . 88505507 .
- Adam S. Smith . Peggy Vincent . 2010 . A new genus of pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany . Palaeontology . 53 . 5 . 1049–1063 . 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00975.x. 2010Palgy..53.1049S . free .
- José Fernando Bonaparte . César Leandro Schultz . Marina Bento Soares . Agustín G. Martinelli . 2010 . La Fauna local de faxinal do soturno, Triasico tardio de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil . Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia . 13 . 3 . 233–246 . 10.4072/rbp.2010.3.07. free .
- Bonaparte, Schultz, Soares, Martinelli.
- 2010 . A new species of marine ophidiomorph lizard, Adriosaurus skrbinensis, from the Upper Cretaceous of Slovenia . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 3 . 747–755 . 10.1080/02724631003762963. Michael W. Caldwell . Alessandro Palci . 2010JVPal..30..747C . 85570665 .
- 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 . 84 . 1 . 3–41 . 10.1007/s12542-010-0050-4. Madelaine Böhme . 2010PalZ...84....3B . 130044044 .
- Jozef Klembara . Bryony Green . 2010 . Anguimorph lizards (Squamata, Anguimorpha) from the Middle and Late Eocene of the Hampshire Basin of southern England . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 8 . 1 . 97–129 . 10.1080/14772011003603531 . 2010JSPal...8...97K . 128699883 .
- Jacques Herman . Guy Van Den Eeckhaut . 2010 . Inventaire systématique des Invertebrata, Vertebrata, Plantae et Fungi des Sables de Bruxelles à Zaventem . Geominpal Belgica Découvertes Géologiques, Minéralogiques et Paléontologiques en Belgique . 1 . 32–64 . 2014-06-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150217061550/http://geominpal.be/Geominpal%20Belgica%201/Geominpal%20Belgica%201.pdf . 2015-02-17 . dead .
- Randall L. Nydam . Michael W. Caldwell . Federico Fanti . 2010 . Borioteiioidean lizard skulls from Kleskun Hill (Wapiti Formation; upper Campanian), west-central Alberta, Canada . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 4 . 1090–1099 . 10.1080/02724634.2010.483539 . 2010JVPal..30.1090N . 128403651 .
- Susan E. Evans . Yuan Wang . 2010 . A new lizard (Reptilia: Squamata) with exquisite preservation of soft tissue from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 8 . 1 . 81–95 . 10.1080/14772010903537773 . 2010JSPal...8...81E . 56046960 .
- Arnau Bolet . Susan E. Evans . 2010 . A new lizard from the early cretaceous of catalonia (Spain), and the mesozoic lizards of the iberian peninsula . Cretaceous Research . 31 . 4 . 447–457 . 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.06.002 . 2010CrRes..31..447B .
- 2010 . Reappraisal of the South American Miocene snakes of the genus Colombophis, with description of a new species . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica . 55 . 3 . 365–379 . 10.4202/app.2009.1111. Annie S. Hsiou . Adriana M. Albino . Jorge Ferigolo . free .
- 10.1080/02724630903409188. Laduke, T.C.. Krause, D.W.. Scanlon, J.D.. Kley, N.J.. amp. 2010. A Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) snake assemblage from the Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30. 1. 109–138. 2010JVPal..30..109L . free.
- 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 . 44 . 4 . 525–543 . 10.1670/09-248.1. Dennis Parmley . Katie Beth Hunter . 86633027 .
- Wilson . J.A. . Mohabey, D.M. . Peters, S.E. . Head, J.J. . amp . 2010 . Predation upon Hatchling Dinosaurs by a New Snake from the Late Cretaceous of India . e1000322 . 20209142 . PLOS Biology . 8 . 2830453 . 3 . 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000322 . Benton . Michael J. . free .
- Wilson, Mohabey, Peters, Head.
- Cadena . Edwin . Bloch . Jonathan . Jaramillo . Carlos . New podocnemidid turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the middle-upper Paleocene of South America . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 367–382 . 2010 . 10.1080/02724631003621946 . 2 . 2010JVPal..30..367C . 84315151 .
- Thomas M. Lehman . Steven L. Wick . 2010 . Chupacabrachelys complexus, n. gen. n. sp. (Testudines: Bothremydidae), from the Aguja Formation (Campanian) of West Texas . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 6 . 1709–1725 . 10.1080/02724634.2010.520782 . 2010JVPal..30.1709L . 129303574 .
- 10.1080/02724631003618389. Lyson, T.R.. Joyce, W.G.. 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. 30. 2. 394–402. 2010JVPal..30..394L. 89517022. 2019-07-05. 2022-11-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20221115184528/https://doc.rero.ch/record/32770/files/PAL_E3648.pdf. live.
- Danilov, I.G.. Averianov, A.O.. Yarkov, A.A.. amp. 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. 314. 1. 24–41. 10.31610/trudyzin/2010.314.1.24 . 250006012 . free.
- Haiyan Tong . Jinyou Mo . 2010 . Jiangxichelys, a new nanhsiungchelyid turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China . Geological Magazine . 147 . 6 . 981–986 . 10.1017/S0016756810000671 . 14 January 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110711015906/http://www.foreignpolicybulletinmonitor.com/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=7908884&fulltextType=RC&fileId=S0016756810000671 . 11 July 2011 . 2010GeoM..147..981T . 131484464 .
- Chang-Fu Zhou . 2010 . A new eucryptodiran turtle from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China . Zootaxa . 2676 . 45–56 . 14 January 2011 . 10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.3 . 18 June 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220618100250/https://mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02676p056f.pdf . live .
- James F. Parham. Nicholas Pyenson . Nicholas D. Pyenson . 2010. New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous. Journal of Paleontology. 84. 2. 231–247. 10.1666/09-077R.1. 2010JPal...84..231P . 62811400 .
- DONALD BRINKMAN. MARTHA CAROLINA AQUILLON-MARTINEZ. CLAUDIO ARTURO DE LEON DÁVILA. HEATHER JAMNICZKY. DAVID A. EBERTH. MATTHEW COLBERT. amp. 2010. Euclastes coahuilaensis sp. nov., a basal cheloniid turtle from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Coahuila State, Mexico. Journal of Paleontology. 28. 3. 76–88. 14 January 2011 . 20 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230420025356/https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/science/paleobios/abstracts_26to.php. live.
- 10.1080/14772019.2010.500879. Walter G. Joyce . Tyler R. Lyson . 2010 . Pangshura tatrotia, a new species of pond turtle (Testudinoidea) from the Pliocene Siwaliks of Pakistan . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8. 3. 449–458. 2010JSPal...8..449J . 54803213 .
- Natasha S. Vitek . Igor G. Danilov . 2010 . New Material and a Reassessment of Soft-Shelled Turtles (Trionychidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan . 10.1080/02724631003617548 . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 2 . 383–393 . 2010JVPal..30..383V . 83498792 . 2019-07-05 . 2022-10-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221022041851/https://doc.rero.ch/record/31484/files/PAL_E571.pdf . live .
- Flynn . J.J. . Nesbitt, S.J. . Parrish, J.M. . Ranivoharimanana, L. . Wyss, A.R. . amp . 2010 . A new species of Azendohsaurus (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic Isalo Group of southwestern Madagascar: cranium and mandible . Palaeontology . 53 . 3 . 669–688 . 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00954.x. 2010Palgy..53..669F . 82341339 . free .
- Flynn, Nesbitt, Parrish, Ranivoharimanana, Wyss.
- Max C. Langer . Felipe C. Montefeltro . David E. Hone . Robin Whatley . Cesar L. Schultz . 2010 . On Fodonyx spenceri and a new rhynchosaur from the Middle Triassic of Devon . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 6 . 1884–1888 . 10.1080/02724634.2010.521901 . 2010JVPal..30.1884L . 53405231 .
- Langer, Montefeltro, Hone, Whatley, Schultz.
- Ezcurra . M.D. . Lecuona, A. . Martinelli, A. . amp . 2010 . A new basal archosauriform diapsid from the Lower Triassic of Argentina . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 5 . 1433–1450 . 10.1080/02724634.2010.501446. 2010JVPal..30.1433E . 83826840 .
- Silvio Renesto . Justin A. Spielmann . Spencer G. Lucas . Giorgio Tarditi Spagnoli . 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 . 46 . 1–81 .
- Renesto, Spielmann, Lucas, Tarditi Spagnoli.
- Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro . Max Cardoso Langer . Cesar Leandro Schultz . 2010 . 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 . 101 . 1 . 27–52 . 10.1017/S1755691010009060 . 2010EESTR.101...27M . 129472459 . 14 January 2011 .
- Julia B. Desojo . Lucas E. Fiorelli . Martín D. Ezcurra . Agustín G. Martinelli . Jahandar Ramezani . Átila. A. S. Da Rosa . M. Belén von Baczko . M. Jimena Trotteyn . Felipe C. Montefeltro . Miguel Ezpeleta . Max C. Langer . 2020 . The Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation at Cerro Las Lajas (La Rioja, Argentina): fossil tetrapods, high-resolution chronostratigraphy, and faunal correlations . Scientific Reports . 10 . 1 . Article number 12782 . 10.1038/s41598-020-67854-1 . 32728077 . 7391656 . 2020NatSR..1012782D .
- Mitchell . Jonathan S. . Heckert, Andrew B. . Sues, Hans-Dieter . amp . 2010 . Grooves to tubes: evolution of the venom delivery system in a Late Triassic "reptile" . Naturwissenschaften . 97 . 12 . 1117–1121 . 10.1007/s00114-010-0729-0 . 21060984. 2010NW.....97.1117M . 10093308 .
- Gao, K. . Fox, R.C. . Zhou, C.-F. . Li, D.-Q. . 2010 . A new nonmammalian eucynodont (Synapsida, Therapsida) from the Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and its biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications . American Museum Novitates . 3685 . 24p . 10.1206/649.1 . 2246/6069 . 85789838 . 2022-03-23 . 2023-06-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230605143905/https://zenodo.org/record/5358848 . live .
- Gao, Fox, Zhou, Li.
- Christian F. Kammerer . John J. Flynn . Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana . André R. Wyss . 2010. The first record of a probainognathian (Cynodontia: Chiniquodontidae) from the Triassic of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30. 6. 1889–1894. 10.1080/02724634.2010.520784. 2010JVPal..30.1889K . 85868922 .
- Kammerer, Flynn, Ranivoharimanana, Wyss.
- Jörg Fröbisch . Kenneth D. Angielczyk . Christian A. Sidor . 2010 . The Triassic dicynodont Kombuisia (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass extinction . Naturwissenschaften . 97 . 2 . 187–196 . 10.1007/s00114-009-0626-6. 19956920. 2010NW.....97..187F . 20557454 .
- Kenneth D. Angielczyk . Bruce S. Rubidge . 2010. A new pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Middle Permian of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 30 . 5 . 1396–1409 . 10.1080/02724634.2010.501447 . 2010JVPal..30.1396A . 129846697 .
- Oliveira, T.V. . Soares, M.B. . Schultz, C.L. . 86916094 . 2010. Trucidocynodon riograndensis gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Eucynodontia), a new cynodont from the Brazilian Upper Triassic (Santa Maria Formation). Zootaxa. 2382. 1–71. 10.11646/zootaxa.2382.1.1 .
- Ed Landing. Adam English. John D. Keppie. amp . 2010. Cambrian origin of all skeletalized metazoan phyla—Discovery of Earth's oldest bryozoans (Upper Cambrian, southern Mexico) . Geology . 38 . 6 . 547–550 . 10.1130/G30870.1 . 2010Geo....38..547L .
- Journal of Paleontology . 89. 2. 292–317. 2015 . Distinguishing Earth's oldest known bryozoan (Pywackia, late Cambrian) from pennatulacean octocorals (Mesozoic—Recent) . Ed Landing . Jonathan B. Antcliffe . Martin D. Brasier. Adam B. English . 10.1017/jpa.2014.26. 2015JPal...89..292L . 131609198.
- Journal of Paleontology . 87 . 6 . 984–990 . 2013 . Reinterpretation of the Cambrian 'bryozoan' Pywackia as an octocoral . Paul D. Taylor . Björn Berning . Mark A. Wilson . amp . 10.1666/13-029 . 2013JPal...87..984T . 129113026 . 2019-07-05 . 2019-06-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190607161619/https://zenodo.org/record/907861 . live .