- Source: 2001 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 2001.
Plants
= Pteridophyta
== Conifers
== Angiosperms
=Arthropods
= Crustaceans
=Research
Guinot and Tavares (2001) reviews the concept of Podotremata and establishes the family Etyidae.
New taxa
= Insects
=Fishes
= Newly named bony fishes
=Amphibians
= Newly named amphibians
=Ichthyosaurs
Turtles
= Newly named turtles
=Lepidosauromorphs
= Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs
== Newly named plesiosaurs
== Newly named sphenodonts
=Archosauromorphs
= Newly named basal archosauromorphs
== Newly named pseudosuchians
== Newly named dinosaurs
=Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
= Newly named birds
== Newly named pterosaurs
=Synapsids
= Non-mammalian
== Mammalian
=Footnotes
= Complete author list
=As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.
= References
=Kata Kunci Pencarian:
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- Brachiosaurus
- Brakiopoda
- Megalodon
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