Agnatha

Genus: Nova (3)

Helaspis ELLIOTT, DINELEY & JOHNSON, 2000
Pircanchaspis ERDTMANN, WEBER, SCHULTZE & EGENHOFF, 2000
Septaspis AFANASSIEVA, 2000

Species: Nova (3)

Helaspis finis ELLIOTT, DINELEY & JOHNSON, 2000
Pircanchaspis rinconensis ERDTMANN, WEBER, SCHULTZE & EGENHOFF, 2000
Septaspis pectinata AFANASSIEVA, 2000

Afanassieva, O. B., 2000, New Osteostracans from the Silurian of Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago (Russia) and some problems relating to the parataxonomy of armored agnathians: Paleontolgical Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, p. S138-S146. (Septaspis pectinata)

Ahlberg, P. E., Luksevics, E, and Mark-Kurik, E., 2000, A near-tetrapod from the Baltic Middle Devonian: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 3, p. 533-548.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Forey, P. L., and Aldridge, R. J., 2000, Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny: Biological Review, v. 75, p. 191-251.

Elliott, D. K., Dineley, D. L., and Johnson, H. G., 2000, A vertebrate fauna from the Middle Devonian Yahatinda Formation of southwestern Canada: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 1, p. 123-132. (Helaspis finis)

Erdtmann B.-D., Weber B., Schultze H.-P., and Egenhoff S., 2000, A possible agnathan plate from the Lower Arenig (Lower Ordovician) of South Bolivia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 394-399. (Pircanchaspis. rinconensis)

Fiorillo, A. R., 2000, The ancient environment of the Beartooth Butte Formation (Devonian) in Wyoming and Montana: combining paleontological inquiry with Federal Management needs: USDA Forest Service Proceedings, RMRS-P-15, v. 3, p. 160-167. Link to pdf

Forey, P. L., Ahlberg P. E., Luksevics E., and Zupins I., 2000, A new Coelacanth from the Middle Devonian of Latvia: Joural of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 243-252.

Hairapetian, V., Yazdi, M., and Long, J. A., 2000, Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of central Iran: Records of the Western Museum, Supplement no. 58, p. 241-247.

Novitskaya, L. I., 2000, Adaptation for swimming in the external morphology and skeleton of early vertebrates (agnatha: heterostraci): Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 6, p. 583-592.

Purnell, M. A., 2000, Snouts and mouths: heterostracan feeding and early vertebrate evolution: Palaeontological Association 44th Annual Meeting, Univeristy of Edinburgh, p. 16.

Speces: Nova (1)

Loganellia aldridgei TURNER, 2000

Donoghue, P. C. J., Forey, P. L., and Aldridge, R. J., 2000, Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny: Biological Review, v. 75, p. 191-251.

Hairapetian, V., Yazdi, M., and Long, J. A., 2000, Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of central Iran: Records of the Western Museum, Supplement no. 58, p. 241-247.

Get Loganellia aldridgei TURNER, 2000

Placoderm

Genus: Nova (1)

Aleosteus JOHNSON, ELLIOTT & WITTKE, 2000

Species: Nova (1)

Aleosteus eganensis JOHNSON, ELLIOTT & WITTKE, 2000

Elliott, D. K., Dineley, D. L., and Johnson, H. G., 2000, A vertebrate fauna from the Middle Devonian Yahatinda Formation of southwestern Canada: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 1, p. 123-132.

Elliott, D. K., Johnson, H. G., Cloutier, R., Carr, R. K,. and Daeschler, E. B., 2000, Middle and Late Devonian vertebrates of the western Old Red Sandsteon Continent: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, v. 223, p. 291-308.

Fiorillo, A. R., 2000, The ancient environment of the Beartooth Butte Formation (Devonian) in Wyoming and Montana: combining paleontological inquiry with Federal Management needs: USDA Forest Service Proceedings, RMRS-P-15, v. 3, p. 160-167. Link to pdf

Hairapetian, V., Yazdi, M., and Long, J. A., 2000, Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of central Iran: Records of the Western Museum, Supplement no. 58, p. 241-247.

Janiver, P., and Villarroel, C., 2000, Devonian vertebrates from Colombia: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 4, p. 729-763.

Johnson, H. G., Elliott, D. K., and Wittke, J. H., 2000, A new actinolepid arthrodire (Class Placodermi) from the Lower Devonian Sevy Dolomite, East-Central Nevada: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 129, p.129-141. (Aleosteus eganensis)

Murry, A. M., 2000, The Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic fishes of Africa: Fish and Fisheries, v. 1, p. 111-145.

Rowe, M., 2000, Inferring the retinal anatomy and visual capacities of extinct vertebrates: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 3, n. 1, 43pp.

Fish

Genus: Nova (10)

Aesopichthys POPLIN & LUND, 2000
Ezkutuberezi POYATO-ARIZA, LOPEZ-HORGUE & GARCIA-GARMILLA, 2000
Faugichthys TAVERNE & CHANTE, 2000
Limnomis DAESCHLER, 2000
Pentanogmius TAVERENE, 2000
Placidichthys BRITO, 2000
Proceramala POPLIN & LUND, 2000
Sorbinichthys BANNIKOV & BACCHIA, 2000
Siemensichthys ARRATIA, 2000
Stenamara POYATO-ARIZA & WENZ, 2000

Species: Nova (10)

Aesopichthys erinaceus POPLIN & LUND, 2000
Ezkutuberezi carmeni POYATO-ARIZA, LOPEZ-HORGUE & GARCIA-GARMILLA, 2000
Faugichthys loryi TAVERNE & CHANTE, 2000
Lepidotus alagoensis GALLO, 2000
Limnomis delaneyi DAESCHLER, 2000
Placidichthys bidorsalis BRITO, 2000
Proceramala montanensis POPLIN & LUND, 2000
Sorbinichthys elusivo BANNIKOV & BACCHIA, 2000
Siemensichthys siemensi ARRATIA, 2000
Stenamara mia POYATO-ARIZA & WENZ, 2000

Synonym: Nova (2)

Pentanogmius pentagon (WOODWARD, 1899) TAVERENE, 2000
= Plethodus pentagon WOODWARD, 1899
Siemensichthys macrophalus (AGASSIZ, 1833-44) ARRATIA, 2000
= Pholidophorus macrocephalus AGASSIZ, 1833-44
= Pholidorphorus striolaris AGASSIZ, 1833-44
= Pholidorphus latus AGASSIC, 1839-44
= Caturus intermedius MUNSTER, 1842
= Pholidophorus radians AGASSIZ, 1844
= Pholidophorous uraeoides AGASSIZ, 1848
= Pholidophorous magnus WETTER, 1881

Applegate, S. P., Gonzalexz-Rodriguez, K., and Alvarado-Ortega, J., 2000, Fish fauna of the Tlayua Quarries: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 97-105.

Arratia, G., 2000, New teleostean fishes from the Jurassic of southern Germany and the systematic problems concerning the ‘pholidophoriforms’: Pal. Z., v. 74, n. ½, p. 113-143. (Siemensichthys macrophalus = Pholidophorus macrocephalus, Siemensichthys siemensi)

Averianov, A. O., 2000, Sunosuchus sp (crocodylomorpha, Goniopholididae) from the Middle Jurassic of Kirghisa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 776-779.

Bannikov, A. F., and Bacchia, F., 2000, A remarkable clupeomorph fish (Pisces, Teleostei) form a new Upper Cretaceous marine locality in Lebanon: Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 80, n. 1, p. 3-11. (Sorbinichthys elusivo) Link to pdf

Bardet, N. Cappetta H., Pereda Suberbiola X., Mouty M., Maleh A. K. Al, Ahmad A. M., Khorata O., and Gannoum N., 2000, The marine vertebrat faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria: Geological Magazine, v. 137, n. 3, p. 269-290.

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Evolutionary consequences of dating the Yixian Formation: TREE, v. 15, n. 3, p. 99-103.

Basden, A. M., Young, G. C., Coates, M. J., and Ritchie, A., 2000, The most primitive osteichthyan braincase ? Nature, v. 403, p. 185-188.

Benton, M. J., Bouaziz S., Buffetaut E., Martill D., Ouaja M., Soussi M., and Trueman C., 2000, Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Tunisia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, v. 157, p. 227-246.

Brito, P. M., and Meunier, F. J., 2000, The morphology and histology of the scales of Aspidorhynchidae (Actinopterygii, Halecostomi): Geobios, v. 33, n. 1, p. 105-111. (Placidichthys bidorsalis)

Burgin, T., 2000, Euthynotus cf. incognitus (Actinopterygii, Pachycormidae) als Mageninhalt eines Fischsauriers aus dem Posidonienschiefer Süddeutschlands (Unterer Jura, Lias epsilon): Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, v. 93, p. 491-496.

Carvalho, I. de S., and Pedrao E., (1998) 2000, Brazilian theropods from the equatorial Atlantic margin: behavior and environmental setting: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno B. P., Holtz T. Jr., Sanz J. L., and Moratalla J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 369-378.

Cuny, G, Hunt, A. P., Mazin J.-M., and Rauscher R., 2000, Teeth of enigmatic neoselachian sharks and an ornithischian dinosaur from the uppermost Triassic of lons-le-Saunier (Jura, France): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 74, n. 1-2, p. 171-185.

Cuny, G., Martin, M., Rauscher, R., and Mazin, J.-M., 1998, A new neoselachian shark from the Upper Triassic of Grozon (Jura, France): Geological Magazine, v. 135, n. 5, p. 657-668.

Daeschler, E. B., 2000, An early actinopterygian fish from the Catskill Formation (Late Devonian, Famennian) in Pennsylvania, U.S.A: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, v. 150, p. 181-192. (Limnomis delaneyi)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., Rigo, D., Tentor, M., Pacor, G., and Moratto, D., 2000, Il sito paleontologico cretaceo di Polazzo (Gorizia): dati e prospettive: Giornale di Geologia, ser. 3, v. 62, p. 151-156.

Datta, P. M., Manna, P., Ghosh, S. C., and Das, D. P., 2000, The first Jurassic Turtle from India: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 1, p. 99-109.

Dietze, K., 2000, A revision of Paramblypterid and Amblypterid actinopterygians from Upper Carboniferous-Lower Permian lacustrine deposits of Central Europe: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 5, p. 927-966.

Efimov, M. B., Gubin Y. M., and Kurzanov S. M., 2000, New primitive crocodile (Crocodylomropha: Shartegosuchidae) from the Jurassic of Mongolia: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, upplement 2, p. S238-S241.

Elliott, D. K., Johnson, H. G., Cloutier, R., Carr, R. K,. and Daeschler, E. B., 2000, Middle and Late Devonian vertebrates of the western Old Red Sandsteon Continent: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, v. 223, p. 291-308.

Fan, G., 2000, Photo album of Beipiao Bird fossils community nature preservation zone of Liaoning in China: To the 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology, National Press of Liaoning, 80pp.

Filleul, A., (2000) 2001, Baugeichthys caeruleus, gen. et sp. nov., a new albuliform fish from the Hauterivian of the Massif des Bauges (France): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 637-644.

Forey, P. L., Ahlberg P. E., Luksevics E., and Zupins I., 2000, A new Coelacanth from the Middle Devonian of Latvia: Joural of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 243-252.

Forster, J. R., and Trujillo K. C., 2000, New occurrences of Cteniogenys (Reptilia, Choristodera) in the Late Jurassic of Wyoming and South Dakota: Brigham Young Univeristy, Geology Studies, n. 45, p. 1-18.

Get Lepidotus alagoensis GALLO, 2000

Garcia, G., 2000, Diversite des coquilles “Minces ” d’œufs fossiles du Cretace superieur du Sud de la France: Geobios, v. 33, n. 1, p. 113-126.

Gibert, J. M. de, Fregenal-Martinez, M. M., Buatois, L. A., and Mangano, M. G., 2000, Trace fossils and thier palaeoecological significance in Lower Cretaceous lacustrine conservation deposits, El Montsec, Spain: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 156, p. 89-101.

Gloy, W., 2000, Taphonomy of the fossil lagerstatte Guimarota, Chapter 18: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 129-136.

Hairapetian, V., Yazdi, M., and Long, J. A., 2000, Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of central Iran: Records of the Western Museum, Supplement no. 58, p. 241-247.

Henrich, W.-D., Bussert, R., Aberhan, M,. Hampe, O., Kapilima, S., Schrank, E., Schultka, S., Mair, G., Msaky, E., Sames, B., and Cami, R., 2001, The German-Tanzanian Tendaguru expedition 2000: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl. Geowiss. Reihe, v. 4, p. 223-217.

Isaji, S., 2000, Depositional environments of the bone-bearing strata with special reference to the taphonomical process of vertebrate fossil assemblages: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 22-27.

Janiver, P., and Villarroel, C., 2000, Devonian vertebrates from Colombia: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 4, p. 729-763.

Kriwet, J., 2000, The fish fauna from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 6: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 41-50.

Kriwet, J., 2000, Revision of Mesturus coradillera Martill et al., 1998 (Actinopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) of Northern Chile: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 450-455.

Langer, M. C., 2000, The first record of dinocephalians in South America: Late Permian (rio do Rasto Formation) of theParana Basin, Brazil: Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 1, p. 69-95.

Lucas, S. G., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Stratigraphy and vertebrate biostratigraphy across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, betonnie tsosie Wash, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 95-103.

Mabee, P M., 2000, Development data and phylogenetic systematics: evolution of the vertebrate limbe: American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 789-800.

Maisch, M. W., and Lehmann, J., 2000, Tselfatia formosa Armabour, 1943 (Teleostei) from the Upper Cretaceous of Lower Saxony (Northern Germany): Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, heft 8, p. 499-512.

Maisch, M. W., Matzke, A. T., Pfretzschner, H.-U., Sun, G., Stohr, H., and Grossmann, F., 2003, Fossil vertebrates from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of the Southern Junggar Basin (NW China) – results of the Sino-German Expeditions 1999-2000: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2003, n. 5, p. 297-313.

Maisey, J. G., 2000, Continental break up and the distribution of fishes of Western Gondwana during the Early Cretaceous : Cretaceous Research, v. 21, p. 281-314.

Martill, D. M., and Brito P. M., 2000, First record of Calamopleurus (Actinopterygii: Halecomorphi: Amiidae) from the Crato Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of north-east Brazil: Oryctos, v. 3, p. 3-8.

Martin, T., 2000, Overivew over the Guimarota Ecosystem, Chapter 20: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 143-146.

Mohabey, D. M., and Udhoji, S. G., 2000, Vertebrate fauna of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur-bearing Lameta Formation of Nand-Dongargaon Inland Basin, Maharashtra: Palaeoenvironment and K-T boundary implications: Memoir Geological Society of India, n. 46, p. 295-322

Morgan, G. S., and Lucas S. G., 2000, Type specimens of fossil vertebrates in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: In: New Mexico’s Fossil Record 2, edited by Lucas S. G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 16, p.253-259.

Murry, A. M., 2000, The Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic fishes of Africa: Fish and Fisheries, v. 1, p. 111-145.

Mustafa, H., 2000, Fish teeth from the Upper Umm Ghudram Formation (Late Santonian) of NW-Jordan: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, n. 10, p. 595-612.

O’leary, M. A., 2000, Life through time, Vertebrates: Geotimes, July 2000, 32-34.

Pereda-Suberbiola, X., Astibia H., Murelaga X., Elorza J. J., and Gomez-Alday J. J., 2000, Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing beds of the Lano Quarry (Iberian Peninsula): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 157, p. 247-275.

Pinna, G., 2000, Die fossillagerstatte im Sinemurium (Lias) von Osteno, Italien: Rieber, H. P., 2000, Monte San Giorgio und Besano, mittlere Trias, Schwiez und Italien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 91-96.

Poplin, C. M., and Lund, R., 2000, Two new deep-bodied Palaeonischoid Actinopterygians from Bear Gulch (Montana, USA, Lower Carboniferous): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 428-339. (Aesopichthys erinaceus, Proceramala montanensis)

Poyato-Ariza, F. J., Lopez-Horgue, M. A., and Garcia-Garmilla, F., 2000, A new early Cretaceous clupeomoprh fish from the Arratia Valley, Basque Countary, Spain: Cretaceous Research, v. 21, p. 571-585.

Poyato-Ariza, F. J., and Wenz, S., 1990, La ictiofauna Espanola del Cretacico Inferior: Actas de Paleontologia, actas de las IV Jornadas de Paleontologia, eited by Civis Llovera, J., and Flores, Villarejo, J. A., Salamanca, 13-15, de Octubre de 1988, p. 299-311. (Stenamara mia)

Poyato-Ariza, F. J., and Wenz, S., 2000, A new pycnodontiform fish from the early Cretaceous of Las Hoyas (Cuenca, Spain): Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, tomo 171, n. 2, p. 251-258. (Ezkutuberezi carmeni)

Rees, J., 2000, An early Cretaceous scincomorph lizard dentary from Bornholm, Denmark: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, v. 48, p. 105-109.

Rieber, H. P., 2000, Monte San Giorgio und Besano, mittlere Trias, Schwiez und Italien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 83-90.

Rieppel, O., 2000, Middle Triassic marine vertebrates from the northern Gondwana shelf: In: Epicontental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 7-8, p. 1269-1284.

Ryan, M. J., Currie, P. J., Gardner, J. D., Vickaryous, M. K., and Lavigne, J. M., (1998) 2000, Baby hadrosaurid material associated with an unusually high abundance of Troodon teeth from the Horeseshoe Canyon Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Alberta, Canada: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 123-133.

Sanz, J. L., Dieguez, C., Poyato-Ariza, F. J., 2000, Die Unter-Kreide von Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spanien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 155-160.

Shuvalov, V. F., 2000, The Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 256-278.

Stamberg, S, and Zajic, J., 2000, New data on the osteology of actinopterygian fish Sphaerolepis kounoviensis: Vestnik Ceskeho Geologickeho ustavu, v. 75, n. 4, p. 455-458.

Steyer, J. S., Escuillie F., Pouillon J.-M., Broutin J., Debriette P., Freytet P., Gand G., Poplin C., Rage J.-C., Rival J., Schneider J. W., Stamberg S., Wernburg R., and Cuny G., 2000, New data on the flora and fauna from the ?uppermost Carboniferous-Lower Permian of Buxieres-les-Mines, Bourbon l’Archambault Basin (Allier, France). A prelimnary report: Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, tomo 171, n. 2, p. 239-249.

Taverne, L., 2000, Nouvelles donnees osteolgiques et phylogenetiques sur Palaeonotopterus greenwoodi, notopteride (Teleostei, Osteoglossomorpha) du Cenomanien inferieur coninental (Cretace) du Maroc: Stuttgarter Beiträgue zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie), n. 293, 24pp.

Taverne, L., 2000, Revision du genere Martinichthys, poisson marin (Teleostei, Tselfatiiformes) du Cretacee superieur du Kansas (Etats-Unis): Geobios, v. 33, n. 2, p. 211-222. (Pentanogmius pentagon = Plethodus pentagon)

Taverne, L., 2000, Tselfatia formosa, teleosteen marin du Cretace (Pisces, Actinopterygii), et la postion systematiue des Tselfatiiformes ou Bananogmiiformes: Geodiversitas, v. 22, p. 5-22.

Taverne, L., and Chanet, B., 2000, Faugichthys loryi n. gen. n. sp. (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) de l’Albien terminal (Cretace inferieur marin) du vallon de la Fauge (Isere, France) et considerations sur la phylogenie des Ichthyodectidae: Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 1, p. 23-34. (Faugichthys loryi)

Unwin, D. M., Alifanov, V. R., and Benton, M. J., 2000, Enigmatic small reptiles from the Middle-Late Triassic of Kirgizstan: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 177-186.

Villafranca, I. F., 2000, Geology and vertebrate paleontology of southern Puebla-central Oaxaca region, Southern Mexico: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 49-84.

Viohl, G., 2000, Die Solnhofener Plattenkalke, oberer Jura: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 143-150.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu, Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Wang, X.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Zhang, J.-Y., and Zhang, F., 2000, Vertebrata faunas and biostratigraphy of the Jehol group in western Liaoning, China: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 41-56.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000a, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 17-29.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108.

Winkler, D. A., Gomani, E. M., and Jacobs, J. L., 2000, Comparative taphonomy of an Early Cretaceous Sauropod Quarry, Malawi, Africa: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 99-114.

Yabumoto, Y., 2000, Fossil fishes: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 46-49.

Genus: Nova (4)

Eustenodon JOHANSON & RITCHIE, 2000

Grenfellia JOHANSON & RITCHIE, 2000

Livoniana ahlberg, luksevic & mark-kurik, 2000

Nasogaluakus SCHULTZE, 2000

Yambira JOHANSON & RITCHIE, 2000

Species: Nova (4)

Eustenodon gavini JOHANSON & RITCHIE, 2000

Grenfellia meemannae JOHANSON & RITCHIE, 2000

Livoniana multidentata ahlberg, luksevic & mark-kurik, 2000

Nasogaluakus chorni SCHULTZE, 2000

Yambira thomsoni JOHANSON & RITCHIE, 2000

Ahlberg, P. E., Luksevics, E, and Mark-Kurik, E., 2000, A near-tetrapod from the Baltic Middle Devonian: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 3, p. 533-548. (Livoniana multidentata) Link to pdf

Carroll, R. L., 2000, The origin and early radiation of terrestrial vertebrates: Journal of Paleontology, v. 75, n. 6, p. 1202-1213.

Clack, J. A., 2000, The origin of tetrapods: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole H., and Carroll R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 979-1029.

Clack, J. A., and Carroll R. L., 2000, Early Carboniferous tetrapods: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole H., and Carroll R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1030-1043.

Coates, M. I., Ruta M., and Milner, A. R., 2000, Correspondence to Early Tetrapod Evolution by Laurin, M., Girondot M., and Riqles A. de, 2000: Tree, v. 15, n. 8, p. 327-328.

Elliott, D. K., Dineley, D. L., and Johnson, H. G., 2000, A vertebrate fauna from the Middle Devonian Yahatinda Formation of southwestern Canada: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 1, p. 123-132.

Forey, P. L., Ahlberg P. E., Luksevics E., and Zupins I., 2000, A new Coelacanth from the Middle Devonian of Latvia: Joural of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 243-252.

Hairapetian, V., Yazdi, M., and Long, J. A., 2000, Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of central Iran: Records of the Western Museum, Supplement no. 58, p. 241-247.

Janiver, P., and Villarroel, C., 2000, Devonian vertebrates from Colombia: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 4, p. 729-763.

Johanson, Z., Turner, S., and Warren, A., 2000, First East Gondwana record of Strepsodus (Sarcopterygii, Rhizodontida) from the Lower Carboniferous Ducabrook Formation, central Queensland, Australia: Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 2, p. 161-169.

Johanson, Z., and Ritchie, A., 2000, Rhipidistians (Sauropterygii) from the Hunter Siltstone (Late Famennian) near Grenfiell, NSW, Australia: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl. Geowis. Reihe, v. 3, p. 111-136. (Grenfellia meemannae, Eustenodon Gavini, Yambira thomsoni) Link to pdf

Laurin, M., Girondot, M., and Ricqles, A. de, 2000. Early tetrapod evolution: Tree, v. 15, n. 3: 118-123.

Laurin, M., Girondot, M., and Ricqles, A. de 2000. Reply from M. Laurin, M. gironot and A. de. Ricqles: Tree, v. 15, n. 8: 328.

Mabee, P M., 2000, Development data and phylogenetic systematics: evolution of the vertebrate limbe: American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 789-800.

Murry, A. M., 2000, The Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic fishes of Africa: Fish and Fisheries, v. 1, p. 111-145.

O’leary, M. A., 2000, Life through time, Vertebrates: Geotimes, July 2000, 32-34.

Schultze, H.-P., 2000, A porolepiform rhipidistan from the Lower Devonian of the Canadian Arctic: Mitt. Mus. nat.kd. Berl. Geowiss Reihe, v. 3, p. 99-109. (Nasogaluakus chorni)

Vorob’yeva, E. I., 2000, Evolutionary changes of the skull during the fish-amphibian transition: a Paleontological and developmental approach: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, pp S117-S137.

Vorob’yeva, E. I., 2000, Morphology of the humerus in the rhipidistian crossopterygii and the origin of the tetrapods: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 6, p. 632-641.

Genus: Nova (2)

Adelargo JOHANSON & RITCHIE, 2000
Grossipterus OBRUCHEV, 1964

Species: Nova (5)

Adelargo schultzei KOHNSON & RITCHIE, 2000
Chirodipterus interstitus KRUPINA, 2000
Conchodus excussus KRUPINA, 2000
Dipterus arcanus KRUPINA, 2000
Dipterus expressus KRUPINA, 2000
Grossipterus venustus KRUPINA, 2000

Synonym: Nova (1)

Dipterus pacatus KRUPINA, 2000
= Dipterus murchisoni PANDER, 1858

Averianov, A. O., 2000, Sunosuchus sp (crocodylomorpha, Goniopholididae) from the Middle Jurassic of Kirghisa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 776-779.

Campbell, K. S. W., Barwick, R. E., and Lindley, I. D., 2000, New data on the structure of the Early Devonian Lungfish, Dipnorhynchus: Alcheringa, v. 24, p. 227-298.

Dzik, J., Suiej T., Kaim A., and Niedzwiedzki R., 2000, A late Triassic tetrapod graveyard in the Opole Silesia (SW Poland): Przeglad Geologiczny, v. 48, n. 3, p. 226-235.

Efimov, M. B., Gubin Y. M., and Kurzanov S. M., 2000, New primitive crocodile (Crocodylomropha: Shartegosuchidae) from the Jurassic of Mongolia: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, upplement 2, p. S238-S241.

Elliott, D. K., Johnson, H. G., Cloutier, R., Carr, R. K,. and Daeschler, E. B., 2000, Middle and Late Devonian vertebrates of the western Old Red Sandsteon Continent: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, v. 223, p. 291-308.

Fiorillo, A. R., 2000, The ancient environment of the Beartooth Butte Formation (Devonian) in Wyoming and Montana: combining paleontological inquiry with Federal Management needs: USDA Forest Service Proceedings, RMRS-P-15, v. 3, p. 160-167. Link to pdf

Forey, P. L., Ahlberg P. E., Luksevics E., and Zupins I., 2000, A new Coelacanth from the Middle Devonian of Latvia: Joural of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 243-252.

Forster, J. R., and Trujillo K. C., 2000, New occurrences of Cteniogenys (Reptilia, Choristodera) in the Late Jurassic of Wyoming and South Dakota: Brigham Young Univeristy, Geology Studies, n. 45, p. 1-18.

Hairapetian, V., Yazdi, M., and Long, J. A., 2000, Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy of central Iran: Records of the Western Museum, Supplement no. 58, p. 241-247.

Johnson, Z., and Ritchie, A., 2000, A new Late Famennian lungfish from New South Wales, Australia, and its bearing on Australian-Asian terrane relations: Alcheringa, v. 24, p. 99-118. (Adelargo schultzei)

Kemp, A., and Lund, R., 2000, New record of Ctenodus (Osteichthyes: Dipnoi) from the Carboniferous of Montana: Annals of Carnegie Museum, v. 69, n. 1, p. 1-4.

Krupina, N. I,. 2000, Dipnoans from the Upper Devonian locality Rybnitsa in Oryol Region: Palaeontological Journal, v. 34, n. 5, p. 527-533. (Chirodipterus interstitus, Conchodus excussus, Dipterus arcanus, Dipterus expressus, Dipterus pacatus, Grossipterus venustus)

Krupina, N. I., and Riesz, R. R., 2000, Phylogeny of Devonian Dipnoans, with special emphasis on forms form the Russian Platform: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement to n. 2, p. S147-S153.

Langer, M. C., 2000, The first record of dinocephalians in South America: Late Permian (rio do Rasto Formation) of theParana Basin, Brazil: Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 1, p. 69-95.

Mabee, P M., 2000, Development data and phylogenetic systematics: evolution of the vertebrate limbe: American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 789-800.

Murry, A. M., 2000, The Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic fishes of Africa: Fish and Fisheries, v. 1, p. 111-145.

Unwin, D. M., Alifanov V. R., and Benton M. J., 2000, Enigmatic small reptiles from the Middle-Late Triassic of Kirgizstan: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 177-186.

Species: Nova (1)

Miguashaia grossi FOREY, AHLBERG, LUKSEVICS & ZUPINS, 2000

Applegate, S. P., Gonzalexz-Rodriguez K., and Alvarado-Ortega J., 2000, Fish fauna of the Tlayua Quarries: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 97-105.

Benton, M. J., Bouaziz S., Buffetaut E., Martill D., Ouaja M., Soussi M., and Trueman C., 2000, Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Tunisia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, v. 157, p. 227-246.

Datta, P. M., Manna P., Ghosh S. C., and Das D. P., 2000, The first Jurassic Turtle from India: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 1, p. 99-109.

Forey, P. L., Ahlberg P. E., Luksevics E., and Zupins I., 2000, A new Coelacanth from the Middle Devonian of Latvia: Joural of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 243-252. (Miguashaia grossi)

Lucas, S. G., Heckert A. B., and Hunt A. P., 2000, Probable turtle from the Upper Triassic of East-Central New Mexico: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2000, n. 5, p. 287-300.

Mabee, P M., 2000, Development data and phylogenetic systematics: evolution of the vertebrate limbe: American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 789-800.

Morgan, G. S., and Lucas S. G., 2000, Type specimens of fossil vertebrates in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: In: New Mexico’s Fossil Record 2, edited by Lucas S. G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 16, p.253-259.

Murry, A. M., 2000, The Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Early Cenozoic fishes of Africa: Fish and Fisheries, v. 1, p. 111-145.

Rieber, H. P., 2000, Monte San Giorgio und Besano, mittlere Trias, Schwiez und Italien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 83-90.

Villafranca, I. F., 2000, Geology and vertebrate paleontology of southern Puebla-central Oaxaca region, Southern Mexico: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 49-84.

Fish Ichnology

Ichnospecies: Nova (1)

Undichna guina NIGEL, 2000

Gibert, J. M. de, Fregenal-Martinez, M. M., Buatois, L. A., and Mangano, M. G., 2000, Trace fossils and thier palaeoecological significance in Lower Cretaceous lacustrine conservation deposits, El Montsec, Spain: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 156, p. 89-101.

Trewin, Nigel H., 2000, The Ichnogenus Undichna, with examples from the Permian of the Falkland Islands: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 6, p. 979-997. (Undichna guina)

Fish Burrows

Fish Coprolites

Gibert, J. M. de, Fregenal-Martinez, M. M., Buatois, L. A., and Mangano, M. G., 2000, Trace fossils and thier palaeoecological significance in Lower Cretaceous lacustrine conservation deposits, El Montsec, Spain: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 156, p. 89-101.

Trewin, Nigel H., 2000, The Ichnogenus Undichna, with examples from the Permian of the Falkland Islands: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 6, p. 979-997.

Genus: Nova (7)

Banksiops WARREN & MARSICANO, 2000
Edingerella SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
Densignathus DAESCHLER, 2000
Nanolania YATES, 2000
Quaiscylotosaurus SCHOCH, 2000
Rewanobatrachus SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
Rileymillerus BOLT & CHATTERJEE, 2000
Vigilius WARREN & MARISCANO, 2000

Species: Nova (6)

Densignathus rowei DAESCHLER, 2000
Eocyclotosaurus wellesi SCHOCH, 2000
Nanolania anatopretia YATES, 2000
Paracyclotosaurus morgani HANCOX, 2000 (nomen nudum)
Quaiscylotosaurus campi SCHOCH, 2000
Rileymillerus cosgriffi BOLT & CHATTERJEE, 2000

Synonym: Nova (12)

Banksiops townrowi (COSGRIFF 1974) WARREN & MARISCANO, 2000
= Blinasaurus townrowi COSGRIFF, 1974
= Banksia townrowi (COSGRIFF 1974
Broomistega putterilli (BROOM, 1930) SHISHKIN & RUBIDGE, 2000
= Lydekkerina putterilli BROOM, 1930
Edingerella madagascariensis (LEHMAN, 1961) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Benthosuchus madagascariensis LEHMAN, 1961
= Parotosuchus madagascariensis (LEHMAN, 1961)
Muchocephalus kitchingi (BROOM, 1950) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Lydekkerina kitchingi BROOM, 1950
Rewanobatrachus gunganj (WARREN, 1980) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Parotosuchus gunganj WARREN, 1980
Sclerocephalus frossardi (GAUDRY, 1866) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Actinodon frossardi (GAUDRY, 1866)
= Onchiodon frossardi (GAUDRY, 1866)
Stanocephalosaurus brookvalensis (WATSON, 1958) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Subcyclotosaurus brookvalensis WATSON, 1958
= Parotosaurus brookvalensis (WATSON, 1958)
= Paratosuchus brookvalensis (WATSON, 1958)
Stanocephalosaurus rajareddyi (CHOWDHURY, 1970) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Parotosaurus rajareddyi CHOWDHURY, 1970
= Parotosuchus rajareddyi (CHOWDHURY, 1970)
Stanocephalosaurus pronus (HOWIE, 1970) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Parotosaurus pronus HOWIE, 1970
= Parotosuchus pronus (HOWIE, 1970) WARREN, 1980
Stanocephalosaurus lapparenti (LEHMAN, 1971) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Parotosaurus lapparenti LEHMAN, 1971
= Parotosuchus lapparenti (LEHMAN, 1971)
= Wellesaurus bussoni LEHMAN, 1971
Stanocephalosaurus crookshanki (MUKHERJEE & SENGUPTA, 1998) SCHOCH & MILNER, 2000
= Parotosuchus crookshanki MUKHERJEE & SENGUPTA, 1998
Vigilius wellesi WARREN & MARISCANO, 2000
= Taphrognathus bradyi WELLES, 1947 (referred material)
= Hadrokkosaurus bradyi (WELLES, 1947) WELLES & ESTES, 1969 (referred material)

Ahlberg, P. E., Luksevics, E, and Mark-Kurik, E., 2000, A near-tetrapod from the Baltic Middle Devonian: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 3, p. 533-548.

Averianov, A. O., 2000, Sunosuchus sp (crocodylomorpha, Goniopholididae) from the MiddleJurassic of Kirghisa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 776-779.

Berman, D. S., 2000, Origin and early evolution of the amnoite occiput: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 5: 938-956.

Berman, D. S., Henrici, A. C., Sumida, S. S., and Martens, T., 2000, Redescription of Seymouria sanjuanensis (Seymouriamorpha) from the Lower Permian of Germany based on complete, mature specimens with a discussion on the paleoecology of the Bromacker locality assemblage: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 253-268.

Bolt, J. R., and Chatterjee, S., 2000, A new temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Triassic of Texas: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 4, p. 670-683. (Rileymillerus cosgriffi)

Bolt, J. R., and Lombard, R. E., 2000, Palaeobiology of Whatcheeria deltae, a primitive Mississippian tetrapod: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole, H., and Carroll, R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1044-1052.

Boy, J. A., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, Brachiosaurs: larvae, metamorphosis and heterochrony in temnospondyls and seymouriamorphs, Chapter 9: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole, H., and Carroll, R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1150-1197.

Bulanov, V. V., 2000, A new genus of leptorophidae (Batrachosauria) from the Upper Tatarian of Eastern Europe: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 3: 310-318.

Carroll, R. L., 2000, The fossil record and large-scale paterns of amphibian evolution: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole H., and Carroll R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 973-978.

Carroll, R. L., 2000, The origin and early radiation of terrestrial vertebrates: Journal of Paleontology, v. 75, n. 6, p. 1202-1213.

Chure, D. J., 2000, New threats to old bones. The theft of fossil vertebrates from museum collections: CRM, n. 5, p. 18-22.

Clack, J. A., 2000, The origin of tetrapods: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionary history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole, H., and Carroll, R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 979-1029.

Clack, J. A., and Carroll, R. L., 2000, Early Carboniferous tetrapods: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole, H., and Carroll, R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1030-1043.

Coates, M. I., Ruta, M., and Milner, A. R., 2000, Correspondence to Early Tetrapod Evolution by Laurin, M., Girondot M., and Riqles A. de, 2000: Tree, v. 15, n. 8, p. 327-328.

Daeschler, E. B., 2000, Early tetrapod jaws from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, USA: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 2: 301-308. (Densignathus rowei)

Damiani, R. J., 2000, Early Triassic mastodonsaurids (Temnospondyli, Stereospondyli) from Western Australia, with remarks on mastodonsauroid palaeobiogeography: Alcheringa, v. 24, p. 299-305.

Damiani, R. J., Neveling, J., Hancox, J., and Rubidge, B., 2000, First trematosaurid temnospondyl from the Lystrosaurus assemblage zone of South Africa and its biostratigraphic implications: Geological Magazine, v. 137, n. 6, 659-665.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, I reperti ossei dei tetrapodi continentali Paleozoici e Mesozoici d’Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 321-335.

Dzik, J., Suiej, T., Kaim, A., and Niedzwiedzki, R., 2000, A late Triassic tetrapod graveyard in the Opole Silesia (SW Poland): Przeglad Geologiczny, v. 48, n. 3, p. 226-235.

Eberth, D. A., Berman, D. S., Sumida, S. S., and Hagen, H., 2000, Lower Permian Terrestrial Paleoenvironments and Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Tabach Basin (Thuringia, Central Germany): The Upland Holy Grail: Palaios, v. 15, p. 293-313.

Efimov, M. B., Gubin, Y. M., and Kurzanov, S. M., 2000, New primitive crocodile (Crocodylomropha: Shartegosuchidae) from the Jurassic of Mongolia: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, upplement 2, p. S238-S241.

Elliott, D. K., Johnson, H. G., Cloutier, R., Carr, R. K,. and Daeschler, E. B., 2000, Middle and Late Devonian vertebrates of the western Old Red Sandsteon Continent: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg, v. 223, p. 291-308.

Fang, Pang, Lu, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li and Cheng, 2000, Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic Divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan Province: In: Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Confrence of China, Geological Publishing House, Beijing, p. 208-214.

Ford, T. L., 2000, Is “Metopo-Dog” an important specimen? In: Southwest Paleontological Symposium, Proceedings 2000. Edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin n. 7: 39-56.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The faunal assemblages of Permian terrestrial vertebrates from Eastern Europe: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement to n. 2, S211-S224. Link to pdf

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The Permian and Triassic Chroniosuchia and the Upper Tatarian Biostratigraphy of Eastern Europe by tetropada: Trudy Paleontologischeskoso Instituta, Akademyia Nauk SSSR, v. 276, p. 1-173.

Gubin, Y. M., Novikov, I. V., and Morales, M., 2000, A review of anomalies in the structure of the skull roof of temnospondylous labyrinthodonts: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, pp S154-S164

Hancox, P. J., 2000, The Continental Triassic of South Africa: In: Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 11-12, p 1285-1324.

Heckert, A. B., Zeigeler, K. E., Lucas, S. G., Rinehart, L. F., and Harris, J. D., 2000, Preliminary description of coelophysoids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Triassic (Revuletian: Early-Mid Norian) Snyder Quarry, North-Central New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 27-32.

Holmes, R. B., 2000, Palaeozoic temnospondyls, Chapter 7: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole, H., and Carroll, R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1081-1120.

Hunt, A. P., Santucci, V. L., and Olson, T., 2000, The first trematosaurid amphibian from the Middle Triassic of the United States: In: Southwest Paleontological Symposium, Proceedings 2000. Edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin n. 7: 31-35.

Klembara, J., and Bartik, I., 2000, The postcranial skeleton of Discosauriscus Kuhn, a seymouriamorph tetrapod from the Lower Permian of the Boskovice Furrow (Czech Republic): Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences, v. 90, pp. 287-316. Link to pdf

Langer, M. C., 2000, The first record of dinocephalians in South America: Late Permian (rio do Rasto Formation) of theParana Basin, Brazil: Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 1, p. 69-95.

Laurin, M., 2000, Seymouriamorphs, Chapter 6: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole, H., and Carroll, R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1065-1080.

Laurin, M., Girondot, M., and de Ricqles, A., 2000. Early tetrapod evolution: Tree, v. 15, n. 3: 118-123.

Laurin, M., Girondot, M., and de Ricqles, A., 2000. Reply from M. Laurin, M. Gironot and A. de. Ricqles: Tree, v. 15, n. 8: 328.

Laurin, M., Reisz, R. R., and Girondot, M., 2000, Caceilian viviparity and amniote origins: a reply to Wilkinson and Nussbaum: Journal of Natural History, v. 34, p. 211-315.

Laurin, M., Reisz, R. R., and Girondot, M., 2000, Caceilian viviparity and amniote origins: a reply to Wilkinson and Nussbaum: Journal of Natural History, v. 34, p. 211-315.

Mabee, P M., 2000, Development data and phylogenetic systematics: evolution of the vertebrate limbe: American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 789-800.

Marsicano, C. A., Perea, D., and Ubilla, M., 2000, A new temnospondyl amphibian from the Lower Triassic of South America: Alcheringa, v. 24, p. 119-123.

Modesto, S. P., and Rybczynski, N., 2000, The amniote faunas of the Russian Permian: implications for Late Permian terrestrial vertebrate biogeography: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 17-34.

Nesbitt, S. J., 2000, A preliminary report on new vertebrate fossil sites, including a microsite from the Holbrook Member of the Moenkopi Formation, Holbrook, Arizona: In: Southwest Paleontological Symposium, Proceedings 2000. Edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin n. 7: 17-30.

Ochev, V. G., and Surkov, M. V, 2000, The history of excavation of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 1-16.

Peters, D., 2000, Description and interpretation of interphalangeal lines in tetrapods: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p. 11-41.

Rocek, Z., and Rage, J.-C., 2000, Anatomical transformations in the transition from temnospondyl to proanuran stages, Chapter 11: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole, H., and Carroll, R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1274-1282.

Schoch, R. R., 2000, The stapes of Mastodonsaurus giganteus (Jaeger 1828) – structure, articulation, ontogeny, and functional implications: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 2, p. 177-200.

Schoch, R. R., 2000, Biogeography of stereospondyl amphibians: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 2, p. 201-231.

Schoch, R. R., 2000, The status and osteology of two new cyclotosaurid amphibians from the Upper Moenkopi Formation of Arizona (Amphbia: Temnospondyli; Middle Triassic): Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 216, n. 3, p. 387-411. (Eocyclotosaurus wellesi, Quaiscylotosaurus campi)

Schoch, R. R., 2000, The origin and intrarelationships of Triassic capitosaurid amphibians: Paleontology, v. 43, part 4, p. 705-727.

Schoch, R. R., and Milner, A. R., 2000, Stereospondyli, Stem-Stereospondyli, Rhinesuchidae, Rhytidostea, Trematosauroidea, Capitosauroidea: Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie, Teil 3b, 203pp. (Sclerocephalus frossardi, Muchocephalus kitchingi = Lydekkerina kitchingi, Edingerella madagascariensis, Rewanobatrachus aliciae, Stanocephalosaurus brookvalensis = Subcyclotosaurus brookvalensis, Stanocephalosaurus rajareddyi = Parotosaurus rajareddyi, Stanocephalosaurus pronus = Parotosaurus pronus, Stanocephalosaurus lapparenti = Parotosaurus lapparenti, Stanocephalosaurus crookshanki = Parotosuchus crookshanki )

Shishkin, M. A., 2000, Evolution of the cervical vertebrae in Temnospondyl amphibians and differentiatioin of the early tetrapods: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, np. 5, p. 534-546.

Shishkin, M. A., 2000, Mesozoic amphibians from Mongolia and the Central Asiatic republics: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 297-308.

Shishkin, M. A. Novikov, I. V., and Bugin, Y. M., 2000, Permian and Triassic temnospondyls from Russia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 35-59.

Shishkin, M. A., and Rubidge, B. S., 2000, A relict rhinesuchid (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 4, p. 653-670. (Broomistega putterilli = Lydekkerina putterilli)

Shishkin, M. A., Ochev, V. G., Lozovskii, V. R., and Novikov, I. G., 2000, Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 120-139.

Steyer, J.-S., 2000, Ontogeny and phylogeny in temnospondyls: a new method of analysis: Zoological Jounal of the Linnean Society, v. 130, p. 449-467.

Steyer, J. S., 2000, Are European Paleozoic amphibians good stratigraphic markers?: Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, tomo 171, n. 1, p. 127-135.

Steyer, J. S., Escuillie, F., Pouillon, J.-M., Broutin, J., Debriette, P., Freytet, P., Gand, G., Poplin, C., Rage, J.-C., Rival, J., Schneider, J. W., Stamberg, S., Wernburg, R., and Cuny, G., 2000, New data on the flora and fauna from the ?uppermost Carboniferous-Lower Permian of Buxieres-les-Mines, Bourbon l’Archambault Basin (Allier, France). A prelimnary report: Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, tomo 171, n. 2, p. 239-249.

Sullivan, C., Reisz, R. R., and May, W. J., 2000, Large dissorophoid skeletal elements from the Lower Permian Richards Spur Fissure, Oklahoma, and their paleoecological implications: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 456-461.

Taylor, M. A., 2000, Der kalkstein von East Kirkton, Unter-Karbon, Schottland: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 45-65.

Vorob’yeva, E. I., 2000, Evolutionayr changes of the skull during the fish-amphibian transition: a Paleontological and developmental approach: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, pp S117-S137.

Vorob’yeva, E. I., 2000, Morphology of the humerus in the rhipidistian crossopterygii and the origin of the tetrapods: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 6, p. 632-641.

Warren, A. A., 2000, Secondarily aquatic temnospondyls of the Upper Permian and Mesozoic, Chapter 8: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionayr history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole H., and Carroll R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1122-1149.

Warren, A. A., and Marsicano, C., 2000, Banksiops, a replacement name for Banksia townrowi (Amphibia, Temnspondyli): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p.186.

Warren, A. A., and Marsicano, C., 2000, A phylogeny of the brachyopoidea (Temnospondyli, Stereospondyli): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 462-483. (Banksiops townrowi = Blinasaurus townrowi,Vigilius wellesi)

Whittle, C. H., and Everhart, M. J., 2000, Apparent and implied evolutionary trends in lithophagic vertebrates from New Mexico and Elsewhere: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 75-82.

Whittle, C. H., and Onorato, L., 2000, On the origins of gastroliths—determining the weathering environment of rounded and polished stones by scanning-electron-microscope examination: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 69-73.

Yates, A. M., 2000, A new tiny rhytidosteid (Temnospondyli: Stereospondyli) from the Early Triassic of Australia and the possibility of Hidden Temnospondyl diversity: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 33, p. 484-489. (Nanolania anatopretia)

Yates, A. M., and Warren, A. A., 2000, The phylogeny of the ‘higher’ temnospondyls (Vertebrata: Choanata) and its implications for the monophyly and origins of the Stereospondyli: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 128, p. 77-121. Link to pdf

Zeigler, K. E., Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, Preliminary taphonomy of the Upper Triassic Snyder Quarry and significant concentratiosn of titanium in the specimens: New Mexico Geology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 51-52.

Berman, D. S., 2000, Origin and early evolution of the amnoite occiput: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 5: 938-956.

Carroll, R. L., 2000, The fossil record and large-scale patterns of amphibian evolution: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionary history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole H., and Carroll R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 973-978.

Carroll, R. L., 2000, Lepospondyls, Chapter 10: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionary history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole H., and Carroll R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1198-1273.

Carroll, R. L., 2000, The origin and early radiation of terrestrial vertebrates: Journal of Paleontology, v. 75, n. 6, p. 1202-1213.

Clack, J. A., and Carroll, R. L., 2000, Early Carboniferous tetrapods: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionary history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole, H., and Carroll, R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1030-1043.

Eberth, D. A., Berman, D. S., Sumida, S. S., and Hagen, H., 2000, Lower Permian Terrestrial Paleoenvironments and Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Tabach Basin (Thuringia, Central Germany): The Upland Holy Grail: Palaios, v. 15, p. 293-313.

Laurin, M., 2000, Seymouriamorphs, Chapter 6: In: Amphibian Biology, v. 4, Paleontology, The Evolutionary history of Amphibians, edited by Heatwole H., and Carroll R. L., Surrey Beatty & Sons, p. 1065-1080.

Lower Reptiles (“Anapsids”)

Genus: Nova (2)

Coletta GOW, 2000
Eudibamus BERMAN, REISZ, SCOTT, HENRICI, SUMIDA & MARTENS, 2000

Species: Nova (2)

Coletta seca GOW, 2000
Eudibamus cursoris BERMAN, REISZ, SCOTT, HENRICI, SUMIDA & MARTENS, 2000

Berman, D. S., 2000, Origin and early evolution of the amnoite occiput: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 5: 938-956.

Berman, D. S., Reisz, R. R., Scott, D., Henrici, A. C., Sumida, S. S., and Martens, T., 2000, Early Permian bipedal reptile: Science, v. 290, p. 969-972. (Eudibamus cursoris)

Gand, G., Garric, J., Demathieu, G., and Ellenberger, P., 2000, La palichnofaune de vertebras tetarpodes du Permien Superieur du Bassin de Lodeve (Languedoc-France): Palaeo Vertebrata, v. 29, fasc. 1, p. 1-82.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The Permian and Triassic Chroniosuchia and the Upper Tatarian Biostratigraphy of Eastern Europe by tetropada: Trudy Paleontologischeskoso Instituta, Akademyia Nauk SSSR, v. 276, p. 1-173.

Gow, C. E., 2000, a captorhinid with multiple tooth rows from the Upper Permian of Zambia: Palaeontologica africana, v. 36, p. 11-14.

Gow, C. E., 2000, A new procolophonid (Parareptilia) from the Lystrosaurus assemblage zone, Beaufort Group, South Africa: Palaeontologica africania, v. 36, p. 21-23. (Coletta seca)

Hancox, P. J., 2000, The Continental Triassic of South Africa: In: Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 11-12, p 1285-1324.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2000, The Nikkasauridae—Problematic primitive therapsids from the Late Permian of the Mezen Localities: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, S179-S186.

Langer, M. C., 2000, The first record of dinocephalians in South America: Late Permian (rio do Rasto Formation) of theParana Basin, Brazil: Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 1, p. 69-95.

Lee, M. S. Y., 2000, The Russian pareiasaurs: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 71-85.

Modesto, S. P., 2000, Eunotosaurus africanus and the gondwana ancestry of anapsid reptiles: Palaeontologica africana, v. 36, p. 15-20.

Modesto, S. P., and Rybczynski, N., 2000, The amniote faunas of the Russian Permian: implications for Late Permian terrestrial vertebrate biogeography: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 17-34.

Ochev, V. G., and Surkov, M. V, 2000, The history of excavation of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 1-16.

Peters, D., 2000, Description and interpretation of interphalangeal lines in tetrapods: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p.11-41.

Pfretzschner, H.-U., 2000, Microcraks and fossilization of Haversian bone: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 216, n. 3, p. 413-432.

Reisz, R. R., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, Herbivory in Late Paleozoic and Triassic terrestrial vertebrates: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 9-41.

Rossmann, T., 2000, Alfred Wegener und die Mesosaurier: Nautr und Museum, v. 130, n. 11: 378-388.

Rossmann, T., 2000, Studien an Mesosauriern (Amniota inc. ded.: Mesosauridae): 2. Neue Erkenntnisse zur Anatomie, mit Berucksichtigung der Taxonomie von Mesosaurus pleurogaster (Seeley): Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 80, n. 1, p. 13-28. Link to pdf

Shishkin, M. A., Ochev, V. G., Lozovskii, V. R., and Novikov, I. G., 2000, Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 120-139.

Smith, R. M. H., 2000, Sedimentology and taphonomy of Late Permian vertebrate fossil localities in southwestern Madagascar: Palaeontologica africana, v. 36, p. 25-41.

Spencer, P. S., 2000, The braincase structure of Leptopleuron lacertinum Owen (Parareptilia: Procolophonidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 21-30.

Spencer, P. S., 2000, Procolophonoids from the Permo-Triassic of Russia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 160-176.

Spencer, P. S., and Lee, M. S. Y., 2000, A juvenile Elginia and early growth in pareiasaurs: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 6, p. 1191-1195.

Stkstad, E., 2000, First upright vertebrate lived fast, died young: Science, v. 290, p. 917.

Sues, H.-D., Olsen, P. E., Scott, D. M., and Spencer, P. S., 2000, Cranial Osteology of Hypsognathus fenneri, a latest Triassic Procolophonid reptile from the Newark Supergroup of Eastern North America: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 275-284. Link to pdf

Voigt, S., and Haubold, H., 2000, Analysis of the variability of Ichniotherium cottae from the Tambach Sandstone (Rotliegend, Lower Permian, Thuringia): Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss, B. 22, p. 17-58.

Turtles

Genus: Nova (8)

Batoremys NARMANDAKH, 2000 (nomen nudum)
Brasilemys LAPPARENT de BROIN, 2000
Bulganemys SUKHANOV, 2000
Indochelys DATTA, MANNA, GHOSH & DAS, 2000
Mongolochelys (the name appears in WATABE & SUZUKI, 2000a)
Murrhardtia KARL & TICHY, 2000
Sandownia MEYLAN, MOODY, WALKER & CHAPMAN, 2000
Shartegemys SUKHANOV & NARMANDAKH, in SUKHANOV, 2000

Species: Nova (8)

Batoremys No species name given. NARMANDAKH, 2000 (nomen nudum)
Brasilemys josai LAPPARENT de BROIN, 2000
Bulganemys jaganchobili SUKHANOV, 2000
Indochelys spatulata DATTA, MANNA, GHOSH & DAS, 2000
Murrhardtia staeschei KARL & TICHY, 2000
Sandownia harrisi MEYLAN, MOODY, WALKER & CHAPMAN, 2000
Shartegemys laticentralis SUKHANOV & NARMANDAKH, in SUKHANOV, 2000

Allen, R., and Taquet P., 2000, A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 404-407.

Averianov, A. O., 2000, Sunosuchus sp (crocodylomorpha, Goniopholididae) from the Middle Jurassic of Kirghisa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 776-779.

Averianov, A. O., and Yarkof, A. O., 2000, Some turtle remains from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Volgograd Region, Russia: Russian Journal of Herpetology, v. 7, p. 161-166.

Bardet, N. Cappetta, H., Pereda Suberbiola, X., Mouty, M., Maleh, A. K. Al, Ahmad, A. M., Khorata, O., and Gannoum, N., 2000, The marine vertebrat faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria: Geological Magazine, v. 137, n. 3, p. 269-290.

Benton, M. J., Bouaziz, S., Buffetaut, E., Martill, D., Ouaja, M., Soussi, M., and Trueman, C., 2000, Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Tunisia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, v. 157, p. 227-246.

Brinkman, D. B., Stadtman, K, and Smith, D., 2000, New material of Dinochelys whietei Gaffney, 1979, from the Dry Mesa Quarry (Morrison Formation, Jurassic) of Colorado: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 269-274.

de Broin, L. F., 2000, African chelonians from the Jurassic to the present: phases of development and preliminary catalogue of the fossil record : Palaeontologica africana, v. 36, p. 43-82. (Brasilemys josai)

Carpenter, K., 2000, The Canon City Dinosaur sites of Marsh and Cope: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Field Trip, October 18, 1999, 14pp.

Cao, Y., Sorenson, M. D., Kumazawa, Y., Mindell, D. P., and Hasegawa, M., 2000, Phylogenetic position of turtles among amniotes: evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear genes: Gene, v. 259, p. 139-148.

Carvalho, I. de S., and Pedrao, E., (1998) 2000, Brazilian theropods from the equatorial Atlantic margin: behavior and environmental setting: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno B. P., Holtz T. Jr., Sanz J. L., and Moratalla J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 369-378.

Currie, P. J., 2001, Nomadic expeditions, Inc. report on fieldwork in Mongolia, September 2000: In: Alberta Palaeontological Society, fifth annual symposium, jointly presented by Alberta Palaeontological Society and Department of Earth Sciences, Mount Royal College, p. 12-16.

Datta, P. M., Manna, P., Ghosh, S. C., and Das, D. P., 2000, The first Jurassic Turtle from India: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 1, p. 99-109. (Indochelys spatulata)

Efimov, M. B., Gubin, Y. M., and Kurzanov, S. M., 2000, New primitive crocodile (Crocodylomropha: Shartegosuchidae) from the Jurassic of Mongolia: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, upplement 2, p. S238-S241.

Fan, G., 2000, Photo album of Beipiao Bird fossils community nature preservation zone of Liaoning in China: To the 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology, National Press of Liaoning, 80pp.

Fernandez, M., and Gasparini, Z. B., 2000, Salt glands in a Tithonian metriorhynchid crocodyliform and their physiological significance: Lethaia, v. 33, p. 269-276.

Garcia, G., 2000, Diversite des coquilles “Minces ” d’œufs fossiles du Cretace superieur du Sud de la France: Geobios, v. 33, n. 1, p. 113-126.

Gasparini, Z. B. de, Fuente, M. S. de la, 2000, Tortugas y Plesiosaurios de la Formacion La Colonia (Cretacico Superior) de Patagonia, Argentina: Revista Espanola de Paleontologia, v. 15, n. 1, p. 23-35.

Gassner, T., 2000, The turtles from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 8: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 55-58

Gloy, W., 2000, Taphonomy of the fossil lagerstatte Guimarota, Chapter 18: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 129-136.

Hirayama, R., 2000, Fossil turtles: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 75-92.

Hirayama, R., Brinkman, D. B., and Danilov, I. G., 2000, Distribution and biogeography of non-marine Cretaceous turtles: Russian Journal of Herpetology, v. 7, n. 3, p. 181-198. Link to pdf

Hutchison, J. H, 2000, diversity of Cretaceous turtle faunas of Eastern Asia and their contribution to the turtle faunas of North America: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 27-38.

Isaji, S., 2000, Geological setting of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe”, the Kuwajima Formation: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 14-16.

Isaji, S., 2000, Depositional environments of the bone-bearing strata with special reference to the taphonomical process of vertebrate fossil assemblages: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 22-27.

Joyce, W. G., 2000, The first complete skeleton of Solnhofia parsoni (Cryptodira, Eurysternidae) from the Upper Jurassic of Germany and its taxonomic implications: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 4, p. 684-700.

Karl, H.-V., and Tichy, G., 2000, Murrhardtia staeschei n. gen. n. sp. -- eine neue schildkröte aus der Oberen Trias von Süddeutschland: Joannea Geol. Paläont. v. 2, p. 57-72. (Murrhardtia staeschei) Link to pdf

Kirkland, J. I., Hernandez Rivera, R, Martinez, M. C. A., Jesus, C. R. D. de, Nunez, R. G., and Vallejo, I., 2000, The Late Cretaceous Difunta Group of the Parras Basin, Coahuila, Mexico and its vertebrate fauna: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 133-172.

Kohring, R., 2000, Eggshells from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 13: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 87-90.

Kordikova, E. G., 2000, Paedomorphosis in the shell of fossil and living turtles: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 218, n. 3, p. 399-446.

Lucas, S. G., Estep, J. W., Boucher, L. D., and Anderson, B. G., 2000, Cretaceous stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and depositional environments near Virden, Hidalgo County, New Mexico: In: New Mexico’s Fossil Record 2, edited by Lucas, S. G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 16, p. 107-119.

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., and Hunt, A. P., 2000, Probable turtle from the Upper Triassic of East-Central New Mexico: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2000, n. 5, p. 287-300.

Lucas, S. G., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Stratigraphy and vertebrate biostratigraphy across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Betonnie Tsosie Wash, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 95-103.

Martin, T., 2000, Overivew over the Guimarota Ecosystem, Chapter 20: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 143-146.

Matsumoto, Y., Hashimoto, R., and Sonda, T., 2000, Report of preparation works for Mongolian specimens in HMNS from March 1994 to December 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 113-127.

Meylan, P. A., Moody, R. T. J., Walker, C. A., and Chapman, S. D., 2000, Sandownia harrisi, a highly derived trionychoid turtle (Testudines: Cryptodira) from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of White, England: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 33, p. 522-532. (Sandownia harrisi)

Mohabey, D. M., and Udhoji, S. G., 2000, Vertebrate fauna of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur-bearing Lameta Formation of Nand-Dongargaon Inland Basin, Maharashtra: Palaeoenvironment and K-T boundary implications: Memoir Geological Society of India, n. 46, p. 295-322.

Pereda-Suberbiola, X., Astibia, H., Murelaga, X., Elorza, J. J., and Gomez-Alday, J. J., 2000, Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing beds of the Lano Quarry (Iberian Peninsula): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 157, p. 247-275.

Rauscher, R. G. K., 2000, Fossile Schildkröten aus Österreich (Reptilia, Testudines): Stafia, v. 69, p. 63-86.

Rees, J., 2000, An Early Cretaceous scincomorph lizard dentary from Bornholm, Denmark: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, v. 48, p. 105-109.

Renous, S., Bels, V., and Davenport, J., 2000, Locomotion in marine chelonia: adaptition ot the aquatic habiti: Historical Biology, v. 14, p. 1-13.

Reynoso, V. H., Perdomo, M. A. C., and Clark, J., 2000, The reptiles of the Tlayua Formation: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 106-111.

Ryan, M. J., Currie, P. J., Gardner, J. D., Vickaryous, M. K., and Lavign,e J. M., (1998) 2000, Baby hadrosaurid material associated with an unusually high abundance of Troodon teeth from the Horeseshoe Canyon Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Alberta, Canada: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 123-133.

Shuvalov, V. F., 2000, The Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 256-278.

Storrs, G. W., Arkangel’skii, M. S., and Efimov, V. M., 2000, Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former Soviet republics: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 187-210.

Sukhanov, V. B., 2000, Mesozoic turtles of Middle and Central Asia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 309-367. (Shartegemys laticentralis, Bulganemys jaganchobili)

Suzuki, S., 2000, Phylogenetic position of the Cretaceous turtle “Mongolochelys” from Nemegt Formation and some comments on the Cretaceous turtles in Mongolia: In: Abstracts of report meeting, Japan-Mongoli Joint Paleontological expedition, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Ulaan Bataar, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Okayama, Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 135-136.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 83-98.

Tong, H., and Gaffney, E. S., 2000, Description of the skull of Polysternon provinciale (Matheron, 1869) a side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Villeveyrac, France: Oryctos, v. 3, p. 9-18.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu,. Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Wang, X.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Zhang, J.-Y., and Zhang, F., 2000, Vertebrata faunas and biostratigraphy of the Jehol group in western Liaoning, China: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 41-56.

Watabe, M., 2000, The list of publications and presentations on the results of Hyashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 128-130.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000a, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 17-29.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000b, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 30-44.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000c, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1996: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 58-68.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000d, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 69-82.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108.

Diapsida (Lower Lepidosauromorphs)

Genus: Nova (4)

Neosinasaurus YIN & ZHOU, 2000
Sinaosaurus ZHOU, 2000
Wayaosaurus ZHOU, 2000
Xinpusaurus YIN in YIN, ZHOU & CAO, 2000

Species: Nova (4)

Sinasaurus hoangi ZHOU, 2000
Wayaosaurus geei ZHOU, 2000
Wayaosaurus bellus ZHOU, 2000
Xinpusaurus suni YIN in YIN, ZHOU & CHAO, 2000

Synonym: Nova (1)

Neosinasaurus hoangi YIN & ZHOU, 2000
= Sinasaurus hoangi ZHOU, 2000

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Evolutionary consequences of dating the Yixian Formation: TREE, v. 15, n. 3, p. 99-103.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, I reperti ossei dei tetrapodi continentali Paleozoici e Mesozoici d’Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 321-335.

Fan, G., 2000, Photo album of Beipiao Bird fossils community nature preservation zone of Liaoning in China: To the 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology, National Press of Liaoning, 80pp.

Geist, N. R., and Feduccia, A., 2000, Gravity-defying behaviors: identifying models for Protoaves: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A., and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 664-675.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The faunal assemblages of Permian terrestrial vertebrates from Eastern Europe: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement to n. 2, S211-S224.

Hancox, P. J., 2000, The Continental Triassic of South Africa: In: Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 11-12, p 1285-1324.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2000, The Nikkasauridae—Problematic primitive therapsids from the Late Permian of the Mezen Localities: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, S179-S186.

Jones, T. D., Ruben, J. A., Martin, L. D., Kurochkin, E. N., Feduccia, A., Maderson, P. F. A., Hillenius, W. J., Geist, N. R,. and Alifanov, 2000, Non avian feathers in a Late Traissc archosaur: Science, v. 288, p. 2202-2205.

Machalski, M., 2000, Borrowed plumes: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 45, n. 4, p. 431-432.

Maderson, P. F. A., and Alibardi, L, 2000, The development of the sauropsid integument: a contribution to the problem and orign of feathers: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 513-529.

Montani, R. H., 2000, Is Omphalosaurus ichthyopterygian?—a phylogenetic perspective: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 295-301.

Montani, R. H., 2000, Skull of Grippia longirostris: no contradiction with a diapsid affinity for the Ichthyopterygia: Paleontology, v. 43, part 1: 1-14.

Ochev, V. G., and Surkov, M. V, 2000, The history of excavation of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 1-16.

Reisz, R. R., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, The ‘feathers’ of Longisquama: Nature, v. 408, p. 428.

Rieppel, O., Liu, J., and Bucher, H., 2000, The first record of a thalattosaur reptile from the Late Triassic of southern China (Guizhou Province, PR. China): Journal of Vertebrata Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 507-514. Link to pdf

Rieppel, O., and Zaher, H., 2000, The intramandibular joint in squamates, and the phylogenetic relationships of the fossil snake Pachyrhachis problemanticus Haas: Fieldiana; Geology, new series, n. 43, p. 1-69.

Ryan, M. J., Currie, P. J., Gardner, J. D., Vickaryous, M. K., and Lavigne, J. M., (1998) 2000, Baby hadrosaurid material associated with an unusually high abundance of Troodon teeth from the Horeseshoe Canyon Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Alberta, Canada: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 123-133.

Shishkin, M. A., Ochev,V. G., Lozovskii,V. R., and Novikov,I. G., 2000, Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 120-139.

Smith, R. M. H., 2000, Sedimentology and taphonomy of Late Permian vertebrate fossil localities in southwestern Madagascar: Palaeontographica africana, v. 36, p. 25-41.

Unwin, D. M., Alifanov, V. R., and Benton, M. J., 2000, Enigmatic small reptiles from the Middle-Late Triassic of Kirgizstan: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 177-186.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu, Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Wang, X.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Zhang, J.-Y., and Zhang, F., 2000, Vertebrata faunas and biostratigraphy of the Jehol group in western Liaoning, China: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 41-56.

Whittle, C. H., and Everhart, M. J., 2000, Apparent and implied evolutionary trends in lithophagic vertebrates from New Mexico and Elsewhere: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 75-82.

Yin, G., and Zhou, X., 2000, The Early Triassic marine reptile Neosinasaurus nom. nov. form Guanling, Guizhou, China: Geology-Geochemestry, v. 28, n. 4, p. 107-108. (Neosinasaurus hoangi = Sinasaurus hoangi)

Zhang, F., and Zhou, Z., 2000, A primitive enantiornithine bird and the origin of feathers: Science, V. 290, p. 1955-1959.

Zhou, X., in Yin, G., Zhou, X., Cao, Z., Yu, Y, and Luo, Y., 2000, A preliminary study on the Early Late Triassic marine reptiles from Guanling Guizhou, China. (Sinasaurus hoangi, Wayaosaurus geei, Wayaosaurus bellus) Link to pdf

Yin, G.,, in Yin, G., Zhou, X., Cao, Z., Yu, Y, and Luo, Y., 2000, A preliminary study on the Early Late Triassic marine reptiles from Guanling Guizhou, China. (Xinpusaurus suni) Link to pdf

Lizards and Snakes

Genus: Nova (8)

Aiolosaurus GAO & NORELL, 2000
Alticephalosaurus ALIFANOV, 2000
Aprisaurus ALIFANOV, 2000
Campedosaurus ALIFANOV, 2000
Ctenomastrax GAO & NORELL, 2000
Cyclurasia ALIFANOV, 2000
Gobileon ALIFANOV, 2000
Haaisophis TCHERNOV, RIEPPEL, ZAHER, POLCYN & JACOBS, 2000
Hymenosaurus GAO & NORELL, 2000
Macrocephaleon ALIFANOV, 2000
Myrmecodaptria GAO & NORELL, 2000
Parmeosaurus GAO & NORELL, 2000
Podophis RAGE & ESCUILLIE, 2000
Primaderma NYDAM, 2000
Temujinia GAO & NORELL, 2000
Tepexisaurus REYNOSO & CALLISON, 2000
Tuberocephalosaurus ALIFANOV, 2000
Zapsosaurus GAO & NORELL, 2000

Species: Nova (18)

Aiolosaurus oriens GAO & NORELL, 2000
Aprisaurus bidentatus ALIFANOV, 2000
Campedosaurus sulcularis ALIFANOV, 2000
Cherminsaurus tereschenkoi ALIFANOV, 2000
Ctenomastrax parva GAO & NORELL, 2000
Cyclurasia multidentata ALIFANOV, 2000
Gobileon emersoculatus ALIFANOV, 2000
Haaisophis terrasanctus TCHERNOV, RIEPPEL, ZAHER, POLCYN & JACOBS, 2000
Hymenosaurus clarki GAO & NORELL, 2000
Macrocephalosaurus sulimskii ALIFANOV, 2000
Myrmecodaptria microphagosa GAO & NORELL, 2000
Parmeosaurus scutatus GAO & NORELL, 2000
Podophis descouensi RAGE & ESCUILLIE, 2000
Primaderma nessovi NYDAM, 2000
Temujinia ellisoni GAO & NORELL, 2000
Tepexisaurus tepexii REYNOSO & CALLISON, 2000
Tuberocephalosaurus pompabilis ALIFANOV, 2000
Zapsosaurus sceliphros GAO & NORELL, 2000

Synonym: Nova (2)

Alticephalosaurus gilmorei (SULIMSKI, 1975) ALIFANOV, 2000
= Macrocephalosaurus gilmorei SULIMSKI, 1975
= Gilmoreteius gilmorei (SULIMSKI, 1975) LANGER, 1998
Macrocephaleon chulsanensis (SULIMSKI, 1975) ALIFANOV, 2000
= Macrocephalosaurus chulsanensis SULIMSKI, 1975
= Naranasaurus chulsanensis MARYNANSKA & OSMOLSKA, 1985
= Gilmoreteius chulsanensis (SULIMSKI, 1975) LANGER, 1998

Albino, A. M., 2000, New record of snakes from the Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina): Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 2, p. 247-253.

Alifanov, V. R., 2000, The fossil record of Cretaceous lizards from Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 368-389. Link to pdf

Alifanov, V. R., 2000, Macrocephalosaurs and the early evolution of lizards of Central Asia: Moscow, GEOS, 126pp. (Aprisaurus bidentatus, Macrocephalosaurus sulimskii, Macrocephaleon chulsanensis = Macrocephalosaurus chulsanensis, Alticephalosaurus gilmorei = Macrocephalosaurus gilmorei,Gobileon emersoculatus, Tuberocephalosaurus pompabilis, Campedosaurus sulcularis, Cherminsaurus tereschenkoi,Cyclurasia. multidentata)

Averianov, A. O., 2000, Sunosuchus sp (crocodylomorpha, Goniopholididae) from the Middle Jurassic of Kirghisa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 776-779.

Bardet, N. Cappetta, H., Pereda Suberbiola, X., Mouty, M., Maleh, A. K. Al, Ahmad, A. M., Khorata, O., and Gannoum, N., 2000, The marine vertebrat faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria: Geological Magazine, v. 137, n. 3, p. 269-290.

Broschinski, A., 2000, The lizards from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 9: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 59-68.

Caldwell, M. W., 2000, On the phylogenetic relationships of Pachyrhachis within snakes: a response to Zaher (1998): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 187-190.

Caldwell, M. W., 2000, On the aquatic squamatae Dolichosaurus longicollis Owen, 1850 (Cenomanian, Uper Cretaceous), and the evolution of elongate necks in squamates: The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n 4, p. 720-735.

Carvalho, I. de S., and Pedrao, E., (1998) 2000, Brazilian theropods from the equatorial Atlantic margin: behavior and environmental setting: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 369-378.

Coates, M., and Ruta, M., 2000, Nice snake, shame about the legs: Trends in Ecology and Evolution, v. 15, n. 12, P. 503-507.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, I reperti ossei dei tetrapodi continentali Paleozoici e Mesozoici d’Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 321-335.

Dingus, L., and Loope, D., 2000, Death in the dunes. What killed the famous fossil creatures of the ancient Gobi? Geologists examine the rock-hard evidence: Natural History, v. 109, n. 6, p. 50-55.

Evans, S. E., Lacasa Ruiz, A., and Rey, E. jr., 2000, A lizard from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Valanginian) of Montsec, Catalonia, Spain: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 1, p. 1-15.

Everhart, M. J., 2000, On day in the Western Interior Sea…: Dinonews, v. 14, p. 7-9.

Everhart, M. J., 2000, A day in the life of a mosasaur: Dinonews, v. 15, p. 3-6.

Fan, G., 2000, Photo album of Beipiao Bird fossils community nature preservation zone of Liaoning in China: To the 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology, National Press of Liaoning, 80pp.

Fara, E., and Benton, M. J., 2000, The fossil record of Cretaceous tetrapods: Palaios, v. 15, p. 161-165.

Foster, J. R., and Trujillo, K. C., 2000, New occurrences of Cteniogenys (Reptilia, Choristodera) in the Late Jurassic of Wyoming and South Dakota: Brigham Young Univeristy, Geology Studies, n. 45, p. 1-18.

Gao, K, and Norell, M. A., 2000, Taxonomic composition and systematics of Late Cretaceous lizard assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, n. 249, p. 1-118. (Ctenomastrax parva, Temujinia ellisoni, Zapsosaurus sceliphros, Hymenosaurus clarki, Parmeosaurus scutatus, Myrmecodaptria microphagosa, Aiolosaurus oriens) Link to pdf

Garcia, G., 2000, Diversite des coquilles “Minces ” d’œufs fossiles du Cretace superieur du Sud de la France: Geobios, v. 33, n. 1, p. 113-126.

Garcia, G., Duffaud, S., Feist, M., Marandat, B., Tambarequ, Y., Villatte, J., and Sige, B., 2000, La neuve, gisement a plantes, invertebres et vertebres du Begudien (Senonien superieur continental) du bassin d’Aix-en-Provence : Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 3, p. 326-348.

Gloy, W., 2000, Taphonomy of the fossil lagerstatte Guimarota, Chapter 18: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 129-136.

Greene, H. W., and Cundall, D., 2000, Limbless tetrapods and snakes with legs: Science, v. 287, p. 1939-1941.

Holmes, R. B., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, A partial skeleton of the basal mosasaur Halisaurus platyspondylus from the Severn Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian) of Maryland: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 2, p. 309-316.

Isaji, S., 2000, Geological setting of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe”, the Kuwajima Formation: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 14-16.

Isaji, S., 2000, Depositional environments of the bone-bearing strata with special reference to the taphonomical process of vertebrate fossil assemblages: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 22-27.

Lee, M. S. Y., and Caldwell, M. W., 2000, Adriosaurus and the affinities of mosasaurs, dolichosaurs, and snakes: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 5, p. 915-937.

Lingham-Soliar, T., 2000, The mosasaur Mosasaurus lemonnieri (Lepidosauromorpha, Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Belgium and The Netherlands: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, upplement 2, S225-S237.

Martin, T., 2000, Overivew over the Guimarota Ecosystem, Chapter 20: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 143-146.

Matsumoto, Y., Hashimoto, R., and Sonda, T., 2000, Report of preparation works for Mongolian specimens in HMNS from March 1994 to December 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 113-127.

Nydam, R. L., 2000, A new taxon of helodermatid-like lizard from the Albian-Cenomanian of Utah: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 285-284. (Harmodontosaurus emeryensis, Primaderma nessovi) Link to pdf

Nydam, R. L., Gauthier, J. A., and Chiment, J. J., 2000, The mammal-like teeth of the Late Cretaceous lizard Peneteius aquilonius Estes 1969 (Squamata, Teiidae): Journal of Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 628-631. Link to pdf

Parmo-Fonseca, M. E., 2000, Yaguarasaurus columbianus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae), a primitive mosasaur from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Colombia): Historical Biology, v. 14, p. 121-131. Link to pdf

Pereda-Suberbiola, X., Astibia, H., Murelaga, X., Elorza, J. J., and Gomez-Alday, J. J., 2000, Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing beds of the Lano Quarry (Iberian Peninsula): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 157, p. 247-275.

Rage, J-C., and Escuillie, F., 2000, Un nouveau serpent bipede du Cenomanien (Cretace). Implications phyletiques: Compte rendu hebdomadaire des seances de l’Academie des Sciences Paris, v. 330, p. 513-520. (Podophis descouensi)

Rees, J., 2000, An Early Cretaceous scincomorph lizard dentary from Bornholm, Denmark: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, v. 48, p. 105-109.

Reynoso, V.-H., and Callison, G., 2000, A new scincomorph lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Pubela, Mexico: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 130, p. 183-212. (Tepexisaurus tepexii) Link to pdf

Rieppel, O., and Zaher, H., 2000, The braincase of mosasaurs and Varanus, and the relationships of snakes: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 129, p. 489-514.

Rieppel, O., and Zaher, H., 2000, The intramandibular joint in squamates, and the phylogenetic relationships of the fossil snake Pachyrhachis problemanticus Haas: Fieldiana; Geology, new series, n. 43, p. 1-69.

Rowe, M., 2000, Inferring the retinal anatomy and visual capacities of extinct vertebrates: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 3, n. 1, 43pp.

Sachs, S., 2000, Mosasaurier-Reste aus der Oberkreide von Nordrhein-Westfalen: Geol. Palaont. Westf., v. 56, p. 35-44.

Sanz, J. L., Dieguez, C., Poyato-Ariza, F. J., 2000, Die Unter-Kreide von Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spanien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 155-160.

Shuvalov, V. F., 2000, The Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 256-278.

Storrs, G. W., Arkangel’skii, M. S., and Efimov, V. M., 2000, Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former Soviet republics: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 187-210.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000b, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 83-98.

Tanke, D. H., and Currie, P. J., (1998) 2000, Head-biting behavior in theropod dinosaurs: paleopathological evidence: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno B. P., Holtz T. Jr., Sanz J. L., and Moratalla J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 167-184.

Tchernov, E., Rieppel, O., Zaher, H., Polcyn, M. J., and Jacobs, L. L., 2000, A fossil snake with limbs: Science, v. 287, p. 2010-2012. (Haaisophis terrasanctus) Link to pdf

Vermeij, G. J., and Dudley, R., 2000, Why are there so few evolutionary transitions between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 70, p. 541-554.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu,. Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000b, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 30-44.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000d, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 69-82.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108.

Westermann, G. E. G., 2000, Marine faunal realms of the Mesozoic: review and revision under the new guidelines for biogeographic classification and nomenclature: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 163, p. 49-68.

Sphenodonts

Genus: Nova (1)

Ankylosphenodon REYNOSO, 2000

Species: Nova (2)

Ankylosphenodon pachyostosus REYNOSO, 2000

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, I reperti ossei dei tetrapodi continentali Paleozoici e Mesozoici d’Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 321-335.

Forster, J. R., and Trujillo, K. C., 2000, New occurrences of Cteniogenys (Reptilia, Choristodera) in the Late Jurassic of Wyoming and South Dakota: Brigham Young Univeristy, Geology Studies, n. 45, p. 1-18.

Henrich, W.-D., Bussert, R., Aberhan, M,. Hampe, O., Kapilima, S., Schrank, E., Schultka, S., Mair, G., Msaky, E., Sames, B., and Cami, R., 2001, The German-Tanzanian Tendaguru expedition 2000: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl. Geowiss. Reihe, v. 4, p. 223-217.

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Biochronological significance of Triassic nonmarine tetrapod records from marine strata: Albertiana, v. 24, p. 30-36.

Reynoso, V.-H., 2000, An unusual aquatic sphenodontian (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Tlayua Formation (Albian), Central Mexico: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 1, p. 133-148. (Ankylosphenodon pachyostosus) Link to pdf

Reynoso, V. H., Perdomo, M. A. C., and Clark, J., 2000, The reptiles of the Tlayua Formation: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 106-111.

Tanke, D. H., and Currie, P. J., (1998) 2000, Head-biting behavior in theropod dinosaurs: paleopathological evidence: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 167-184.

Viohl, G., 2000, Die Solnhofener Plattenkalke, oberer Jura: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 143-150.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu, Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Ichthyosaurs

Genus: Nova (7)

Aegirosaurus BARDET & FERNANDEZ, 2000
Callawayia MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
Guanlingsaurus YIN, 2000
Guizhouichthyosaurus CAO & LAO, 2000
Phantomosaurus MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
Rotundopteryx MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000 non DUCKHOUSE, 1990
Typicusichthyosaurus YU, 2000

Species: Nova (6)

Eurhinosaurus costini (McGOWAN, 1986) MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
Guanlingsaurus liangae YIN, 2000
Guizhouichthyosaurus tangae CAO & LAO, 2000
Mixosaurus guanlingensis CAO in YIN, ZHOU, CAO, YU, & LUO, 2000
Rotundopteryx hulkei MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
Typicusichthyosaurus tsaihuae YU, 2000

Species: Nova (4)

Aegirosaurus leptospondylus (WAGNER, 1853) BARDET & FERNANDEZ, 2000
= Ichthyosaurus leptospondylus WAGNER, 1853
= Macropterygius leptospondylus (WAGNER, 1853) HUENE, 1922
= Ichthyosaurus trigonus var posthumus BAUR, 1898 (nomen dubium)
= Macropterygius trigonous var posthumus (BAUR, 1898) (nomen dubium)
Brachypterygius pseudoscythius (EFIMOV, 1997) MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
= Otschevia pseudoscythica EFIMOV, 1997
Callawayia neoscapularis (McGOWAN, 1994) MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
= Shastasaurus neoscapularis McGOWAN, 1994
Phantomosaurus neubigi (SANDER, 1997) MAISCH & MATZKE, 2000
= Shastasaurus neubigi SANDER, 1997

Arkhangel’sky, M. S., 2000, On the ichthyosaur Otschevia from the Volgian Stage of the Volga Region : Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 5, p. 549-552.

Bardet, N., and Fernandez, M. A., 2000, A new ichthyosaur from the Upper Jurassic Lithographic Limestones of Bavaria: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 3, p. 503-511. (Aegirosaurus leptospondylus, = Ichthyosaurus leptospondylus, = Macropterygius leptospondylus) Link to pdf

Burgin, T., 2000, Euthynotus cf. incognitus (Actinopterygii, Pachycormidae) als Mageninhalt eines Fischsauriers aus dem Posidonienschiefer Süddeutschlands (Unterer Jura, Lias epsilon): Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, v. 93, p. 491-496.

Cao, Z, in Yin, G., Zhou, X., Cao, Z., Yu, Y, and Luo, Y., 2000, A preliminary study on the Early Late Triassic marine reptiles from Guanling Guizhou, China. (Mixosaurus guanlingensis) Link to pdf

Cao, Z, and Luo, Y., in Yin, G., Zhou, X., Cao, Z., Yu, Y, and Luo, Y., 2000, A preliminary study on the Early Late Triassic marine reptiles from Guanling Guizhou, China. (Guizhouichthyosaurus tangae) Link to pdf

Fernandez, M. S., 2000, Late Jurassic Ichthyosaurs from Neuquen Basin, Argentina: Historical Biology, v. 14, p. 133-136.

Fernandez, M. S., and Iturralde-Vinet, M. A., 2000, An Oxfordian Ichthyosauia (Reptilia) form Vinales, Western Cuba: paleobiogeographic significance: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1 : 191-193.

Maisch, M. W., 2000, Observations on Triassic ichthyosaurs. Part VI. On the cranial Osteology of Shastasaurus alexandrae Merriam, 1902 from the Hosselkus Formation (Carnian, late Triassic) of Northern California with a revision of the genus: Neües Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 217, n. 1, p. 1-25.

Maisch, M. W., and Matzke, A. T., 2000, The mixosaurid ichthyosaur Contectopalatus from the Middle Triassic of the German Basin: Lethaia, v. 33, p. 71-74.

Maisch, M. W., and Matzke, A. T., 2000, The Ichthyosauria: Stuttgarter Beitrage zure Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Palaontologie), n. 298, 159pp. (Phantomosaurus neubigi = Shastasaurus neubigi, Merriamosaurus hulkei = Rotundopteryx hulkei, Callawayia neoscapularis = Shastasaurus neoscapularis,= Metashastasaurus neoscapularis, Eurhinosaurus costini, Brachypterygius pseudoscythius )

Manabe, M., and Nicholls, E. L., 2000, Exploring early evolution of ichthyosaurs in the Canadian Rockies: excavation of the largest marine reptile: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 56-62.

Marshall, C. R., 2000, Fossil forensics, what is taphonomy and wht can it tell us? Dinonews, v. 13, p. 11, 14-15.

Montani, R. H., 2000, Skull of Grippia longirostris: no contradiction with a diapsid affinity for the Ichthyopterygia: Paleontology, v. 43, part 1: 1-14.

Montani, R. H., 2000, Is Omphalosaurus ichthyopterygian?—a phylogenetic perspective: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 295-301.

Montani, R. H., 2000, Rulers of the Jurassic seas: Scientific American, v. 283, n. 6, p. 52-59.

Olshevsky, G., 2000, An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continet: Mesozoic Meanderings n. 3, 157pp.

Rieppel, O., 2000, Sauropterygia I, placodontia, pachypleurosauria, nothosauroidea, pistosauroidea: In: Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie, part 12A, 134pp.

Rieber, H. P., 2000, Monte San Giorgio und Besano, mittlere Trias, Schwiez und Italien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 83-90.

Rowe, M., 2000, Inferring the retinal anatomy and visual capacities of extinct vertebrates: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 3, n. 1, 43pp.

Storrs, G. W., Arkangel’skii, M. S., and Efimov, V. M., 2000, Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former Soviet republics: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 187-210.

Vermeij, G. J., and Dudley R., 2000, Why are there so few evolutionary transitions between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 70, p. 541-554.

Westermann, G. E. G., 2000, Marine faunal realms of the Mesozoic: review and revision under the new guidelines for biogeographic classification and nomenclature: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 163, p. 49-68.

Whittle, C. H., and Everhart, M. J., 2000, Apparent and implied evolutionary trends in lithophagic vertebrates from New Mexico and Elsewhere: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 75-82.

Yin, G.,, in Yin, G., Zhou, X., Cao, Z., Yu, Y, and Luo, Y., 2000, A preliminary study on the Early Late Triassic marine reptiles from Guanling Guizhou, China. (Guanlingsaurus liangae) Link to pdf

Yu, Y., in Yin, G., Zhou, X., Cao, Z., Yu, Y, and Luo, Y., 2000, A preliminary study on the Early Late Triassic marine reptiles from Guanling Guizhou, China. (Typicusichthyosaurus tsaihuae) Link to pdf

Sauropterygians and Placodontians

Genus: Nova (1)

Sinocyamodus CHUN, 2000

Species: Nova (2)

Placochelys? minutus YIN, 2000
Sinocyamodus xinpuensis CHUN, 2000

Bardet, N. Cappetta, H., Pereda Suberbiola, X., Mouty, M., Maleh, A. K. A., Ahmad, A. M., Khorata, O., and Gannoum, N., 2000, The marine vertebrat faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria: Geological Magazine, v. 137, n. 3, p. 269-290.

Benton, M. J., Bouaziz, S., Buffetaut, E., Martill, D., Ouaja, M., Soussi, M., and Trueman, C., 2000, Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Tunisia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, v. 157, p. 227-246.

Chun, L., 2000, Placodont (Reptilia: Placodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Guizhou, Southwest China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, n. 4, p. 316-317. (Sinocyamodus xinpuensis)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, Tanystropheus (Archosauromorpha, Prolacertiformes) remains from the Triassic of the northern Friuli (NE Italy): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologie e Stratigrafia, v. 106, n. 2, p. 135-140.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, I reperti ossei dei tetrapodi continentali Paleozoici e Mesozoici d’Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 321-335.

Everhart, M. J., 2000, Gastroliths associated with plesiosaur remains in the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale (Late Cretaceous), Western Kansas: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, v. 103, n. 1-2, p. 64-75.

Gasparini, Z. B., and Fuente, M. de la, 2000, Tortugas y Plesiosaurios de la Formacion La Colonia (Cretacico Superior) de Patagonia, Argentina: Revista Espanola de Paleontologia, v. 15, n. 1, p. 23-35.

Gasparini, Z. B,. and Salgado, L., 2000, Elasmosauridos (Plesiosauria) del Cretacico tardio del norte dePatagonia: Revista Espanola de Paleontologia, v. 15, n. 1, p. 13-21.

Li, C., 2002, Placodont (Reptiia: Placodontia) from the Upper Triassic of Guizhou, Southwest China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, n. 4, p. 414-317. (Sinocyamodus zinpuensis) Link to pdf

Lingham-Soliar, T., 2000, Plesiosaur locomotion: is the four-wing problem real or mearly an atheoretical exercise?: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 217, n. 1, p. 45-87.

Maisch, M. W., and Rucklin, M., 2000, Cranial Osteology of the sauropterygian Plesiosaurus brachypterygius from the Lower Toarcian of Germany: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 1, p. 29-40.

Montani, R. H., 2000, Skull of Grippia longirostris: no contradiction with a diapsid affinity for the Ichthyopterygia: Paleontology, v. 43, part 1: 1-14.

Mulder, E. W. A., Bardet, N., Godefroit, P., and Jagt, J. W. M., 2000, Elasmosaur remains from the Maastrichtian type area, and a review of latest Cretaceous Elasmosaurs (Reptilia, Plesiosauroidea): Bulletin de l’Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre, v. 70, p. 161-178. Link to pdf

Olshevsky, G., 2000, An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continet: Mesozoic Meanderings n. 3, 157pp.

Pfretzschner, H.-U., 2000, Microcraks and fossilization of Haversian bone: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 216, n. 3, p. 413-432.

Rauscher, R. G. K., 2000, Fossile Schildkröten aus Österreich (Reptilia, Testudines): Stafia, v. 69, p. 63-86.

Rieber, H. P., 2000, Monte San Giorgio und Besano, mittlere Trias, Schwiez und Italien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 83-90.

Rieppel, O., 2000, Paraplacodus and the phylogeny of the Placodontia (Reptilia: Sauropteyrgia): Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 130, p. 635-659. Link to pdf

Rieppel, O., 2000, Sauropterygia I, placodontia, pachypleurosauria, nothosauroidea, pistosauroidea: In: Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie, part 12A, 134pp.

Rieppel, O., 2000, Middle Triassic marine vertebrates from the northern Gondwana shelf: In: Epicontental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 7-8, p. 1269-1284.

Rowe, M., 2000, Inferring the retinal anatomy and visual capacities of extinct vertebrates: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 3, n. 1, 43pp.

Sachs, S., 2000, Ein pliosauridae (Sauropterygia: plesiosauria) aus der Oberkreide von Anrochte in Westfalen: Geol. Palaont. West., v. 56, p. 25-34.

Sato, T., and Storrs, G. W., 2000, An early polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 5, p. 907-914. Link to pdf

Smith, R. M. H., 2000, Sedimentology and taphonomy of Late Permian vertebrate fossil localities in southwestern Madagascar: Palaeontographica africana, v. 36, p. 25-41.

Storrs, G. W., Arkangel’skii, M. S., and Efimov, V. M., 2000, Mesozoic marine reptiles of Russia and other former Soviet republics: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 187-210.

Tanke, D. H., and Currie, P. J., (1998) 2000, Head-biting behavior in theropod dinosaurs: paleopathological evidence: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 167-184.

Vermeij, G. J., and Dudley, R., 2000, Why are there so few evolutionary transitions between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 70, p. 541-554.

Westermann, G. E. G., 2000, Marine faunal realms of the Mesozoic: review and revision under the new guidelines for biogeographic classification and nomenclature: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 163, p. 49-68.

Whittle, C. H., and Everhart, M. J., 2000, Apparent and implied evolutionary trends in lithophagic vertebrates from New Mexico and Elsewhere: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 75-82.

Whittle, C. H., and Onorato, L., 2000, On the origins of gastroliths—determining the weathering environment of rounded and polished stones by scanning-electron-microscope examination: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 69-73.

Yin G., in Yin, G., Zhou, X., Cao, Z., Yu, Y, and Luo, Y., 2000, A preliminary study on the Early Late Triassic marine reptiles from Guanling Guizhou, China. (Placochelys?minutus) Link to pdf

Yin, G., and Zhou, X., 2000, The Early Triassic marine reptile Neosinasaurus nom. nov. form Guanling, Guizhou, China: Geology-Geochemestry, v. 28, n. 4, p. 107-108.

Lower Archosauromorpha

Species: Nova (1)

Hyperodapedon huenei LANGER & SCHULTZ, 2000

Synonym: Nova (2)

Hyperodapedon stockleyi (BOONSTRA, 1953) LANGER, BONIFACE, CUNY & BARBIERI, 2000
= Scaphonyx stockleyi BOONSTRA, 1953
= Supradapedon stockleyi (BOONSTRA, 1953) CHATTERJEE, 1980
Hyperodapedon genovefae (BUFFETAUT, 1983) LANGER, BONIFACE, CUNY & BARBIERI, 2000
= Isalorhynchus genovefae BUFFETAUT, 1983

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Prosauropod dinosaurs and iguanas: speculations on the diets of extinct reptiles: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 42-78.

Brochu, C., and Norell, M. A., 2000, Temporal congruence and the origin of Birds: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 197-200.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, Tanystropheus (Archosauromorpha, Prolacertiformes) remains from the Triassic of the northern Friuli (NE Italy): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologie e Stratigrafia, v. 106, n. 2, p. 135-140.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, I reperti ossei dei tetrapodi continentali Paleozoici e Mesozoici d’Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 321-335.

Efimov, M. B., and Storrs, G. W., 2000, Choristodera from the Lower Cretaceous of northern Asia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 390-401.

Forster, J. R., and Trujillo, K. C., 2000, New occurrences of Cteniogenys (Reptilia, Choristodera) in the Late Jurassic of Wyoming and South Dakota: Brigham Young Univeristy, Geology Studies, n. 45, p. 1-18.

Galton, P. M., 2000, Are Spondylosoma and Staurikosaurus (Santa Maria Formation, Middle-Upper Triassic, Brazil) he oldest saurischain dinosaurs? Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 74, n. 3, p. 393-423.

Gao, K., Evans, S., Ji, Q., Norell, M., and Ji, S.-A., 2000, Exceptional fossil material of a semi-aquatic reptile from China: the resolution of an enigma: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 417-421.

Garcia, G., 2000, Diversite des coquilles “Minces ” d’œufs fossiles du Cretace superieur du Sud de la France: Geobios, v. 33, n. 1, p. 113-126.

Geist, N. R., and Feduccia, A., 2000, Gravity-defying behaviors: identifying models for Protoaves: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 664-675.

Gingerich, P. D., 2000, Paleocene/Eocene boundary and continental vertebrate fauns of Europe and north America: GFF, v. 122, p. 57-59. Link to pdf

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The faunal assemblages of Permian terrestrial vertebrates from Eastern Europe: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement to n. 2, S211-S224.

Gower, D. J., and Sennikov, A. G., 2000, Early archosaurs from Russia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 140-159.

Heckert, A. B., Lucas, S. G., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Triassic dinosaurs from New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 17-26.

Langer, M. C., Boniface, M., Cuny, G., and Barbieri, L., 2000, The phylogentic position of Isalorhynchus genovefae, a Late Triassic rhynchosaur from Madagascar: Annales de Paleontologie, v. 86, n. 2, p. 101-127. (Hyperodapedon stockleyi = Scaphonyx stockleyi,Hyperodapedon genovefae = Isalorhynchus genovefae)

Langer, M. C., Ferigolo, J., and Shultz, C. L., 2000, Heterochrony and tooth evolution in hyperodapedontine rhynchosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida): Lethaia, v. 33, p. 119-128.

Langer, M. C., and Schultz, C. L., 2000, A new species of the Late Triassic Rhynchosaur Hyperodapedon from the Santa Maria Formation of South Brazil: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 4, p. 633-652. (Hyperodapedon huenei)

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Biochronological significance of Triassic nonmarine tetrapod records from marine strata: Albertiana, v. 24, p. 30-36.

Maderson, P. F. A., and Homberger, D. G., 2000, The evolutionary origin of feathers: a problem demanding interdisciplinary communication: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson P. F. A. and Homberger D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 455-460.

Montani, R. H., 2000, Skull of Grippia longirostris: no contradiction with a diapsid affinity for the Ichthyopterygia: Paleontology, v. 43, part 1: 1-14.

Ochev, V. G., and Surkov, M. V, 2000, The history of excavation of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 1-16.

Olshevsky, G., 2000, An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continet: Mesozoic Meanderings n. 3, 157pp.

Peters, D., 2000, A reexamination of four prolacertiformes with implications for pterosaur phylogenies: Rivisita Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 106, n. 3, p. 293-356.

Peters, D., 2000, Description and interpretation of interphalangeal lines in tetrapods: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p. 11-41.

Rauhut, O. w. M., and Hungerbuhler, A., (1998) 2000, A review of european Triassic theropods: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 75-88.

Reisz, R. R., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, Herbivory in Late Paleozoic and Triassic terrestrial vertebrates: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 9-41.

Renesto, S., 2000, Bird-like head on a chameleon body: new specimens of the enigmatic diapsid reptile Megalancosaurus from the Late Triassic of Northern Italy: Rivisita Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 106, n. 2, tavole 1-4, p. 157-180.

Renesto, S., and Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, The unusual dentition and feeding habits of the prolacertiform reptile Langobardisaurus (Late Triassic, of northern Italy): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 622-627.

Rieber, H. P., 2000, Monte San Giorgio und Besano, mittlere Trias, Schwiez und Italien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 83-90.

Rieppel, O., 2000, Middle Triassic marine vertebrates from the northern Gondwana shelf: In: Epicontental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 7-8, p. 1269-1284.

Rieppel, O., Liu, J., and Bucher, H., 2000, The first record of a thalattosaur reptile from the Late Triassic of southern China (Guizhou Province, PR. China): Journal of Vertebrata Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 507-514.

Ryan, M. J., Currie, P. J., Gardner, J. D., Vickaryous, M. K., and Lavigne, J. M., (1998) 2000, Baby hadrosaurid material associated with an unusually high abundance of Troodon teeth from the Horeseshoe Canyon Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Alberta, Canada: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno B. P., Holtz T. Jr., Sanz J. L., and Moratalla J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 123-133.

Schultz, C. L., dos Santos Scherer, C. M., and Barberena, M. C., 2000, Bioestratigraphy of Southern Brazilian Middle-upper Triassic: Bevista Brasileira de Geociencias, v. 30, n. 3, p. 491-494.

Shishkin, M. A., Ochev, V. G., Lozovskii, V. R., and Novikov, I. G., 2000, Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 120-139.

Spencer, P. S., 2000, Procolophonoids from the Permo-Triassic of Russia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 160-176.

Sumida, S. S., and Brochu, C. A., 2000, Phylogenetic context for the origin of feathers: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 486-503.

Tarsitano, S. F,. Russell, A. P., Horne, F., Plummer, C., and Millerchip, K., 2000, On the evolution of feathers an aerodynamic and constructional view point: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 676-686.

Wang, X.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Zhang, J.-Y., and Zhang, F., 2000, Vertebrata faunas and biostratigraphy of the Jehol group in western Liaoning, China: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 41-56.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000c, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1996: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 58-68.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108.

Whittle, C. H., and Everhart, M. J., 2000, Apparent and implied evolutionary trends in lithophagic vertebrates from New Mexico and Elsewhere: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 75-82.

“Thecodontia, Pseudosuchia"

Species: Nova (1)

Turfanosuchus shageduensis WU, 1982 (GOWER & SENNIKOV, 2000)

Synonym: Nova (2)

Mystriosuchus westphali HUNGERBUHLER & HUNT, 2000
= Phytosaurus plieningeri HUENE, 1909 (partim)
= Mystriosuchus plieningeri HUENE, 1911 (partim)
= Belodon (Mystriosuchus) plieningeri MEHL, 1915 (partim)
= Belodon plieningeri WESTPHAL, 1963 (partim)
Nicrosaurus meyeri HUNGERBUHLER & HUNT, 2000
= Belodon plieningeri MEYER, 1860 (partim)
= Phytosaurus plieningeri (MEYER, 1842) LYDEKKER, 1888
= Phytosaurus kappffii (MEYER, 1842) ABEL, 1923 (partim)

Alcober, O., 2000, Redescription of the skull of Saurosuchus galilei (Archosauria: Rauisuchidae): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 302-316.

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Prosauropod dinosaurs and iguanas: speculations on the dietes of extinct reptiles: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 42-78.

Benton, M. J., Juul, L., Storrs, G. W., and Galton, P. M., 2000, Anatomy and systematics of prosauropod dinosaur Thecodontosaurus antiquus from the Upper Triassic of southwest England: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 77-108.

Brochu, C., and Norell, M. A., 2000, Temporal congruence and the origin of Birds: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 197-200.

Carrier, D. R., and Farmer, C. G., 2000, The evolution of pelvic aspiration in archosaurs: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 2, p. 271-293. Link to pdf

Carrier, D. R., and Farmer, C. G., 2000, The integration of ventilation and locomotion in archosaurs: American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 87-100. Link to pdf

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, I reperti ossei dei tetrapodi continentali Paleozoici e Mesozoici d’Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 321-335.

Dzik, J., Suiej, T., Kaim, A., and Niedzwiedzki, R., 2000, A late Triassic tetrapod graveyard in the Opole Silesia (SW Poland): Przeglad Geologiczny, v. 48, n. 3, p. 226-235.

Ebel, K., 2000, Biomechanics of the vertebrate column and implications for the lifestyle of dinosaurs and certain pelycosaurs: Freiberger Forschungshefte, V. 490,p. 27-50.

Fang, Pang, Lu, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li and Cheng, 2000, Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic Divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan Province: In: Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Confrence of China, Geological Publishing House, Beijing, p. 208-214.

Fara, E., and Hungerbuhler, A., 2000, Paleorhinus magnoculus from the Upper Triassic of Morocco: a juvenile primitive phytosaur (Archosauria): Compte rendu hebdomadaire des seances de l’Academie des Sciences Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des plantes, v. 331, p. 831-836.

Fiorillo, A. R., Padian, K., and Musikasinthorn, C., 2000, Taphonomy and depositional setting of the Placerias Quarry (Chinle Formation: Late Triassic, Arizona): Palaios, v. 15, p. 373-386.

Galton, P. M., 2000, Are Spondylosoma and Staurikosaurus (Santa Maria Formation, Middle-Upper Triassic, Brazil) he oldest saurischain dinosaurs? Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 74, n. 3, p. 393-423.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The Permian and Triassic Chroniosuchia and the Upper Tatarian Biostratigraphy of Eastern Europe by tetropada: Trudy Paleontologischeskoso Instituta, Akademyia Nauk SSSR, v. 276, p. 1-173.

Gower, D. J., 2000, Rauisuchian archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida): an overview: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 218, n. 3, p. 447-488. Link to pdf

Gower, D. J., and Sennikov, A. G., 2000, Early archosaurs from Russia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 140-159.

Hancox, P. J., 2000, The Continental Triassic of South Africa: In: Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 11-12, p 1285-1324.

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., (1998) 2000, Global correlation of the Triassic theropod record: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno B. P., Holtz T. Jr., Sanz J. L., and Moratalla J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 63-74.

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, Taxonomy, phylogeny, biostratigraphy, biochronology, paleobiogeography, and evolution of the Late Triassic Aetosauria (Archosauria: Crurotarsi): Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Teil 1, 1998, heft 11-12, p. 1539-1587.

Heckert, A. B., Lucas, S. G., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Triassic dinosaurs from New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 17-26.

Heckert, A. B., Zeigeler, K. E., Lucas, S. G., Rinehart, L. F., and Harris, J. D., 2000, Preliminary description of coelophysoids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Triassic (Revuletian: Early-Mid Norian) Snyder Quarry, North-Central New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 27-32.

Hungerbuhler, A., 2000, heterodonty in the European phytosaur Nicrosaurus kapffi and its implications for the taxonomic utility and functional morphology of phytosaur dentitions: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 31-48.

Hungerbuhler, A., and Hunt, A. R., 2000, Two new phytosaur species (Archosauria, Cururotarsi) from the Upper Triassic of Southwest Germany: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2000, n. 8, p. 467-484. (Mystriosuchus westphali, Nicrosaurus meyeri)

Hutchinson, J. R., 2000, Adductors, abductors, and the evolution of archosaur locomotion: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 4, p. 734-751.

Kuznetsov, A. N., and Sennikov, A. G., 2000, On the function of a perforated acetabulum in Archosaurs and Birds: Palaeontological Journal, v. 34, n. 4, p. 439-448.

Lucas, S. G., 2000, Pathological aetosaur armor from the Upper Triassic of Germany: Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie B, Geologie und Palaontologie, n. 281, p. 1-6.

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Biochronological significance of Triassic nonmarine tetrapod records from marine strata: Albertiana, v. 24, p. 30-36.

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., and Hunt, A. P., 2000, Probable turtle from the Upper Triassic of East-Central New Mexico: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2000, n. 5, p. 287-300.

Morgan, G. S., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, Type specimens of fossil vertebrates in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: In: New Mexico’s Fossil Record 2, edited by Lucas S. G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 16, p.253-259.

Ochev, V. G., and Surkov, M. V, 2000, The history of excavation of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 1-16.

Olshevsky, G., 2000, An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continet: Mesozoic Meanderings n. 3, 157pp.

Peters, D., 2000, Description and interpretation of interphalangeal lines in tetrapods: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p. 11-41.

Rieber, H. P., 2000, Monte San Giorgio und Besano, mittlere Trias, Schwiez und Italien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 83-90.

Schultz, C. L., dos Santos Scherer, C. M., and Barberena, M. C., 2000, Bioestratigraphy of Southern Brazilian Middle-upper Triassic: Bevista Brasileira de Geociencias, v. 30, n. 3, p. 491-494.

Shishkin, M. A., Ochev V. G., Lozovskii, V. R., and Novikov, I. G., 2000, Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 120-139.

Sumida, S. S., and Brochu, C. A., 2000, Phylogenetic context for the origin of feathers: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 486-503.

Tanke, D. H., and Currie, P. J., (1998) 2000, Head-biting behavior in theropod dinosaurs: paleopathological evidence: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 167-184.

Crocodilia (Mesosuchia, Eusuchia)

Genus: Nova (5)

Adzhosuchus EFIMOV, GUBIN & KURZANOV, 2000
Kyasuchus EFIMOV, & LESHCHINSKIY, 2000
Paratomistoma BROCHU & GINGRICH, 2000
Simosuchus BUCKLEY, BROCHU, KRAUSE & POL, 2000
Stolokrosuchus LARSSON & GADO, 2000

Species: Nova (8)

Adzhosuchus fuscus EFIMOV, GUBIN & KURZANOV, 2000
Araripesuchus patagonicus ORTEGA, GASPARINI, BUSCALIONI & CALVO, 2000
Kyasuchus saevi EFIMOV, & LESHCHINSKIY, 2000
Narynsuchus ferganensis NESOV, 2000
Paratomistoma courti BROCHU & GINGRICH, 2000
Phyllodontosuchus lufengensis HARRIS, LUCAS, ESTEP & LI, 2000
Simosuchus clarki BUCKLEY, BROCHU, KRAUSE & POL, 2000
Stolokrosuchus lapparenti LARSSON & GADO, 2000

Allen, R., and Taquet, P., 2000, A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 404-407.

Badam, G. L., 2000, Pleistocene vertebrate palaeontology in India at the threshold of the millennium: Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, v. 45, p. 1-24.

Bardet, N. Cappetta, H., Pereda Suberbiola, X., Mouty, M., Maleh, A. K. Al, Ahmad, A. M., Khorata, O., and Gannoum, N., 2000, The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria: Geological Magazine, v. 137, n. 3, p. 269-290.

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Prosauropod dinosaurs and iguanas: speculations on the dietes of extinct reptiles: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 42-78.

Benton, M. J., Bouaziz, S., Buffetaut, E., Martill, D., Ouaja, M., Soussi, M., and Trueman, C., 2000, Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Tunisia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, v. 157, p. 227-246.

Brochu, C. A., 2000a, Borealosuchus (Crocodylia) from the Paleocene of Big Bend National Park, Texas: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 1, p. 181-187.

Brochu, C. A., 2000b, Fossil crocodylians from the Eocene Devil's Graveyard and Canoe Formations, Brewster County, Texas: Texas Journal of Science, v. 52, n. 1, p. 3-12.

Brochu, C. A., 2000c, Phylogenetic relationships and divergence timing of Crocodylus based on morphology and the fossil record: Copia, v. 3, p. 657-673.

Brochu, C. A., and Gingerich, P. D., 2000, New tomistomine crocodylian from the Middle Eocene (Bartonian) of Wadi Hitan, Fayum Province, Egypt: Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, The University of Michigan, v. 30, n. 10, p. 251-268. (Paratomistoma courti) Link to pdf

Brunet, M., Beauvilain, A., Billiou, D., Bocherens, H., Boisserie, J. R., Bonis, L. de, Branger, P., Brunet, A., Coppens, Y., Daams, R., Dejas, J., Denys, C., Duringer, P., Eisenmann, V., Fanone, F., Fronty, P., Gayet, M., Geraads, D., Guy, F., Kasser, M., Koufos, G., Likius, A., Lopez-Martinez, N., Louchart A., Maclatchy L., Makaye H. T., Marandat B., Mouchelin G., Mourer-Chauvier C., Otero O., Peigne, S., Pelaez Campomanes, P., Pilbeam, D., Rage, J. C., Ruitter, D. de, Schuster, M., Sudre, J., Tassy, P., Vignaud, P., Viriot, L., and Zazzo, A., 2000, Chad: discovery of a vertebrate fauna close to the Mio-Pliocene Boundary: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 205-209.

Buckley, G. A., Brochu, C. A., Krause, D. W., and Pol D., 2000, A pug-nosed crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar: Nature, v. 405, p. 941-944. (Simosuchus clarki)

Cao, Y., Sorenson, M. D., Kumazawa, Y., Mindell, D. P., and Hasegawa, M., 2000, Phylogenetic position of turtles among amniotes: evidence from mitochondrial and nuclear genes: Gene, v. 259, p. 139-148.

Carrier, D. R., and Farmer, C. G., 2000, The evolution of pelvic aspiration in archosaurs: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 2, p. 271-293.

Clark, J. M., Sues, H.-D., and Berman, D. S., 2000, A new specimen of Hesperosuchus agilis from the Uppter Triassic of New Mexico and the interrelationshps of basal crocodylomorph archosaurs: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 683-704. Link to pdf

Company, J., Pereda-Suberbiola, X., and Ruiz-Omenaca, J. I., 2000, Crocodyliformes from the Late Cretaceous Sierra Perenchiza Formation of Valencia, Spain: 5Th European Workshop on Vertebrate Palaeonology, p. 22-23.

Currie, P. J., 2001, Nomadic expeditions, Inc. report on fieldwork in Mongolia, September 2000: In: Alberta Palaeontological Society, fifth annual symposium, jointly presented by Alberta Palaeontological Society and Department of Earth Sciences, Mount Royal College, p. 12-16.

Dingus, L., and Loope, D., 2000, Death in the dunes. What killed the famous fossil creatures of the ancient Gobi? Geologists examine the rock-hard evidence: Natural History, v. 109, n. 6, p. 50-55.

Efimov, M. B., Gubin, Y. M., and Kurzanov, S. M., 2000, New primitive crocodile (Crocodylomropha: Shartegosuchidae) from the Jurassic of Mongolia: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, upplement 2, p. S238-S241. (Adzhosuchus fuscus)

Get Kyasuchus saevi EFIMOV, M. B., & LESHCHINSKIY, S.V., 2000

Fang, Pang, Lu, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li, and Cheng, 2000, Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic Divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan Province: In: Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Confrence of China, Geological Publishing House, Beijing, p. 208-214.

Fara, E., and Bention, M. J., 2000, The fossil record of Cretaceous tetrapods: Palaios, v. 15, p. 161-165.

Farlow, J. O., and Briton, A., 2000, Size and body proportions in Alligator mississippiensis: implications for archosaurian ichnology: Paleont. Soc. Korea Special Publications, n. 4, p. 189-206.

Farmer, C. G., and Carrier, D. R., 2000, Pelvic aspiration in the American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis): The Journal of Experimental Biology, v. 203, p . 1679-1687.

Fernandez, M., and Gasparini, Z. B., 2000, Salt glands in a Tithonian metriorhynchid crocodyliform and their physiological significance: Lethaia, v. 33, p. 269-276.

Flynn, J. J., 2000, Digging into the past: National Geographic, v. 198, n. 2, p. 44-57.

Franzen, J., L., 2000, Der eoxane see von Messel: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 177-183.

Garcia, G., 2000, Diversite des coquilles “Minces ” d’œufs fossiles du Cretace superieur du Sud de la France: Geobios, v. 33, n. 1, p. 113-126.

Garcia, G., Duffaud, S., Feist, M., Marandat, B., Tambarequ, Y., Villatte, J., and Sige, B., 2000, La neuve, gisement a plantes, invertebres et vertebres du Begudien (Senonien superieur continental) du bassin d’Aix-en-Provence: Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 3, p. 326-348.

Gasparini, Z. B., Vignaud, P., and Chong, G., 2000, The Jurassic Thalattosuchia (Crocodyliformes) of Chile: a paleobiogeographic approach: Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, tomo 171, n. 6, p. 657-664.

Gloy, W., 2000, Taphonomy of the fossil lagerstatte Guimarota, Chapter 18: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 129-136.

Gow, C. E., 2000, The skull of Protosuchus haughtoni, an early Jurassic crocodyliform from southern Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 49-56.

Gower, D. J., 2000, Rauisuchian archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida): an overview: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 218, n. 3, p. 447-488.

Gower, D. J., 2000, Rauisuchian archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida): an overview: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 218, n. 3, p. 447-488.

Harris, J. D., Lucas, S. G., Estep, J. W., and Li, J., 2000, A new and unusual sphenosuchian (Archosauria: Crocodylomorpha) from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation, People’s Republic of China: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 1, p. 47-68. (Phyllodontosuchus lufengensis) Link to pdf

Henrich, W.-D., Bussert, R., Aberhan, M,. Hampe, O., Kapilima, S., Schrank, E., Schultka, S., Mair, G., Msaky, E., Sames, B., and Cami, R., 2001, The German-Tanzanian Tendaguru expedition 2000: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl. Geowiss. Reihe, v. 4, p. 223-217.

Hua, S., Vignaud, P., Atrops, F., and Clement, A., 2000, Enaliosuchus macrospondylus Koken, 1883 (Crocodylia, Metriorhynchidae) du Valanginien de Barret-Le-Bas (Hautes Alpes, France): un as unique de remontee des narines externes parmi les crocodiliens: Geobios, v. 33, n. 4, p. 467-474.

Hutchinson, J. R., 2000, Adductors, abductors, and the evolution of archosaur locomotion: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 4, p. 734-751.

Krebs, B., and Schwarz, D., 2000, The crocodiles from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 10: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 69-74.

Kirkland, J. I., Hernandez Rivera, R, Martinex, M. C. A., Jesus, C. R. D. de, Nunez, R. G., and Vallejo, I., 2000, The Late Cretaceous Difunta Group of the Parras Basin, Coahuila, Mexico and its vertebrate fauna: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 133-172.

Larrson, H. C. E., and Gado, B., 2000, A new early Cretaceous crocodyliform from Niger: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 217, n. 1, p. 131-141. (Stolokrosuchus lapparenti)

Laurent, Y., Bufetaut, E., and Le Loeuff, J., 2000, Un crane de Thoracosaurine (Crocodylia, Crocodylidae) dans le Maastrichtien Superieur du sud de la France: Oryctos, v. 3, p. 19-27.

Lucas, S. G., and Estep, J. W., 2000, Osteology of Allognathosuchus mooki Simpson, a Paleocene crocodilian from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and the monophyl of Allognathosuchus: In: New Mexico’s Fossil Record 2, edited by Lucas, S. G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 16, p. 155-168.

Mackness, B., and Sutton, R., 2000, Possible evidence for instraspecific aggression in a Pliocene crocodile from north Queensland: Alcheringia, v. 24, p. 55-62.

Maisch, M. W., Matzke, A. T., Pfretzschner, H.-U., Sun, G., Stohr, H., and Grossmann, F., 2003, Fossil vertebrates from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of the Southern Junggar Basin (NW China) – results of the Sino-German Expeditions 1999-2000: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2003, n. 5, p. 297-313.

Martin, T., 2000, Overivew over the Guimarota Ecosystem, Chapter 20: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 143-146.

Matsumoto, Y., Hashimoto, R., and Sonda, T., 2000, Report of preparation works for Mongolian specimens in HMNS from March 1994 to December 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 113-127.

Mohabey, D. M., and Udhoji, S. G., 2000, Vertebrate fauna of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur-bearing Lameta Formation of Nand-Dongargaon Inland Basin, Maharashtra: Palaeoenvironment and K-T boundary implications: Memoir Geological Society of India, n. 46, p. 295-322.

Molnar, R. E., and Willis, P. M. A., 2000, New crocodyliform material from the Early Cretaceous Griman Creek Formation, at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales: In: Crocodilian Biology and Evolution, edited by Grigg, G. C., Seebacher, F., and Franklin, C. E., Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, p. 75-82.

Morgan, G. S., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, Type specimens of fossil vertebrates in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: In: New Mexico’s Fossil Record 2, edited by Lucas, S. G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 16, p.253-259.

Mors, T., Hocht, F. von der, Wutzler, B., 2000, Die erste wirbeltierfauna aus der miozanen braunkohle der niederrheinischen bucht (Ville-Schichten, Tagebau Hambach): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 74, n. ½, p. 145-170.

Get Narynsuchus ferganensis NESOV, 2000

Olshevsky, G., 2000, An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continet: Mesozoic Meanderings n. 3, 157pp.

Ortega, F. J., Gasparini, Z. B., Buscalioni, A. D., and Calvo, J. O., 2000, A new species of Araripesuchus (Crocodylomorpha, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Lower Creatceous of Patagonia (Argentina): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 57-76. (Araripesuchus patagonicus)

Pereda-Suberbiola, X., Astibia, H., Murelaga, X., Elorza, J. J., and Gomez-Alday, J. J., 2000, Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing beds of the Lano Quarry (Iberian Peninsula): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 157, p. 247-275.

Pfretzschner, H.-U., 2000, Microcraks and fossilization of Haversian bone: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 216, n. 3, p. 413-432.

Pickford, M., 2000, Crocodiles from the Beglia Formation, Middle/Late Miocene Boundary, Tunisia, and their significance for Saharan Palaeoclimatology: Annales de Paleontologie, v. 86, n. 1, p. 59-67.

Rana, R. J., and Sati, K. K., 2000, Late Cretaceous-Palaeocene crocodilians from the Deccan Trap-associated sedimentary sequences of Peninsular India: Journal fo the Palaeontological Society of India, v. 45, p. 123-136. Link to pdf

Rauhut, O. W. M., and Hungerbuhler, A., (1998) 2000, A review of european Triassic theropods: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno B. P., Holtz T. Jr., Sanz J. L., and Moratalla J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 75-88.

Rees, J., 2000, An Early Cretaceous scincomorph lizard dentary from Bornholm, Denmark: Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, v. 48, p. 105-109

Reynoso, V. H., Perdomo, M. A. C., and Clark, J., 2000, The reptiles of the Tlayua Formation: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 106-111.

Rogers, J. V. II, 2000, A complete crocodiloid egg from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Glen Rose Formation, Central Texas: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 780-783.

Rossmann, T., 2000, Studien an Känozoishen Krokodilen: 4. Biomechanische Untersuchung am Schädel und der Halswirbelsäule des paläogene Krocodils Pristchampsus rollinatii (Eusuchia: Pristichampsidae): Neües Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 3, p. 397-432.

Rossmann, T., 2000, Studien an Känozoishen Krokodilen: 5. Biomechanische Untersuchung am postkranialen skelett des palaogenen krokodils Pristichampsus rollinatii (Eusuchia: Pristichampsidae): Neües Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 217, n. 3, p. 289-330.

Rossmann, T., and Klappert, G., 2000, Studies on Cenozoic crocodilians and fishes : 6*. Helmstedtisuchus freyi SCHLEICH & WINDOLF, 1994 from the Late Eocene of Helmstedt (Germany) is not a crocodilian, but a scombrid teleost: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2000, n. 11, p. 651-668.

Rossmann, T., Muller, J., and Forst, M., 2000, Studies on Cenozoic crocodilians : 7. First evidence of an alligatorid from Africa and its implications for crocodilian palaeobiogeography: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2000, n. 12, p. 705-712.

Rossmann, T., Rauhe, M., and Ortega, F., 2000, Studies on Cenozoic crocodiles: 8. Bergisuchus dietrichbergi Kuhn (Sebecosuchia: Bergisuchidae n. fam.) from the Middle Eocene of Germany, some new systematic and biological conclusions: Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 74, n. 3, p. 379-392.

Sanchez-Villagra, M. R., Burnham, R. J., Campbell, D. C., Feldmann, R. M., Gaffney, E. S., Kay, R. F., Lozsan, R., Purdy, R., and Thewissen, J. G. M., 2000, A new near-shore marine fauna and flora from the Early Neogene of Northwestern Venezuela: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 5: 957-968.

Sanz, J. L., Dieguez, C., Poyato-Ariza, F. J., 2000, Die Unter-Kreide von Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spanien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 155-160.

Shuvalov, V. F., 2000, The Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 256-278.

Storrs, G. W., and Efimov, M. B., 2000, Mesozoic crocodyliforms of north-central Eurasia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 402-419.

Sumida, S. S., and Brochu C. A., 2000, Phylogenetic context for the origin of feathers: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson P. F. A. and Homberger D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 486-503.

Tanimoto, M., and Kaede, T., 2000, A Pliocene crocodilian vertebra from Iga Basin, Mie Prefecture, Southwest Japan: Chigakukenkyu, v. 49, n. 2, p. 97-100.

Vermeij, G. J., and Dudley, R., 2000, Why are there so few evolutionary transitions between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 70, p. 541-554.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000a, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 17-29.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108.

Wedel, M. J., 2000, New material of sauropod dinosaurs from the Cloverly Formation: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, supplement to n. 3, abstracts and papers, Sixteth Annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Fiesta Americana Reforma Hotel, Mexico City, Mexico, October 25-28, p. 77a.

Whittle, C. H., and Everhart M. J., 2000, Apparent and implied evolutionary trends in lithophagic vertebrates from New Mexico and Elsewhere: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 75-82.

Whittle, C. H., and Onorato L., 2000, On the origins of gastroliths—determining the weathering environment of rounded and polished stones by scanning-electron-microscope examination: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 69-73.

Williamson, T. E., 2000, Eusuchian crocodilians from the Fruitland and Kirtland Formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 52.

Willis, P. M. A., and Stilwell, J. D., 2000, A probable piscivorous crocodile from Eocene deposits of McMurdo Sound, East Antarctica: Antarctic Research Series, v. 76, p. 353-358.

Winkler, D. A., Gomani E. M., and Jacobs J. L., 2000, Comparative taphonomy of an Early Cretaceous Sauropod Quarry, Malawi, Africa: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 99-114.

Zonneveld, J.-P., Gunnell, G. F., and Bartels, W. S., 2000, Early Eocene fossil vertebrates from the southwestern Green River Basin, Lincolon and Uinta Counties, Wyoming: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 369-386.

Pterosaurs

Genus: Nova (1)

Domeykodactylus MARTILL, FREY, DIAZ & BELL, 2000

Species: Nova (2)

Anhanguera piscator KELLNER & TOMIDA, 2000
Domeykodactylus ceciliae MARTILL, FREY, DIAZ & BELL, 2000

Synonym: Nova (1)

Anhanguera araripensis (WELLNHOFER, 1985) KELLNER & TOMIDA, 2000
= Santanadactylus araripensis WELLNHOFER, 1985

Anonymous, 2000, Drachen der Lufte, Entwicklung und Leben der Flugsaurier. Jura-Museum Eichstatt, Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 48pp.

Averianov, A. O., 2000, Sunosuchus sp (crocodylomorpha, Goniopholididae) from the Middle Jurassic of Kirghisa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 776-779.

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Evolutionary consequences of dating the Yixian Formation: TREE, v. 15, n. 3, p. 99-103.

Bennett, S. C., 2000, Pterosaur flight: the role of actinofibrils in wing function: Historical Biology, v. 14, p. 255-284.

Benton, M. J., Bouaziz, S., Buffetaut, E., Martill, D., Ouaja, M., Soussi, M., and Trueman, C., 2000, Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Tunisia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, v. 157, p. 227-246.

Brochu, C., and Norell, M. A., 2000, Temporal congruence and the origin of Birds: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 197-200.

Carrier, D. R., and Farmer, C. G., 2000, The evolution of pelvic aspiration in archosaurs: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 2, p. 271-293.

Carrier, D. R., and Farmer, C. G., 2000, The integration of ventilation and locomotion in archosaurs: American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 87-100. Link to pdf

Chiappe, L. M., Kellner, A. W. A., Rivarola, D., Davila, S., and Fox, M., 2000, Cranial morphology of Pterodaustro guinaxui (Pterosauria: Pterodactyloidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Argentina: Contributions in Scinece, n. 483, p. 1-19.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, A wing phalanx of a large basal pterosaur (Diapsida, Pterosauria) from the Norian (Late Triassic) of NE Italy: Bollettion della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, v. 39, n. 2, p. 229-234.

Fan, G., 2000, Photo album of Beipiao Bird fossils community nature preservation zone of Liaoning in China: To the 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology, National Press of Liaoning, 80pp.

Frey, E., and Tischlinger, H., 2000, Weichteilanatomie der Flugsaurierfuße und bau der scheiitelkamme: Neue Pterosaurierfunde aus den Solnhofener Schichten (Bayern) und der Crato-Formation (Brasilien): Archaeopteryx, v. 18, p. 1-16.

Geist, N. R., and Feduccia, A., 2000, Gravity-defying behaviors: identifying models for Protoaves: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 664-675.

Gloy, W., 2000, Taphonomy of the fossil lagerstatte Guimarota, Chapter 18: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 129-136.

Ikegami, N., Kellner, A. W. A., and Tomida, Y., 2000, The presence of an azhdarchid pterosaur in the Cretaceous of Japan: Paleontological Research, v. 4, n. 3, p. 165-170.

Isaji, S., 2000, Geological setting of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe”, the Kuwajima Formation: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 14-16.

Isaji, S., 2000, Depositional environments of the bone-bearing strata with special reference to the taphonomical process of vertebrate fossil assemblages: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 22-27.

Kellner, A. W. A., 2000, Tapejara imperator-an unusual flying reptile (pterosaur) from the ancient skies of Brazil: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 63-75.

Kellner, A. W. A., and Tomada, Y., 2000, Description of a new species of Anhangueridae (Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian), northeastern Brazil: National Science Museum Monograph, n. 17, p. 1-135. (Anhanguera araripensis = Santanadactylus araripensis, Anhanguera piscator)

Knoll, F., 2000, Pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous (?Berriasian) of Anoual, Morocco: Annales de Paleontologie, v. 86, n. 3, p. 157-164.

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Biochronological significance of Triassic nonmarine tetrapod records from marine strata: Albertiana, v. 24, p. 30-36.

Martill, D. M., Frey, E., Diaz, G. C., and Bell, C. M., 2000, Reinterpretation of a Chilean pterosaur and the occurrence of Dsungaripteridae in South America: Geological Magazine, v. 137, n. 1, p. 19-25. (Domeykodactylus ceciliae)

Martin, T., 2000, Overivew over the Guimarota Ecosystem, Chapter 20: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 143-146.

Olshevsky, G., 2000, An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continet: Mesozoic Meanderings n. 3, 157pp.

Peters, D., 2000, A reexamination of four prolacertiformes with implications for pterosaur phylogenies: Rivisita Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 106, n. 3, p. 293-356.

Peters, D., 2000, Description and interpretation of interphalangeal lines in tetrapods: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p. 11-41.

Posmosanu, E., and Cook, E., 2000, Vertebrate taphonomy and dinosaur palaeopathology from a Lower Cretaceous Bauxite Lens, North West Romania: Oryctos, v. 3, p. 39-51.

Reynoso, V. H., Perdomo, M. A. C., and Clark, J., 2000, The reptiles of the Tlayua Formation: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 106-111.

Richter, A. E., 2000, Flugsaurier in Eichstatt! Fossilien, Zeitschrift fur Hobbypalaontologen, Heft 5, Sept/Okt: 307-309.

de Ricquels, A. J., Padian, K, Horner, J. R., and Francillon-Vieillot, H., 2000, Palaeohistology of the bones of pterosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria): anatomy, ontogeny, and biomechanical implications: Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, v. 129, p. 349-385.

Sayao, J. M. A., and Kellner, A. W. A., 2000, Description of a pterosaur rostrum from the Crato Member, Santana Formation (Aptian-Albian), Northeastern Brazil: Boletim do Museu Nacional, Geologia, n. 54, p. 1-8.

Shuvalov, VV. F., 2000, The Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 256-278.

Unwin, D. M., Alifanov, V. R., and Benton, M. J., 2000, Enigmatic small reptiles from the Middle-Late Triassic of Kirgizstan: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 177-186.

Unwin, D. M., and Bakhurina, N. N., 2000, Pterosaurs from Russia, Middle Asia and Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 420-433.

Unwin, D. M., Lu, J,. and Bakhurina, N. N., 2000, On the systematic and stratigraphic significance of pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Jehole Group) of Liaoning, China: Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe, band 3, p.181-206.

Unwin, D. M., and Matsuoka, H, 2000, Pterosaurs and birds: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 99-104.

Viohl, G., 2001, Jahresbericht 2000 des Jura-Museums: Archaeopteryx, v. 19, p. 121-126.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F., Zhang, J., and Gu, G., 2000, Avifaunas of the Jehol biota in western Liaoning, China and their geological ages: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 31-32.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu, Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Wang, X.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Zhang, J.-Y., and Zhang, F., 2000, Vertebrata faunas and biostratigraphy of the Jehol group in western Liaoning, China: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 41-56.

Wiechmann, M. F., and Gloy, U., 2000, Pterosaurs and urvogels from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 12: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 83-86.

Dinosaur

Theropoda

Genus: Nova

Archaeoraptor OLSON, 2000
Bambiraptor BURNHAM, DERSTLER, CURRIE, BAKKER, ZHOU & OSTROM, 2000
Byronosaurus NORELL, MAKOVICKY, & CLARK 2000
Fukuiraptor AZUMA & CURRIE, 2000
Ilokelesia CORIA & SALGADO, (1998) 2000
Masiakasaurus SAMPSON, CARRANO & FORSTER, 2000
Microraptor XU, ZHOU & WANG, 2000
Nomingia BARSBOLD, OSMOLSKA, WATABE, CURRIE & TSOGTBAATAR, 2000
Nqwebasaurus KLERK, FORSTER, SAMPSON, CHINSAMY, & ROSS, 2000
Pyroraptor ALLAIN & TAQUET, 2000

Species: Nova

Byronosaurus jeffei NORELL, MAKOVICKY, & CLARK, 2000
Caudipteryx dongi ZHOU & WANG, 2000
Ceratosaurus dentisulcatus MADSEN & WELLES, 2000
Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis AZUMA & CURRIE, 2000
Ilokelesia aguadagrandensis CORIA & SALGADO, (1998) 2000
Masiakasaurus knopfleri SAMPSON, CARRANO & FORSTER, 2000
Nomingia gobiensis BARSBOLD, OSMOLSKA, WATABE, CURRIE & TSOGTBAATAR, 2000
Nqwebasaurus thwazi KLERK, FORSTER, SAMPSON, CHINSAMY, & ROSS, 2000
Pyroraptor olympous ALLAIN & TAQUET, 2000

Synonym: Nova (5)

Bambiraptor feinbergorum emend BURNHAM, DERSTLER, CURRIE, BAKKER, ZHOU & OSTROM, 2000
Note: The species name has the wrong ending. It was named after the family and therefore should end in –orum not ‘i’ and is here emeneded
= Bambiraptor feinbergi BURNHAM, DERSTLER, CURRIE, BAKKER, ZHOU & OSTROM, 2000
Ceratosaurus meriani (GREPPIN, 1870) emend MADSEN & WELLES, 2000 (nomen dubium)
Note: Ceratosaurus sp (as per MADSEN & WELLES, 2000), once a species name is given to a genus that species can not be placed into a genus as just a sp. The coined name always follows the specimen where ever it goes, and therefore can not be placed into just a sp.
= Megalosaurus meriani GREPPIN, 1870 (nomen dubium)
= Antrodemus meriani (GREPPIN, 1870) STEEL, 1970 (nomen dubium)
= Labrosaurus meriani (GREPPIN, 1870) HUENE, 1926 (nomen dubium)
= Allosaurus meriani (GREPPIN, 1870) OLSEHVSKY, 1991 (nomen dubium)
Ceratosaurus sulcatus (MARSH, 1896)
Note: Ceratosaurus sp (as per MADSEN & WELLES, 2000), once a species name is given to a genus that species can not be placed into a genus as just a sp. The coined name always follows the specimen where ever it goes, and therefore can not be placed into just a sp.
= Antrodemus sulcatus (MARSH, 1896) HAY, 1901
= Labrosaurus sulcatus MARSH, 1896
Ceratosaurus magnicornis MADSEN & WELLES, 2000
= Ceratosaurus willisobrienorum PICKERING, (nomen nudum, in press)
Microraptor zhaoianus XU, ZHOU & WANG, 2000
= Archaeoraptor zhaoianus OLSON, 2000

Allen, R., and Taquet, P., 2000, A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 404-407. (Pyroraptor olympous)

Arucci, A. B., and Coria, R., 2000, Un teropodo Tetanurae en la paleofauna de la Formacion Los Colorados (Trisico Superior, La Rioja, Argentina): IV Reunion sobre el Triasico del cono sur, resumenes, Ameghiniana, v. 37, n. 4, supplement, p. 39R.

Azuma, Y., and Currie, P. J., 2000, A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 37, p. 1735-1753. (Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis)

Bakker, R. T., (1998) 2000, Brontosaur killers: Late Jurassic allosaurids as sabre-tooth cat analogues: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 145-158. Link to pdf

Bajpai S., and Prasad, G. V. R., 2000, Cretaceous age for Ir-rich Deccan intertrappean deposits: Palaeontological evidence from Anjar, western India: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 157, p. 257-260.

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Evolutionary consequences of dating the Yixian Formation: TREE, v. 15, n. 3, p. 99-103.

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Prosauropod dinosaurs and iguanas: speculations on the dietes of extinct reptiles: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 42-78.

Barsbold, R., Currie, P. J., Myhrvold, N. P., Osmolska, H., Tsogtbaatar, K,. and Watabe, M., 2000, A pygostyle from a non-avian theropod: Nature, v. 403, p. 155-156.

Barsbold, R., Osmolska, H., Watabe, M., Currie, P. J., and Tsogtbaatar, K., 2000, A new oviraptorsaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Mongolia: The first dinosaur wth a pygostyle: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 45, n. 2, p. 97-106. (Nomingia gobiensis)

Benton, M. J., Bouaziz, S., Buffetaut, E., Martill, D., Ouaja, M., Soussi, M., and Trueman, C., 2000, Dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates from fluvial deposits in the Lower Cretaceous of Southern Tunisia: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, v. 157, p. 227-246.

Brochu, C. A., 2000, A digitally-rendered endocast of Tyrannosaurus rex: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 1-6.

Brochu, C., and Norell, M. A., 2000, Temporal congruence and the origin of Birds: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 197-200.

Burnham, D. A., Derstler, K. L., Currie, P. J., Bakker, R. T., Zhou, Z., and Ostrom, J. H., 2000, Remarkable new birdlike dinosaur (Theropoda: Maniraptora) from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana: The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, n. 13, p. 1-14. (Bambiraptor feinbergorum)
Note: The species name has the wrong ending. It was named after the family and therefore should end in –orum not ‘i’ and is here emeneded
= Bambiraptor feinbergi

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Ceratosaurus sulcatus
Note: Ceratosaurus sp (as per MADSEN & WELLES, 2000), once a species name is given to a genus that species can not be placed into a genus as just a sp. The coined name always follows the specimen where ever it goes, and therefore can not be placed into just a sp.
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Sauropodomorpha (Sauropoda, Prosauropoda)

Genus: Nova (6)

Chuanjiesaurus FANG, PANG, LU, ZHANG, PAN, WANG, LI & CHENG, 2000
Huabeisaurus PANG & CHENG, 2000
Isanosaurus BUFFETAUT, SUTEETHORN, CUNY, TONG, LE LOEUFF, KHANSUBHA & JONGAUTCHARIYAKUL, 2000
Rocasaurus SALGADO & AZPILICUETA, 2000
Sauroposeidon WEDEL, CIFELLI & SANDERS, 2000
Tendaguria BONAPARTE, HEINRICH & WILD, 2000

Species: Nova (5)

Chuanjiesaurus ananesis FANG, PANG, LU, ZHANG, PAN, WANG, LI & CHENG, 2000
= Chuanjiesaurus a’nanesis FANG, PANG, LU, ZHANG, PAN, WANG, LI & CHENG, 2000
Huabeisaurus allocatus PANG & CHENG, 2000
= Amphicoelicaudia allocata CHENG, et al, 1994 (nomen nudum?)
Isanosaurus attavipachi BUFFETAUT, SUTEETHORN, CUNY, TONG, LE LOEUFF, KHANSUBHA & JONGAUTCHARIYAKUL, 2000
Rocasaurus muniozi SALGADO & AZPILICUETA, 2000
Sauroposeidon proteles WEDEL, CIFELLI & SANDERS, 2000

Synonym: Nova (1)

Tendaguria tanzaniensis BONAPARTE, HEINRICH & WILD, 2000
= Gigantosaurus robustus FRAAS, 1929 (partim)

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Ornithischia

Genus: Nova (5)

Charonosaurus GODEFROIT, ZAN & JIN, 2000
Graciliceratops SERENO, 2000
Jeholosaurus XU, WANG & YOU, 2000
Nanyangosaurus XU, ZHAO, LU, HUANG, LI & DONG, 2000
Ponerosteus OLSHEVSKY, 2000 (nomen dubium)

Species: Nova (4)

Charonosaurus jiayinensis GODEFROIT, ZAN & JIN, 2000
Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis XU, WANG & YOU, 2000
Nanyangosaurus zhugeii XU, ZHAO, LU, HUANG, LI & DONG, 2000
Psittacosaurus sibiricus VORONKEVICH & AVERIANOV, 2000

Synonym: Nova (4)

Graciliceratops mongoliensis SERENO, 2000
= Microceratops gobiensis MARYANSKA & OSMOLSKA, 1975
Ponerosteus exogyrarum (FRITISCH, 1905) OLSHEVSKY, 2000
= Iguanodon exogyrarum FRITSCH, 1878 emend CHURE & McINTHOSH, 1989 (nomen dubium)
= Iguanodon exogirarum FRITSCH, 1879 (nomen dubium)
= Procerosaurus exogirarum (FRITSCH, 1879) emend Fritsch, 1905 (nomen dubium)
Prenocephale brevis (LAMBE, 1918) SULLIVAN, 2000
= Stegoceras brevis LAMBE, 1918
= Stegoceras breve LAMBE, 1918
= Troodon brevis (LAMBE, 1918) HAY, 1930
Prenocephale edmontonense (BROWN & SCHLAIKJER, 1943) SULLIVAN, 2000
= Troodon edmontonensis BROWN & SCHLAIKJER, 1943
= Stegoceras edmontonensis (BROWN & SCHLAIKJER, 1943) STERNBERG, 1945

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Get Voronkevich, A. V., & Averianov, A. O., in Leshchinskiy, S. V., Fayngertz, A. V., Voronkevich, A. V., Maschenko, E. N., and Averianov, A. O., 2000, Preliminary results of the investigation of the Shestakovo localites of Early Cretaceous vertebrates: In: Materials of the regional converence of the geologists of Siberia, Far East and North East of Russia, GalaPress, Tomsk (In Russian), p. 363-366.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F., Zhang, J., and Gu, G., 2000, Avifaunas of the Jehol biota in western Liaoning, China and their geological ages: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 31-32.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu, Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Wang, X.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Zhang, J.-Y., and Zhang, F., 2000, Vertebrata faunas and biostratigraphy of the Jehol group in western Liaoning, China: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 41-56.

Watabe, M., 2000, The list of publications and presentations on the results of Hyashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 128-130.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000a, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 17-29.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000b, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 30-44.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000c, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1996: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 58-68.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000d, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 69-82.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108.

Weishampel, D. B., and Jianu, C.-M., 2000, Plant-eaters and ghost lineages: dinosaurian herbivory revisted: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues, H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 123-143.

Williams, M., 2000, Killer Enigma: Explorer, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, v. 38, n. 1 & 2, p. 4-7.

Williamson, T. E., 2000, Review of hadrosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico, Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 191-213.

Wolfe, D. G., 2000, Preliminary observations regarding the taphonomy and paleoenvironments of Zuniceratops and contemporaneous vertebrate fossils of the Mid-Cretaceous Moreno Hill Formaiton, Zuni Basin (Arizona-New Mexico): In: Southwest Paleontological Symposium, Proceedings 2000, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Bulletin n. 7, p. 89-91.

Wolfe, D. G., 2000, New information on the skull of Zuniceratops christopheri, a neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Cretaceous Moreno Hill Formation, New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 93-94.

Worth, G., 2000, New dinosaurs 1999: Dinonews, v. 15, p. 17-21.

Xu, X., Wang, X.-L., and You, H.-L., 2000, A primitive ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, n. 4, p. 318-325. (Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis)

Xu, X., Zhao, X.-J., Lu, J.-C., Huang, W.-B., Li, Z.-Y., and Dong, Z.-M., 2000, A new iguanodontian from Sangping Formation of Neixiang, Henan and its stratigraphical implication: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, N. 3, p. 176-191. (Nanyangosaurus zhugeii)

Zhao, Z.-K, 2000, Nesting behavior of dinosaurs as interpreted from the Chinese Cretaceous dinosaur eggs: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee, Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 115-126.

Armored dinosaurs

Genus: Nova (1)

Glyptodontopelta FORD, 2000

Species: Nova (2)

Edmontonia australis FORD, 2000
Glyptodontopelta mimus FORD, 2000

Allen, R., and Taquet P., 2000, A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 404-407.

Averianov, A. O., 2000, Sunosuchus sp (crocodylomorpha, Goniopholididae) from the Middle Jurassic of Kirghisa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 4, p. 776-779.

Bonaparte, J. F., (1978) 1980, Los vertebrados tetrapodos de limite Jurasico-Cretacio: Actas Cong. argent. Pal. Biostrat., I Cong. Latinoamericano Pal. Buenos Aires, p. 78-88.

Buckley, G. A., Brochu, C. A., Krause, D. W., and Pol, D., 2000, A pug-nosed crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar: Nature, v. 405, p. 941-944.

Carpenter, K., 2000, The Canon City Dinosaur sites of Marsh and Cope: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Field Trip, October 18, 1999, 14pp.

Carrano, M. T., 2000, Homoplasy and the evolution of dinosaur locomotion: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 3, p. 489-512.

Carrier, D. R., and Farmer, C. G., 2000, The evolution of pelvic aspiration in archosaurs: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 2, p. 271-293.

Colbert, E. H., 2000, Asiatic dinosaur rush: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 211-234.

Currie, P. J., (1998) 2000, Possible evidence of gregarious behavior in tyrannosaurids: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 271-277.

Ebel, K., 2000, Biomechanics of the vertebrate column and implications for the lifestyle of dinosaurs and certain pelycosaurs: Freiberger Forschungshefte, V. 490,p. 27-50.

Fang, Pang, Lu, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li, and Cheng, 2000, Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic Divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan Province: In: Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Conference of China, Geological Publishing House, Beijing, p. 208-214.

Ford, T. L., 2000, A review of ankylosaur osteoderms from New Mexico and a preliminary review of ankylosaur armor: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin n. 17, p. 157-176. (Edmontonia australis, Glyptodontopelta mimus)

Foster, J. R., 2000, Paleobiogeographic homogeneity of dinosaur faunas durin the Late Jurassic in Western North America: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 47-50.

Garcia, G,. Duffaud, S., Feist, M., Marandat, B., Tambarequ, Y., Villatte, J., and Sige, B., 2000, La neuve, gisement a plantes, invertebres et vertebres du Begudien (Senonien superieur continental) du bassin d’Aix-en-Provence: Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 3, p. 326-348.

Henrich, W.-D., Bussert, R., Aberhan, M,. Hampe, O., Kapilima, S., Schrank, E., Schultka, S., Mair, G., Msaky, E., Sames, B., and Cami, R., 2001, The German-Tanzanian Tendaguru expedition 2000: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl. Geowiss. Reihe, v. 4, p. 223-217.

Klerk, W. J. de., 2000, South Africa’s first dinosaur revisited – history of the discovery of the stegosaur Paranthodon africanus (Broom): Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums, v. 1, p. 54-60.

Klerk, W. J. de, Forster, C. A., Sampson, S. D., Chinsamy, A., and Ross, C. F., 2000, A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 324-332.

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Jurassic Dinosaurs of New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 43-45.

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Cretaceous Dinosaurs in New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 83-90.

Martill D. M., Batten, D. J, and Loydell, D. K., 2000, A new specimen of the thyreophoran dinosaur cf. Scelidosaurus with soft tissue preservation: Paleontology, v. 43, part 3, p. 549-559.

Matsumoto, Y., Hashimoto, R., and Sonda, T., 2000, Report of preparation works for Mongolian specimens in HMNS from March 1994 to December 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 113-127.

Molnar, R. E., and Clifford, H. T., 2000, Gut contents of a small ankylosaur: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 194-196.

Norman, D. B., 2000, Professor Richard Owen and the Important but neglected dinosaur Scelidosaurus harrisonii: Historical Biology, v. 14, p. 235-253.

Olshevsky, G., 2000, An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continet: Mesozoic Meanderings n. 3, 157pp.

Pereda-Suberbiola, X., Astibia, H., Murelaga, X., Elorza, J. J., and Gomez-Alday, J. J., 2000, Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing beds of the Lano Quarry (Iberian Peninsula): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 157, p. 247-275.

Rosenbaum, J. N., and Padian, K., 2000, New material of the basal thyreophoran Scutellosaurus lawleri from the Kayenta Formation (Lower Jurassic) of Arizona: PaleoBios, v. 20, n. 1, p. 13-23.

Ryan, M. J., Currie, P. J., Gardner, J. D., Vickaryous, M. K., and Lavigne, J. M., (1998) 2000, Baby hadrosaurid material associated with an unusually high abundance of Troodon teeth from the Horeseshoe Canyon Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Alberta, Canada: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 123-133.

Shuvalov, V. F., 2000, The Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 256-278.

Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Reply to Upchurch, P., and Barrett, P. M., 2000, The taxonomic status of Shanxia tianzhenensis (Ornithischia, Ankylosauridae): A response ot Sullivan, 1999: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 218-219.

Sullivan, R. M,. 2000, Prenocephale edmontonensis (Brown and Schlaikjer) new com. and P. brevis (Lambe) new comb. (Dinosauria: Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of North America: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 177-190.

Sullivan, R. M., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, First occurrnce of Saurornitholestes (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 105-108.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1992: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 13-16.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000a, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1995: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 45-57.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000b, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 83-98.

Trinajstic, K, 2000, Dinosaur diets. Who ate whom in the dinosaur world: Dinonews, v. 14, p. 3-6.

Tumanova, T. A., 2000, Armoured dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 517-532.

Upchurch, P., and Barrett, P. M., 2000, The taxonomic status of Shanxia tianzhenensis (Ornithischia, Ankylosauridae): A response ot Sullivan, 1999: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 216-217.

Vianey-Liaud, M., and Garcia, G., 2000, The interest of French Late Cretaceous Dinosaur eggs and eggshells: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo A. M., and Reyes T., 2000, p. 165-175.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000b, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 30-44.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000c, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1996: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 58-68.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000d, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 69-82.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108.

Weishampel, D. B., 1990, Thyreophora: In The Dinosauria, edited by Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., and Osmolska, H., University of California Press, p. 426.

Weishampel, D. B., and Jianu, C.-M., 2000, Plant-eaters and ghost lineages: dinosaurian herbivory revisted: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues, H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 123-143.

Worth, G., 2000, New dinosaurs 1999: Dinonews, v. 15, p. 17-21.

Dinosaurs in general

Allmon, W. D., and Ross, R. M., 2000, An art exhibit on dinosaurs and the nature of science: V. 48, p. 296-299.

Ausich, W. I., 2000, Bones in the Ivory Tower: Geotimes, October, 2000, p. 18-20.

Bakker, R. T., (1998) 2000, Brontosaur killers: Late Jurassic allosaurids as sabre-tooth cat analogues: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 145-158.

Banks, L. W., 2000, Dinosaurs, Trilobites & Wooly Mammoth Hair: Arizona Highways, v. 76, n. 2, p. 22-25.

Barsbold, R,. 2000, History and future perspectives of Paleontological and Geological studies in the Gobi desert: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 8-10.

Carpenter, K., 2000, The Canon City Dinosaur sites of Marsh and Cope: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Field Trip, October 18, 1999, 14pp.

Carpenter, K., 2000, Volunteers doing science: Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Museum quarterly, v. 9, n. 2, p. 16.

Carrano, M. T., 2000, Homoplasy and the evolution of dinosaur locomotion: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 3, p. 489-512.

Carrier, D. R., and Farmer, C. G., 2000, The evolution of pelvic aspiration in archosaurs: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 2, p. 271-293.

Chure, D. J., 2000, New threats to old bones. The theft of fossil vertebrates from Museum collections: CRM, n. 5, p. 18-22.

Chure, D. J., Fiorillo, A. R., and Jacobsen, A., (1998) 2000, Prey bone utilization by predatory dinosaurs in the late Jurassic of North America, with comments on prey bone use by dinosaurs throughout the Mesozoic: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 227-232.

Colbert, E. H., 2000, Asiatic dinosaur rush: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 211-234.

Ebel, K., 2000, Biomechanics of the vertebrate column and implications for the lifestyle of dinosaurs and certain pelycosaurs: Freiberger Forschungshefte, V. 490,p. 27-50.

Erickson, G. M., and Tumanova, T., 2000, Growth curve of Psittacosaururs mongoliensis Osborn (Ceratopsia: Psittacosauridae) inferred from long bone histology: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 130, p. 551-566.

Fara, E., and Benton, M. J., 2000, The fossil record of Cretaceous tetrapods: Palaios, v. 15, p. 161-165.

Farlow, J. O., Gatesy, S. M,. Holtz, T. R. Jr., Hutchinson, J. R., and Robinson, J. M, 2000, Theropod Locomotion: In: Evolutionary Origin of Feathers, organized by Maderson, F. A, and Homberer, D. G., American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 640-663.

Fastovsky, D. E., 2000, The Rocky Road of Vertebrate Paleontology: Palaios, v. 15, n. 4, p.1-2.

Fastovsky, D. E., 2000, Short summary of the geology of some selected dinosaur-bearing localities in the Western Gobi Desert, Mongolia: In: Abstracts of report meeting, Japan-Mongoli Joint Paleontological expedition, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Ulaan Bataar, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Okayama, Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 132-133.

Fisher P. E., Russell, D. A., Stoskopf, M. K., Barrick, R. E., Hammer, M., and Kuzmitz, A. A., 2000, Cardiovascular evidance for an intermediate or higher metabolic rate in an ornithischian dinosaur: Science, v. 288, p. 503-505.

Fukuhara, I., 2000, A bird’s-eye view of museum: Natural History Museums on the East Coast of the US: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 28-41

Geist, N. R., 2000, Nasal respiratory turbinate function in birds: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, v. 73, n. 5, p. 581-589.

Goldberg, K, and Garcia A. J. V., 2000, Palaeobiogeography of the Bauru Group, a dinosaur-bearing Cretaceous unit, northeastern Parana Basin, Brazil: Cretaceous Research, v. 21, p. 241-254.

Hayward, J. L., Zelenitsky, D. K., Smith, D. L., Zaft, D. M., and Clayburn, J. K., 2000, Eggshell taphonomy at modern gull colonies and a dinosaur clutch site: Palaios, v. 15, p. 343-355.

Horner, J. R., 2000, Dinosaur reproduction and parenting: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 28, p. 19-45.

Hutchinson, J. R., 2000, Adductors, abductors, and the evolution of archosaur locomotion: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 4, p. 734-751.

Jerzykizwicz, T., 2000, Lithostratigraphy and sedimentary settings of the Cretaceous dinosaur beds of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 279-296.

Jones, T. D., Farlow, J. O., Ruben, J. A., Henderson, D. M., and Hillenius, W. J., 2000, Cursoriality in bipedal archosaurs: Nature, v. 406, p. 716-718.

Kuznetsov, A. N., and Sennikov, A. G., 2000, On the function of a perforated acetabulum in Archosaurs and Birds: Palaeontological Journal, v. 34, n. 4, p. 439-448.

Leonardi, G., 2000, Due parole sui dinosauri: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 143-166.

Lopez-Martinez, N., Moratalla, J. J., and Sanz, J. L., 2000, Dinosaurs nesting on tidal flats: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecoloy, n. 160, p. 153-163.

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Dinosaurs of New Mexico: A popular guide: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 5-8. Link to pdf

Pfretzschner, H.-U., 2000, Microcraks and fossilization of Haversian bone: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 216, n. 3, p. 413-432.

Reed, C., and Wright, L,. 2000, The trouble with fossils: Geotimes, October 2000, p. 22-25, 33.

Renshaw, C. E., Johnson, G. D., and Kvale, K. F., 2000, A laboratory exercise on determining dinosaur speeds using dimensional analysis: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 48, p. 342-347.

Sheehan, P. M., Fastovsky, D. E., Barreto, C., and Hoffmann, R. G., 2000, Dinosaur abundance was not declining in a “3 m gap” at the top of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana, and North Dakota: Geology, v. 28, n. 6, p. 523-526.

Skrepnick, M., 2000, John J. Lanzendorf-The king of dinosaur art collectors: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 42-48.

Tanke, D. H., and Currie, P. J., (1998) 2000, Head-biting behavior in theropod dinosaurs: paleopathological evidence: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 167-184.

Watabe, M., 2000, Brief explanation of preparation process for Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Central Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi Desert: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 11-12.

Watabe, M., 2000, Recording system of discovered fossils in the Gobi desert in the case of Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 112.

Watabe, M., 2000, The list of publications and presentations on the results of Hyashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 128-130.

Weishampel, D. B., and Jianu, C.-M., 2000, Plant-eaters and ghost lineages: dinosaurian herbivory revisted: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues, H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 123-143.

Whittle, C. H., and Onorato, L., 2000, On the origins of gastroliths—determining the weathering environment of rounded and polished stones by scanning-electron-microscope examination: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 69-73.

Aves (Mesozoic)

Genus: Nova (1)

Protopteryx ZHANG & ZHOU, 2000

Species: Nova (2)

Protopteryx fengningensis ZHANG & ZHOU, 2000

Alonso, J., Arillo, A., Barron, E., Corral, J. C., Grimalt, J., Lopez, J. F., Lopez, R., Martinez-Delcos, X., Ortuno, V., Penalver, E., and Trincao, P. R., 2000, A new fossil resin with biological inclusions in Lower Cretaceous deposits from Alava (Northern Spain, Basque-Cantabrian basin): Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 1, p. 158-178.

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Evolutionary consequences of dating the Yixian Formation: TREE, v. 15, n. 3, p. 99-103.

Bock, W. J., 2000, Explanatory history of the origin of feathers: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 478-485.

Brochu, C., and Norell, M. A., 2000, Temporal congruence and the origin of Birds: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 197-200.

Brush, A. H., 2000, Evolving a protofeather and feather diversity: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 631-639.

Burnham, D. A., Derstler, K. L., Currie, P. J., Bakker, R. T., Zhou, Z., and Ostrom, J. H., 2000, Remarkable new birdlike dinosaur (Theropoda: Maniraptora) from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana: The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, n. 13, p. 1-14.

Carrier, D. R., and Farmer, C. G., 2000, The evolution of pelvic aspiration in archosaurs: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 2, p. 271-293.

Chang, C., Wang, Y., and Wang, X., 2000, Stratigraphic sequence of the Mesozoic in Fuxin Basin, Western Liaoning, China: In: Proceedings of the Seventh annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, p. 13-26.

Chinsamy-Turan, A., 2000, Growth patterns of dinosaurs: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 114-119.

Christiansen, P., and Bonde, N., 2000, Axial and appendicular pneumaticity in Archaeopteryx: Proceedings of the royal Society, Biological Sciences, v. 267, n. 1461, p. 2501-2505. Link to pdf

Chure, D. J., 2000, New threats to old bones. The theft of fossil vertebrates from museum collections: CRM, n. 5, p. 18-22.

Cubo, J., and Sasinos, A., 2000, Incidence and mechanical significance of pneumatization in the long bones of birds: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 130, p. 499-510.

Dalton, R., 2000, Chasing the dragons: Nature, v. 406, p. 930-932.

Dodson, P., 2000, Origin of birds: the final solution? In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 504-512.

Fan, G., 2000, Photo album of Beipiao Bird fossils community nature preservation zone of Liaoning in China: To the 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology, National Press of Liaoning, 80pp.

Fara, E., and Bention, M. J., 2000, The fossil record of Cretaceous tetrapods: Palaios, v. 15, p. 161-165.

Farlow, J. O., Gatesy, S. M,. Holtz, T. R. Jr., Hutchinson, J. R., and Robinson, J. M, 2000, Theropod Locomotion: In: Evolutionary Origin of Feathers, organized by Maderson, F. A, and Homberer, D. G., American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 640-663.

Fernandez, M., and Gasparini, Z. B., 2000, Salt glands in a Tithonian metriorhynchid crocodyliform and their physiological significance: Lethaia, v. 33, p. 269-276.

Flynn, J. J., 2000, Digging into the past: National Geographic, v. 198, n. 2, p. 44-57.

Geist, N. R., 2000, Nasal respiratory turbinate function in birds: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, v. 73, n. 5, p. 581-589.

Geist, N. R., and Feduccia, A., 2000, Gravity-defying behaviors: identifying models for Protoaves: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson P. F. A. and Homberger D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 664-675.

Gloy, W., 2000, Taphonomy of the fossil lagerstatte Guimarota, Chapter 18: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 129-136.

Gould, S. J., 2000, Tales of a feathered tail: Natural History, v. 109, n. 9, p. 32, 34-42.

Griffiths, P. J., (1998) 2000, The evolution of feathers from dinosaur hair: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 399-403.

Hayward, J. L., and Zelenitsky, D. F., 2000, Eggshell Taphonomy at Modern Gull Colonies and a Dinosaur Clutch Site: Palaios, v. 15, p. 343-355.

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., (1998) 2000, Global correlation of the Triassic theropod record: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 63-74.

Holtz, T. R. Jr., (1998) 2000, Theropod paleobiology, more than just bird origins: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 1-3.

Homberger, D. G., and Silva, K. N. de, 2000, Functional microanatomy of the feather-bearing integument: implications for the evolution of birds and avian flight: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 553-574.

Hou, L.-H, 2000, Picture book of Chinese Fossil Birds: Yunnan Science and Technology press, 91pp.

Hutchinson, J. R., 2000, Adductors, abductors, and the evolution of archosaur locomotion: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 4, p. 734-751.

Isaji, S., 2000, Geological setting of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe”, the Kuwajima Formation: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 14-16.

Isaji, S., 2000, Depositional environments of the bone-bearing strata with special reference to the taphonomical process of vertebrate fossil assemblages: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka, H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 22-27.

Jiang, F.-X., Chen, J.-H., Cao, M.-Z., and Komatsu, T., 2000, A discussion on the age of the feathered dinosaur-bearing beds of Liaoning, China: Acta Palaeontologica Sincia, v. 39, n. 2, p. 307-311.

Kaiser, G. W., 2000, Alternative origins for flight in birds: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 217, n. 1, p. 27-39.

Kellner, A. W. A., and Campos, D. de A., 2000, Brief review of dinosaur studies and perspectives in Brazil: Anias da Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias, v. 72, n. 4, p. 509-538.

Kurochkin, Y. N., 2000, Mesozoic birds of Mongolia and the former USSR: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 533-559.

Kuznetsov, A. N., and A. G. Sennikov, 2000. On the function of a perforated acetabulum in Archosaurs and Birds. Palaeontological Journal, Volume 34, Number 4: 439-448.

Machalski, M., 2000, Borrowed plumes: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 45, n. 4, p. 431-432.

Maderson, P. F. A., and Alibardi, L, 2000, The development of the sauropsid integument: a contribution to the problem and orign of feathers: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 513-529.

Maderson, P. F. A., and Homberger, D. G., 2000, The evolutionary origin of feathers: a problem demanding interdisciplinary communication: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 455-460.

Maderson, P. F. A., Homberger, D. G., Alibardi, L., Bock, W. J., Brush, A. H., Currie, P. J., Daivs, P. G., Dodson, P., Farlow, J. O., Geist, N., Harris, M., Martin, L. D., Menon, G. K., Pinshow, B., Porter, W. P., Ruben, J., Sawyer, R. H., Stettenheim, P., Sumida, S. S., Tarstiano, S. F., and Wolf, B. O., 2000, Symposium on Evolutionary Origin of Feathers: Panel Discussion: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 695-706.

Martin, L. D., 2000, The role of China in understanding the first diversification of birds: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 18.

Martin, L. D., 2000, Hesperornithiform birds, their relationships and diversity: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 18-19.

Martin, L. D., and Czerkas, S. A., 2000, The fossil record of feather evolution in the Mesozoic: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 687-694. Link to pdf

Martin, T., 2000, Overivew over the Guimarota Ecosystem, Chapter 20: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 143-146.

Matsumoto, Y., Hashimoto, R., and Sonda, T., 2000, Report of preparation works for Mongolian specimens in HMNS from March 1994 to December 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 113-127.

Matsumura, S., 2000, A hundred episodes on ancient animals: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 20-27.

Middleton, K. M., and Gatesy, S. M., 2000, Theropod forelimb design and evolution: Zoologial Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 128, p. 149-187.

Mikhailov, K. E., 2000, Eggs and eggshells of dinosaurs and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 560-572.

Naish, D., 2000, A small, unusual theropod (Dinosauria) femur from the Wealden Group, (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2000, n. 4, p. 217-234.

Naish, D., 2000, Theropod dinosaurs in the trees: a historical review of arboreal habits amongst nonavian theropods: Archaeopteryx, v. 18, p. 35-41.

Naish, D., 2000, Tree-Climbing Dinosaurs: 130 years of tree-climbing dinosaurs; Archaeopteryx, 'arbrosaurs' dn teh origin of avian flight: Quarterly Journal Dinosaur Society, v. 4, n. 1, p.

Norell, M. A., Makovicky, P. J., and Clark, J. M., 2000, A new troodontid theropod from Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 7-11.

Olshevsky, G., 2000, An annotated checklist of dinosaur species by continet: Mesozoic Meanderings n. 3, 157pp.

Olson, S. L., 2000, Birds—Dino Flap: Backbone, v. 13, n. 2, p. 1-3.

Pfretzschner, H.-U., 2000, Microcraks and fossilization of Haversian bone: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 216, n. 3, p. 413-432.

Prum, P. O., 2000, Feather development and the homology of avian feathers and dinosaur integumental filaments: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 25-26.

Rauhut, O. W. M., 2000, The dinosaur fauna from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 11: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 75-82.

Reisz, R. R., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, The ‘feathers’ of Longisquama: Nature, v. 408, p. 428.

Rensberger, J. M., and Watabe, M., 2000, Fine structure of bone in dinosaur, birds and mammals: Nature, v. 406, p. 619-622.

Ruben, J. A., and Jones, T. D., 2000, Selective factors associated with the origin of fur and feathers: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 585-596.

Ryan, M. J., Currie, P. J., Gardner, J. D., Vickaryous, M. K., and Lavigne, J. M., (1998) 2000, Baby hadrosaurid material associated with an unusually high abundance of Troodon teeth from the Horeseshoe Canyon Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Alberta, Canada: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 123-133.

Sanz, J. L., Dieguez, C., Poyato-Ariza, F. J., 2000, Die Unter-Kreide von Las Hoyas, Cuenca, Spanien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 155-160.

Sereno, P. C., 2000, Iberomesornis romerali (Aves, Ornithothoraces) reevaluated as an Early Cretaceous enantiornithine: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215,n. 3, p. 365-395.

Stettenheim, P. R., 2000, The integumentary morphology of modern birds-an overview: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson P. F. A. and Homberger D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 461-477.

Stokstad, E., 2000, Tiny, feathered dino is most birdlike yet: Science, v. 290, p. 1871-1872.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000b, Report on the Japan[Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 83-98.

Tarsitano, S. F,. Russell, A. P., Horne, F., Plummer, C., and Millerchip, K., 2000, On the evolution of feathers an aerodynamic and constructional view point: In: Evolutionary Orign of Feathers, organized by Maderson, P. F. A. and Homberger, D. A., American Zoologist, v. 40, n. 4, p. 676-686.

Tuinen, M. van, Sibley, C. G., and Hedges, S. B., 2000, The early history of modern birds inferred from DNA of neucler and mitochondrial ribosomal genes: Molecular Biology and Evolution, v. 17, n. 3, p. 451-457.

van Tuinen, M., Sibley, C. G., and Hedges, S. B., 2000, The early history of modern birds inferred from DNA sequences of nuclar and mitochondrial ribosomal genes: Joumral of Molecular Biology adn Evolution, v. 17, n. 3, p. 451-457.

Vargas, A., 2000, Evolution of arm size in theropod dinosaurs: a developmental hypothesis: noticiario Mensual, n. 338, p. 16-19.

Videler, J. J., 2000, Archaeopteryx: a dinosaur running over water? Archaeopteryx, v. 18, p. 27-34.

Viohl, G., 2000, Die Solnhofener Plattenkalke, oberer Jura: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 143-150.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F., Zhang, J., and Gu, G., 2000, Avifaunas of the Jehol biota in western Liaoning, China and their geological ages: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 31-32.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu, Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Wang, X.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Zhang, J.-Y., and Zhang, F., 2000, Vertebrata faunas and biostratigraphy of the Jehol group in western Liaoning, China: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 41-56.

Watabe, M., 2000, The list of publications and presentations on the results of Hyashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 128-130.

Weed, W. S., 2000, What did dinosaurs really look like…and will we ever know?: Discover, v. 21, n. 9, p. 74-81.

Wiechmann, M. F., and Gloy, U., 2000, Pterosaurs and urvogels from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 12: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin T., and Krebs B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 83-86.

Whittle, C. H., and Onorato, L., 2000, On the origins of gastroliths—determining the weathering environment of rounded and polished stones by scanning-electron-microscope examination: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 69-73.

Xu, X., 2000, A dinosaur ready to fly: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 13-18.

Xu, X., and Wang, X.-L., 2000, Troodontid-like pes in the dromaeosaurid Sinornithosaurus: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 179-188.

Xu, X., Zhou, Z., and Wang, X., 2000, The smallest known non-avian theropod dinosaur: Nature, v. 408, p. 705-708.

Zhang, F., and Zhou Z., 2000, A primitive enantiornithine bird and the origin of feathers: Science, V. 290, p. 1955-1959. (Protopteryx fengningensis)

Synapsids

Pelycosaurs

Berman, D. S., 2000, Origin and early evolution of the amnoite occiput: Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 5: 938-956.

Berman, D. S., Henrici, A. C., Sumida, S. S., and Martens, T., 2000, Redescription of Seymouria sanjuanensis (Seymouriamorpha) from the Lower Permian of Germany based on complete, mature specimens with a discussion on the paleoecology of the Bromacker locality assemblage: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 253-268.

Ebel, K., 2000, Biomechanics of the vertebrate column and implications for the lifestyle of dinosaurs and certain pelycosaurs: Freiberger Forschungshefte, V. 490,p. 27-50.

Eberth, D. A., Berman, D. S., Sumida, S. S., and Hagen, H., 2000, Lower Permian Terrestrial Paleoenvironments and Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Tabach Basin (Thuringia, Central Germany): The Upland Holy Grail: Palaios, v. 15: 293-313.

Gand, G., Garric, J., Demathieu, G., and Ellenberger, P., 2000, La palichnofaune de vertebras tetarpodes du Permien Superieur du Bassin de Lodeve (Languedoc-France): Palaeo Vertebrata, v. 29, fasc. 1, p. 1-82.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The faunal assemblages of Permian terrestrial vertebrates from Eastern Europe: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement to n. 2, S211-S224.

Hillenius, W. J., 2000, Septomaxilla of nonmammalian synapsids: soft-tissue correlates and a new functional interpretation: Journal of Morphology, v. 245, p. 29-50.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2000, The Nikkasauridae—Problematic primitive therapsids from the Late Permian of the Mezen Localities: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, S179-S186.

Modesto, S. P., and Rybczynski, N., 2000, The amniote faunas of the Russian Permian: implications for Late Permian terrestrial vertebrate biogeography: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 17-34.

Ochev, V. G., and Surkov, M. V, 2000, The history of excavation of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin M. A., Unwin D., and Kurochkin E. N., Cambridge University press, 1-16.

Peters, D., 2000, Description and interpretation of interphalangeal lines in tetrapods: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p. 11-41.

Reisz, R. R., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, Herbivory in Late Paleozoic and Triassic terrestrial vertebrates: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 9-41.

Theriodontia

Genus: Nova (6)

Charruodon ABDALA & RIBEIRO, 2000
Chlynovia TATARINOV, 2000
Dadadon FLYNN, PARRISH, RAKOTOSAMIMANANA, RANIVOHARIMANANA, SIMPSON & WYSS, 2000
Menadon FLYNN, PARRISH, RAKOTOSAMIMANANA, RANIVOHARIMANANA, SIMPSON & WYSS, 2000
Scalopodontes TATARINOV, 2000
Suchogorgon TATARINOV, 2000

Species: Nova (6)

Charruodon tetracuspidatus ABDALA & RIBEIRO, 2000
Chlynovia serridentatus TATARINOV, 2000
Dadadon isaloi FLYNN, PARRISH, RAKOTOSAMIMANANA, RANIVOHARIMANANA, SIMPSON & WYSS, 2000
Menadon besairei FLYNN, PARRISH, RAKOTOSAMIMANANA, RANIVOHARIMANANA, SIMPSON & WYSS, 2000
Scalopodontes kotelnichi TATARINOV, 2000
Suchogorgon golubevi TATARINOV, 2000

Abdala, F., 2000, Catalogue of non-mammalian cynodonts in the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection of the Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, with comments on species: Ameghiniana, v. 37, n. 4, p. 463-475.

Abdala, F., and Giannini, N. P., 2000, Gomphodont cynodonts of the Chanares Formation: the analysis of an ontogenetic sequence: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 501-506.

Abdala, F., and Ribeiro, A. M., 2000, A new therioherpetid cynodont from the Santa Maria Formation (middle Late Triassic), southern Brazil: Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 4, p. 589-596. (Charruodon tetracuspidatus)

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Prosauropod dinosaurs and iguanas: speculations on the dietes of extinct reptiles: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues, H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 42-78.

Battail, B., and Surkov, M. V., 2000, Mammal-like reptiles from Russia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 86-119.

Chure, D. J., 2000, New threats to old bones. The theft of fossil vertebrates from museum collections: CRM, n. 5, p. 18-22.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2000, I reperti ossei dei tetrapodi continentali Paleozoici e Mesozoici d’Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 321-335.

Fang, Pang, Lu, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li, and Cheng, 2000, Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic Divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan Province: In: Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Confrence of China, Geological Publishing House, Beijing, p. 208-214.

Flynn, J. J., 2000, Digging into the past: National Geographic, v. 198, n. 2, p. 44-57.

Flynn, J. J., Parrish, J. M., Rakotosamimanana, B., Ranivoharimanana, L., Simpson, W. F., and Wyss, A. R., 2000, New traversodontids (Synapsida: Eucynodontia) from the Triassic of Madagascar: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 422-427. (Dadadon isaloi, Menadon besairei)

Gand, G., Garric, J., Demathieu, G., and Ellenberger, P., 2000, La palichnofaune de vertebras tetarpodes du Permien Superieur du Bassin de Lodeve (Languedoc-France): Palaeo Vertebrata, v. 29, fasc. 1, p. 1-82.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The faunal assemblages of Permian terrestrial vertebrates from Eastern Europe: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement to n. 2, S211-S224.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The Permian and Triassic Chroniosuchia and the Upper Tatarian Biostratigraphy of Eastern Europe by tetropada: Trudy Paleontologischeskoso Instituta, Akademyia Nauk SSSR, v. 276, p. 1-173.

Hancox, P. J., 2000, The Continental Triassic of South Africa: In: Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 11-12, p 1285-1324.

Heckert, A. B., Zeigeler, K. E., Lucas, S. G., Rinehart, L. F., and Harris, J. D., 2000, Preliminary description of coelophysoids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Triassic (Revuletian: Early-Mid Norian) Snyder Quarry, North-Central New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 27-32.

Hillenius, W. J., 2000, Septomaxilla of nonmammalian synapsids: soft-tissue correlates and a new functional interpretation: Journal of Morphology, v. 245, p. 29-50.

Horoitz, I., 2000, The tarsus of Ukhaatherium nessovi (Eutheria, Mammalia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia: an appraisal of the evolution of the ankle in basal therians: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 547-560.

Isaji, S., 2000, Geological setting of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe”, the Kuwajima Formation: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka, H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 14-16.

Isaji, S., 2000, Depositional environments of the bone-bearing strata with special reference to the taphonomical process of vertebrate fossil assemblages: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka, H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 22-27.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2000, Estemmenosuches and Primitive Theriodonts from the Late Permian: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 2, p. 189-197.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2000, The Nikkasauridae—Problematic primitive therapsids from the Late Permian of the Mezen Localities: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, S179-S186.

Macleod, K. G., Smith, M. H., Koch, P. L., and Ward, P. D., 2000, Timing of mammal-like reptiles extinctions across the Permian-Triassic boundary in South Africa: Geology, v. 28, n. 3, p. 227-230.

Manabe, M., Barrett, P. M., and Isaji, S., 2000, A refugium for relicts? Nature, v. 404, p. 953-954.

Matsuoka, H., 2000, Tritylodonts (Synapsida, Therapsida): In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka, H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p.53-74.

Modesto, S. P., and Rybczynski, N., 2000, The amniote faunas of the Russian Permian: implications for Late Permian terrestrial vertebrate biogeography: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 17-34.

Morgan, G. S., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, Type specimens of fossil vertebrates in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: In: New Mexico’s Fossil Record 2, edited by Lucas, S. G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 16, p.253-259.

Ochev, V. G., and Surkov, M. V, 2000, The history of excavation of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 1-16.

Peters, D., 2000, Description and interpretation of interphalangeal lines in tetrapods: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p. 11-41.

Reisz, R. R., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, Herbivory in Late Paleozoic and Triassic terrestrial vertebrates: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 9-41.

Schultz, C. L., dos Santos Scherer, C. M., and Barberena, M. C., 2000, Bioestratigraphy of Southern Brazilian Middle-upper Triassic: Bevista Brasileira de Geociencias, v. 30, n. 3, p. 491-494.

Shishkin, M. A., Ochev, V. G., Lozovskii, V. R., and Novikov, I. G., 2000, Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 120-139.

Tatarinov, L. P., 2000, A new gorgonopid (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Upper Permian of the Vologda Region: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 1, p. 75-83.

Tatarinov, L. P., 2000, New material on Scaloposaurians (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Upper Permian of the Kotelnich Locality, Kirov Region: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement n. 2, S187-S202.

Unwin, D. M., Alifanov, V. R., and Benton, M. J., 2000, Enigmatic small reptiles from the Middle-Late Triassic of Kirgizstan: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 177-186.

Zeigler, K. E., Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, Preliminary taphonomy of the Upper Triassic Snyder Quarry and significant concentratiosn of titanium in the specimens: New Mexico Geology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 51-52.

Deinocephalia

Genus: Nova (4)

Australobarbarus KURKIN, 2000
Nikkasaurus IVAKHNENKO, 2000
Reiszia IVAKHNENKO, 2000
Vivaxosaurus KALANDADZE & KURKIN, 2000

Species: Nova (8)

Australobarbarus kotelnitshi KURKIN, 2000
Australobarbarus platycephalus KURKIN, 2000
Dicynodon sunanensis LI, CHENG & LI, 2000
Endothiodon mahalanobisi RAY, 2000
Nikkasaurus tatarinovi IVAKHENKO, 2000
Reiszia gubini IVAKHNENKO, 2000
Reiszia tippula IVAKHNENKO, 2000
Vivaxosaurus permirus KALANDADZE & KURKIN, 2000

Battail, B., and Surkov, M. V., 2000, Mammal-like reptiles from Russia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 86-119.

Fiorillo, A. R., Padian, K., and Musikasinthorn, C., 2000, Taphonomy and depositional setting of the Placerias Quarry (Chinle Formation: Late Triassic, Arizona): Palaios, v. 15, p. 373-386.

Gand, G., Garric, J., Demathieu, G., and Ellenberger, P., 2000, La palichnofaune de vertebras tetarpodes du Permien Superieur du Bassin de Lodeve (Languedoc-France): Palaeo Vertebrata, v. 29, fasc. 1, p. 1-82.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The faunal assemblages of Permian terrestrial vertebrates from Eastern Europe: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement to n. 2, S211-S224.

Golubev, V. K., 2000, The Permian and Triassic Chroniosuchia and the Upper Tatarian Biostratigraphy of Eastern Europe by tetropada: Trudy Paleontologischeskoso Instituta, Akademyia Nauk SSSR, v. 276, p. 1-173.

Hancox, P. J., 2000, The Continental Triassic of South Africa: In: Epicontinental Triassic International Symposium, edited by Bachmann, G. H., and Lerche, I., Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie, v. 1, heft 11-12, p 1285-1324.

Hillenius, W. J., 2000, Septomaxilla of nonmammalian synapsids: soft-tissue correlates and a new functional interpretation: Journal of Morphology, v. 245, p. 29-50.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2000, Estemmenosuches and Primitive Theriodonts from the Late Permian: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 2, p. 189-197.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2000, The Nikkasauridae—Problematic primitive therapsids from the Late Permian of the Mezen Localities: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement 2, S179-S186. (Nikkasaurus tatarinovi, Reiszia gubini, Reiszia tippula)

Kalandadze, N. N., and Kurkin, A. A., 2000, A new Permian dicynodont and the question of the origin of the kannemeyeroidea: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, n. 6, p. 642-649. (Vivaxosaurus permirus)

Kurkin, A. A., 2000, New dicynodonts from the Upper Permian of the Vyatka Basin: Paleontological Journal v. 34, supplement n. 2, p. S203-S210. (Australobarbarus kotelnitshi, Australobarbarus platycephalus)

Langer, M. C., 2000, The first record of dinocephalians in South America: Late Permian (rio do Rasto Formation) of theParana Basin, Brazil: Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 1, p. 69-95.

Li, P.-X., Cheng, Z.-W., and Li, J.-L., 2000, A new species of Dicynodon from the Upper Permian of Sunan, Gansu, with remarks of related strata: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, p. 147-157. (Dicyinodon sunanensis)

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Biochronological significance of Triassic nonmarine tetrapod records from marine strata: Albertiana, v. 24, p. 30-36.

Macleod, K. G., Smith, M. H., Koch, P. L., and Ward, P. D., 2000, Timing of mammal-like reptiles extinctions across the Permian-Triassic boundary in South Africa: Geology, v. 28, n. 3, p. 227-230.

Maisch, M. W., 2000, Observations on Karoo vertebrates. Part 1. The taxonomic status of Rhachinocephalus usiliensis (von Huene, 1942) (Therapsida, Dicynodontia) from the Upper Permian Kawinga Formation of Tanzania: Neües Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie Monatschefte, 1995, Heft 1, p. 15-28.

Modesto, S., and Rubidge, B. S., 2000, A basal anomodont therapsid from the Lower Beaufort Group, Upper Permian of South Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 515-521.

Modesto, S. P., and Rybczynski, N., 2000, The amniote faunas of the Russian Permian: implications for Late Permian terrestrial vertebrate biogeography: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 17-34.

Ochev, V. G., and Surkov, M. V, 2000, The history of excavation of Permo-Triassic vertebrates from Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 1-16.

Ogilvie, S., Glennie, K., and Hopkins, C., 2000, Excursion guide 13: The Permo-Triassic sandstones of Morashire, Scotland: Geology Today, September-October, p. 185-190.

Ray, S., 2000, Endothiodont dicynodonts from the Late Permian Kundaram Formation, India: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 2, p. 375-404. (Endothiodon mahalanobisi)

Reisz, R. R., and Sues, H.-D., 2000, Herbivory in Late Paleozoic and Triassic terrestrial vertebrates: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 9-41.

Rybcznski, N., 2000, Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic postion of Suminia getmanovi, a basal anomodont (Amniota: Therapsida) from the Late Permian of Eastern Europe: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 130, p. 329-373.

Schultz, C. L., dos Santos Scherer, C. M., and Barberena, M. C., 2000, Bioestratigraphy of Southern Brazilian Middle-upper Triassic: Bevista Brasileira de Geociencias, v. 30, n. 3, p. 491-494.

Shishkin, M. A., Ochev, V. G., Lozovskii, V. R., and Novikov, I. G., 2000, Tetrapod biostratigraphy of the Triassic of Eastern Europe: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 120-139.

Surkov, M. V., 2000, On the historical biogeography of Middle Triassic anomodonts: Paleontological Journal v. 34, n. 1, p. 84-88.

Mammals (Mesozoic)

Genus: Nova (1)

Comodon KRETZOI & KRETZOI, 2000

Species: Nova (4)

Daulestes nessovi McKENNA, KIELAN-JAWOROWSKA & MENG, 2000
Prokennalestes abramovi AVERIANOV & SKUTSCHAS, 2000
Spalacotherium evansae ENSON & SIGOGNEAU-RUSSELL, 2000
Tinodon micron ENSOM & SIGOGNEAU-RUSSELL, 2000

Synonym: Nova (1)

Comodon gidleyi (SIMPSON, 1925) KRETZOI & KRETZOI, 2000
= Phascalodon gidleyi SIMPSON, 1925
= Phascolotheridium gidleyi (SIMPSON, 1925) CIFELLI & DYKES, 2001

Averianov, A. O., 2000, Mammals from the Mesozoic of Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 627-652.

Averianov, A., and Skutschas, P., 2000, A eutherian mammal from the Early Cretaceous of Russia and biostratigraphy of the Asian Early Cretaceous vertebrate assemblages: Lethaia, v. 33, p. 330-340. (Prokennalestes abramovi) Link to pdf

Averianov, A., and Skutchas, P., 2000, The oldest placental mammal: Doklady Biological Sciene, v. 374, p. 479-481.

Barrett, P. M., 2000, Evolutionary consequences of dating the Yixian Formation: TREE, v. 15, n. 3, p. 99-103.

Butler, P. M., 2000, Review of the early allotherian mammals: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 45, n. 4, p. 317-342.

Cifielli, R. L,. 2000, Counting premolars in early eutherian mammals: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 45, n. 2, p. 195-198.

Cifielli, R. L., 2000, Cretaceous mammals of Aisa and North America: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee, Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 49-84.

Cifelli, R. L., 2000, Tribosphenic mammal from the North American Early Cretaceous: Nature, v. 404, p. 904-905. (emend Montanalestes keebleri to keeblerorum)

Csiki, Z., and Grigorescu, D., 2000, Teeth of multituberculate mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Romania: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 45, n. 1, p. 85-90.

Datta, P. M., Manna, P., Ghosh, S. C., and Das, D. P., 2000, The first Jurassic Turtle from India: Palaeontology, v. 43, part 1, p. 99-109.

Dingus, L., and Loope, D., 2000, Death in the dunes. What killed the famous fossil creatures of the ancient Gobi? Geologists examine the rock-hard evidence: Natural History, v. 109, n. 6, p. 50-55.

Drescher, E., 2000, Preparation of vertebrate fossils from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 19: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 137-142.

Ensom, P. C., and Sigogneau-Russell, D., 2000, New symmetrodonts (Mammalia, Theria) from the Purbeck Limestone Group, Lower Cretaceous, southern England: Cretaceous Research, v. 21, p. 767-779. (Spalacotherium evansae, Tinodon micron)

Fan, G., 2000, Photo album of Beipiao Bird fossils community nature preservation zone of Liaoning in China: To the 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology, National Press of Liaoning, 80pp.

Fang, Pang, Lu, Zhang, Pan, Wang, Li and Cheng, 2000, Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic Divisions of the Lufeng region of Yunnan Province: In: Proceedings of the Third National Stratigraphical Confrence of China, Geological Publishing House, Beijing, p. 208-214.

Fara, E., and Bention, M. J., 2000, The fossil record of Cretaceous tetrapods: Palaios, v. 15, p. 161-165.

Forster, J. R., and Trujillo, K. C., 2000, New occurrences of Cteniogenys (Reptilia, Choristodera) in the Late Jurassic of Wyoming and South Dakota: Brigham Young Univeristy, Geology Studies, n. 45, p. 1-18.

Garcia, G,. Duffaud, S., Feist, M., Marandat, B., Tambarequ, Y., Villatte, J., and Sige, B., 2000, La neuve, gisement a plantes, invertebres et vertebres du Begudien (Senonien superieur continental) du bassin d’Aix-en-Provence : Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 3, p. 326-348.

Gloy, W., 2000, Taphonomy of the fossil lagerstatte Guimarota, Chapter 18: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 129-136.

Hahn, R, and Hahn, R., 2000, Multituberculates from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 15: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 97-108.

Hillenius, W. J., 2000, Septomaxilla of nonmammalian synapsids: soft-tissue correlates and a new functional interpretation: Journal of Morphology, v. 245, p. 29-50.

Horoitz, I., 2000, The tarsus of Ukhaatherium nessovi (Eutheria, Mammalia) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia: an appraisal of the evolution of the ankle in basal therians: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 547-560.

Isaji, S., 2000, Geological setting of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe”, the Kuwajima Formation: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka, H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 14-16.

Isaji, S., 2000, Depositional environments of the bone-bearing strata with special reference to the taphonomical process of vertebrate fossil assemblages: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 22-27.

Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., Novacek, M. J., Trofimov, B. A., and Dashzeveg, D., 2000, Mammals from the Mesozoic of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 575-626.

Kerbs, B., 2000, The henkelotheriids from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 17: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 121-128.

Get Comodon gidleyi = Phascalodon gidleyi KRETZOI & KRETZOI, 2000

Kurochkin, Y. N., and Barsbold, R., 2000, The Russian-Mongolian expeditions and research in vertebrate Paleontology: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 235-255.

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Cretaceous Dinosaurs in New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 83-90.

Martin, T., 2000, The dryolestids and the primitive “peramurid” from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 16: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 109-120.

Martin, T., 2000, Overivew over the Guimarota Ecosystem, Chapter 20: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 143-146.

Martin, T., and Nowotny, M., 2000, The docodont Haldanodon from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 14: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 91-96.

McKenna, M. C., and Kielan- Jaworowska, Z., and Meng, J., 2000, Earliest eutherian mammal skull, from the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) of Uzbekistan: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 45, n. 1, p. 1-54. (Daulestes nessovi)

Mohabey, D. M., and Udhoji, S. G., 2000, Vertebrate fauna of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur-bearing Lameta Formation of Nand-Dongargaon Inland Basin, Maharashtra: Palaeoenvironment and K-T boundary implications: Memoir Geological Society of India, n. 46, p. 295-322.

Montellano, M, Weil, A., and Clemens, W. A., 2000, An exceptional specimen of Cimexomys judithae (Mammalia: Multituberculata) from the Campanian Two Medicine Formation of Montana, and the phylogenetic status of Cimexomys: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 333-340.

Morgan, G. S., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, Type specimens of fossil vertebrates in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science: In: New Mexico’s Fossil Record 2, edited by Lucas S. G., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, n. 16, p.253-259.

O’leary, M. A., 2000, Life through time, Vertebrates: Geotimes, July 2000, 32-34.

Pascual, R., Goin, F. J., Gonzalez, P., Ardolino, A., and Puerta, P. F., 2000, A highly derived docodont from the Patagonian Late Cretaceous: evolutionary implications for Gondwana mammals: Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 3, 395-414.

Pereda-Suberbiola, X., Astibia, H., Murelaga, X., Elorza, J. J., and Gomez-Alday, J. J., 2000, Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous dinosaur-bearing beds of the Lano Quarry (Iberian Peninsula): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 157, p. 247-275.

Rensberger, J. M, 2000, Dental constraints in the early evolution of mammalian herbivory: In: Evolution of Herbivory in Terresterial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the fossil record, edited by Sues H.-D., Cambridge University Press, p. 144-167.

Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2000, The Mesozoic mammal footprint record reconsidered: with an account of new discoveries in the Cretaceous of northwestern Alberta, Canada: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee, Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 153-168.

Shuvalov, V. F., 2000, The Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 256-278.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000b, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 83-98.

Wang, X., Wang, Y., Zhang, F.-C., Zhang, J.-Y., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Hu, Y.-M., Gu, G., and Zhang, H.-C., 2000, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in Lingyuan, Western Liaoning and its neighboring Southern Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China: Vertebrata Palasiatica, v. 38, n. 2, 81-99.

Wang, X.-L., Wang, Y.-Q., Zhou, Z.-H., Jin, F., Zhang, J.-Y., and Zhang, F., 2000, Vertebrata faunas and biostratigraphy of the Jehol group in western Liaoning, China: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 41-56.

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Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000d, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 69-82.

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Wood, C. B., 2000, Tooth enamel microstructure in Deltatheridium (Metatheria, Late Cretaceous of Mongolia), with comparison to some other Mesozoic mammals: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee, Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 127-152.

Eggs

Oospecies: Nova (5)

Dendroolithus guoqingsiensis FANG, WANG & JIANG, 2000
Elongatoolithus tiantaiensis FANG, WANG & JIANG, 2000
Macroolithus turolensis AMO SANJUAN, CANUDO & CUENCA BESCOS, 2000
Prismatoolithus caboti GARCIA, FEIST, CABOT, VALENTIN & VIANEY-LIAUD, 2000
Spheroolithus zhangtoucaoensis FANG, WANG & JIANG, 2000

Synonym: Nova (1)

Macroelongatoolithus carlylei (JENSEN, 1970) ZELENITSKY, CARPENTER & CURRIE, 2000
= Oolithes carlyensis JENSEN, 1970
= Spheroolithus carlyensis (JENSEN, 1970)
= Boletuoolithis carlyensis (JENSEN, 1970) ZELENITSKY, CARPENTER & CURRIE, 2000

Allen, R., and Taquet, P., 2000, A new genus of Dromaeosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of France: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 404-407.

Amo Sanjuan O., Canudo, J. I., and Cuenca Bescos, G., 2000, First record of elongatoolithid eggshells from the Lower Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Europe (Cuesta Corrales 2, Galve Basin, Teruel, Spain): In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo A. M., and Reyes T., 2000, p. 7-14. (Macroolithus turolensis)

Bajpai S., and Prasad, G. V. R., 2000, Cretaceous age for Ir-rich Deccan intertrappean deposits: Palaeontological evidence from Anjar, western India: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 157, p. 257-260.

Bravo, A. M., Moratalla, J. J., Santafe, J. V., and Santisteban, C. de, 2000, Faidella, a new Upper Cretaceous nesting site from the Tremp Basin (Lerida Province, Spain): In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 15-21.

Carpenter, K., 2000, The Canon City Dinosaur sites of Marsh and Cope: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Field Trip, October 18, 1999, 14pp.

Colbert, E. H., 2000, Asiatic dinosaur rush: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 211-234.

Cousin, R., and Breton, G., 2000, A precise and complete excavation is necessary to demonstrate a dinosaur clutch structure: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes T., 2000, p. 31-42.

Currie, P. J., 2001, Nomadic expeditions, Inc. report on fieldwork in Mongolia, September 2000: In: Alberta Palaeontological Society, fifth annual symposium, jointly presented by Alberta Palaeontological Society and Department of Earth Sciences, Mount Royal College, p. 12-16.

Dingus, L., Clarke, J., Scott, G. R., Swisher, C. C. III, Chiappe, L. M., and Coria, R. A., 2000, Stratigraphy and magnetostratigraphic/faunal constraints of the age of sauropod embryo-bearing rocks in the Neuquen Group (Late Cretaceous, Neuquen Province, Argentina): American Museum Novitates, n. 3290, 11pp.

Elez, J., and Lopez-Martinez, N., 2000, Interrelationships between growth of mineral phase and pore system in dinosaur eggshells: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo A. M., and Reyes T., 2000, p. 43-50.

Fang, X. L., Wang, Y. Z., and Jiang, Y. G., 2000, On the Late Cretaceous fossil eggs of Tiantai, Zhenjiang: Geological Review, v. 46, n. 1, p. 105-112. (Dendroolithus guoqingsiensis, Elongatoolithus tiantaiensis, Spheroolithus zhangtoucaoensis)

Figueroa, C., and Powell, J. E., 2000, Structure and premability properties of thick dinosaur eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina. Results of a computer simulation analysis: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 51-60.

Garcia, G., 2000, Diversite des coquilles “Minces ” d’œufs fossiles du Cretace superieur du Sud de la France: Geobios, v. 33, n. 1, p. 113-126.

Garcia, G,. Duffaud, S., Feist, M., Marandat, B., Tambarequ, Y., Villatte, J., and Sige, B., 2000, La neuve, gisement a plantes, invertebres et vertebres du Begudien (Senonien superieur continental) du bassin d’Aix-en-Provence : Geodiversitas, v. 22, n. 3, p. 326-348.

Garcia, G., Feist, M., Cabot, A., Valentin, X., and Vianey-Liaud, M., 2000, Les œufs de dinosaures du Cretace superieur du bassin de Villeveyrac-Meze (Herault, France): description d’une nouvelle ooespece de Prismatollithus: Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, v. 171, n. 3, p. 283-289. (Prismatoolithus caboti)

Grellet-Tinner, G., 2000, Phylogenetic interpretation of eggs and eggshells of paleognathae: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes T., 2000, p. 61-75.

Griffiths, P. J., 2000, Compsognathus eggs revisited: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 77-83.

Hayward, J. L., and Zelenitsky, D. K., 2000, Eggshell Taphonomy at Modern Gull Colonies and a Dinosaur Clutch Site: Palaios, v. 15, p. 343-355.

Hayward, J. L., Zelenitsky, D. K., Smith, D. L., Zaft, D. M., and Clayburn, J. K., 2000, Eggshell taphonomy at modern gull colonies and a dinosaur clutch site: Palaios, v. 15, p. 343-355.

Horner, J. R., 2000, Dinosaur reproduction and parenting: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 28, p. 19-45. Link to pdf

Isaji, S., 2000, Geological setting of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe”, the Kuwajima Formation: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka, H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 14-16.

Isaji, S., 2000, Depositional environments of the bone-bearing strata with special reference to the taphonomical process of vertebrate fossil assemblages: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka, H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 22-27.

Isaji, S., 2000, Fossil eggshell: In: Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-Bluff). Scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Shiramine, Ishikawa, Japan, edited by Matsuoka, H., published by Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, p. 109-110.

Ishigaki, S., 2000, Cretaceous dinosaur footprints fro Shar Tsav, Central Gobi, Mongolia: In: Abstracts of report meeting, Japan-Mongoli Joint Paleontological expedition, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Ulaan Bataar, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Okayama, Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 133-134.

Kellner, A. W. A., and Campos, D. de A., 2000, Brief review of dinosaur studies and perspectives in Brazil: Anias da Academia Brasiliera de Ciencias, v. 72, n. 4, p. 509-538.

Kohring, R., 2000, Eggshells from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 13: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 87-90.

Kundrat, M., 2000, Ct-detection of dinosaur embryonic remains within a faveoloolithid egg from Mongolia: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 85-93.

Kurochkin, Y. N., 2000, Mesozoic birds of Mongolia and the former USSR: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 533-559.

Larson, P. L., (1998) 2000, The theropod reproductive system: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 389-387.

Lopez-Martinez, N., 2000, Eggshell sites from the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in south-cenral Pyrenees (Spain): In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 95-115.

Lopez-Martinez, N., Moratalla, J. J., and Sanz, J. L., 2000, Dinosaurs nesting on tidal flats: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, n. 160, p. 153-163.

Loyal, R. S., Mohabey, D. M, Kholsa, A., and Sahni, A., (1998) 2000, Status and palaeobilogy of the Late Cretaceous Indian theropods with description of a new theropod eggshell oogenus and oospecies, Ellipsoolithus khedaensis, from the Lameta Formation, District Kheda, Gujarat, Western India: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 379-387.

Magalhaes Ribeiro, C. M., 2000, Microstructral analysis of dinosaur eggshells from Bauru Basin (Late Cretaceous), Minas Gerais, Brasil: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 117-121.

Makovicky, P. J., and Grellet-Tinner, G., 2000, Association between theropod eggshell and a specimen of Deinonychus antirrhopus: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 123-128.

Manning, T., Josey, K. A., and Cruickshank, A. R. I., 2000, In ovo tooth replacement in a therizinosaurid dinosaur: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 129-134.

Matsumoto, Y., Hashimoto, R., and Sonda, T., 2000, Report of preparation works for Mongolian specimens in HMNS from March 1994 to December 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 113-127.

Mikhailov, K. E., 2000, Eggs and eggshells of dinosaurs and birds from the Cretaceous of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, p. 560-572.

Mikhailov, K. E., 2000, Eggshell structure, their identification and evolutionary implications: introduction statements: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 135-138.

Mohabey, D. M., 2000, Indian Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) dinosaur eggs: their parataxonomy and implications in understanding the nesting behaviour: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo A. M., and Reyes T., 2000, p. 139-153.

Mohabey, D. M., and Udhoji, S. G., 2000, Vertebrate fauna of Late Cretaceous Dinosaur-bearing Lameta Formation of Nand-Dongargaon Inland Basin, Maharashtra: Palaeoenvironment and K-T boundary implications: Memoir Geological Society of India, n. 46, p. 295-322.

Peitz, C., 2000, Megaloolithid dinosaur eggs from the Maastrichtian of Catalunya (NE-Spain) – Parataxonomic implications and stratigraphic utility: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 155-159.

Prieto-Marquez, A., Gaete, R., Galobart, A., and Ardevol, L., 2000, A Richardoestesia-like theropod from the Late Cretaceous foredeep, south-Central Pyrenees, Spain: Ecologae Geologicae Helvetiae, v. 93, p. 497-501.

Sahni, A., 2000, Late Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of India: stratigraphical, palaeoennvironmental and paleoecological controls: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 161-164.

Shuvalov, V. F., 2000, The Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleobiogeography of Mongolia: In: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, Edited by Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unwin, D., and Kurochkin, E. N., Cambridge University press, 256-278.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1992: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 13-16.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000a, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1995: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 45-57.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000b, Report on the Japan Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 83-98.

Vianey-Liaud, M., and Garcia, G., 2000, The interest of French Late Cretaceous Dinosaur eggs and eggshells: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 165-175.

Watabe, M., 2000, The list of publications and presentations on the results of Hyashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 128-130.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000a, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1993: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 17-29.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000b, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1994: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 30-44.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000c, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1996: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 58-68.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000d, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 69-82.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108

Whyte, M., Zhang, Z., and Li, Z., 2000, The dinosaur eggs of the Xixia basin, China: In: First International Symposium on Dinsoaur eggs and babies/extended abstracts, p. 177-183.

Ya, A., 2000, Results of studies of dinosaur eggshells: In: Abstracts of report meeting, Japan-Mongoli Joint Paleontological expedition, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Ulaan Bataar, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Okayama, Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 131-132.

Zelenitsky, D. K, 2000, Dinosaur eggs from Asia and North America: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee Y.-N., Proceedings of the Internatinoal Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 13-26.

Zelenitsky, D. K., Carpenter, K., and Currie, P. J., 2000, First record of Elongatoolithid theropod eggshell from North America: the Asian oogenus Macroelongatoolithus from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 130-138. (Boletuoolithis carlyensis)

Zhang, Z., White, M., and Li, Z., 2000, The discoveyr of, and research on fossil dinosaurs and dinosaur eggs in Henan Province, China: In: First International Symposium on dinosaur eggs and babies, extended abstracts, edited by Bravo, A. M., and Reyes, T., 2000, p. 185-191.

Zhao, Z.-K, 2000, Nesting behavior of dinosaurs as interpreted from the Chinese Cretaceous dinosaur eggs: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 115-126.

Ichnology

Ichnogenus: Nova (4)

Brontopus HEYLER & LESSERTISSEUR, 1963
Megalosauripus (LESSERTISSEUR, 1955) emend LOCKLEY, MEYER & SANTOS, (1998) 2000
Merifontichnus GAND, GARRIC, DEMATHIEU & ELLENBERGER, 2000
Prorotodactylus PTASZYNSKI, 2000

Ichnospecies: Nova (14)

Brachychirotherium wiorense PTASZYNSKI, 2000
Brontopus circagiganteus GAND, GARRIC, DEMATHIEU & ELLENBERGER, 2000
Capitosauroides fuglewiczi PTASZYNSKI, 2000
Grallator andeolensis GAND, VIANEY-LIAUD, DEMATHIEU & GARRIC, 2000
Isochirotherium gierlinskii PTASZYNSNKI, 2000
Lunaepes ollierorum GAND, GARRIC, DEMATHIEU & ELLENBERGER, 2000
Otozum grandcombensis GAND, VIANEY-LIAUD, DEMATHIEU & GARRIC, 2000
Paragrallator yangi LI & ZHANG, 2000
Planipes brachydactylus GAND, GARRIC, DEMATHIEU & ELLENBERGER, 2000
Prorotodactylus mirus PTASZYNSKI, 2000
Rhynchosauroides rdzaneki PTASZYNSKI, 2000
Synaptichnium kotanskii PTASYNSKI, 2000
Therangospodus oncalensis (MORATALLA, 1993) LOCKLEY, MEYER & MORATALLA, (1998) 2000
Titanosaurimanus nana DALLA VECCHIA & TARLAO, 2000

Ichnospecies: Nova (10)

Brachychirotherium hauboldi (PTASZYNSKI, 1990) PTASZYNSKI, 2000
= Chirotherium hauboldi PTASZYNSKI, 1998
Brontopus giganteus (HAUBOLD, 1963) HEYLER & LESSERTISSEUR, 1963
= Ichniotherium giganteus HAUBOLD, 1963
Grallator grancieri (COUREL & DEMATHIEU, 2000)
= Coelurosaurichnus gracieri COUREL & DEMATHIEU, 2000
Megalosauripus titanopelobatidus (SHULER, 1917) LOCKLEY, MEYER & SANTOS, (1998) 2000 (nomen dubium)
= ?Eubrontes titanopelobatidus SHULER, 1917 (nomen dubium)
= Megalosauropus titanopelobatidus (SHULER, 1917) (nomen dubium)
= Megalosauropus glenrosensis HAUBOLD, 1971 (nomen dubium)
Megalosauripus teutonicus (KAEVER & LAPPARENT, 1974) LOCKLEY, MEYER & SANTOS, (1998) 2000
= Megalosauropus teutonicus KAEVER & LAPPARENT, 1974
Megalosauripus uzbekistanicus (GABUNIYA & KURBATOV, 1982) LOCKLEY, MEYER & SANTOS, (1998) 2000
= Megalosauropus uzbekistanicus GABUNIYA & KURBATOV, 1982
= Khodjapilosaurus krimholz AMMANIAZOV, 1985
= Shirkentosauropus shirkentensis NOVIKOV, 1991
= Karkushosauropus karkushensis NOVIKOV & DZHALILOV, 1993
Merifontichnus thalerius GAND, GARRIC, DEMATHIEU & ELLENBERGER, 2000
= Macrochelichnus thaleri ELLENBERGER, 1983 (nomen nudum)
Procolophonichnium polonicum (PTASZYNSKI, 1990) PTASZYNSKI, 2000
= Rhynchosauroides polonicus PTASZYNSKI, 1990
Prorotodactylus lutevensis (DEMATHIEU, 1984) PTASZYNSKI, 2000
= Rhynchosauroides lutevensis DEMATHIEU, 1984
Pteraichnus palacieisaenzi PASCUAL ARRIBAS & SANZ PEREZ, 2000 emend BILLON & MAZIN, 2003 (nomen dubium)
= Pteraichnus palaciei-saenzi PASCUAL ARRIBAS & SANZ PEREZ, 2000

Avanzini, M., 2000, Synaptichnium tracks with skin impressions form the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of the Southern Alps (Val di Non – Italy): Ichnos, v. 7, n. 4, p. 243-251.

Avanzini, M., Frisia, S., and Rinaldo, M., 2000, I Lavini di Maroc nel Giurassico inferiore: la ricostruione di un antico ambiente di vita: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 247-272.

Buffetaut, E., 2000, A forgotten episode in the history of dinosaur ichnology: Carl Degenhardt’s report of the first discovery of fossil footprints in South America (Colombia, 1839): Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, v. 171, n. 1 p. 137-140.

Buffetatut, E., Suteethorn, V., Cuny, G., Tong, H., Le Loeuff, J., Khansubha S., and Jongautchariyakul S., 2000, The earliest known sauropod dinosaur: Nature, v. 407, p. 72-74.

Carvalho, I. de S., 2000, Geological environments of dinosaur footprints in the intracratonic basins of northeast Brazil during the Early Cretaceous opening of the South Atlantic: Cretaceous Research, v. 21, p. 255-267.

Clark, N. D. L., Aspen, P., and Corrance, H., 20002, Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1935 from the Triassic of the Isle of Arran, Scotland: Scottish Journal of Geology, v. 38, n. 2, p. 83-92.

Clark, N. D. L., and Jewkes, M., 2000, Tetrapod trackways (Matthewichnus sp. and ?Pseudobradypus sp.) from the Coal Measures (Carboniferous) of Central Scotland: Scottish Journal of Geology, v. 36, n. 1, p. 87-90.

Conti, M. A., Leonardi, G., Mietto, P., and Nicosia, U., 2000, Orme di tetrapodi non dinosauriani del Paleozoico e Mesozoico in Italia: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 297-320.

Courel, L., and Demathieu, G. R., 2000, Une nouvelle ichnoespece Coelurosaurischnus grancieri du Trias superieur de l’Ardeche, France: Geodiversitats, v. 22, n. 1, p. 35-46. (Coelurosaurichnus gracieri)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., (1998) 2000, Theropod footprints in the Cretaceous Adriatic-Dinaric Carbonate Platform (Italy and Croatia): In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 355-367. Link to pdf

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., and Tarlao A., 2000, New dinosaur track sites in the Albian (Early Cretaceous) of the Istrian Peninsula (Croatia) – Part II- Paleonotology: Memorie di Scienze Geologiche, v. 52, n. 2, p. 227-292. (Titanosaurimanus nana)

Diedrich, C., 2000, New vertebrate tracks from the Lower Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) of the Osnabrueck Hills and Teutoburg Forest (NW-Germany) and their stratigraphic and palaeogeographic significance in the Germanic Basin: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 217, n. 3, p. 369-395.

Donovan, S. K., 2000, Book review: The Eternal Trail: a Tracker Looks at Evolution: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 4, p. 317-318.

Eberth, D. A., Berman, D. S., Sumida, S. S., and Hopf Hagen,, 2000, Lower Permian Terrestrial Paleoenvironments and Vertebrate Paleoecology of the Tabach Basin (Thuringia, Central Germany): The Upland Holy Grail: Palaios, v. 15: 293-313.

Farlow, J. O., and Briton, A., 2000, Size and body proportions in Alligator mississippiensis: implications for archosaurian ichnology: Paleont. Soc. Korea Special Publications, n. 4, p. 189-206.

Farlow, J. O., Gatesy, S. M,. Holtz, T. R. Jr., Hutchinson, J. R., and Robinson, J. M, 2000, Theropod Locomotion: In: Evolutionary Origin of Feathers, organized by Maderson, F. A, and Homberer, D. G., American Zoologist, v. 40, p. 640-663.

Farlow, J. O., and Pianka, E. R., 2000, Body form and trackway pattern in Ausralian Desert Monitors (Squamata: Varanidae): Comparing zoological and ichnological diversity: Palaios, v. 15, p. 235-247.

Foster, J. R., Hablin, A. H., and Lockley, M. G., 2000, The oldest evidence of a sauropod dinosaur in the Western United States and other important vertebrate trackways from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 3, p. 169-181.

Gand, G., Garric, J., Demathieu, G., and Ellenberger, P., 2000, La palichnofaune de vertebras tetarpodes du Permien Superieur du Bassin de Lodeve (Languedoc-France): Palaeo Vertebrata, v. 29, fasc. 1, p. 1-82. (Merifontichnus thalerius = Macrochelichnus thaleri, Lunaepes ollierorum, Planipes brachydactylus, Brontopus circagiganteus)

Gand, G., Vianey-Liaud, M., Demathieu, G. R., and Garric, J., 2000, Deux nouvelles traces de pas de Dinosaures du Trias superieur de la Bordure Cevenole (La Grand-Combre, Sud-Est de la France) : Geobios, v. 33, n. 5, p. 599-624. (Grallator andeolensis, Otozum grandcombensis)

Hamblin, A. H., Bilbey, S. A., and Hall, J. E., 2000, Prehistoric animal tracks at Red Fleet StatePark, Northeastern Utah: Geology of Utah’s Parks and Monuments, 2000 Utah Geological Association Publication 28, edited by Sprinkel, D. A., Chidsey, T. C., jr, and Anderson, P. B., p. 1-10.

Haubold, H., 2000, Tetrapodenfahrten aus dem Perm – Kenntnisstand und Progress 2000: Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss, B 22, p. 1-16.

Haubold, H., and Klein, H., 2000, Die dinosauroiden fahrten Parachirotherium – Atreipus – Grallator aus unteren Mittelkeuper (Obere Trias: Ladin, Karn, ?Nor) in Franken: Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss., Band 22, pl. 59-85.

Heckert, A. B., Lucas, S. G., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Triassic dinosaurs from New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 17-26.

Hunt, A. P., Lucas, S. G., Lockley, M. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Occurrence of the dinosaurian Ichnogenus Grallator in the Redonda Formation (Upper Triassic: Norian) of eastern New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 39-41.

Ishigaki, S., 2000, Cretaceous dinosaur footprints fro Shar Tsav, Central Gobi, Mongolia: In: Abstracts of report meeting, Japan-Mongoli Joint Paleontological expedition, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Ulaan Bataar, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Okayama, Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 133-134.

Kaneko, R., 2000, Following dinosaur tracks in Thailand: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 92-105.

Kim, J. Y, 2000, The value of the medial impression in fossil trackways for determining direction of movement and body proportions: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p. 1-10.

King, M. J., and Thompson, D. B., 2000, Triassic vertebrate footprints from the Sherwood Sandstone Group, Hilbre, Wirral, northwest England: Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, v. 111, p. 111-132.

Lange-Badre, B., and Lafon, J.-P, 2000, Decouverte de pistes de dinosauries theropoeds dans le Lias inferieur des environs de Figeac (Lot): Compte rendu hebdomadaire des seances de l’Academie des Sciences Paris, Sciendes de la Terre et des planetes, v. 330, p. 379-384.

Lee, Y.-N., Yang, S.-Y., Seo, S.-J., Baek, K.-S., Yi, M.-S., Lee, D.-J., Park, E.-J., and Han, S.-W., 2000, Distribution and paleobiological significance of Dinosaur tracks from the Jindong Formation (Albian) in Kosong County, Korea: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee, Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 1-12.

Leonardi, G., 2000, Due parole sui dinosauri: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 143-166.

Leonardi, G., 2000, I dinosauri d’Italia e delle aree adiacenti: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 2275-295.

Leonardi, G., and Mietto, P., 2000, Le piste liassiche di dinosauri dei Lavini di Marco: In: Dinosauri in Italia, Le orme giurassiche dei Lavini di Marco (Trentino) e gli altri resti fossili italani, editye by Avancini, M., and Conti, M. A,. Accademia Editoriale, p. 169-246.

Get Paragrallator yangi LI & ZHANG, 2000

Lim, J.-D., Zhou, Z., Martin, L. D., Baek, K.-S., and Yang, S.-Y., 2000, The oldest known tracks of web-footed birds from the Lower Cretaceous of South Korea: Naturwissenschaften, v. 87, p. 256-259.

Lockley, M. G., (1998) 2000, Philosophical perspectives on theropod track morphology: blending qualities and quantities in the science of ichnology: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 279-300. Link to pdf

Lockley, M. G., 2000, Tracks for sale: ethics and delemmas: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 2, p. 153-154.

Lockley, M. G., 2000, Professional amateurs and amateur professionals: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 2, p. 155-159.

Lockley, M. G., 2000, Book review: This Brand of Faith: This Fait of Brand: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 4, p. 307-316.

Lockley, M. G., Lucas, S. G., and Hunt, A. P., 2000, Dinosaur tracksites in New Mexico: a review: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 9-16.

Lockley, M. G., Meyer, C. A., and Santos, V. F. dos, (1998) 2000, Megalosauripus and the problematic concept of megalosaur footprints: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 313-337.

Lockley, M. G., Meyer, C. A., and Moratalla, J. J., (1998) 2000, Therangospodus: Trackway evidence for the widespread distribution of a Late Jurassic Theropod with well-padded feet: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 339-353. (Megalosauripus titanopelobatidus = ?Eubrontes titanopelobatidus,= Megalosauropus titanopelobatidus, Megalosauripus teutonicus = Megalosauropus teutonicus, Megalosauripus uzbekistanicus = Megalosauropus uzbekistanicus, Therangospodus oncalensis = Therangosodus oncalensis)

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2000, Jurassic Dinosaurs of New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 43-45.

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Cretaceous Dinosaurs in New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 83-90.

McCrea, R. T., 2000, Dinosaur footprints in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Gates Formation of Alberta, Canada: their use in palaeobiology and palaeoenvironmental interpretation: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee, Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 169-178.

Nicosia, U., Ronchi, A,. and Santi, G. 2000, Permian tetrapod footprints from W Orobic Basin (Northern Italy). Biochronological and evolutionary remarks: Geobios, v. 33, n. 6, p. 753-768.

Pascual Arribas, C., and Sanz Perez, E., 2000, Huellas de pterosaurios en el grupo oncala (Soria, Espana). Pteraichnus palaciei-saenzi, nov. Innosp : Estudios Geologia, v. 53, p. 73-100. (Pteraichnus palacieisaenzi emend = Pteraichnus palaciei-saenzi )

Pascual Arribas, C., and Sanz Perez, E., 2000, Ichitas de Dinosaurios en Valdelavilla (Soria, Espana): Estudios Geologia, v. 56, p. 41-61.

Perez-Lorente, F., 2000, Die Kreide von La Rioja, Spanien: In: Europaische Fossillagerstatten, edited by Pinna, G., European Palaeontological Association, Springer, p. 161-164.

Peters, D., 2000, Description and interpretation of interphalangeal lines in tetrapods: Ichnos, v. 7, n. 1, p. 11-41.

Ptaszynski, T., 2000, Lower Triassic vertebrate footprints from Wiory, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 45, n. 2, p. 151-194. (Capitosauroides fuglewiczi, Procolophonichnium polonicum = Rhynchosauroides polonicus, Rhynchosauroides rdzaneki, Prorotodactylus lutevensis = Rhynchosauroides lutevensis, Prorotodactylus mirus, Brachychirotherium hauboldi = Chirotherium hauboldi, Brachychirotherium wiorense, Isochirotherium gierlinskii, Synaptichnium kotanskii)

Renshaw, C. E., Johnson, G. D., and Kvale, K. F., 2000, A laboratory exercise on determining dinosaur speeds using dimensional analysis: Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 48, p. 342-347.

Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2000, The first Permian vertebrate footprints from the English Midlands: a tale of discovery and rediscovery: In: 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea, edited by Lee, Y.-N., Proceedings of the International Dinosaur Symposium, The Paleontological Society of Korea, special publication n. 4, p. 39-48.

Steyer, J. S., 2000, Are European Paleozoic amphibians good stratigraphic markers?: Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, tomo 171, n. 1, p. 127-135.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000b, Report on the Japan[Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 83-98.

Thulborn, T. A., (1998) 2000, Australia’s earliest theropods: footprint evidence in the Ipswich coal measures (Upper Triassic) of Queensland: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 301-311.

Tunis, G., and Venturini, S., 2000, New dinosaur track sites in the Albian (Early Cretaceous) of the Istrian Peninsula (Croatia) – Part I- Stratigraphy and Sedimentology: Memorie di Scienze Geologiche, v. 52, n. 2, p. 194-226.

Unwin, D. M., Lu, J,. and Bakhurina, N. N., 2000, On the systematic and stratigraphic significance of pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation (Jehole Group) of Liaoning, China: Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe, band 3, p.181-206.

Voigt, S., and Haubold, H., 2000, Analysis of the variability of Ichniotherium cottae from the Tambach Sandstone (Rotliegend, Lower Permian, Thuringia): Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss, B. 22, p. 17-58.

Watabe, M., 2000, The list of publications and presentations on the results of Hyashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 128-130.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000c, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1996: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 58-68.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000d, Report on the Japan-Mongolia Joint Paleontological Expedition to the Gobi desert, 1997: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 69-82.

Watabe, M., and Suzuki, S., 2000e, Cretaceous fossil localities and a list of fossil collected by the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences and Mongolian Paleontological Center Joint Paleontological Expedition (JMJPE) from 1993-1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 99-108.

Palaeopathologies

Carpenter, K., (1998) 2000, Evidence of predatory behavior by carnivorous dinosaurs: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 135-144.

Chure, D. J., 2000, Observations on the morphology and pathology of the gastral basket of Allosaurus, based on a new specimen from Dinosaur National Monument: Oryctos, v. 3, p. 29-37.

Ford, T. L., 2000, A review of ankylosaur osteoderms from New Mexico and a preliminary review of ankylosaur armor: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin n. 17, p. 157-176.

Lang, G. H., 2000, Dinosaur stress: Natural History, v. 109, n. 2, p. 8.

Madsen, J. H. Jr., and Welles, S. P., 2000, Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda) a revised Osteology: Miscellaneous Publication 00-2, Utah Geological Survey: 80pp.

Molnar, R. E., (1998) 2000, Mechanical factors in the design of the skull of Tyrannosaurus rex (Osborn, 1905): In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 193-218.

Naish, D., 2000, A small, unusual theropod (Dinosauria) femur from the Wealden Group, (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2000, n. 4, p. 217-234.

Posmosanu, E., and Cook, E., 2000, Vertebrate taphonomy and dinosaur palaeopathology from a Lower Cretaceous Bauxite Lens, North West Romania: Oryctos, v. 3, p. 39-51.

Sullivan, R. M., Tanke, D. H., and Rothschild, B. M., 2000, An impact fracture in an ornithomimid (Ornithomimosauria: Dinosauria) metatarsal from the Upper Cretaceous (Late Campanian) of New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 109-111.

Tanke, D. H., and Currie, P. J., (1998) 2000, Head-biting behavior in theropod dinosaurs: paleopathological evidence: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 167-184.

Webster, D., 2000, Debut Sue: National Geographic, v. 197, n. 6, p. 24-36.

Gastroliths

Everhart, M. J., 2000, Gastroliths associated with plesiosaur remains in the Sharon Springs Member of the Pierre Shale (Late Cretaceous), Western Kansas: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, v. 103, n. 1-2, p. 64-75.

Klerk, W. J. de, Forster, C. A., Sampson, S. D., Chinsamy, A., and Ross, C. F., 2000, A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 2, p. 324-332.

Lucas, S. G., 2000, The gastromyths of “Seismosaurus,” a Late Jurassic dinosaur from New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 61-67.

Scarborough, R., 2000, Site stratigraphy and depositional environment for Sonorasaurus thompsoni in the Whetstone Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: In: Southwest Paleontological Symposium, Proceedings 2000, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Bulletin n. 7, p. 73-82.

Trinajstic, K, 2000, Dinosaur diets. Who ate whom in the dinosaur world: Dinonews, v. 14, p. 3-6.

Whittle, C. H., and Everhart, M. J., 2000, Apparent and implied evolutionary trends in lithophagic vertebrates from New Mexico and Elsewhere: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 75-82.

Whittle, C. H., and Onorato, L., 2000, On the origins of gastroliths—determining the weathering environment of rounded and polished stones by scanning-electron-microscope examination: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 69-73.

Zhou, Z.-H., and Wang, X.-L., 2000, A new species of Caudipteryx from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, northeast China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, n. 2, p. 111-127.

Zhou, Z.-H., Wang, X.-L., Zhang, F.-C., and Xu, X., 2000, Important features of Caudipteryx-evidence from two nearly complete new specimens: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, n. 4, p. 241-252.

Stomach contents

Burgin, T., 2000, Euthynotus cf. incognitus (Actinopterygii, Pachycormidae) als Mageninhalt eines Fischsauriers aus dem Posidonienschiefer Süddeutschlands (Unterer Jura, Lias epsilon): Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, v. 93, p. 491-496.

Molnar, R. E., and Clifford, H. T., 2000, Gut contents of a small ankylosaur: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 194-196.

Norell, M. A., Dingus, L. W., and Gaffney, E. S., 2000, Discovering Dinosaurs (expanded and updated), evolution, extinction, and the lessons of prehistory: University of California Press, 219pp.

Coprolites

Kirkland, J. I., Hernandez Rivera, R, Martinex, M. C. A., Jesus, C. R. D. de, Nunez, R. G., and Vallejo, I., 2000, The Late Cretaceous Difunta Group of the Parras Basin, Coahuila, Mexico and its vertebrate fauna: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 133-172.

Trinajstic, K, 2000, Dinosaur diets. Who ate whom in the dinosaur world: Dinonews, v. 14, p. 3-6.

Whittle, C. H., and Everhart, M. J., 2000, Apparent and implied evolutionary trends in lithophagic vertebrates from New Mexico and Elsewhere: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 75-82.

Fire (Mesozoic, Paleozoic)

Falcon-Lang,, J. J., 2000, Fire ecology of the Carboniferous tropical zone: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scott ,A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 339-355.

Glasspool, I., 2000, A major fire event recorded in the mesofossils and petrology of the Late Permian, Lower Whybrow coal seam, Sydney Basin, Australia: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scot,t A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 357-380.

Jones, P. T., and Lim, B., 2000, Extraterrestrial impacts and wildfires: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scott, A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 57-66.

Rowe, N. P., and Jones, T. P., 2000, Devonian charchoal: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scott, A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 331-338.

Scott, A. C., 2000, The Pre-Quaternary history of fire: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scott, A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 281-329.

Scott, A. C., Lomax, B. H., Collinson, M. E., Upchurch, G. R., and Beerling, D. J., 2000, Fire across the K-T boundary: initial results from the Sugarite Coal, New Mexico, USA: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scott, A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 381-395.

Beetle Borrings

Paik, I. S., 2000, Bone chip-filled burrows associated with bored dinosaur bone in floodplain paleosols of the Cretaceous Hasandong Formation, Korea: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 157, p. 213-225.

Toothmarks

Chure, D. J., Fiorillo, A. R., and Jacobsen, A., (1998) 2000, Prey bone utilization by predatory dinosaurs in the late Jurassic of North America, with comments on prey bone use by dinosaurs throughout the Mesozoic: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 227-232.

Posmosanu, E., and Cook, E., 2000, Vertebrate taphonomy and dinosaur palaeopathology from a Lower Cretaceous Bauxite Lens, North West Romania: Oryctos, v. 3, p. 39-51.

Histology

Chinsamy-Turan, A., 2000, Growth patterns of dinosaurs: DinoPress, v. 1, p. 114-119.

Erickson, G. M., and Tumanova, T., 2000, Growth curve of Psittacosaururs mongoliensis Osborn (Ceratopsia: Psittacosauridae) inferred from long bone histology: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 130, p. 551-566.

Horner, J. R., Ricqles, A. de, and Padian, K., 2000, Long bone histology of the hadrosaurid dinosaur Maiasauria peeblesorum: growth dynamics and physiology based on an ontogenetic series of skeletal elements: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 1, p. 115-129.

Sander, P. M., 2000, Longbone histology of the Tendaguru sauropods: implications for growth and biology: Paleobiology, v. 26, n. 3, p. 466-488.

Soft tissue

Anonymous, 2000, Hard-hearted: Geology today, September-October, p. 162-163.

Anonymous, 2000, Have a heart, or not: Geology Today, November-September, p. 206-207.

Anonymous, 2000, The heart of a dinosaur: American Paleontologist, v. 8, n. 2, p. 19.

Anonymous, 2000, Dinosaur heart questioned: American Paleontologist, v. 8, n. 4, p. 15.

Fisher P. E., Russell, D. A., Stoskopf, M. K., Barrick, R. E., Hammer, M., and Kuzmitz A. A., 2000, Cardiovascular evidance for an intermediate or higher metabolic rate in an ornithischian dinosaur: Science, v. 288, p. 503-505.

Martill D. M., Batten, D. J, and Loydell, D. K., 2000, A new specimen of the thyreophoran dinosaur cf. Scelidosaurus with soft tissue preservation: Paleontology, v. 43, part 3, p. 549-559.

Martill, D. M., Frey, E., Sues, H.-D, and Cruickshank, A. R. I., 2000, Skeletal remains of a small theropod dinosaur with associated soft structures from the Lower Cretaceous Santana Formation of northeastern Brazil: Canadian journal of Earth Science, v. 37, p. 891-900.

Morell, V., 2000, Revealing a Dinosaur’s heart of stone: Science, v. 288, p. 416-417.

Reed, C., 2000, A dinosaur’s tell-tale heart: Geotimes, June 2000, p. 8-9.

Bonebed

Currie, P. J., (1998) 2000, Possible evidence of gregarious behavior in tyrannosaurids: In: Aspects of Theropod Paleobiology, edited by Perez-Moreno, B. P., Holtz, T. Jr., Sanz, J. L., and Moratalla, J., Gaia, n. 15, p. 271-277.

Dingus, L., and Loope, D., 2000, Death in the dunes. What killed the famous fossil creatures of the ancient Gobi? Geologists examine the rock-hard evidence: Natural History, v. 109, n. 6, p. 50-55.

Taphonomy

Fiorillo, A. R., Padian, K., and Musikasinthorn, C., 2000, Taphonomy and depositional setting of the Placerias Quarry (Chinle Formation: Late Triassic, Arizona): Palaios, v. 15, p. 373-386.

Grigorescu, D., and Csiki, Z., 2000, Sedimentology, paleontology, taphonomy and paleonevironmental reconstruction of the Tustea nesting site (Upper Maastrichtian, Hateg Basin, Romania): In: 5th European Workshop on Vertebrate Palaeontology, p. 33-34.

Hayward, J. L., Zelenitsky, D. K., Smith, D. L., Zaft, D. M., and Clayburn, J. K., 2000, Eggshell taphonomy at modern gull colonies and a dinosaur clutch site: Palaios, v. 15, p. 343-355.

Marshall, C. R., 2000, Fossil forensics, what is taphonomy and what can it tell us? Dinonews, v. 13, p. 11, 14-15.

Roberts, E. M., and Hendrix, M. S., 2000, Taphonomy of a Petrified Forest in the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian), northwest Montana: Implications for Palinspastic restoration of the Boulder Batholith and Elkhorn Moutains volcantics: Palaios v. 15, p. 476-482.

Rogers, R. R., and Kidwell, S. M., 2000, Associations of vertebrate skeletal concentrations and discontinuity surfaces in terrestrial and shallow marine records: a test in the Cretaceous of Montana: The Journal of Geology, v. 108, p. 131-154.

Wolfe, D. G., 2000, Preliminary observations regarding the taphonomy and paleoenvironments of Zuniceratops and contemporaneous vertebrate fossils of the Mid-Cretaceous Moreno Hill Formaiton, Zuni Basin (Arizona-New Mexico): In: Southwest Paleontological Symposium, Proceedings 2000, edited by McCord R. D., and Boaz D., Bulletin n. 7, p. 89-91.

Burrows

DNA (and Blood)

(suppose) Tertiary Dinosaurs

Fassett, J. E., and Lucas, S. G., 2000, Evidence for Paleocene dinosaurs in the Ojo Alamo sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 221-230.

Venomous

Anonymous, 2000, Were some dinosaurs venomous ?: American Paleontologist, v. 8, n. 4, p. 15.

Extinction

Bajpai S., and Prasad, G. V. R., 2000, Cretaceous age for Ir-rich Deccan intertrappean deposits: Palaeontological evidence from Anjar, western India: Journal of the Geological Society of London, v. 157, p. 257-260.

Canudo, J. I., Pereda Suberbiola, X., and Lopez Martinez, N., 2000, Los dinosaurios del Maastrichtiense superior de Huesca y su importancia en el estudio de la extincion del limite Cretacico-terciaro: Geo-Temas, v. 1, n. 2, p. 339-342.

Donovan, S. K., 2000, Fossils explained 29: Processes adn patterns of mass extinction : Geology Today, May-June, p. 116-120.

Fara, E., 2000, Diversity of Callovian-Ypresian (Middle Jurassic- Eocene) tetrapod families and selectivity of extinctions at the K/T boundary: Geobios, v. 33, n. 3, p. 387-396.

Jafar, S. A., 2000, A magnitude induced model for mass extinctions in the geologic record: evidence from Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 217, n. 2, p. 161-197.

Jones, P. T., and Lim, B., 2000, Extraterrestrial impacts and wildfires: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scott, A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 57-66.

Klaus, A., Norris, R. D., Kroon, D, and Smit, J., 2000, Impact-induced mass wasting at the K-T boundary: Blake Nose, western north Atlantic: Geology, v. 28, n. 4, p. 319-322.

Ormo, J, and Lindstrom, M., 2000, When a cosmic impact strikes the sea bed: Geological Magazine, v. 137, v. 1, p. 67-80.

Palfy, J., Mortensen, J. K., Carter, E. S., Smith, P. L., Friedman, R. M., and Tipper, H. W., 2000, Timing the end-Triassic mass extinction: First on land, then in the sea?: Geology, v. 28, n. 1, p. 39-42.

Scott, A. C., Lomax, B. H., Collinson, M. E., Upchurch, G. R., and Beerling, D. J., 2000, Fire across the K-T boundary: initial results from the Sugarite Coal, New Mexico, USA: In: Special Issue, Fire and the Palaeoenvironment, edited by Scott, A. C., Moore, J., and Brayshay, B., Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 164, p. 381-395.

Sheehan, P. M., Fastovsky, D. E., Barreto, C., and Hoffmann, R. G., 2000, Dinosaur abundance was not declining in a “3 m gap” at the top of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana, and North Dakota: Geology, v. 28, n. 6, p. 523-526.

Integuments

Feathers

Alonso, J., Arillo, A., Barron, E., Corral, J. C., Grimalt, J., Lopez, J. F., Lopez, R., Martinez-Delcos, X., Ortuno, V., Penalver, E., and Trincao, P. R., 2000, A new fossil resin with biological inclusions in Lower Cretaceous deposits from Alava (Northern Spain, Basque-Cantabrian basin): Journal of Paleontology, v. 74, n. 1, p. 158-178.

Gierlinski, G., 2000, Feather and avian origin in light of ichnological data: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v.
38, supplement, p. 13.

Wu, P., and Chuong, C., 2000, Molecular basis of avian integument regional specificity: roles of homebox genes: In: 5th International meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution and the symposium on Jehol Biota, Edited by Shi, L., and Zhang, F., Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, supplement, p. 34.

Xu, X., Zhou, Z., and Wang, X., 2000, The smallest known non-avian theropod dinosaur: Nature, v. 408, p. 705-708.

Zhang, F., and Zhou Z., 2000, A primitive enantiornithine bird and the origin of feathers: Science, V. 290, p. 1955-1959.

Zhou, Z.-H., and Wang, X.-L., 2000, A new species of Caudipteryx from the Yixian Formation of Liaoning, northeast China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, n. 2, p. 111-127.

Zhou, Z.-H., Wang, X.-L., Zhang, F.-C., and Xu, X., 2000, Important features of Caudipteryx-evidence from two nearly complete new specimens: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 38, n. 4, p. 241-252.

Skin

Avanzini, M., 2000, Synaptichnium tracks with skin impressions form the Anisian (Middle Triassic) of the Southern Alps (Val di Non – Italy): Ichnos, v. 7, n. 4, p. 243-251.

Broschinski, A., 2000, The lizards from the Guimarota mine, Chapter 9: In: Guimarota, A Jurassic Ecosystem, edited by Martin, T., and Krebs, B., Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, p. 59-68.

Currie, P. J., 2001, Nomadic expeditions, Inc. report on fieldwork in Mongolia, September 2000: In: Alberta Palaeontological Society, fifth annual symposium, jointly presented by Alberta Palaeontological Society and Department of Earth Sciences, Mount Royal College, p. 12-16.

Evans, S. E., Lacasa Ruiz, A., and Rey, E. jr., 2000, A lizard from the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian-Valanginian) of Montsec, Catalonia, Spain: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 215, n. 1, p. 1-15.

Gao, K., Evans, S., Ji, Q., Norell, M., and Ji, S.-A., 2000, Exceptional fossil material of a semi-aquatic reptile from China: the resolution of an enigma: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 20, n. 3, p. 417-421.

Gao, K, and Norell, M. A., 2000, Taxonomic composition and systematics of Late Cretaceous lizard assemblages from Ukhaa Tolgod and adjacent localities, Mongolian Gobi Desert: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, n. 249, p. 1-118.

Kirkland, J. I., Hernandez Rivera, R, Martinez, M. C. A., Jesus, C. R. D. de, Nunez, R. G., and Vallejo, I., 2000, The Late Cretaceous Difunta Group o fthe Parras Basin, Coahuila, Mexico and its vertebrate fauna: In: Guide Book of the Field Trips, Avances en Investigacion, special publication, p. 133-172.

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., and Sullivan, R. M., 2000, Cretaceous Dinosaurs in New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas S. G., and Heckert A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 83-90.

Martill D. M., Batten, D. J, and Loydell, D. K., 2000, A new specimen of th thyreophoran dinosaur cf. Scelidosaurus with soft tissue preservation: Paleontology, v. 43, part 3, p. 549-559.

Novikov, I. V., and Shishkin, M. A., 2000, Triassic Chroniosuchians (Amphibia, Anthracosaurosauromorpha) and the evolution of trunk dermal scutes in bystrowianids: Paleontological Journal, v. 34, supplement n. 2, p S165-S178.

Reynoso, V.-H., and Callison, G., 2000, A new scincomorph lizard from the Early Cretaceous of Pubela, Mexico: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 130, p. 183-212.

Suzuki, S., and Watabe, M., 2000b, Report on the Japan[Mongolia Joint Paleontological expeition to the Gobi desert, 1998: In: Results of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Joint Paleontological Expedition, n. 1, Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences, Research Bulletin, v. 1, p. 83-98.

Williamson, T. E., 2000, Review of hadrosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: In: Dinosaurs of New Mexico, edited by Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Sciences, Bulletin 17, p. 191-213.

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