2002 articles


Agnatha

Blieck, A. R. M., Karatajute-Talimaa, V. N., and Mark-Kurik, E., 2002, Upper Silurian and Devonian heterostracan pteraspidomorphs (Vertebrata) from Severnaya Zemlya (Russia): a preliminary report with biogeographical and biostratigraphical implications: Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 4, p. 805-820.

Blom, H., Marss, T., and Miller, C. G., 2002 (for 2001), Silurian and earliest Devonian birkeniid anaspids from the Northern Hemisphere: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, v. 92, p. 263-323. (Birkenia robusta, Hoburgilepis papillata, Rhyncholepis burtriagula, Vesikulepis funiforma, Silmalepis erinacea, Maurylepis lacrimanus, Tahulalepis elongituberculata, Tahulalepis kingi (= Birkenia kingi), Septentrionia lancifera, Septentrionia mucronata, Septentrionia dissimilis, Septentrionia seducta, Liivilepis curvata, Spokoinolepis alterans, Manbrookia asperella, Ruhnuleps longicostata)

Gudo, M., and Grasshoff, M., 2002, The origin and early evolution of chordates: the ‘hydroskelett’theorie’ and new insights towards a meteameric ancestor: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 325-346.

Hou, X.-G. Aldridge, R. J., Siveter, D. J., Siveter, D. J., and Feng, X.-H., 2002, New evidence on the anatomy and phylogeny of the earliest vertebrates: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, v. 269, p. 1865-1860. 

Janvier, P., 2002, Calcification of early vertebrate cartilage: Nature, v. 417, p. 609.

Johanson, Z., 2002, Vascularization of the osteostracan and antiarch (Placodermi) pectoral fin: similarities, and implications for placoderm relatinoships: Lethia, v. 35, p. 169-186.

Lu, Y.-H., 2002, The age and correlation of some Devonian fish-bearing beds of East Yunnan, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 1, p. 52-69.

Marss, T., 2002, Silurian and Lower Devonian anaspids (Agnatha) from Severnaya Zemlya (Russia): Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 1, p. 123-137. (Vilkitskilepis valentinae)

Newman, M. J., 2002, A new naked jawless vertebrate from the Middle Devonian of Scotland: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 5, p. 933-941. (Achanarella trewini)

Novitskaya, L. I., 2002, On the features of contemporary phylogenetic research (using the problem of the origin of gnathostomes as an example): Paleontological Journal, v. 36, n. 6, p. 569-580.

Wang, J.-Q., Wang, N.-Z., Zhang, G.-R., Wang, S.-T., and Zhu, M., 2002, Agnathans from Llandovery (Silurian) of Kalpin, Zinjiang, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 4, p. 245-256. (Nanjiangaspis kalpinensis, Mixrophymaspis pani, Platycaraspis tianshanensis)

Wang, S.-T., Wang, J.-Q., Wang, N.-Z., and Zhang, Z.-X., 2002, Lopadaspis, new name for Discaspis Wang, et al., 2001: Vertebratea PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 3, p. 176.

Zhao, W.-J., Zhu, M, and Jia, L.-T., 2002, New discovery of galeaspids from Early Devonian of Wenshan, Southeastern Yunnan, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 2, p. 97-113. (Wenshanaspis zhichangensis)


Thelodonts

Blom, H., and Goujet, D., 2002, Thelodont scales from the Lower Devonian Red Bay Group, Spitsbergen: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 4, p. 795-820. (Turinia barentsia, Apalolepis angelica, Nikolivia depressa)

Karatajute-Talimaa, V. N., 2002, Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) Thelodonts from October Revolution Island (Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago, Russia): Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 4, p. 791-804. (Turinia composita, Nikolivia aligera).

Karatajute-Talimaa, V., and MArss, T., 2002, Upper Silurian thelodonts from Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago (Russia): Geodivrsitas, v. 24, n. 2, p. 405-443. (Paralogania menneri, Valiukia flabellata, Thelodus visvaldi, Paralogania wilsoni, Paralogania kachanovi, Thelodus visvaldi)

Macadie, I., 2002, Thelodont fish and conodonts from the Early Devonian of Reefton, New Zealand: Alcheringa, v. 26, p. 423-433.

Marss, T., and Karatajute-Talimaa, V., 2002, Ordovician and Lower Silurian thelodonts from Severnaya Zemlya Archipelago (Russia): Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 2, p. 381-404. (Stroinolepis maenniki, Loganellia Matura, Paralogania klubovi, Paralogania consimilis, Thelodus calvus, Shielia multispinata)


Placoderms

Johanson, Z., 2002, Vascularization of the osteostracan and antiarch (Placodermi) pectoral fin: similarities, and implications for placoderm relatinoships: Lethia, v. 35, p. 169-186.

Lu, Y.-H., 2002, The age and correlation of some Devonian fish-bearing beds of East Yunnan, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 1, p. 52-69.

Mark-Kurik, E., and Carls, P., 2002, A long-snouted Late Eifelian arthrodire from Aragon (Spain): Revista Espanola de Paleontologia, v. 17, n. 1, p. 117-135.

Maisey, J. G., Borghi, L., and Carvalho, M. G. P. de, 2002, Lower Devonian fish remains from the Falkland Islands: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 708711.

Wang, J.-Q., and Wang, S.-T., 2002, The discovery of Early Devonian placoderms from Baoqing and Mishan Counties of Heilongjiang Province: Vertebata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 2, p. 161-164.


Chondrichthyes

Arratia, G., Kriwet, J., and Heinrich, W.-D., 2002, Selachians and actinopterygians from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl., Geowiss Reihe, v. 5, p. 205-230. (Engaibatis schultzei)

Blanco-Pinon, A., Frey, E., Stinnesbeck, W., and Olivia, J G. L., 2002, Late Cretaceous (Turonian) fish assemblage from Vallecillo, Northeastern Mexico: v. 225, n. 1, p. 39-54.

Brito, P. M., and Janvier, P., 2002, A ptychodontid (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchi) from the Upper Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, Cretaceous of South America: Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 4, p. 785-790. 

Chhabra, N. L., and Mishra, V. P., 2002, Middle Triassic fish teeth from the Kalapani limestone of Malla Johar, Chamoli District (Uttaranchal): Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, v. 47, p. 151-155.

Ginter, M., 2002, Chondrichthyan fauna of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary beds of Poland: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 2, p. 329-338. (Stethacanthus resistens)

Ginter, M., 2002, Taxonomic notes on "Phoebodus heslerorum" and Symmorium reniforme (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii): Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 3, p. 547-555.  (Heslerodus divergens = Cladodus divergens)

Ginter, M., Hairapetian, V., and Klug, C., 2002, Famennian chondrichthyans from the shelves of North Gondwana: Acta Geologica Polonica, v. 52, p. 169-215. (Deihim mansureae, Protacrodus serra, Phoebodus depressus, Phoebodus gothicus transitans)

Hamm, S. A., and Shimada, K., 2002, Associated tooth set of the Late Cretaceous lamniform shark, Scapanorhynchus raphiodon (Mitsukurinidae), from the Niobrara Chalk of Western Kansas: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, v. 105, n. 1-2, p. 18-26.

 Hanke, G., and Karatajute-Talimaa, V., 2002, Knerialepis, a new generic name to replace Kneria Karatajute-Talimaa, 1997: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 703. (Knerialepis angolensis = Kneria angolensis)

Hoganson, J. W., and Murphy, E. C., 2002, Marine Breien Member (Maastrichtian) of the Hell creek Formation in North Dakota: Stratigraphy, vertebrate fossil record, and age: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental recod of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 247-269.

Johnson, S. C., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Histological study of the ray Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi (Thurmond) from the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) of central New Mexico: New Mexico Geology, v. 24, n. 3, p. 88-90.

Kirkland, J. I., and Aguillon-Martinez, M. C., 2002, Schizorhiza: a unique sawfish paradigm from the Difunta Group, Coahuila, Mexico: Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas, v. 19, n. 1, p. 16-24.

May, W. J,. and Hall, J. D., 2002, Geology and vertebrate fauna of a new site in the Wellington Formation (Lower Permian) of northern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 62, n. 2, p. 63-66.

Murry, P. A., and Kirby, R. E., 2002, A new hybodont shark from the Chinle and Bull Canyon Formations, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 87-106. (Reticulodus synergus).

Mustafa, H. A., Case, G. R., and Zalmout, I., 2002, A new selachian fauna from the Wadi Umm Ghudran Formation (Late Cretaceous) - Central Jordan: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 226, n. 3, p. 419-444. (Cantioscyllium hashimiaensis, Pseudohypolophus elongatus, Ctenopristis, jordanicus, Sclerorhynchus karakensis)

Noubhani, A., and Cappatta, H., 2002, Metlaouia Noubhani and Cappetta, 1997 (Chondrichthyes: Orectolobiformes) preoccipuied by Metalouia Dumont, 1928 (Insecta: Lepidoptera): Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 4, p. 684. (Eometlauia = Metlaouia).

Rees, J., 2002, Shark fauna and depositional environment of the earliest Cretaceous Vitaback Clays at Eriksdal, southern Sweden: Transcations of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, v. 93, p. 59-71.

Rees, J., and Underwood, C. J., 2002, The status of the shark genus Lissodus Brough, 1935, and the position of nominal Lissodus species within the hybodontoidea (Selachii): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22,n . 3, p. 471-479. (Vectiselachos ornatus = Acrodus ornatus, Parvodus rugianus = Lissodus rugianus)

Schwimmer, D. R., Hooks III, G. E., and Johnson, B., 2002, Revised taxonomy, age, and geographic range of the large lamniform shark Cretodus semiplicatus: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 704-707.

Tanimoto, M., Fujimoto, T., and Shinzyo, T., 2002, Chlamydoselachus sp. from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Izumi Group of Takinoike, Izumisano City, Osaka Prefecture, Southwest Japan: Chigakukenkyu, v. 51, n. 2, p. 77-81.

Tanimoto, M., Shinzyo, T., and Fujimoto, T., 2002, The first find of a fossil Squatina (Elasmobranchii) from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group of Southwest Japan: Chigakukenkyu, v. 51, n. 1, p. 3-6.

Tanimoto, M., and Takata, M., 2002, A juvenile (?) tooth of Chlamydoselachus sp. from the Upper Cretaceous Maastrichtian Izumi Group of Hashiramoto, Hashimoto City, Wakayama Prefecture, Southwest Japan: Chigakukenkyu, v. 51, n. 3, p. 131-134.

Telles Antunes, M., 2002, Selaciens du Cretace (Albien-Maastrichtian) d'Angolia: Palaeontographica, Abt. A., v. 264, Lfg.5-6, p. 85-146. (Chlamydoselachus gracils, Chlamydoselachus goliath, Echinorhinus lapaoi, Cretascymnus quibalaensis, Angolaia benguelaensis)

Underwood, C. J., 2002, Sharks, rays and a chimaeroid from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Ringstead, Southern England: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 2, p. 297-325. (Synechodus plicatus, Protospinax planus, Squatina? frequens)

Underwood, C. J., and Rees, J., 2002, Selachian faunas from the Lowermost Cretaceous Purbeck Group of Dorset, southern England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 83-101. (Lonchidion inflexum, Belemnobatis variabilis)


Acanthodii

Cumbaa, S. L., and Schultze, H.-P., 2002, An Early Devonian (Emsian) acanthodian from the Bear Rock Formation, Anderson River, Northwest Territories, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39, p. 1457-1465. (Melanoacanthus minutus

Hanke, G. F., 2002, Paucicanthus vanelsti gen. et sp. nov., and Early Devonian (Lochkovian) acanthodian that lacks paired fin-spines: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 39, p. 1071-1083. (Paucicanthus vanelsti)

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

 Lindley, I. D., 2002, Lower Devonian ischnacanthid fish (Gnathostomata: Acanthodii) from the Taemas Limestone, Lake Burrinjuck, New South Wales: Alcheringa, v. 25, p. 269-291. (Taemascanthus narrengullenensis, Taemascanthus cooradigbeensis)

Lindley, I. D., 2002, Acanthodian, onychodontid and osteolepidid fish from the middle-upper Taemas Limestone (Early Devonian), Lake Burrinjuk, New South Wales: Alcheringa, v. 26, p. 103-126.

Liu, G.-B., Feng, H.-Z., Wang, J-.X., Wu, T.-M., and Zhai, Z.-H., 2002, Early Triassic fishes from Jurong, Jiangsu: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 41, n. 1, p. 27-52. ("Perleidus" eurylepidotrichia, Zhangina cylindrica, Stensionotus dongchangensis, Jurongia fusiformis, Qingshania cercida, Suius brevis)

Maisey, J. G., Borghi, L., and Carvalho, M. G. P. de, 2002, Lower Devonian fish remains from the Falkland Islands: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 708-711.


Fish

Arratia, G., Kriwet, J., and Heinrich, W.-D., 2002, Selachians and actinopterygians from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl., Geowiss Reihe, v. 5, p. 205-230. 

Blanco-Pinon, A., Frey, E., Stinnesbeck, W., and Olivia, J G. L., 2002, Late Cretaceous (Turonian) fish assemblage from Vallecillo, Northeastern Mexico: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, v. 225, n. 1, p. 39-54.

Brinkman, D. B., and Neuman, A. G., 2002, Teleost centra from Uppermost Judith River Group (Dinosaur Park Formation, Campanian) of Alberta, Canada: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 1, p. 138-155.

Brito, P. M., and Gallo, V., 2002, A new pleuropholid, Gondwanapleuropholis longimaxillaris n. g. n., n. sp. (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the Jurassic of north east Brazil: Comptes Rendus Palevol, v. 1, p. 697-703. (Gondwanapleuropholis longimaxillaris)

Chhabra, N. L., and Mishra, V. P., 2002, Middle Triassic fish teeth from the Kalapani limestone of Malla Johar, Chamoli District (Uttaranchal): Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, v. 47, p. 151-155.

Cione, A. L., and Prasad, G. V. R., 2002, The oldest known catfish (Teleostei: Siluriformes) from Asia (India, Late Cretaceous): Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 1, p. 190-193.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M. Venturini, S., and Tentor, M., 2002, The Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Konservat-Lagerstatte of en Nammoura (Kesrouane Province), northern Lebanon: Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, v. 41, n. 1, p. 51-68.

Dietze, K., 2002, Heterochrony within Amblypteridae (Actinopterygii: Permo-Carboniferous?): Oryctos, v. 4, p. 3-15.

Donoghu, P. C. J., 2002, Evolution of development of the vertebrate dermal and oral skeletons: unraveling concepts, regulatory theories, and homologies: Paleobiology, v. 28, n. 4, p. 474-507.

Fielitz, C., 2002, A new Late Cretaceous (Turonian) basal euteleostean fish from Lac des Bois of the Northwest Territories of Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39, p. 1579-1590. (Avitosmerus canadensis)

Fieltz, C., 2002, First record of endopterygoid teeth in the North American Late Cretaceous teleostean fish Enchodus gladiolus (Aulopiformes: Enchodontidae): Transacations of the Kansas Academy of Science, v. 105, n. 1-2, p. 27-32.

Gayet, M., Meunier, F. J., and Werner, C., 2002, Diversification in polypteriformes and special comparison with the lepisosteiformes: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 2, p. 361-376.

Grande, L., Jin, F., Yabumoto, Y., and Bemis, W. E., 2002, Protopsephurus liui, a well-preserved primitive paddlefish (Acipenseriformes: Polyodontidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of China: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 209-237.

Hoganson, J. W., and Murphy, E. C., 2002, Marine Breien Member (Maastrichtian) of the Hell creek Formation in North Dakota: Stratigraphy, vertebrate fossil record, and age: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental recod of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 247-269.

Johnson, S. C., Lucas, S. G., and Hunt, A. P., 2002, Macro-fish fauna of the Upper Triassic (Apachean) Redonda Formation, eastern New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 107-114.

Kriwet, J., 2002, Anomoeodus pauciseriale n. sp. (Neopterygii, Pycnodontiformes) from the White Chalk Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Sussex, South England: Palaontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 1, p. 117-123. (Anomoeodus pauciseriale)

Kriwet, J., 2002, Pycnodont fish remains (Neopterygii: Pycnodontiformes) from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of the Lusitanian basin (Central Portugal): Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2002, v. 10, p. 577-587. 

Lombardo, C., 2002, Caelatichthys gen. n: a new palaeonisciform from the Middle Triassic of Northern Italy and Canton Ticino (Switzerland): Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 108, n. 3, p. 399-414. (Caelatichthys meridensis, C. nitens)

Lu, L.-W., 2002, A new namurian palaeoniscoid fish from Zhongwei, Ningxia: Vertebrata PalAsitica, v. 40, n. 1, p. 1-8. (Huanghelepis pani)

Lucas, S. G., and Johnson, S. C., 2002, Fukangichthys, a Triassic fish from China: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 115-119.

Lund, R., and Poplin, C., 2002, Cladistic analysis of the relationships of the tarrasiids (Lower Carboniferous actinopterygians): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 480-486.

May, W. J,. and Hall, J. D., 2002, Geology and vertebrate fauna of a new site in the Wellington Formation (Lower Permian) of northern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 62, n. 2, p. 63-66.

McCord, R., Tegowski, B. J., and Scarborough, R., 2002, Ongoing research in the Late Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation, southeastern Arizona: the non-dinosaurian vertebrate fauna: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 65-71.

Miller, C. G., Richter, M., and Do Carmo, D. A., 2002, Fish and ostracod remains from the Santos Basin (Cretaceous to Recent), Brazil: Geological Journal, v. 37, p. 297-316.

Poplin, C. M., and Lund, R., 2002, Two Carboniferous fine-eyed palaeoniscoids (Pisces, Actinopterygiii) from Bear Gulch (USA): Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 6, p. 1014-1028. (Kalops monophrys, Kalops diophrys)

Poyato-Ariza, F. J., and Wenz, S., 2002, A new insight into pycnodontiform fishes: Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 1, p. 139-248. (Apomesodon gibbons = Mesodon gibbosus, Apomesodon surgens, Ocloedus subdiscus = Coelodus subdiscus, Oroopycnodus ponsorti = Palaeobalistum ponsortii, Abdobalistum thyrsus = Palaeobalistum orbiculatum)

Prokofiev, A. M., 2002, First finding of an articulated actinopterygian skeleton from the Upper Devonian of Siberia and a reappraisal of the family Moythomasiidae Kazantseva, 1971 (Osteichthyes): Palaeontological Research, v. 6, n. 3, p. 321-327. (Krasnoyarichthys jesseni)

Reif, W.-E., 2002, Evolution of the dermal skeleton of vertebrates: concepts and methods: N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh, v. 223, n. 1, p. 53-78.

Stamberg, S., 2002, Actinopterygian fishes from the new Lower Permian locality of the Krkonose Piedmont Basin: Journal of the Czech Geological Society, v. 47, n. 3-4, p. 147-154.

Taverne, L., 2002, Study of Pseudanogmius maiseyi gen. and sp. nov., marine fish (Teleostei, Tselfatiiformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Kansas (United States): Geobios, v. 35, p. 605-614. (Pseudanogmius maiseyi)

Thies, D., and Turner, S., 2002, Jurassic actinopterygian fish from Monto, southeast Queensland: Alcheringa, v. 25, p. 381-386.

Tverdokhlebov, V. P., Tverdokhlebov, G. I., Surkov, M. V., and Benton, M. J., 2002, Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 60, p. 1-66.

Zhang, J.-Y., 2002, A new species of Lycoptera from Liaoning, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 4, p. 257-266. (Lycoptera fuxinensis)


Crossopterygians

Bjerring, H. C., 2002, The anuran jaw apparatus in an evolutional light: Palaeontographica Abt. A., v. 266, p. 93-119.

Clement, G., 2002, Large tristichopteridae (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Late Famennian Evieux Formation of Belgium: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 3, p. 577-593. 

Cote, S., Carroll, R., Cloutier, R., and Bar-Sagi, L., 2002, Vertebral development in the Devonian sarcopterygian fish Eusthenopteron foordi and the polarity of verrtebral evolution in non-amniote tetrapods: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 487-502.

Jeffery, J. E., Davis, M. C., Shubin, N. H., and Daeschler, E. B., 2002, Sauripterus Hall, 1843 (Osteichthyes, Sarocopterygii): proposed conservation as the correct original spelling: Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, v. 59, n. 3, p. 198-200.

Lindley, I. D., 2002, Acanthodian, onychodontid and osteolepidid fish from the middle-upper Taemas Limestone (Early Devonian), Lake Burrinjuk, New South Wales: Alcheringa, v. 26, p. 103-126. (Onychodus yassensis)

Shubin, N. H., 2002, Origin of evolutionary novelty: examples from limbs: Journal of Morphology, v. 252, p. 15-28.


Coelacanths

Yabumoto, Y., 2002, A new coelacanth from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia): Paleontological Research, v. 6, n. 4, p. 343-350. (Mawsonia brasiliensis)


Temnospondyli ("Labyrinthodons", Early Amphibians)

Carroll, R., 2002, Early land vertebrates: Nature, v. 418, p. 335-36.

Clack, J. A., 2002, An early tetrapod from 'Romer's Gap': Nature, v. 418, p. 72-76. (Pederpes finneyae)

Clack, J. A., 2002, The dermal skull roof of Acanthostega gunnari, an early tetrapod from the Late Devonian: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, v. 93, p. 17-33.

Cote, S., Carroll, R., Cloutier, R., and Bar-Sagi, L., 2002, Vertebral development in the Devonian sarcopterygian fish Eusthenopteron foordi and the polarity of verrtebral evolution in non-amniote tetrapods: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 487-502.

Damiani, R. J., 2002, Parotosuchus (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone (Early Triassic) of South Africa: cranial morphology and relationships: Alcheringa, v. 25, p. 351-379.

Dias, E. V., and Richter, M., 2002, On the squamation of Australerpeton cosgriffi Barberena, a temnospondyl amphibian from the Upper Permian of Brazil: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, v. 74, n. 3, p. 477-490. 

Dorka, M., 2002, Tetrapod teeth from the Upper Ladinian bone bed, Schöningen (Lower Saxony, Germany): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 2, p. 283-296.

Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and biochronology of Lower Chinle Group (Admanian: Latest Carnian) vertebrate fossil assemblages in the vicinity of St. Johns, Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 9-15.

Hellrung, H., 2002, The last trematosaurid amphibian Hyperokynodon keuperinus revisited: Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie), n. 321, 9pp.

Hunt, A. P., Lucas, S. G., and Berman, D. S., 2002, Milnererpeton, a replacement name for the temnospondyl amphibian Milneria: Palaontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 1, p. 125. (Milnererpeton huberi = Milneria huberi)

Kissell, R. A., and Lehman, T. M., 2002, Upper Pennsylvanian tetrapods from the ADA Formation of Seminole County, Oklahoma: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 3, p. 529-545.

Lucas, S. G., and Schoch, R. R., 2002, Triassic temnospondyl biostratigraphy, biochronlogy and correlation of the German Buntsandstein and North American Moenkopi Formation: Lethaia, v. 35, p. 87-106.

Martin, R. A., 2002, A possible role for reproductive behavior in the origin of tetrapod feet: Paludicola, v. 4, n. 1, p. 6-9.

May, W. J,. and Hall, J. D., 2002, Geology and vertebrate fauna of a new site in the Wellington Formation (Lower Permian) of northern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 62, n. 2, p. 63-66.

Morales, M., and Shiskin, M. A., 2002, A re-assessment of Parotosuchus africanus (Broom), a capitosauroid amphibian from the Triassic of South Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 1-11. (Xenotosuchus africanus = Parotosuchus africanus).

Reiss, J. O., 2002, The phylogeny of amphibian metamorphosis: Zoology, v. 105, p. 85-96.

Ruta, M., Milner, A. R., and Coates, M. I., 2002 (for 2001), The tetrapod Caerorhachis bairdi Holmes and Carroll from the Lower Carboniferous of Scotland: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences, v. 92, p. 229-261.

Schoch, R. W., 2002, The neurocranium of the stereospondyl Mastodonsaurus giganteus: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 3, p. 627-645.

Schoch, R. R., 2002, The early formation of the skull in extant and Paleozoic amphibians: Paleobiology, v. 28, n. 2, p. 278-296.

Schoch, R. R., 2002, The evolution of metamorphosis in temnospondyls: Lethaia, v. 35, p. 309-327.

Schoch, R. R., 2002, The stapes and middle ear of the Permo-Carboniferous tetrapod Sclerocephalus: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, v. 11, p. 671-680.

Sengupta, D. P., 2002, Indian metoposaurid amphibians revised: Paleontological Research, v. 6, n. 1, p. 41-65. (Buttneria maleriensis = Metoposaurus maleriensis)

Shubin, N. H., 2002, Origin of evolutionary novelty: examples from limbs: Journal of Morphology, v. 252, p. 15-28.

Steyer, J. S., 2002, The first articulated trematosaur ‘amphibian’ from the Lower Triassic of Madagascar: implications for the phylogeny of the group: Palaeontology, v. 48, part 4, p. 771-793.

Sulej, T., 2002, Species discrimination of the Late Triassic temnospondyl amphibian Metoposaurus diagnosticus: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 3, p. 535-546. (Metoposaurus diagnosticus krasiejowensis)

Tverdokhlebov, V. P., Tverdokhlebov, G. I., Surkov, M. V., and Benton, M. J., 2002, Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 60, p. 1-66.

Warren, A., and Ptasznik, R., 2002, The earliest fractured tetrapod bone: Alcheringa, v. 26, p. 459-463.

Werneburg, R., and Steyer, S., 2002, Revision of Cheliderpeton vranyi Fritsch, 1877 (Amphibia, Temnospondyli) from the Lower Permian of Bohemia (Czech Republic): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 1, p. 149-162.

Yates, A. M., and Sengupta, D. P., 2002, A lapillopsid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of India: Alcheringa, v. 26, p. 26, 201-208. (Manubrantlia khaki)

Zanno, L. E., Heckert, A. B., Krzyzanowski, S. E., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Diminutive metoposaurid skulls from the Upper Triassic Blue Hills (Adamanian: Latest Carnian) of Arizona: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 121-130.

Zhu, M., Ahlberg, P. E., Zhao, W., and Jia, L., 2002, First Devonian tetrapod from Asia: Nature, v. 420, p. 760. (Sinostega pani)


Lepospondyli

Anderson, J. S., 2002, Revision of the Aistopod genus Phlegethontia (Tetrapoda: Lepospondyli): Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 6, p. 1029-1046.


Amphibians

Bjerring, H. C., 2002, The anuran jaw apparatus in an evolutional light: Palaeontographica Abt. A., v. 266, p. 93-119.

Borsuk-Bialynicka, M,. and Evans, S. E., 2002, The scapulocoracoid of an Early Triassic stem-frog from Poland: Acta Paleontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 1, p. 79-96.

Evans, S. E., and McGowan, G. J., 2002, Lissamphibian remains from the Purbeck Limestone Group, Southern England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 103-119. (Apricosiren ensomi, Sunnybatrachus purbeckensis)

Gardner, J. D., 2002, Monophyly and intra-generic relationships of Albanerpeton (Lissamphibia: Albanerpetontidae): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 12-22.

Gowan, G. J., 2002, Albanerpetontid amphibians from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain and Italy: a description and reconsideration of their systematics: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 135, p. 1-32.

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Reiss, J. O., 2002, The phylogeny of amphibian metamorphosis: Zoology, v. 105, p. 85-96.

Schoch, R. R., 2002, The early formation of the skull in extant and Paleozoic amphibians: Paleobiology, v. 28, n. 2, p. 278-296.


Reptilosauromorph

Bulanov, V. V., 2002, Karpinskiosaurus ultimus (Seymouriamorpha, Parareptilia) from the Upper Permian of European Russia. Paleontological Journal, v. 36, n. 1, p. 72-79. (Karpinskiosaurus ultimus = Raphanodon ultimus)

Kissell, R. A., and Lehman, T. M., 2002, Upper Pennsylvanian tetrapods from the ADA Formation of Seminole County, Oklahoma: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 3, p. 529-545.

May, W. J,. and Hall, J. D., 2002, Geology and vertebrate fauna of a new site in the Wellington Formation (Lower Permian) of northern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 62, n. 2, p. 63-66.


"Lower reptiles"

Bulanov, V. V., 2002, New data on Procolophons from the Permian of Eastern Europe: Paleontological Journal, v. 36, n. 5, p. 525-539. (Nyctiphruretus optabilis, Kinelia broomi,  Microphon = Raphanodon, = Raphaniscus)

Caldwell, M. W., 2002, From fins to limbs to fins: limb evolution in fossil marine reptiles: American Journal of Medical Genetics, v. 112, p. 236-249.

Cisneros, J. C., and Schultz, C. L., 2002, Procolophon brasiliensis n. sp, a new procolophonid reptile from the Lower Triassic of southern Brazil: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, v. 11, 641-648. (Procolophon brasiliensis)

Kissel, R. A., Dilkes, D. W., and Reisz, R. R., 2002, Captorhinus magnus, a new captorhinid (Amniota: Eureptilia) from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma, with new evidence on the homology of the astragalus: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 39, p. 1363-1372. (Captorhinus magnus).

Kordikova, E. G., 2002, Comparative morphology of the palate dentition in Proganochelys quenstedti Baur 1887 from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Chelonian ancestry: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 225, n. 2, p. 195-249.

Lucas, S. G., 2002, Discussion and reply: The reptile Macroleter: First vertebrate evidence for correlation of Upper Permian continental strata of North America and Russia: GSA Bulletin, v. 114, n. 9, p. 1174-1175.

Maisch, M. W., 2002, A new basal omphalosaurid from the Middle Triassic of Germany: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2002, n. 9, p. 513-525: (Omphalosaurus peyeri)

May, W. J,. and Hall, J. D., 2002, Geology and vertebrate fauna of a new site in the Wellington Formation (Lower Permian) of northern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 62, n. 2, p. 63-66.

Modesto, J. P., Damiani, R. J., and Sues, H.-D., 2002, A reappraisal of Coletta seca, a basal procolophonoid reptile from the Lower Triassic of South Africa: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 5, p. 883-895.

Reisz, R. R., Barkas, V., and Scott, D., 2002, A new Early Permian bolosaurid reptile from the Richards Spur Dolese Brothers Quarry, near Fort Sill, Oklahoma: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 23-28. (Bolosaurus grandis)

Reisz, R. R., and Laurin, M., 2002, Discussion and reply: The reptile Macroleter: First vertebrate evidence for correlation of Upper Permian continental strata of North America and Russia: GSA Bulletin, v. 114, n. 9, p. 1176-1177.

Reisz, R. R., and Scott, D., 2002, Owenetta kitchingorum, sp. nov., a small parareptile (Procolophonia: Owenettidae) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 244-256. (Owenetta kitchingorum).

Rossmann, T., 2002, Studies on mesosaurs (Amniota inc. sed., Mesosauridae): 3. New aspects on the anatomy, preservation and palaeoecology, based on the specimens from the Palaeontological Institute of the University of Zurich: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 224, heft 2, p. 197-221.

Spencer, P. S., and Storrs, G. W., 2002, A re-evaluation of small tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation of Devon, England: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 3, p. 447-467. (Kapes bentoni, K. komiensis = Macrophon komiensis new comb.)

Tverdokhlebov, V. P., Tverdokhlebov, G. I., Surkov, M. V., and Benton, M. J., 2002, Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 60, p. 1-66.


Turtles

Bardet, N., and Pereda Suberbiola, X., 2002, Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan: palaeobiogeographical implications: Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 4, p. 831-839.

Barrett, P. M., Clarke, J. B., Brinkman, D. B., Chapman, S. D., and Ensom, P. C., 2002, Morphology, histology and identification of 'granicones' from the Purbeck Limestone Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Berriasian) of Dorset, southern England: Cretaceous Reserach, v. 23, p. 279-295.

Gaffney, E. S., Tong, H., and Meylan, P. A., 2002, Galianemys, a new side-necked turtle (Pelomedusoides: Bothremydidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco: American Museum Novitates, n. 3379, 20pp. (Galianemys whieti, Galianemys emringeri).

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Hirayama, R., 2002, Preliminary report of the fossil turtles from the Kitadani Formation (Early Cretaceous) of the Tetori Group of Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, Central Japan: Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, v. 1, p. 29-40.

Holroyd, P. A., and Hutchison, J. H., 2002, Patterns of geographic variation in latest Cretaceous vertebrates: evidence from the turtle component: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental recod of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 177-190.

Joyce, W. G., and Zelenitsky, D. K., 2002, Turtle egg pseudomorphs from the Late Jurassic of Schamhaupten, Germany: Archaeopteryx, v. 20, p. 57-62.

Kordikova, E. G., 2002, Comparative morphology of the palate dentition in Proganochelys quenstedti Baur 1887 from the Upper Triassic of Germany and Chelonian ancestry: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 225, n. 2, p. 195-249.

Kordikova, E. G., 2002, Heterochrony in the evolution of the shell of Chelonia. Part 1 Terminology, Cheloniidae, Dermochelyidae, Trionychidae, Cyclanorbidae and Carettochelyidae: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 226, n. 3, p. 343-417.

Laurent, Y., Tong, H., and Claude, J., 2002, New side-necked turtle (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae) from the Upper Maastrichtian of the Petites-Pyrenees (Haute-Garonne, France): Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 465-471. (Elochelys convenarum)

McCord, R., Tegowski, B. J., and Scarborough, R., 2002, Ongoing research in the Late Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation, southeastern Arizona: the non-dinosaurian vertebrate fauna: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 65-71.

Nicholls, E. L., and Meckert, D., 2002, Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39, p. 1591-1603. 

Tong, H., Buffetaut, E., and Suteethorn, V., 2002, Middle Jurassic turtles from southern Thailand: Geological Magazine, v. 139, n. 6, p. 687-697. (Siamochelys peninsularis)


Lepidosauromorphs

Barrett, P. M., and Evans, S. E., 2002, A reassessment of the Early Cretaceous reptile 'Patricosaurus merocratus' Seeley from the Cambridge Greensand, Cambridgeshire, UK: Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 231-240.

Spencer, P. S., and Storrs, G. W., 2002, A re-evaluation of small tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation of Devon, England: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 3, p. 447-467. (Coartaredens isaaci)


Lizards and snakes

Arnold, E. N., Azar, D., Ineich, I., and Nel, A., 2002, The oldest reptile in amber: a 120 million year old lizard from Lebanon: Journal of Zoology, v. 258, p. 7-10. (Baabdasaurus xenurus)

Bardet, N., and Pereda Suberbiola, X., 2002, Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan: palaeobiogeographical implications: Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 4, p. 831-839.

Bardet, N., and Tunoglu, C., 2002, The first mosasaur (Squamata) from the Late Cretaceous of Turkey: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 712-715.

Caldwell, M. W., 2002, From fins to limbs to fins: limb evolution in fossil marine reptiles: American Journal of Medical Genetics, v. 112, p. 236-249.

Christiansen, P., and Bonde, N., 2002, A new species of gigantic mosasaur from the Late Cretaceous of Israel: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 629-644. (Prognathodon currii)

Dortangs, R. W., Schulp, A. S., Mulder, E. W. A. Jagt, J. W. M., Peeters, H. G., and Graaf, D. t. de., 2002, A large new mosasaur from the Upper Cretaceous of The Netherlands: Netherlands Journal of Geosciences/Geologie en Mijnbouw, v. 81, n. 1 , p. 1-8. (Prognathodon saturator).

Evans, S. E., Prasad, G. V. R., and Manhas, B. K., 2002, Fossil lizards from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 299-312. (Bhartagama rebbanensis)

Evans, S. E., and Searle, B., 2002, Lepidosaurian reptiles from the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 145-159. (Parasaurillus pseudobtusus)

Everhart, M. J., 2002, New data on cranial measurements and body length of the mosasaur, Tylosaurus nepaeolicus (Squamata: Mosasauridae), from the Niobrara Formation of Western Kansas: Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, v. 105, n. 1-2, p. 33-43.

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Kiernan, C. R., 2002, Stratigraphic distribution and habitat segregation of mosasaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of Western and Central Alabama, with an historical review of Alabama mosasaur discoveries: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 97-103.

Lee, M. S. Y., and Scanlon, J. D., 2002, Snake phylogeny based on osteology, soft anatomy and ecology: Biological Review, v. 77, p. 333-401.

Lindgren, J., and Siverson, M., 2002, Tylosaurus ivoensis: a giant mosasaur from the early Campanian of Sweden: Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, v. 93, p. 73-93.

Lingham-Soliar, T., 2002, First occurrence of premaxillary caniniform teeth in the varanoidea: presence in the extinct mosasaur Goronyosaurus (Squamata: Mosasauridae) and its functional and paleoecological implications: Lethia, v. 35, p. 187-190.

McCord, R., Tegowski, B. J., and Scarborough, R., 2002, Ongoing research in the Late Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation, southeastern Arizona: the non-dinosaurian vertebrate fauna: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 65-71.

Montani, R., 2002, Swimming speed estimation of extinct marine reptiles: energetic approach revisited: Paleobiology, v. 28, n. 2, p. 251-262.

Nicholls, E. L., and Meckert, D., 2002, Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39, p. 1591-1603. (Kourisodon puntledgensis)

Novas, F. E., Fernandez, M., Gasparini, Z. B. de, Lirio, J. M., Nunez, H. J., and Pueta, P., 2002, Lakumasaurus antarcticus, n. gen. et sp., a new mosasaur (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica: Ameghiniana, v. 39, n. 2, p. 245-250. (Lakumasaurus antarcticus)

Nydam, R. L., 2002, Lizards of the Mussentuchit local fauna (Albian-Cenomanian boundary) and comments on the evolution of the Cretaceous lizard fauna of North America: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 645-660. (Dimekodontosaurus madseni, Bothriagenys mysterion, Harmodontosaurus emeryensis)

Nydam, R. L., and Cifelli, R. L., 2002, A new teiid lizard from the Cedar Mountain Formation (Albian-Cenomanian boundary) of Utah: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 276-285. (Bicuspidon numerosus).

Nyhdam, R. L., and Cifelli, R. L., 2002, Lizards from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) Antlers and Cloverly Formations: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 286-298. (Atokasaurus metarsiodon, Ptilotodon wilsoni, Paramacellodus keebleri)

Tanimoto, M., and Kishimoto, S., 2002, Mosasaurid big vertebrae from the Upper Cretacous Isumi Group of Sumoto-City, Hyogo Prefecture, Southwest Japan: Chigakukenkyu, v. 51, n. 3, p. 135-141.

Zaher, H., and Rieppel, O., 2002, On the phylogenetic relationships of the Cretaceous snakes with legs, with special reference to Pachyrhachis problematicus (Squamata, Serpentes): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 104-109.


Ichthyosaurs

Caldwell, M. W., 2002, From fins to limbs to fins: limb evolution in fossil marine reptiles: American Journal of Medical Genetics, v. 112, p. 236-249.

Humphries, S., and Ruxton, G. D., 2002, Why did some ichthyosaurs have such large eyes? The Journal of Experimental Biology, v. 205, p. 439-441.

Kear, B. P., 2002, Dental caries in an Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur: Alcheringa, v. 25, p. 387-390.

Kear, B. J., 2002, Darwin Formation (Early Cretaceous, Northern Territory) marine reptile remains in the South Australian Museum: Records of the South Australian Museum, v. 35, n. 1, p. 33-47.

Li, C., and You, H.-L., 2002, Cymbospondylus from the Upper Triassic of Guizhou, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 1, p. 8-16. (Cymbospondylus asiaticus).

Li, J.-L., Liu, J., Li, C., and Huang, Z.-X., 2002, The horizon and age of the marine reptiles from Hubei Province, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 3, p. 241-244.

Lopuchowycz, V. B., and Massare, J. A., 2002, Bone microstructure of a Cretaceous ichthyosaur: Paludicola, v. 3, n. 4, p. 139-147.

Lucas, S. G., 2002, Toretocnemus, a Late Triassic ichthyosaur from California, U.S.A. and Sonora, Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 275-278.

Maisch, M. W., and Matzke, A. T., 2002, The skull of a large Lower Triassic ichthyosaur from Spitzbergen and its implications for the origin of the Ichthyosauria: Lethaia, v. 35, p. 250-256.

Maisch, M. W., and Matzke, A. T., 2002, Observations on Triassic ichthyosaurs. Part IX. The first associated skeletal remains of Merriamosaurus n. g. (Ichthyosauria, Lower Triassic) and their bearing on the systematic position of the Omphalosauria: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 226, n. 1, p. 59-94. (Merriamosaurus hulkei, = Rotundopteryx hulkei, Rotundopteryx Maisch & Matzke, 2000 non Duckhouse, 1990)

Motani, R., 2002, Scaling effects in caudal fin propulsion and the speed of ichthyosaurs: Nature, v. 415, p. 309-312.

Motani, R., 2002, Swimming speed estimation of extinct marine reptiles: energetic approach revisited: Paleobiology, v. 28, n. 2, p. 251-262.

Sirotti, A., and Papazzoni, C. A., 2002, On the Cretaceous ichthyosaur remains from the Northern Apennines (Italy): Bollettino della Societa PAleontologica Italiana, v. 41, n. 2-3, p. 237-248.


Placodontia

Rieppel, O., 2002, Feeding mechanics in the Triassic stem-group sauropterygians: the anatomy of a successful invasion of Mesozoic seas: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 135, p. 33-61.

Rieppel, O., 2002, The dermal armor of the cynamodontoid placodonts (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): morphology and systematic value: Fieldiana; Geology, new series, n. 46, 41pp. (Psephosauriscus mosis = "Psephosaurus" mosis, Psephosauriscus sinaiticus = Psephosaurus? sinaiticus, cf. Psephosauricus rhombifer = "Psephosaurus" rhombifer)


Sauropterygia

Bardet, N., and Pereda Suberbiola, X., 2002, Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan: palaeobiogeographical implications: Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 4, p. 831-839.

Caldwell, M. W., 2002, From fins to limbs to fins: limb evolution in fossil marine reptiles: American Journal of Medical Genetics, v. 112, p. 236-249.

Cruickshank, A. R. I., and Fordyce, E., 2002, A new marine reptile (Sauropterygia) from New Zealand: fürther evidence for a Late Cretaceous Austral radiation of cryptoclidid plesiosaurs: Palaeontology, v. 45, n. 3, p. 557-575. (Kaiwhekea katiki)

Davidson, J. P., 2002, Bonehead mistakes: The background in scientific literature and illustrations for Edward Drinker Cope's first restoration of Elasmosaurus platyurus: Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, v. 152, p. 215-240.

Duckenmiller, P. S., 2002, Osteology of a new plesiosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Thermopolis Shale of Montana: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 29-42. (Edgarosaurus muddi)

Gasparini, Z., Bardet, N., and Iturralde-Vinent, M., 2002, A new cryptoclidid plesiosaur from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Cuba: Geobios, v. 35, p. 201-211. (Vinialesaurus caroli = Cryptocleidus? cuervoi caroli)

Kear, B. J., 2002, Darwin Formation (Early Cretaceous, Northern Territory) marine reptile remains in the South Australian Museum: Records of the South Australian Museum, v. 35, n. 1, p. 33-47.

Li, J.-L., Liu, J., Li, C., and Huang, Z.-X., 2002, The horizon and age of the marine reptiles from Hubei Province, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 3, p. 241-244.

Li, J.-L., Liu, J., and Rieppel, O., 2002, A new species of Lariosaurus (Sauropterygia: Nothosauridae) from Triassic of Guizhou, Southwest China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 2, p. 114-126. (Lariosaurus xingyiensis).

Montani, R., 2002, Swimming speed estimation of extinct marine reptiles: energetic approach revisited: Paleobiology, v. 28, n. 2, p. 251-262.

Nicholls, E. L., and Meckert, D., 2002, Marine reptiles from the Nanaimo Group (Upper Cretaceous) of Vancouver Island: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39, p. 1591-1603. 

O'Keefe, F. R., 2002, The evolution of plesiosaur and pliosaur morphotypes in the plesiosauria (reptilia: sauropterygia): Paleobiology, v. 28, n. 1, p. 101-112.

Rieppel, O., 2002, Feeding mechanics in the Triassic stem-group sauropterygians: the anatomy of a successful invasion of Mesozoic seas: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 135, p. 33-61.

Rieppel, O., Sander, P. M., and Storrs, G. W., 2002, The skull of the pistosaur Augustasaurus from the Middle Triassic of northwestern Nevada: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 577-592.


Archosauromorpha

Dalla Vecchia, F. B., 2002, Terrestrial reptiles in the Norian of the Carnian Pre-Alps (Friuli, NE Italy): paleoenvironmental implications: Mem. Soc. Geol. It., v. 57, p. 101-106.

Desojo, J. B., Arcucci, A. B., and Marsicano, C. A., 2002, Reassessment of Cuyosuchus huenei, a Middle-Late Triassic archosauriform from the Cuyo basin, West-Central Argentina: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 1-36.

Dorka, M., 2002, Tetrapod teeth from the Upper Ladinian bone bed, Schöningen (Lower Saxony, Germany): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 2, p. 283-296.

Harris, J. D., and Downs, A., 2002, A drepanosaurid pectoral girdle from the Ghost Ranch (Whitaker) Coelophysis quarry (Chinle Group, Rock Point Formation, Rhaetian), New Mexico: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 70-75.

Hunt, A. P., Heckert, A. B., Lucas, S. G., and Downs, A., 2002, The distribution of the enigmatic reptile Vancleavea in the Upper Triassic Chinle Group of the western United States: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 269-273.

Li, J.-L., Liu, J., Li, C., and Huang, Z.-X., 2002, The horizon and age of the marine reptiles from Hubei Province, China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 3, p. 241-244.

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., and Hotton III, N., 2002, The rhynchosaur Hyperodapedon from the Upper Triassic of Wyoming and its global biochronological significance: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 149-156.

Matsumoto, R., Evans, S. E., and Shimojima, S., 2002, The dentary of a choristodere (Reptilia: Archosauromorpha) from the Okurodani Formation, Tetori Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Japan: Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C, v. 28, p. 43-48.

Nesbitt, S., 2002, An update on fossil reptile material from the Upper Moenkopi Formation, Holbrook Member (Middle Triassic), northern Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 3-7.

Renesto, S., and Avanzini, M., 2002, Skin remains in a juvenile Macrocnemus bassanii Nopcsa (Reptilia, Prolacertiformes) from the Middle Triassic of Northern Italy: N. Jb. Geol. Palaeont. Abh, v. 224, n. 1, p. 31-48.

Renesto, S., Dalla Vecchia, F. M., and Peters, D., 2002, Morphological evidence for bipedalism in the Late Triassic prolacertiform reptile Langobardisaurus: Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 95-106.

Tverdokhlebov, V. P., Tverdokhlebov, G. I., Surkov, M. V., and Benton, M. J., 2002, Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 60, p. 1-66.


Pterosaurs

Bennett, S. C., 2002, Soft tissue preservation of the cranial crest of the pterosaur Germandactylus from Solnhofen: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 43-48.

Buffetaut, E., Girgorescu, D., and Csiki, Z., 2002, A new giant pterosaur with a robust skull from the latest Cretaceous of Romania: Naturwissenschafte, v. 89, p. 180-184. (Hatzegopteryx thambema)

Czerkas, S. A., and Mickleson, D. L., 2002, The first occurrence of Skeletal pterosaur remains in Utah: In: Feathered Dinosaurs and the origin of flight, edited by Sylvia J. Czerkas, The Dinosaur Museum Journal, v. 1, p. 3-13. (Utahdactylus kateae)

Czerkas, S. A., and Ji, Q., 2002, A new rhamphorhynchoid wiht a headcrest and complex integumentary structures: In: Feathered Dinosaurs and the origin of flight, edited by Sylvia J. Czerkas, The Dinosaur Museum Journal, v. 1, p. 15-41 (Pterorhynchus wellnhoferi)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2002, Observations on the non-pterodactyloid pterosaur Jeholopterus ningchengensis from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China: Natura Nascosta, n. 24, p. 8-28.

Dalla Vecchia, F. B., 2002, Terrestrial reptiles in the Norian of the Carnian Pre-Alps (Friuli, NE Italy): paleoenvironmental implications: Mem. Soc. Geol. It., v. 57, p. 101-106.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., Wild, R., Hope, H., and Reitner, J., 2002, A crested rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur from the Late Triassic of Austria: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 196-199. (Austriadactylus cristatus).

Dorka, M., 2002, Tetrapod teeth from the Upper Ladinian bone bed, Schöningen (Lower Saxony, Germany): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 2, p. 283-296.

Fastnacht, M., Hess, N., Frey, E., and Weiser, H.-P., 2002, Finite element analysis in vertebrate paleontology: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 195-206.

Kellner, A. W. A., and Campos, D. de A., 2002, The function of the cranial crest and jaws of a unique pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil: Science, v. 297, p. 389-392. (Thalasssodromeus sethi)

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Lim, J.-D., Baek, K.-S., and Yang, S. Y., 2002, A new record of a pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Korea: Current Science, v. 82, n. 10, p. 1208-1210.

Lockley, M. G., and Rainforth, E. C., 2002, The track record of Mesozoic birds and pterosaurs, an ichnological and paleoecological prespective:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 405-418.

Lu, J.-C., 2002, Soft tissue in an Early Cretaceous pterosaur from Liaoning Proivnce, China: Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, v. 1, p. 19-28.

McGowen, M. R., Padian, K., De Sosa, M. A., and Harmon, R. J., 2002, Description of Montanazhdarcho minor, an azhdarchid pterosaur from the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian) of Montana: PaleoBios, v. 22, n. 1, p. 1-9.

Norberg, U. M. L., 2002, Structure, form and function of flight in engineering and the living world: Journal of Morphology, v. 252, p. 52-81.

Nuvens, P. C., Sayao, J. M., Silva, H. de P., Saraiva, A. A., and Kellner, A. W A., 2002, A colecao de pterossauros do Museum de paleontlogia de Santana do Cariri, nordeaste do Brasil: Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, v. 60, n. 2, p. 235-240.

Tischlinger, H,. and Frey, E., 2002, Ein Rhamphorhynchus (Pterosauria, Reptlia) mit ungewöhnlicher Flughauterhaltung aus dem Solnhofener Plattenkalk: Archaeopteryx, v. 20, p. 1-20.

Unwin, D. M., 2002, On the systematic relationships of Cearadactylus atrox, an enigmatic Early Cretaceous pterosaur from the Santana Formation of Brazil: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl. Geowiss Reihe, v. 5, p. 239-263.

Unwin, D. M., and Henderson, D. M., 2002, On the trail of the totally integrated pterosaur: TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution, v. 17, n. 2, p. 58-59.

Veldmeijer, A. J., 2002, Pterosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil in the Stuttgart Collection: Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie), n. 327, 27pp.

Wang, X., Zhou, Z., Zhang, F., and Xu, X., 2002, A nearly complete articulated rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur wiht exceptionaly well-preserved wing membranes and "hairs" from Inner Mongolia, northeast China: Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 47, n. 3, p. 226-230. (Jeholopterus ningchengensis)


"thecodontia"

Benton, M. J., and Walker, A. D., 2002, Erpetosuchus, a crocodile-like basal archosaur from the Late Triassic of Elgin, Scotland: In: Archosaurian anatomy and palaeontology. Essays in memory of Alick D. Walker, edited by Norman, D. B., and Gower, D. J., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, p. 25-47.

Gower, D. J., 2002, Braincase evolution in suchian archosaurs (Rejptilia: Diapsida): evidence from the rauisuchian Batrachotomus kupferzellensis: In: Archosaurian anatomy and palaeontology. Essays in memory of Alick D. Walker, edited by Norman, D. B., and Gower, D. J., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, p. 49-76.

Gower, D. J., and Walker, A. D., 2002, New data on the braincase of the aetosaurian archosaur (Reptilia: Diapsida) Stagonolepis robertsoni Agassiz: In: Archosaurian anatomy and palaeontology. Essays in memory of Alick D. Walker, edited by Norman, D. B., and Gower, D. J., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, p. 7-23.

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, South American occurrences of the Adamanian (Late Triassic: Latest Carnian) index taxon Stagonolepis (Archosauria: Aetosauria) and their biochronological significance: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 5, p. 852-863.

Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and biochronology of Lower Chinle Group (Admanian: Latest Carnian) vertebrate fossil assemblages in the vicinity of St. Johns, Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 9-15.

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Historical taxonomy of the LateTriassic aetosaurs Typothorax and Desmatosuchus (Archosauria: Curotarsi), including a lectotype designation for Desmatosuchus haplocerus: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 193-203.

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Acaenasuchus geoffreyi (Archosauria: Aetosauria) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group: juvenile of Desmatosuchus haplocerus: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 205-214.

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Osteoderms of juveniles of Stagonolepis (Archosauria: Aetosauria) from the Lower Chinle Group, east-central Arizona: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 235-239

Heckert, A. B., Lucas, S. G., and Krzyzanowski, S. E., 2002, The rauisuchian archosaur Saurosuchus from the Upper Triassic Chinle Group, southwestern U.S.A., and its biochronological significance: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 241-244.

Henderson, D. M., and Weishampel, D. B., 2002, Convergent evolution of the maxilla-dental-complex among carnivorous archosaurs: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 77-92.

Hungerbuhler, A., 2002, The Late Triassic phytosaur Mystriosuchus westphali, with a revision of the genus: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 2, p. 377-418.

Hunt, A. P., Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2002, A Revueltian (Norian) phytosaur from the Sonsela Member of the Petrified Forest Formation (Chinle Group: Upper Triassic), Petrified Forest National Park, Arizon: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 165-169.

Lucas, S. G. Heckert, A. B., and Hunt, A. P., 2002, A new species of the aetosaur Typothorax (Archosauria: Stagonolepididae) from the Upper Triassic of east-central New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 221-233. (Typothorax antiquum)

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., and Kahle, R., 2002, Postcranial anatomy of Angistorhinus, a Late Triassic phytosaur from west Texas: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 157-164.

Lucas, S. G., Heckert, A. B., Zeigler, K. E., and Hunt, A. P., 2002, The type locality of Belodon buceros Cope, 1881, a phytosaur (Archosauria: Parasuchidae) from the Upper Triassic of north-central New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 189-192

Nesbitt, S., 2002, An update on fossil reptile material from the Upper Moenkopi Formation, Holbrook Member (Middle Triassic), northern Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 3-7.

Senter, P., 2002, Lack of a pheromonal sense in phytosaurs and other archosaurs, and its implications for reproductive communication: Paleobiology, v. 28,n . 4, p. 544-550.

Small, B. J., 2002, Cranial anatomy of Desmatosuchus haplocerus (Reptilia: Archosauria: Stagonolepididae): In: Archosaurian anatomy and palaeontology. Essays in memory of Alick D. Walker, edited by Norman, D. B., and Gower, D. J., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, p. 97-111.

Tverdokhlebov, V. P., Tverdokhlebov, G. I., Surkov, M. V., and Benton, M. J., 2002, Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 60, p. 1-66.

Zeigler, K. E., Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, A new species of Desmatosuchus (Archosauria: Aetosauria) from the Upper Triassic of Chama Basin, north-central New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 215-219. (Desmatosuchus chamaensis)

Zeigler, K. E., Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2002, A phytosaur skull from the Upper Triassic Snyder Quarry (Petrified Forest Formation, Chinle Group), of North-Central New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 171-177.

Zeigler, K. E., Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2002, The Late Triassic Canjilon Quarry (Upper Chinle Group, New Mexico) Phytosaur skulls: evidence of sexual dimorphism in phytosaurs: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 179-188.


Crocodilia

Bardet, N., and Pereda Suberbiola, X., 2002, Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan: palaeobiogeographical implications: Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 4, p. 831-839.

Brochu, C. A., Bouare, M. L., Sissoko, F., Roberts, E. M., and O'Leary, M. A., 2002, A dryosaurid crocodyliform braincase from Mali: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 6. p. 1060-1071.

de Broin, F. de L., 2002, Elosuchus, a new genus of crocodile from the Lower Cretaceous of North Africa: C. R. Palevol, v. 1, p. 275-285. (Elosuchus cherifiensis = Thoracosaurus cherifiensis, Elosuchus felixi)

Caldwell, M. W., 2002, From fins to limbs to fins: limb evolution in fossil marine reptiles: American Journal of Medical Genetics, v. 112, p. 236-249.

Clark, J. M., and Sues, H.-D., 2002, Two new basal crocodylomorph archosaurs from the Lower Jurassic and the monophyly of the sphenosuchia: In: Archosaurian anatomy and palaeontology. Essays in memory of Alick D. Walker, edited by Norman, D. B., and Gower, D. J., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, p. 77-95. (Litargosuchus leptorhynchus, Kayentasuchus walkeri)

Fara, E., Ouaja, M., Buffetaut, E., and Srarfi, D., 2002, First occurrences of thalattosuchian crocodiles in the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Tunisia: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2002, n. 8, p. 465-476.

Frey, E., Buchy, M.-C., Stinnesbeck, W., and Lopez-Oliva, J. G., 2002, Geosaurus vignaudi n. sp. (Crocodyliformes: Thalattosuchia), first evidence of metriorhynchid crocodilians in the Late Jurassic (Tithonian) of central-east Mexico (State of Puebla): Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39, p. 1467-1483. (Geosaurus vignaudi )

Henderson, D. M., and Weishampel, D. B., 2002, Convergent evolution of the maxilla-dental-complex among carnivorous archosaurs: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 77-92.

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Hoganson, J. W., and Murphy, E. C., 2002, Marine Breien Member (Maastrichtian) of the Hell creek Formation in North Dakota: Stratigraphy, vertebrate fossil record, and age: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental recod of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 247-269.

Karl, H.-V., 2002, Über reptilienreste aus dem alttertiär des nördlichen Alpenvorlandes bei Siegsdorf/Oberbayern: Joannea Geol. Palaont, v. 4, p. 69-81.

McCord, R., Tegowski, B. J., and Scarborough, R., 2002, Ongoing research in the Late Cretaceous Fort Crittenden Formation, southeastern Arizona: the non-dinosaurian vertebrate fauna: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 65-71.

Molnar, R. E., Worthy, T., and Willis, P. M. A., 2002, An extinct Pleistocene endemic mekosuchine crocodylian from Fiji: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n . 3, p. 612-628. (Volia athollandersoni

Preuschoft, H., and Witzel, U., 2002, Biomechanical investigations on the skulls of reptiles and mammals: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 207-222.

Rinehart, L. F., Heckert, A. B., Byrant, G., Lucas, S. G., and Cushman, R., 2002, Protosuchid crocodylomorphs from the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of north-central Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 25-31.

Rossmann, T., 2002, Studies on Cenozoic crocodiles: 10. First evidence of a tomistomid crocodilian (Eusuchia: Tomistomidae) from the Middle Eocene (Geiseltalian, MP 11) of Grube Messel, Germany: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2002, heft 3, p. 129-146.

Salisbury, S. W., 2002, Crocodilians from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 121-144. (Goniopholis gracilidens = Nannosuchus gracilidens, Pholidosaurus purbeckensis = Stenosaurus purbeckensis)

Schwarz, D., 2002, A new species of Goniopholis from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 1, p. 185-208. (Goniopholis barglyphaeus)

Tykoski, R. S., Rowe, T. B., Ketcham, R. A., and Colbert, M. W., 2002, Calsoyasuchus valliceps, a new crocodyliform from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 593-611. (Calsoyasuchus valliceps)

Wroe, S., 2002, A review of terrestrial mammalian and reptilian carnivore ecology in Australian fossil faunas, and factors influencing their diversity: the myth of reptilian domination and its broader ramifications: Australian Journal of Zoology, v. 50, p. 1-24.

Zheng, L., Huang, W., et al, 2002, Hexian Hominid Site: (I don't know the publisher because its in Chinese), 126pp. (Alligator fossilis)


Dinosaurs

Theropods

Allain, R., 2002, Discovery of Megalosaur (Dinosauria, Theropoda) in the Middle Bathonian of Normandy (France) and its implications for the phylogeny of basal tetanurae: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 548-563. (Poekilopleuron? valesdunensis)

Allain, R., and Chure, D. J., 2002, Poekilopleuron bucklandii, the theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Normandy: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 6, p. 1107-1121.

Anonymous, 2002, Taxonomic tussle: Science, v. 295, p. 1459.

Bittencourt, J. de S., and Kellner, A. W. A., 2002, Abelisauria (Theropoda, Dinosauria) teeth from Brazil: Boletim do Museu Nacional, Geologia, n. 63, p. 1-8.

Buffetaut, E., and Ouaja, M,. 2002, A new specimen of Spinosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Tunisia, with remarks on the evolutionary history of the Spinosauridae: Bulletin de la societie geologiques de France, t. 173, n. 5, p. 415-421.

Carpenter, K., 2002, Forelimb biomechanics of nonavian theropod dinosaurs in predation: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 59-76.

Carrano, M. T., and Hutchinson, J. R., 2002, Pelvic and hindlimb musculature of Tyrannosaurus rex (Dinosauria: Theropoda): Journal of Morphology, v. 253, n. 3, p. 207-228.

Carrano, M. T., Sampson, S. C., and Forster, C. A., 2002, The osteology of Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a small abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 510-534.

Chiappe, L. M., 2002, Basal bird phylogeny, problems and solutions: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 448-472.

Chiappe, L. M., and Dyke, G. J., 2002, The Mesozoic radiation of birds: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, v. 33, p. 91-124.

Chiappe, L. M., Norell, M. A., and Clark, J. M., 2002, The Cretaceous, short-armed alvarezasauridae Mononykus and its kin:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 87-120.

Christiansen, P., and Bonde, N., 2002, Limb proportions and avian terrestrial locomotion: Journal of Ornithology, v. 143, p. 356-371.

Clark, J. M., Norell, M. A., and Makovicky, P. J., 2002, Cladistic approaches to the relationships of birds to other theropod dinosaurs: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 31-61.

Clark, J. M., Norell, M. A., and Rowe, T., 2002, Cranial anatomy of Citipati osmolskae (Theropoda, Oviraptorosauria), and a reinterpretation of the holotype of Oviraptor philoceratops: American Museum Novitates, n. 3364, 24pp.

Coria, R. A., Chiappe, L. M., and Dingus, L., 2002, A new close relative of Carnotaurus sastrei Bonaparte 1985 (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, v. 22, n. 2, p. 460-465. (Aucasaurus garridoi).

Czerkas, S. A., and Yuan, C., 2002, An arboreal maniraptoran from northeast China: In: Feathered Dinosaurs and the origin of flight, edited by Sylvia J. Czerkas, The Dinosaur Museum Journal, v. 1, p. 3-1363-95. (Scansoriopteryx heilmanni)

Czerkas, S. A., Zhang, D., Li, J., and Li, Y., 2002, Flying dromaeosaurs: In: Feathered Dinosaurs and the origin of flight, edited by Sylvia J. Czerkas, The Dinosaur Museum Journal, v. 1, p. 97-126, (Cryptovolans pauli)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M. Venturini, S., and Tentor, M., 2002, The Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Konservat-Lagerstatte of en Nammoura (Kesrouane Province), northern Lebanon: Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, v. 41, n. 1, p. 51-68.

Dorka, M., 2002, Tetrapod teeth from the Upper Ladinian bone bed, Schöningen (Lower Saxony, Germany): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 2, p. 283-296.

Elzanowski, A., 2002, Biology of basal birds and the origin of avian flight: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 211-226. 

Farlow, J. O., and Holtz jr, T. R., 2002, The fossil record of predation in dinosaurs: Paleontological Society Papers, v. 8, p. 251-265.

Feduccia, A., 2002, Birds are Dinosaurs: simple answer to a complex problem: Auk, v. 118, n. 4, p. 1187-1201.

Feduccia, A., and Nowicki, J., 2002, The hand of birds revealed by early ostrich embryos: Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, p. 391-393.

Ford, T. L., and Chure, D. J., 2002, "Aublysodon" teeth from the El Gallo Formation (Late Campanian) of Baja California: the southernmost record of Tyrannosaurid theropods: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 75-89.

Fraser, N. C., Padian, K., Walkden G. M., and Davis, A. L. M., 2002, Basal dinosauriform remains from Britain and the diagnosis of the dinosauria: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 1, p. 79-95. (Agnostiphys cromhallensis)

Gay, R., 2002, New specimens of Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Northern Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 19-23.

Gatsey, S. M., 2002, Locomotor evolution on the line to modern birds:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 432-447.

Hanna, R. R., 2002, Multiple injury and infection in a sub-adult theropod dinosaur Allosaurus fragilis with comparisons to allosaur pathology in the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry collection: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 76-90.

Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and biochronology of Lower Chinle Group (Admanian: Latest Carnian) vertebrate fossil assemblages in the vicinity of St. Johns, Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 9-15.

Henderson, D. M., and Weishampel, D. B., 2002, Convergent evolution of the maxilla-dental-complex among carnivorous archosaurs: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 77-92.

Hernandez, A. T., 2002, Los dinosaurios teropodos del Cretacico Superior de la Cuenca de Tremp (Pirineos Sur-Centrales, Lleida) Coloquios de Paleontologia, v. 53, p. 139-143.

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Hoganson, J. W., and Murphy, E. C., 2002, Marine Breien Member (Maastrichtian) of the Hell creek Formation in North Dakota: Stratigraphy, vertebrate fossil record, and age: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental recod of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 247-269.

Hu, C. C., Cheng, Z., Pang, Q., and Fang, X., 2001, Shantungosaurus giganteus: Geological Publishing House, 139pp. (Tyrannosaurus zhuchengensis)

Hutchinson, J. R., 2002, The evolution of the hindlimb tendons and muscles on the line to crown-group birds: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, v. 133, p. 1051-1086.

Hutchinson, J. R., and Garcia, M., 2002, Tyrannosaurus was not a fast runner: Nature, v. 415, p. 1018-1021.

Hwang, S. H., Norell, M. A., Ji, Q., and Gao, K., 2002, New specimens of Microraptor zhaoianus (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from Northeastern China: American Museum Novitates, n. 3381, 44pp.

Ji, Q., Ji, S.-H., Yuang, C.-X., and Ji, X.-X., 2002, Restudy of a small dromaeosaurid dinosaur with feathers over its entire body: Earth Science Frontiers (China University of Geosciences, Beijing), v. 9, n. 3, p. 57-63. (Sinornithosaurus sp (nova)

Kellner, A.W.A. and Campos D.A., 2002, On a theropod dinosaur (Abelisauria) from the continental Cretaceous of Brazil: Arquivos do Museu Nacional de Rio Janeiro, v. 60, n. 3, p.163-170. (Pycnonemosaurus nevesi)

Lamanna, M. C., Martinex, R. D., and Smith, J. B., 2002, A definitive abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the Early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 58-69.

Lim, J.-D., Martin, L. D., and Baek, K. S., 2002, The first megalosaurid tooth from South Korea: Current Science, v. 82, n. 3, p. 326-328.

Lu, J., Dong., Z.-M., Azuma, Y., Barsbold, R., and Tomida, Y., 2002, Oviraptorosaurs compared to birds: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 175-189. 

Maryanska, T., Osmolska, H., and Wolsan, M., 2002, Avialan status for Oviraptorosauria: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 1, p. 97-116.

Mclver, E. E., 2002, The paleoenvironment of Tyrannosaurus rex from southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 39, p. 207-221.

Medeiros, M. A., and Schultz, C. L., 2002, A fauna dinossauriana da "Laje do Coringa", Cretaceo Medio do Nordeste do Brasil: Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, v. 60, n. 3, p. 155-162.

Meers, M. B., 2002, Maximum bite force and prey size of Tyrannosaurus rex and their relationships to the inference of feeding behavior: Historical Biology, v. 16, n. 1-12.

Milner, A. C., 2002, Theropod dinosaurs of the Purbeck Limestone Group, southern England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 191-201.

Naish, D., 2002, The historical taxonomy of the Lower Cretaceous theropods (Dinosauria) Calamospondylus and Aristosuchus from the Isle of Wight: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, n. 113, p. 153-163.

Naish, D., and Martill, D. M., 2002, A reappraisal of Thecocoelurus daviesi (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, n. 113, p. 23-30.

Naples, V. L., Martin, L. D., and Simmons, J,. 2002, The pelvis in early birds and dinosaurs: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 203-210. 

Nesbitt, S., 2002, An update on fossil reptile material from the Upper Moenkopi Formation, Holbrook Member (Middle Triassic), northern Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 3-7.

Niedzwiedzki, G., and Gierlinski, G., 2002, Isolated theropod teeth from the Cretaceous strata of Khouribga, Morocco: Geological Quarterly, v. 46, n. 1, p. 97-100.

Novas, F. E., and Pol, D., 2002, Alvarezsaurid relationships reconsidered:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 121-125.

Preuschoft, H., and Witzel, U., 2002, Biomechanical investigations on the skulls of reptiles and mammals: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 207-222.

Rauhut, O. W. M., 2002, Dinosaur teeth from the Barremian of Una, Province of Cuenca, Spain: Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 255-263.

Ray, S., and Chinsamy, A., 2002, A theropod tooth from the Late Triassic of southern Africa: Journal of Bioscience, v. 27, n. 3, p. 295-298.

Rayfield, E. J., Norman D. B., and Upchurch, P., 2002, Prey attack by a large theropod dinosaur: Nature, 416, p. 387-388.

Sankey, J. T., Brinkman, D. B., Guenther, M., and Currie, P. J., 2002, Small theropod and bird teeth from the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) Judith River Group, Alberta: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 4, p. 751-763.

Sanz, J. L., Alvarz, J. C., Soriano, C., Hernandez-Carrasquilla, F., Perez-Moreno, B. P., and Meseguer, J., 2002, Wing loading in primitive birds: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 253-258. 

Sinvely, E., and Russell, A., 2002, The tyrannosaurid metatarsus: bone strain and inferred ligament function: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 35-42.

Sues, H.-D., Frey, E., Martill, D. M., and Scott, D. M., 2002, Irritator challengeri, a spinosaurid (Dinosauria; Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 535-547.

Suzuki, S., Chiappe, L. M., Dyke, G. J., Watabe, M., Barsbold, R., and Tsogtbaatar K., 2002, A new specimen of Shuvuuia deserti Chiappe et al., 1998 from the Mongolian Late Cretaceous with a discussion of the relationships of Alvarezsaurids to other theropod dinosaurs: Contributions in Science, n. 494, 1-18.

Varricchio, D. J., Horner, J. R., and Jackson, F. D., 2002, Embryos and eggs for the Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 564-576.

Vickers-Rich, P., Chiappe, L. M., and Kurzanov, S., 2002, The enigmatic birdlike dinosaur Avimimus portentosus: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 65-86..

Witmer, L. M., 2002, The debate on avian ancestry, phylogney, function, and fossils: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 3-30.

Xu, X., Cheng, Y.-N., Wang, X.-L., and Chang, C.-N., 2002, An unusual oviraptorosaurian dinosaur from China: Nature, v. 419, p. 291-293. (Incisivosaurus gauthieri)

Xu, X., Norell, M. A., Wang, X.-L., Makovicky, P. J., and Wu, X.-C., 2002, A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of China: Nature, v. 415, p. 780-784. (Sinovenator changii

Xu, X., Zhang, X.-H., Sereno, P., Zhao, X.-J., Kuang, X.-W., Han, J., and Tan, L., 2002, A new therizinosauroid (Dinosauria, theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v., 40, n. 3, p. 228-240. (Erliansaurus bellamanus)

Yao, J.-X., Zhang, Y., and Tang, Z.-L., 2002, Histological study of Late Cretaceous ornithomimid and hadrosaurid: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 41, n. 2, p. 241-250.

Yu, M., Wu, P., Wideltiz, R. B., and Chuong, C.-M., 2002, The morphogensis of feathers: Nature, v. 420, p. 308-312.

Zhang, F., Zhou, Z., Xu, X., and Wang, X., 2002, A juvenile coelurosaurina theropod from China indicates arboreal habits: Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, p. 394-398. (Epidendrosaurus ningechengensis)

Sauropods

Averianov, A. O., Voronkevich, A. V., Maschenko, E. N., Leshchinskiy, S. V., and Fayngertz, A. V. 2002, A sauropod foot from the Early Cretaceous of Western Siberia, Russia: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 1. p. 117-124.

Barrett, P. M., Hasegawa, Y., Manabe, M., Isaji, S., and Matsuoka, H., 2002, Sauropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of eastern Asia: taxonomic and biogeographical implications: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 6, p. 1197-1217.

Bergqvist, L. P., Torres, S. R., and Avilla, L. d. S., 2002, Short note on dinosaur osteoderms from the Admanantina Formation, Upper Cretaceous of Sao Paulo State, Brazil: Boletim do Museum Nacional, Geologia, n. 62, p. 1-5.

Buffetaut, E., Suteethorn, V., Le Loeuff, J., Cuny, G., Tong, H., and Khansubha, S., 2002, The first giant dinosaurs: a large sauropod from the Late Triassic of Thailand: Compte rendu Palevol. v. 1, p. 103-109.

Buffetaut, E., Suteethorn, V., Le Loeuff, J., Cuny, G., Tong, H., and Khansubha, S., 2002, A review of the sauropod dinosaurs of Thailand: The Symposium on Geology of Thailand, p. 95-101.

Canudo, J. I., 2002, Una mirada de dentista: los dientes de los dinosaurios sauropodos: Asociacion Paleontologica Aragonesa, v. 32, p. 12-24.

Canudo, J. I., Ruiz-Omenaca, J. I., Barco, J. L., and Royo Torres, R., 2002, Sauropodos asiaticos en el Barremiense inferior (Cretacico Inferior) de Espana: Ameghiniana, t. 39, n. 4, p. 443-452.

Chatterjee, S., and Zhong, Z., 2002, Cranial anatomy of Shunosaurus, a basal sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China: In: Archosaurian anatomy and palaeontology. Essays in memory of Alick D. Walker, edited by Norman, D. B., and Gower, D. J., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, p. 145-169.

Christian, A., 2002, Neck posture and overall body design in sauropods: Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl., Geowiss. Reihe, v. 5, p. 271-281.

Curtice, B., and Stadtman, K., 2002, The demise of Dystylosaurus edwini and a revision of Supersaurus vivianae: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 33-40. (Supersaurus vivianae = Dystylosaurus edwini)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2002, Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Adriatic-Dianaric Carbonate Platform (Italy and Croatia): paleoenvironmental implication and paleogeographical hypotheses: Mem. Soc. Geol. It, v. 57, p. 89-100.

Dorka, M., 2002, Tetrapod teeth from the Upper Ladinian bone bed, Schöningen (Lower Saxony, Germany): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 2, p. 283-296.

Durand, J. F., (2001) 2002, The oldest juvenile dinosaurs from Africa: In: Special Issue, African Renaissance and Geosciences, edited by Eriksson, P., and Kampunzu, H. A. B., Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 33, n. 3-4, p. 597-603.

Foster, J. R., 2002, Relative abundance of the sauropoda (Dinosauria, Saurischia) of the Morrison Formation and implications for Late Jurassic paleoecology of North America; Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 47-60.

Gunga, H.-C., Kirsch, K., Rittweger, J., Clarke, A., Albertz, J., Wiedermann, A., Wehr, A., Heinrich, W.-D., and Schultze, H.-P., 2002, Dimensions of Brachiosaurus brancai, Dicraeosaurus hansemanni and Diplodocus carnegii and their implications for gravitational physiology: Adaptation Biology and Medicine, v. 3, edited by Moravec, J., Takeda, N., adn Singal, P. K., p. 156-169.

Gunther, B., Morgado, E., Kirsch, K., and Gunga, H.-C., 2002, Gravitational tolerance and sized of Brachiosaurus brancai: Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe, Band 5, p. 265-269.

Harris, S. K., Heckert, A. B., Lucas, S. G., and Hunt, A. P., 2002, The oldest North American prosauropod, from the Upper Triassic Tecovas Formation of the Chinle Group (Adamanian: Latest Carnian), West Texas: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 249-252.

Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and biochronology of Lower Chinle Group (Admanian: Latest Carnian) vertebrate fossil assemblages in the vicinity of St. Johns, Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 9-15.

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Jana, S. K., and Das, S. S., 2002, A report of a 157.8 m.y.-old dinosaur bone from the Jurassic marine Chari Formation, Kutch, Gujarat and its taphonomic sigificance: Current Science, v. 82, n. 1, p. 85-88.

Lehman, T. M., and Coulson, A. B., 2002, A juvenile specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Alamosaurus sanjuanensis from the Upper Cretaceous of Big Bend National Park, Texas: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 1, p. 156-172.

Medeiros, M. A., and Schultz, C. L., 2002, A fauna dinossauriana da "Laje do Coringa", Cretaceo Medio do Nordeste do Brasil: Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, v. 60, n. 3, p. 155-162.

Ouyang, H., and Ye, Y., 2002, The first mamenchisaurian skeleton with complete skull, Mamenchisaurus youngi: 111pp.

Platt, P. R., 2002, The pectoral girdle of Apatosaurus: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 41-46.

Pyzalla, A., Stempniewicz, M., Gunther, A., and Brokmeier, H.-G., 2002, Texture of bone mineral in sauropod dinosaur bone: GeNF TEX-2, Experimental Report, p. 151-160.

Pyzalla, A., Stempniewicz, Pranzas, P. K., and Kozik, G., 2002, SANS studies of fossil dinosaur bone: GeNF Sans-2 Experimental Report, p. 79-80.

Rauhut, O. W. M., 2002, Dinosaur teeth from the Barremian of Una, Province of Cuenca, Spain: Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 255-263.

Stevens, K. A., 2002, DinoMorph: Parametric modeling of skeletal structures: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 23-34.

Trotta, M. N. F., Campos, D. de A., and Kellner, A. W. A., 2002, Unusual caudal vertebral centra of a titanosaurid (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the continental Upper Cretaceous of Brazil: Boletim do Museu National, Geologia, n. 64, p. 1-11.

Upchurch, P., and Martin, J., 2002, The Rutland Cetiosaurus: the anatomy and relationships of a Middle Jurassic British sauropod dinosaur: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 6, p. 1049-1074.

Wedel, M. J., and Sanders, K., 2002, Osteological correlates of cervical musculature in Aves and Sauropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia), with comments on the cervical ribs of Apatosaurus: PaleoBios, v. 22, n. 3, p. 1-6.

Weishampel, D. B., Meers, M. B., Akersten, W. A., and McCrady, A. D., 2002, New Early Cretaceous dinosaur remains, including possible ceratopsians, from the Wayan Formation of eastern Idaho: In: And Whereras...Papers on the Vertebrate Paleontology of Idaho honoring John A. White, v. 2, edited by Akersten, W. A., Thompson, M. E., Meldrum, D. J., Rapp, R. A., and McDonlald, H. G., Idaho Museum of Natural History Occasional Paper 37, p. 5-17.

Wilhite, R., 2002, Digitizing large fossil skeletal elements for three-dimensional applications: Palaeontologia Electronica, v. 5, n. 1, 10pp.

Wilson, J. A., 2002, Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, p. 217-276.

Ornithopods

Buffetaut, E,. and Suteethorn, V., 2002, Remarks on Psittacosaurus sattayaraki Buffetaut & Suteehorn, 1992, a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand: Oryctos, v. 4, p. 71-73.

Coria, R. A., and Calvo, J. O., 2002, A new iguanodontian ornithopod from Neuquen Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 503-509. (Anabisetia saldiviai)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2002, Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Adriatic-Dianaric Carbonate Platform (Italy and Croatia): paleoenvironmental implication and paleogeographical hypotheses: Mem. Soc. Geol. It, v. 57, p. 89-100.

Egi, N., and Weishampel, D. B., 2002, Morphometric analyses of humeral shapes in Hadrosaurids (Ornithopoda, Dinosauria): In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 43-58.

Fassett, J. E., Zielinski, R. A., and Budahn, J. R., 2002, Dinosaurs that did not die: evidence for Paleocene dinosaurs in the Ojo Alamo Sandstone, San Juan Basin, New Mexico: In: Catastrophic events and mass-extinctions: impacts and beyond, edited by Koeberl, C., and MacLeod, K. G., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 356, p. 307-336.

Heckert, A. B., 2002, A revision of the Upper Triassic ornithischian dinosaur Revueltosaurus, with a description of a new species: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 253-268. (Revueltosaurus hunti)

Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and biochronology of Lower Chinle Group (Admanian: Latest Carnian) vertebrate fossil assemblages in the vicinity of St. Johns, Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 9-15.

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Knoll, F., 2002, Nearly complete skull of Lesothosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic: Hettangian) of Lesotho: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 238-243.

Knoll, F., 2002, New skull of Lesothosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Elliot Formation (Lower Jurassic) of southern Africa: Geobios, v. 35, p. 595-603.

Mayr, G., Peters, D. S., Plodowski, G., and Vogel, O., 2002, Bristle-like integumentary structures at the tail of the horned dinosaur Psittacosaurus: Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, p. 361-365.

Norman, D. B., 2002, On Asian ornithopods (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). 4. Probactrosaurus Rozhdestvensky, 1966: In: Archosaurian anatomy and palaeontology. Essays in memory of Alick D. Walker, edited by Norman, D. B., and Gower, D. J., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, v. 136, p. 113-144.

Norman, D. B., and Barrett, P. M., 2002, Ornithischian dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous (Berriasian) of England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 161-189. (Camptosaurus hoggii = Iguanodon hoggii)

Pincemaille-Quillevere, M., 2002, Description d'un squelette partiel de Rhabdodon priscus (Euornithopoda) du Cretace superieur de Vitrolles (Bouches-du-Rhone, France): Oryctos, v. 4, p. 39-70.

Rauhut, O. W. M., 2002, Dinosaur teeth from the Barremian of Una, Province of Cuenca, Spain: Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 255-263.

Rich, T. H., Vickers-Rich, P., and Gangloff, R. A., 2002, Polar Dinosaurs: Science, v. 295, p. 979-980.

Steghaus-Kovac, S., 2002, Tug-of-War over mystery fossil: Science, v. 295, p. 1212-1213.

Tokaryk, T. T., 2002, A humerus from a juvenile Triceratops sp. (Ornithischia: ceratopsidae) from the Frenchman Formation (Late Maastrichtian), Saskatchewan: In Summary of Investigations, 2002, v. 1, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Sask. Industry and Resources, Misc. Rep. 2002-4.1, p. 151-154.

Xu, X., Makovicky, P. J., Wang, X.-L., Norell, M. A., and You, H.-L., 2002, A ceratopsian dinosaur from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia: Nature, v. 416, p. 314-317. (Liaoceratops yanzigouensis)

Weishampel, D. B., Meers, M. B., Akersten, W. A., and McCrady, A. D., 2002, New Early Cretaceous dinosaur remains, including possible ceratopsians, from the Wayan Formation of eastern Idaho: In: And Whereras...Papers on the Vertebrate Paleontology of Idaho honoring John A. White, v. 2, edited by Akersten, W. A., Thompson, M. E., Meldrum, D. J., Rapp, R. A., and McDonlald, H. G., Idaho Museum of Natural History Occasional Paper 37, p. 5-17.

Yao, J.-X., Zhang, Y., and Tang, Z.-L., 2002, Histological study of Late Cretaceous ornithomimid and hadrosaurid: Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, v. 41, n. 2, p. 241-250.

Armored dinosaurs

Averianov, A. O., 2002, An ankylosaurid (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) braincase from the Upper Cretaceous Bissekty Formation of Uzbekistan: Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre, v. 72, p. 97-110. (Amtosaurus archibaldi)

Dong, Z.-M., 2002, A new armored dinosaur (Ankylosauria) from Beipaio Basin, Liaoning Province, northeastern China: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 4, p. 276-285. (Crichtonosaurus bohlini)

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Nath, T. T., Yadagiri, P., and Moitra, A. K., 2002, First record of armoured dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota Formation, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, Andhra Pradesh: Journal of the Geological Society of India, v. 59, p. 575-577.

Weishampel, D. B., Meers, M. B., Akersten, W. A., and McCrady, A. D., 2002, New Early Cretaceous dinosaur remains, including possible ceratopsians, from the Wayan Formation of eastern Idaho: In: And Whereras...Papers on the Vertebrate Paleontology of Idaho honoring John A. White, v. 2, edited by Akersten, W. A., Thompson, M. E., Meldrum, D. J., Rapp, R. A., and McDonlald, H. G., Idaho Museum of Natural History Occasional Paper 37, p. 5-17.

In general

Aberhan, M., Bussert, R., Heinrich, W.-D., Schrank, E., Schultka, S., Sames, B., Kriwet, J., and Kapilima, S., 2002, Palaeoecology and depositional environments of the Tendaguru Beds (Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous, Tanzania): Mitt. Mus. Nat. kd. Berl., Geowiss Reihe, v. 5, p. 19-44.

Bosellini, A., 2002, Dinosaurs "re-write" the geodynamics of the eastern Mediterranean and the paleogeography of the Apulia Platform: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 59, p. 211-234.

Codrea, V., Smith, T., Dica, P., Folie, A., Garcia, G., Godefroit, P., and Itterbeeck, J. V., 2002, Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from a new Maastrichtian site of the Hateg Basin (Romania). C. R. PAlevol, v. 1, p. 173-180.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2002, Acacia di fossili nel far west: Natura Noascosta, n. 24, p. 29-32.

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2002, Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Adriatic-Dianaric Carbonate Platform (Italy and Croatia): paleoenvironmental implication and paleogeographical hypotheses: Mem. Soc. Geol. It, v. 57, p. 89-100.

Delair, J. B., and Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2002, The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, v. 113, p. 185-197.

Difley, R., and Ekdale, A. A., 2002, Faunal implications of an environmental change before the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) transition in central Utah: Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 315-331.

Feduccia, A., 2002, Birds are Dinosaurs: simple answer to a complex problem: Auk, v. 118, n. 4, p. 1187-1201.

Goto, M., Yabe, A., and Sano, S.-I., 2002, The research report of the Dinosaur fossil exploratory excavation held by Fukui Preecture in 2001: Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, v. 1, p. 102-118.

Hirooka, K., Kato, M., Morisada, T., and Azuma, Y., 2002, Paleomagnetic study on the dinosaur-bearing strata of the Tetori Group, Central Japan: Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, v. 1, p. 54-62.

Liu, T., Liu, J., and Chu, G., 2002, Early Cretaceous maars, depositional environments and their relationships to the fossil preservation in Sihetun, Liaoning, northeast China: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 307-311. 

Mclver, E. E., 2002, The paleoenvironment of Tyrannosaurus rex from southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 39, p. 207-221.

Pearson, D. A., Schaefer, T., Johnson, K. R., Nichols, D. J., and Hunter, J. P., 2002, Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 145-167.

Rage, J.-C., 2002, The continental Late Cretaceous of Europe: toward a better understanding: C. R. Palevol, v. 1, p. 257-258.

Rich, T. H., Vickers-Rich, P., and Gangloff, R. A., 2002, Polar Dinosaurs: Science, v. 295, p. 979-980.

Russell, D. A., and Manabe, M., 2002, Synopsis of Hell Creek (Uppermost Cretaceous) dinosaur assemblage: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 169-176.

Starck, J. M., and Chinsamy, A., 2002, Bone microstructure and developmental plasticity in birds and other dinosaurs: Journal of Morphology, v. 254, p. 232-246.

Swisher, C. C. III, Wang, X., Zhou, Z., Wang, Y., Jin, F., Zhang, J., Xu, X., Zhang, F., and Wang, Y., 2002, fürther support for a Cretaceous age for the feathered-dinosaur beds of Liaoning, China: New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Yixian and Tuchengzi Formations: Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 47, n. 2, p. 135-138.

Tanke, D. H., and Rothschild, B. M., 2002, Dinosaures: an annotated biblography of Dinosaur paleopathology and related topics --1838-2001: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, v. 20, 96pp.

Upchurch, P., Hunn, C. A., and Norman, D. B., 2002, An analysis of dinosaurian biogeography: evidence for the existence of vicariance and dispersal patterns caused by geological events: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, v. 269, p. 613-621.

Van Valkenburgh, B., and Molnar, R. E., 2002, Dinosaurian and mammalian predators compared: Paleobiology, v. 28, n. 4, p. 527-543.


Aves

Bochenski, Z., and Bochenski, Z. M., 2002, Palaeogeographical implications concerning early history of chosen groups of birds: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 291-300. 

Bock, W. J., 2002, The evolution of avian cranial kinensis: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 191-201. 

Buffetaut, E., 2002, Giant ground birds at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: extinction or survival?: In: Catastrophic events and mass-extinctions: impacts and beyond, edited by Koeberl, C., and MacLeod, K. G., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 356, p. 303-306.

Buffetaut, E., Jurkovsek, B., and Kolar-Jurkovske, 2002, A fossil feather from the Upper Cretaceous of Kras (Slovenia): Comptes Rendus Palevol, v. 1, p. 705-710.

Chatterjee, S., 2002, The morphology and systematics of Polarornis, a Cretaceous Loon (Aves: Gaviidae) from Antarctica: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 113-124. (Polarornis gregorii

Chiappe, L. M., Lambe jr, J. P., and Erickson, P. G. P., 2002, New enantiornithine bird from the marine Upper Cretaceous of Alabama: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 170-174. (Halimornis thompsoni)

Chiappe, L. M., 2002, Osteology of the flightless Patagopteryx deferrariisi from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia (Argentina): In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 281-316.

Chiappe, L. M., 2002, Basal bird phylogeny, problems and solutions: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 448-472.

Chiappe, L. M., and Dyke, G. J., 2002, The Mesozoic radiation of birds: Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, v. 33, p. 91-124.

Chiappe, L. M., and Lacasa-Ruiz, A., 2002, Noguerornis gonzalenzi (Aves: Ornithothoraces) from the Early Cretaceous of Spain:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 230-239.

Chiappe, L. M., Norell, M. A., and Clark, J. M., 2002, The Cretaceous, short-armed alvarezasauridae Mononykus and its kin:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 87-120.

Chiappe, L. M., and Walker, C. A., 2002, Skeletal morphology and systematics of the Cretaceous Euenantiornithes (Ornithothoraces: Enantiornithes):  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 240-267.

Chinsamy, A., 2002, Bone microstructure of early birds:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 421-431.

Christiansen, P., and Bonde, N., 2002, Limb proportions and avian terrestrial locomotion: Journal of Ornithology, v. 143, p. 356-371.

Clark, J. M., Norell, M. A., and Makovicky, P. J., 2002, Cladistic approaches to the relationships of birds to other theropod dinosaurs: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 31-61.

Clarke, J. A., and Norell, M. A., 2002, The morphology and phylogenetic position of Apsaravis ukhaana from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia: American Museum Novitates, n. 3387, 46pp.

Czerkas, S. A. and Xu, X., 2002, A new toothed bird from China: In: Feathered Dinosaurs and the origin of flight, edited by Sylvia J. Czerkas, The Dinosaur Museum Journal, v. 1, p. 44-61. (Archaeovolans repatriatus)

Czerkas, S. A., and Ji, Q., 2002, A preliminary report on an omnivorous volant bird from northeast China: In: Feathered Dinosaurs and the origin of flight, edited by Sylvia J. Czerkas, The Dinosaur Museum Journal, v. 1, p. 3-13. (Omnivoropteryx sinousaorum)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M. Venturini, S., and Tentor, M., 2002, The Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Konservat-Lagerstatte of en Nammoura (Kesrouane Province), northern Lebanon: Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, v. 41, n. 1, p. 51-68.

Dyke, G. J., Dortangs, R. W., Jagt, J. W. M., Mulder, E. W. A., Schulp, A. S., and Chiappe, L. M., 2002, Europe's last Mesozoic bird: Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, p. 408-411.

Elzanowski, A., 2002, Archaeopterygidae (Upper Jurassic of Germany):  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 129-159.

Elzanowski, A., 2002, Biology of basal birds and the origin of avian flight: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 211-226. 

Feduccia, A., 2002, Pseudo-homeosis in avian feet: TRENDS in Ecology & Evolution, v. 17, n. 6, p. 256.

Feduccia, A., 2002, Birds are Dinosaurs: simple answer to a complex problem: Auk, v. 118, n. 4, p. 1187-1201.

Feduccia, A., and Nowicki, J., 2002, The hand of birds revealed by early ostrich embryos: Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, p. 391-393.

Forster, C. A., Chiappe, L. M., Krause, D. W., and Sampson, S. D., 2002, Vornoa berivotrensis, a primitive bird from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 268-280.

Galis, F., van Alphen, J. J. M., and Metz, J. A. J., 2002, in response to Feduccia, A., 2002, Pseudo-homeosis in avian feet: TRENDS in Ecology & Evolution, v. 17, n. 6, p. 256.

Galton, P. M., and Martin, L. D., 2002, Enaliornis, an Early Cretaceous Hesperornithiform bird from England, with comments on other hesperornithiformes: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 121-125.

Gatsey, S. M., 2002, Locomotor evolution on the line to modern birds:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 432-447.

Gu, Z., 2002, Are Confuciusornis and Archaefructus Jurassic fossils? In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 301-305. 

Harris, M. P., Fallon, J. F., and Prum, R. O., 2002, Shh-Bmp2 signaling module and the evolutionary origin and diversification of feathers: Journal of Experimental Zoology, (Mol Dev Evol), v. 294 ,p. 160-176.

Hedenstrom, A., 2002, Aerodynamics, evolution and ecology of avian flight: TRENDS in Ecology & Evolution, v. 17, n. 9, p.415-422.

Homberger, D. G., 2002, The aerodynamically streamlined body shape of birds: implications for the evolution of birds, feathers, and avian flight: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 227-252. 

Hope, S., 2002, The Mesozoic radiation of Neornithes:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 339-388. (Cimolopteryx petra)

Hou, L., Zhou, Z., Zhang, F., and Gu, Y., 2002, Mesozoic birds from western Liaoning in China: Liaoning Science & Technology Publishing House, 120pp. (Jinzhouornis yixianensis, Jinzhouornis zhangiyingia, Cathayornis aberransis)

Hui, C. A., 2002, Avian fürcula morphology may indicate relationships of flight requirements among birds: Journal of Morphology, v. 251, p. 284-293.

Hutchinson, J. R., 2002, The evolution of the hindlimb tendons and muscles on the line to crown-group birds: Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, v. 133, p. 1051-1086.

Ji, Q., Ji, S.-H., You, H., Zhang, J., Yung, C., Ji, X., Li, J., and Li, Y., 2002, Discovery of an avialae bird --Shenzhouraptor sinensis gen. et sp. nov.--from China: Geological Bulletin of China, v., 21, n. 7, p. 363-369. (Shenzhouraptor sinensis)

Ji, Q., Ji, S.-H., Zhang, H., You, H., Zhang, J., Wang, L., Yuan, C., and Ji, X., 2002, A new avialian bird - Jixiangornis orientalis gen. et. sp. nov. - from the Lower Cretaceous of Western Liaoning, NE China: Journal of Nanjing University (Natural Sciences, v. 38, n. 6, p. 723-736. (Jixangornis orientalis)

Kellner, A. W. A., 2002, A review of Avian Mesozoic fossil feathers: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 389-404.

Kundrat, M. Seichert, V., Russell, A. P., and Smetana jr, K., 2002, Pentadactyl pattern of the avian wing autopodium and pyramid reduction hypothesis: Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol), v. 294, p. 152-159.

Kurochkin, E. N., Dyke, G. J., and Karhu, A. A., 2002, A new presbyornithid bird (Aves, Anseriformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Southern Mongolia: American Museum Novitates, n. 3386, 11pp. (Teviornis gobiensis)

Larsson, H. C. E., and Wagner, G. P., 2002, Pentadactyl ground state of the avian wing: Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol), v. 294, p. 146-151.

Lockley, M. G., and Rainforth, E. C., 2002, The track record of Mesozoic birds and pterosaurs, an ichnological and paleoecological prespective:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 405-418.

Long, C. A., Zhang, G. P., and George, T. F., 2002, Physical and evolutionary problems in take-off runs of bipedal winged vertebrates: Archaeopteryx, v. 20, p. 63-71.

Lu, J., Dong., Z.-M., Azuma, Y., Barsbold, R., and Tomida, Y., 2002, Oviraptorosaurs compared to birds: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 175-189. 

Ma, M. S., Ma, W. K., Nieuwland, I., and Easley, R. R., 2002, Why Archaeopteryx did not run over water: Archaeopteryx, v. 20, p. 51-56.

Martin, L. D., and Lim, J.-D., 2002, New information on the hesperornithiform radiation: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 113-124. (Hesperornis chowi, Hesperornis bairdi, Hesperornis mengeli, Hesperornis macdonaldi)

Naples, V. L., Martin, L. D., and Simmons, J,. 2002, The pelvis in early birds and dinosaurs: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 203-210. 

Norberg, U. M. L., 2002, Structure, form and function of flight in engineering and the living world: Journal of Morphology, v. 252, p. 52-81.

Novas, F. E., and Pol, D., 2002, Alvarezsaurid relationships reconsidered:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 121-125.

O'Farrell, B., Davenport, J., and Kelly, T., 2002, Was Archaeopteryx a wing-in-ground effect flier? Ibis, v. 144, p. 686-688.

Olson, S., 2002, Review of; New perspectives on the origin and early evolution of birds. Proceedings of the International Symposium in honor of John H. Ostrom: Auk, v. 119, n. 4, p. 1202-1205.

Padian, K., and Horner, J. R., 2002, Typology versus transformation in the origin of birds: TRENDS, v. 17, n. 3, p. 120-124.

Parris, D. C., and Hope, S., 2002, New interpretations of the birds from the Navesink and Hornerstown Formatios, New Jersey, USA (Aves: Neornithes): In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 113-124. (Novacaesareala hungerfordi)

Peters, D. S., 2002, Anagenesis of early birds reconsidered: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 347-354.

Prum, R. O., 2002, Why ornithologist should care about the theropod origin of birds: The Auk, v. 119, n. 1, p. 1-17.

Prum, R. O., and Brush, A. H., 2002, The evolutionary origin and diversification of feathers: The Quarterly Review of Biology, v. 77, n. 3, p. 261-295.

Sankey, J. T., Brinkman, D. B., Guenther, M., and Currie, P. J., 2002, Small theropod and bird teeth from the Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian) Judith River Group, Alberta: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 4, p. 751-763.

Sanz, J. L., Alvarz, J. C., Soriano, C., Hernandez-Carrasquilla, F., Perez-Moreno, B. P., and Meseguer, J., 2002, Wing loading in primitive birds: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 253-258. 

Sanz, J. L., Perez-Moreno, B. P., Chiappe, L. M., and Buscalioni, A. D., 2002, The birds from the Lower Cretaceous of Las Hoyas (Province of Cuenca, Spain): In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 209-229.

Schweitzer, M. H., Jackson, F. D., Chiappe, L. M., Schmitt, J. G., Calvo, J. O., and Rubilar, D. E., 2002, LAte Cretaceous avian eggs with embryos from Argentina: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 191-195.

Sereno, P. C., Chenggang, R., and Li, J., 2002, Sinornis satensis (Aves: Enantiornithes), from the Early Cretaceous of Northeastern China:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 184-208.

Smith, A. B., and Peterson, K. J., 2002, Dating the time origin of major clades: molecular clocks and the fossil record: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2002, p. 65-88.

Starck, J. M., and Chinsamy, A., 2002, Bone microstructure and developmental plasticity in birds and other dinosaurs: Journal of Morphology, v. 254, p. 232-246.

Tischlinger, H., 2002, Der Eichstätter Archaeopteryx im langwelligen UV-Licht: Archaeopteryx, v. 20, p. 21-38.

Varricchio, D. J., 2002, A new bird from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v, 39, p. 19-26. (Piksi barbarulna)

Witmer, L. M., 2002, The debate on avian ancestry, phylogeny, function, and fossils: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 3-30.

Yu, M., Wu, P., Wideltiz, R. B., and Chuong, C.-M., 2002, The morphogensis of feathers: Nature, v. 420, p. 308-312.

Zhou, Z., 2002, A new and primitive enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous of China: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 1, p. 49-57. (Eocathayornis walkeri)

Zhou, Z., Clarke, J. A., and Zhang, F., 2002, Archaeoraptor's better half: Nature, v. 420, p. 285.

Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Largest bird from the Early Cretaceous and its implications for the earliest avian ecological diversification: Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, p. 34-38. (Sapeornis chaoyangensis)

Zhao, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, A long-tailed, seed-eating bird from the Early Cretaceous of China: Nature, v. 418, p. 405-409. (Jeholornis prima)

Zhou, Z., and Hou, Li., 2002, The discovery and study of Mesozoic birds in China: In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 160-183.


Eggs

Casadio, S., Manera, T., Parras, A., and Montalvo, C. I., 2002, Huevos de dinosaurios (Faveoloolithidae) del Cretacico Superior de la cuenca del Colorado, provincia de la Pampa, Argentina: Ameghiniana, tomo 39, n. 3, p. 285-294.

Codrea, V., Smith, T., Dica, P., Folie, A., Garcia, G., Godefroit, P., and Itterbeeck, J. V., 2002, Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from a new Maastrichtian site of the Hateg Basin (Romania). C. R. PAlevol, v. 1, p. 173-180.

Ensom, P. C., 2002, Reptile eggshell, tiny vertebrate remains and globular calcified cartilage from the Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 221-239.

Grellet-Tinner, G., and Norell, M., 2002, An avian egg from the Campanian of Bayn Dzak, Mongolia: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 719-721.

Huh, M., and Zelenitsky, D. K, 2002, Rich dinosaur nesting site from the Cretaceous of Bosung County, Chullanam-do Province, South Korea: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 716-718.

Joyce, W. G., and Zelenitsky, D. K., 2002, Turtle egg pseudomorphs from the Late Jurassic of Schamhaupten, Germany: Archaeopteryx, v. 20, p. 57-62.

Varricchio, D. J., Horner, J. R., and Jackson, F. D., 2002, Embryos and eggs for the Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 3, p. 564-576.

Zelenitsky, D. K., and Modesto, S. P., 2002, Re-evaluation of the eggshell structure of eggs containing dinosaur embryos from the Lower Jurassic of South Africa: South African Journal of Science, v. 98, p. 407-408.

Zelenitsky, D. K., Modesto, S. P., and Currie, P. J., 2002, Bird-like characteristics of troodontid theropod eggshells: Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 297-305.


Synapsids

Pelycosaurs

Kissell, R. A., and Lehman, T. M., 2002, Upper Pennsylvanian tetrapods from the Ada Formation of Seminole County, Oklahoma: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 3, p. 529-545.

May, W. J,. and Hall, J. D., 2002, Geology and vertebrate fauna of a new site in the Wellington Formation (Lower Permian) of northern Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 62, n. 2, p. 63-66.

Theriodontia

Abdala, F., Barberena, M. C., and Dornelles, J., 2002, A new species of the traversodontid cynodont Exaeretodon from the Santa Maria Formation (Middle/Late Triassic) of Southern Brazil: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 313-325. (Exaeretodon riograndensis).

Abdala, F., and Giannini, N. P., 2002, Chinquodontid cynodonts: systematic and morphometric considerations: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 6, p. 1151-1170. (Chinquodon sanjuanensis = Probelesodon sanjuanensis)

Abdala, F., and Ribeiro, A. M,. 2002, Nuevos cinodontes Traversodontidos (Synapsida-Eucynodontia) de la Formacion Santa Maria (Triasico Medio-Superior), Rio Grande do Sul., Brasil: Revista Espanola de Paleontologia, v. 17, n. 2, p. 237-343.

Angielczyk, K. D., 2002, A character-based method for measuring the fit of a cladogram to the fossil record: Systematic Biology, v. 51, p. 176-191.

Dorka, M., 2002, Tetrapod teeth from the Upper Ladinian bone bed, Schöningen (Lower Saxony, Germany): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 2, p. 283-296.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2002, The origin and early divergence of theraspids: Palaeontological Journal, v. 36, n. 2, p. 49-57.

Ivakhnenko, M. F., 2002, Taxonomy of East European gorgonopians (therapsida): Palaeontological Journal, v. 36, n. 3, p. 283-292.

Jenkens, I., Thomason, J. J., and Norman, D. B., 2002, Primates and engineering principles: applications to craniodental mechanisms in ancient terrestrial predators: In: Concepts of functional, engineering and constructional morphology, edited by Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., and Scholz, J., Senckenbergiana Lethaea, v. 82, n. 1, p. 223-240.

Maisch, M. W., 2002, A new basal lystrosaurid dicynodont from the Upper Permian of South Africa: Paleontology, v. 45, part 2, p. 343-359. (Kwazulusaurus shakai).

Maisch, M. W., 2002, Observations on Karoo and Gondwana vertebrates. Part 3: notes on the gorgonopsians from the Upper Permian of Tanzania: N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Mh, 2002, n. 4, p. 237-251. (Ruhuhucerberus terror, Titanogorgon maximus = Gorgonognathus maximus)

Rubidge, B. S., and Sidor, C. A., 2002, On the cranial morphology of the basal therapsids Burnetia and Proburnetia (Therapsida: Burnetiidae): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,. v. 22, n. 2, p. 257-267.

Tatarinov, L. P., 2002, Gomphodont Cynodonts (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Middle Triassic of the Orenburg Region: Palaeontological Journal, v. 36, n. 2, p. 58-61. (Neotrirachodon expectatus)

Tatarinov, L. P., 2002, Monophyly and plyphlyl in the origin of mammals: current state of the question: Palaeontological Journal, v. 36, n. 3, p. 293-301.

Tatarinov, L. P., 2002, A finding of a scaloposaurian (Reptilia, Theriodontia) from the Upper Permian Purly Locality of the Nizhni Novgorod Region: Paleontological Journal, v. 36, n. 4, p. 60-61. (Malasaurus germanus)

Tverdokhlebov, V. P., Tverdokhlebov, G. I., Surkov, M. V., and Benton, M. J., 2002, Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 60, p. 1-66.

Deinocephalia

Angielczyk, K. D., 2002, Redescription, phylogenetic position, and stratigraphic signifiance of the dicynodont genus Odontocyclops (Synapsida: Anomodontia): Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 6, p. 1047-1059. (Odontocyclops whaitsi = Dicynodon whaitsi)

Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Stratigraphy, biostratigraphy and biochronology of Lower Chinle Group (Admanian: Latest Carnian) vertebrate fossil assemblages in the vicinity of St. Johns, Arizona: Western Association of Vertebrate Paleontologists and Southwest Paleontological Symposium - Proceedings 2001, edited by McCord, R. D., and Boaz, D., Mesa Southwest Museum Bulletin, n. 8, p. 9-15.

Liu, J,. Li, J.-L., and Cheng, Z.-W., 2002, The Lystrosaurus fossils from Xiang and their bearing on the terrestrial Permian-Triassic Boundary: Vertebrata PalAsiatica, v. 40, n. 4, p. 267-275.

Lucas, S. G., 2002, A new dicynodont from the Triassic of Brazil and the tetrapod biochronology of the Brazilian Triassic: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 131-141. (Stahleckeria impotens)

Maisch, M. W., 2002, Observations on Karoo and Gondwana vertebrates. Part 4: The taxonomic status of the Late Permian rhachiocephalid Platycyclops crassus Broom, 1948 (Therapsida: Dicynodontia) from the South African Karoo: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2002, n. 6, p. 363-372. (Kitchinganomodon crassus = Platycyclops crassus).

Modesto, S. P., Rubidge, B. S., and Welman, J., 2002, A new dicynodont therapsid from the lowermost Beaufort Group, Upper Permian of South Africa: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 39, p. 1755-1765. (Lanthanocephalus mohoii)

Nesbitt, S. J., and Angielczyk, K. D., 2002, New evidence of large dicynodonts in the upper Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of northern Arizona: PaleoBios, v. 22, n. 2, p. 10-17.

Tverdokhlebov, V. P., Tverdokhlebov, G. I., Surkov, M. V., and Benton, M. J., 2002, Tetrapod localities from the Triassic of the SE of European Russia: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 60, p. 1-66.


Mammals

Averianov, A. O., 2002, Early Cretaceous "symmetrodont" mammal Gobiotheriodon from Mongolia and the classification of "Symmetrodonta": Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 4, p. 705-716.

Bonaparte, J. F., 2002, New dryolestidae (Theria) from the Late Cretaceous of Los Alamitos, Argentina, and paleogeographical comments: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, v. 224, n. 3, p. 229-271. (Rougietherium tricuspes, Alamitherium bishopi, Paraungulatum rectangularis)

Cifelli, R. L., 2002, Comodon Kretzoi and Kretzoi, 2000 replaces Phascolodon  Simpson, 1925 (Mammalia), not Phascolodon Stein, 1959: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 1, p. 184.

Clemens, W. A., 2002, Evolution of the mammalian fauna across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana and other areas of the Western Interior: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 217-245.

Codrea, V., Smith, T., Dica, P., Folie, A., Garcia, G., Godefroit, P., and Itterbeeck, J. V., 2002, Dinosaur egg nests, mammals and other vertebrates from a new Maastrichtian site of the Hateg Basin (Romania). C. R. PAlevol, v. 1, p. 173-180.

Fostowicz-Frelik, L., and Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., 2002, Lower incisor in zalambdalestid mammals (Eutheria) and its phylogenetic implications: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 1, p. 177-180.

Geiser, F., Goodship, N., and Pavey, C. R., 2002, Was basking important in the evolution of mammalian endothermy? Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, p. 412-414.

Hahn, G., and Hahn, R., 2002, Der bau der Caninin bei den Paulchoffatiidae (Multituberculata; Ober-Jura): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 2, p. 235-249.

Hahn, G., and Hahn, R., 2002, Neue Multituberculaten-Zähne aus dem Barremium (Unter-Kreide) von Galve (Spanien): Paläontologische Zeitschrift, v. 76, n. 2, p. 257-259.

Ji, Q., Luo, Z.-X., Yuan, C.-X., Wilbe, J. R., Zhang, J.-P., and Georg, J. A. 2002, The earliest known eutherian mammal: Nature, v. 416, p. 816-822. (Eomaia scansoria).

Hernandez, B. S., 2002, Asociacion faunistica de vertebrados Mesozoicos de la Localidad de Galve (Teruel): Estudios Geol, v. 58, p. 189-193.

Hu, Y,. and Wang, Y., 2002, Sinobaatar gen. nov.: first multituberculate from the Jehol biota of Liaoning, northeast China: Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 47, n. 11, p. 933-938. (Sinobaatar lingyuanensis)

Hunter, J. P., and Archibald, J. D., 2002, Mammals from the end of the age of dinosaurs in North Dakota and southeastern Montana, with a reappraisal of geographic differentiation among Lancian mammals: In: The Hell Creek Formation and the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in the Northern Great Plains, an integrated continental record of the end of the Cretaceous, edited by Hartman, J. H., Johnson, K. R., and Nichols, D. J., Geological Society of America, Special Paper 361, p. 191-216.

Ji, Q., 2002, Discovery of a Mesozoic fossil mammal with hair and soft tissue in western Liaoning, China: Geological Bulletin of China, v. 21, n. 1, p. 29-34.

Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., Cifelli, R. L., and Luo, Z.-X., 2002, Dentition and relationships of the Jurassic mammal Shuotherium: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 3, p. 479-486.

Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., Hurum, J. H., Currie, P. J., and Barsbold, R., 2002, New data on anatomy of the Late Cretaceous multituberculate mammal Catopsbaatar: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 3, p. 557-560.

Kobayashi, Y., Winkler, D. A., and Jacobs, L. L., 2002, Origin of the tooth-replacement pattern in therian mammals: evidence from a 110 Myr old fossil: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, series B, v. 269, p. 369-373.

Luo, Z.-X., Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., and Cifelli, R. L., 202, In quest for a phylogeny of Mesozoic mammals: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 1, p. 1-78.

Martin, T., 2002, New stem-lineage representatives of zatheria (mammalia) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 332-348. (Nanolestes drescherae, Nanolestes krusati)

Prasad, G. V. R., and Manhas, B. K., 2002, Tricondont mammals from the Jurassic Kota Formation of India: Geodiversitas, v. 24, n. 2, p. 445-464. (Dyskritodon indicus, Paitasigudodon yadagirii = Kotatherium yadagirii)

Rauhut, O. W. M., Martin, T., Ortiz-Jauregulzar, and Puerta P., 2002, A Jurassic mammal from South America: Nature, v. 416, p. 165-168. (Asfaltomylos patagonicus)

Rich, T. H., Flannery, T. F., Trusler, P., Kool, L., van Klaeren, N. A., and Vickers-Rich, P., 2002, Evidence that monotrems and ausktribosphenids are not sistergroups: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 22, n. 2, p. 466-469.

Sanchez-Villagra, M. R., and Maier, W., 2002, Ontogenetic data and the evolutionary origin of the mammalian scapula: Naturwissenschaften, v. 89, p. 459-461.

Sigogneau-Russell, D., and Kielan-Jaworowska, Z., 2002, Mammals from the Purbeck Limestone Group of Dorset, southern England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 21-255.

Smith, A. B., and Peterson, K. J., 2002, Dating the time origin of major clades: molecular clocks and the fossil record: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2002, p. 65-88.

Tatarinov, L. P., 2002, Monophyly and plyphlyl in the origin of mammals: current state of the question: Palaeontological Journal, v. 36, n. 3, p. 293-301.

Weil, A., 2002, Upwards and onwards: Nature, v. 416, p. 798-799.


Ichnology

Arakawa, Y., Azuma, Y., Kano, A., Tanijiri, T., and Miyamoto, T., 2002, A new technique to illustrate and analyze dinosaur and bird footprints using 3-D digitizer: Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, v. 1, p. 7-18.

Avanzini, M., 2002, Dinosauromorph tracks from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of the Southern Alps (Valle di Non - Italy): Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, v. 41, n. 1, p. 37-40.

Avanzini, M., and Leonardi, G., 2002, Isochirotherium inferni ichnosp. n. in the Illyrian (Late Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Adige Valley (Bolzano - Italy): Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana, v. 41, n. 1, p. 41-50. (Isochirotherium inferni)

Avanzini, M., and Lockley, M., 2002, Middle Triassic archosaur population structure: interpretation based on Isochirotherium delicatum fossil footprints (Southern Alps, Italy): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 185, p. 391-402.

Avanzini, M., and Renesto, S., 2002, A review of Rhynchosauroides tirolicus Abel, 1926 ichnospecies (Middle Triassic: Anisian-Ladinian) and some inferences of Rhynchosauroides trackmaker: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, v. 108, n. 1, p. 51-66.

Azuma, Y., Arakawa, Y., Tomida, Y., and Currie, P. J., 2002, Early Cretaceous bird tracks from the Tetori Group, Fukui Prefecture, Japan: Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, v. 1, p. 1-6. (Aquatilavipes izumiensis)

Casamiquela, R. M., 2002, Icnitas de vertebrados (Mamiferos, Dinosaurios) del MesoJurasico: In: Geologia y Recursos Naturales de Santa Cruz Relatorio del XV Congreso Geologica Argentino, El Calaftae, editor Haller, M J., p. 433-438.

Clark, N. D. L., Aspen, P., and Corrance, H., 2002, Chirotherium barthii Kaup 1835 from the Triassic of the Isle of Arran, Scotland: Scottish Journal of Geology, v. 38, n. 2, p. 83-92.

Coria, R. A., Currie, P. J., Eberth, D., and Garrido, A., 2002, Bird footprints from the Anaceleto Form

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., 2002, Cretaceous dinosaurs in the Adriatic-Dianaric Carbonate Platform (Italy and Croatia): paleoenvironmental implication and paleogeographical hypotheses: Mem. Soc. Geol. It, v. 57, p. 89-100.

Dalla Vecchia, F. B., 2002, Terrestrial reptiles in the Norian of the Carnian Pre-Alps (Friuli, NE Italy): paleoenvironmental implications: Mem. Soc. Geol. It., v. 57, p. 101-106.

ation (Late Cretaceous), Neuquen, Argentina: Ameghiniana, t. 39, n. 4, p. 453-463. (Barrosopus slobodai)

Dalla Vecchia, F. M., Vlahovic, I., Posocco, L., Tarlao, A., and Tentor, M., 2002, Late Barremian and Late Albian (Early Cretaceous) dinosaur track sites in the main Brioni/Brijun Island (SW Istria, Croatia): Natura Nascosta, n. 25, p. 1-36.

Diedrich, C., 2002, Vertebrate tracks from the Lower Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) of Thuringina (SE German): Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatschefte, 2002, v. 2, p. 75-91.

Diedrich, C., 2002, Vertebrate track bed stratigraphy a new megatrack sites in the Upper Wellenkalk Member and orbicularis Member (Muschelkalk, Middle Triassic) in carbonate tidal flat environments of the western Germanic basin: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 183, p. 185-208.

Difley, R. L., and Ekdale, A. A., 2002, Footprints of Utah's last dinosaurs: track beds in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) North Horn Formation of the Wasatch Plateau, Central Utah: Palaios, v. 17, p. 327-346.

Ensom, P. C., 2002, Vertebrate trace fossils in the Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England: Special Papers in Palaeontology, v. 68, p. 203-220.

Gibert, J. M. de, and  Ekdale, A. A., 2002, Ichnology of a restricted epicontinental sea, Arapien Shale, Middle Jurassic, Utah, USA: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 183, p. 275-286.

Gierlinski, G., and Sabath, K., 2002, A probable stegosaurian track from the Late Jurassic of Poland: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, v. 47, n. 3, p. 561-564.

Haubold, H., and Klein, H,. 2002, Chirotherien und Grallatoriden aus der Unteren bis Oberen Trias Mitteleuropas und die entstheung der Dinosauria: Hallesches Jahrb. Geowiss., B 24, p. 1-22.

Hawthorne, J. M., Bonem, R. M., Farlow, J. O., and Jones, J. O., 2002, Ichnology, stratigraphy and paleoenvironment of the Boerne Lake spillway Dinosaur tracksite, south-central Texas: Texas Journal of Science, v. 54, n. 4, p. 309-324.

Hwang, K.-G., Huh, M,. Lockley, M. G., Unwin, D. M., and Wright, J. L., 2002, New pterosaur tracks (Pteraichnidae) from the Late Cretaceous Uhangri Formation, southwestern Korea: Geological Magazine, v. 139, p. 4, p. 421-435. (Haenamichnus uhangriensis)

Irby, G. V., and Albright III, L. B., 2002, Tail-drag marks and dinosaur footprints from the Upper Cretaceous Toreva Formation, northeastern Arizona: Palaios, v. 17, p. 516-521.

Le Loeuff, J., Kansubha, S,. Buffetaut, E., Suteethorn, V., Tong, H., and Souillat, C., 2002, Dinosaur footprints from the Phra Wihan Formation (Early Cretaceous of Thailand): C. R. Palevol. V. 1, p. 287-292.

Li, D., Azuma, Y., and Arakawa, Y., 2002, A new Mesozoic bird track site from Gansu Province, China: Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, v. 1, p. 92-95.

Lim, J.-D., Martin, L. D., Zhou, Z., Baek, K.-S., and Yang, S.-Y., 2002, The significance of Early Cretaceous birds tracks: In: Proceedings of the 5th Symposium of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Beijing, 1-4 June 2000, edited by Zhou, Z., and Zhang, F., 2002, Science Press, p. 113-124. 

Lockley, M. G., and Rainforth, E. C., 2002, The track record of Mesozoic birds and pterosaurs, an ichnological and paleoecological prespective:  In: Mesozoic Birds, above the heads of Dinosaurs, University of California Press, 405-418.

Lockley, M., Schulp, A. S., Meyer, C. A., Leonardi, G., and Mamani, D. K., 2002, Titanosaurid trackways from the Upper Cretaceous of Bolivia: evidence for large manus, wide-gauge locomotion and gregarious behaviour: Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 383-400.

Lockley, M., Wright, J., White, D., Matsukawa, M., Li, J., Lu, F., and Hong, I., 2002, The first sauropod trackways from China: Cretaceous Research, v. 23, p. 363-381.

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2002, Upper Triassic dinosaur track from Fort Wingate, NEw Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 245-247.

Lucas, S. G., and Suneson, N. H., 2002, Amphibian and reptile tracks from the Hennessey Formation (Leonardian, Permian), Oklahoma County, Oklahoma: Oklahoma Geology Notes, v. 62, n. 2. p. 56-62.

Melchor, R. N., Valais, S. de, and Genise, J. F., 2002, Bird-like footprints from the Late Triassic: Nature, v. 417, p. 936-938.

Olsen, P. E., Kent, D. V., Sues, H.-D., Koeberl, C., Huber, H., Montanari, A., Rainforth, E. C., Fowell, S. J., Szajna, M. J., and Hartline, B. W., 2002, Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an Iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: Science, v. 296, p. 1305-1307.


Extinctions

Berner, R. A., 2002, Examination of hypotheses for the Permo-Triassic boundary extinction by carbon cycle modeling: PNAS, v. 99, n. 7, p. 4172-4177.

Hallam, A., 2002, How catastrophic was the end-Triassic mass extinction? Lethaia, v. 35, p. 147-157.

Kerr, R. A., 2002, No 'Darkness at Noon' to do in the dinosaurs? Science, v. 295, p. 1445, 1447.

Labandeira, C C., Johnson, K. R,. and Wilf, P., 2002, Impact of the terminal Cretaceous event on plant-insect associations: PNAS, v. 99, n. 4, p. 2061-2066.

Lee, Y.-N., and Huh, M., 2002, Manus-only sauropod tracks in the Uhangri Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Korea and their paleobiological implications: Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 3, p. 558-564.

Pope, K. O., 2002, Impact dust not the cause of the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction: Geology, v. 30, n. 2, p. 99-102.

Zhao, Z.-K., Mao, X.-Y., Chai, Z.-F., Yang, G.-C., Kong, P., Ebihara, M., and Zhao, Z.-H., 2002, A possible causal relationship between extinction of dinosaurs and K/T iridium enrichment in the Nanxiong Basin, South China: evidence from dinosaur eggshells: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 178, p. 1-17.


Interesting articles

Angielczyk, K. D., 2002, A selective annotation of published Triassic Vertebrates from the University of California Museum of Paleontology collection: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 297-301.

Anonymous, 2002, Fossil vomit: Science, v. 295, p. 1459.

Bandyopadhyay, S., RoyChowdhury, T. K., and Sengupta, D., 2002, Taphonomy of some Gondwana vertebrate assemblages of India: Sedimentary Geology, v. 147, p. 219-245.

Bardhan, S., Gangopadhyay, T. K., and Mandal, U., 2002, How far did India dirft during the Late Cretaceous?-Placenticeras kaffrarium Etheridge, 1904 (Ammonoidea) used as a measuring tape: Sedimentary Geology, v. 147, p. 193-217.

Dyke, G. J,. 2002, Should paleontologists use “phylogenetic” nomenclature? Journal of Paleontology, v. 76, n. 5, p. 793-796.

Ford, T. D., and O'Conner, B., 2002, Coprolite mining in England: Geology Today, v. 18, n. 5, p. 178-181.

Genise, J. F., Sciutto, J. C., Laza, J. H., Gonzalez, M. G., and Bellosi, E. S., 2002, Fossil bee nests, coleopteran pupal champbers and tuffaceous paleosols from the Late Cretaceous Laguna Palacios Formation, Central Patagonia (Argentina): Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 177, p. 215-235.

Guo, Z.-F., and Wang, X.-L., 2002, A study on the relationship between volcanic activities and mass mortalities of the Jehol vertebrate fauna from Sihetun, western Liaoning, China; Acta Peterologica Sinica, v. 18, n. 1, p. 117-125.

Hagadorn, J. W., Dott Jr. R. H., and Damrow, D., 2002, Stranded on a Late Cambrian shoreline: Medusae from Central Wisconsin: Geology, v. 30, n. 2, p. 147-150.

Hall, B. K., 2002, Palaeontology and evolutionary developmental biology: a science of the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries: Palaeontology, v. 45, part 4, p. 647-669.

Hancox, P. J., and Rubidge, B. S., (2001) 2002, Breakthroughs in biodiversity, biogeography, biostratigraphy, and basin analysis of the Beaufort group: In: Special Issue, African Renaissance and Geosciences, edited by Eriksson, P., and Kampunzu, H. A. B., Journal of African Earth Sciences, v. 33, n. 3-4, p. 563-577.

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G. 2002, Revised Upper Triassic stratigaphy of the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, U.S.A.: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 1-36.

Heckert, A. B. and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Lower Chinle Group (Upper Triassic: Carnian) stratigraphy in the Zuni Mountains, west-central New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 51-72

Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, The microfauna of the Upper Triassic Ojo Huelos Member, San Pedro Arroyo Formation, central New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 77-85.

Heckert, A. B., Lucas, S. G., and Estep, J. W., 2002, Lower Chinle Group (Upper Triassic: Upper Carnian) tetrapods from the vicinity of Cameron, Arizona: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 73-76.

Hunt, A. P., and Downs, A., 2002, Taphonomy of the Late Triassic Canjilon Quarry (Petrified Forest Formation: Chinle Group), north-central New Mexico: data from new excavations: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 291-296.

Jones, T. P., Ash, S., and Figueiral, I., 2002, Late Triassic charcoal from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 188, p. 127-139.

Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2002, The Hyperodapedon biochron, Late Triassic of Pangea: Albertiana, v. 27, p. 30-38.

Mayr, E., and Bock, W. J., 2002, Classifications and other ordering systems: Journal of Zoological Systematic Evolution Research, v. 40, p. 169-194.

Morgan, V. L., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, Walter Granger, 1872-1941, paleontologist: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, v. 19, 58pp.

Norris, R. D., Bice, K. L., Magno, E. A., and Wilson, P. A., 2002, Jiggling the tropical thermostat in the Cretaceous hothouse: Geology, v. 30, n. 4, p. 299-302.

Parker, W. G., 2002, Correlation of locality numbers for vertebrate fossil sites in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 37-42.

Polcyn, M. J., Winkler, D. A., Jacobs, L. L., and Newman, K., 2002, Fossil occurrences and structural disturbance in the Triassic Chinle Formation at North Stinking Springs Mountain near St. Johns, Arizona: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 43-49.

Straight, W. H., and Ebeth, D. A., 2002, Testing the utility of vertebrate remains in recognizing patterns in fluvial deposits: an example from the Lower Horseshoe Canyon Formation, Alberta: Palaios, v. 17, p. 472-490.

Sun, Z.-M., Yang, Z.-Y., Zhao, Y., Yang, T.-Sh, Pei, J.-L., and Xu, K., 2002, A discussion of the isotopic age of the bird fossil-bearing bed in western Liaoning: Geological Bulletin of China, v. 21, n. 1, p. 41-44.

Swisher, C. C., III, Wang, X., Zhou, Z., Wang, Y., Jin, F., Zhang, J., Xu, X., Zhang, F., and Wang, Y., 2002, fürther support for a Cretaceous age for the feathered-dinosaur beds of Liaoning, China: New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Yixian and Tuchengzi Formations: Chinese Science Bulletin, v. 47, n. 2, p. 135-138.

Ziegler, A. M., Rees, P. M., and Naugolnykh, S. V., 2002, The Early Permian floras of Prince Edward Island, Canada: differentiating global from local effects of climate change: Canadian Journal of Earth Science, v. 39, p. 223-238.

Zeigler, K. E., Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., 2002, A tale of two sites: a taphonomic comparison of two Late Triassic (Chinle Group) vertebrate fossil localities from New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 285-290.

Zeigler, K. E., Lucas, S. G., and Heckert, A. B., 2002, Taphonomy of the Late Triassic Lamy Amphibian Quarry (Garita Creek Formation: Chinle Group), central New Mexico: In: Upper Triassic Stratigraphy and Paleontology, New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science, Bulletin, 21, edited by Heckert, A. B., and Lucas, S. G., p. 279-283.


 


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