2010 in paleontology
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2010.
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Molluscs
Newly named bivalves
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen nov |
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Sánchez |
Don Braulio Formation |
Replacement name for Emiliania Sánchez, 1999 preoccupied by Emiliania Hay & Mohler, 1967 |
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Arthropods
Fishes
Amphibians
Newly named amphibians
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Late Viséan |
A colosteid. |
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Gzhelian |
A trematopid genus currently among the oldest known vertebrates with a primarily terrestrial lifestyle. |
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Santonian |
Advanced frog. |
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Middle/Upper Triassic |
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Pelobates fahlbuschi[7] |
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Miocene |
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Basal reptiles
Newly named basal reptiles
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Lower Permian |
A basal parareptile. The species is M. mckinzieorum. |
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Induan (early Triassic) |
The earliest known leptopleuronine procolophonid. | ||||
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Lower Permian |
A basal captorhinid. The species is Reiszorhinus olsoni. | ||||
Ichthyopterygians
Newly named ichthyopterygians
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A new genus for "Ophthalmosaurus" chirsorum (Russell, 1993). |
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Lower Albian |
The most complete and stratigraphically oldest known ichthyosaur from the Cretaceous of North America. | ||||
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Middle Triassic |
A new genus for "Mixosaurus" panxianensis (Jiang, Schmitz, Hao & Sun, 2006). | ||||
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Middle Triassic |
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Early Triassic |
Sticky Keep Formation |
A species of a possible ichthyopterygian genus Omphalosaurus. | |||
Lepidosauromorphs
Newly named plesiosaurs
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Norian |
Wilczek Formation |
A new elasmosaurid |
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Lower Toarcian |
A pliosaur, a new genus for "Plesiosaurus" victor (Fraas, 1910). |
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Newly named basal lepidosaurs
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Carnian - Norian |
A basal lepidosaur. |
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Newly named lizards
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Late Cenomanian |
Skrbina |
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Bavaricordylus molassicus[7] |
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Miocene (late Karpatian) |
A cordylid, a species of Bavaricordylus. |
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Late Eocene, Ludian (Priabonian) |
Bembridge Limestone Formation |
An anguine lizard. The species is H. parva. |
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Heloderma welcommei[20] |
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Eocene |
An anguimorph lizard. Herman and Van Den Eeckhaut (2010) consider it to be a species of Heloderma (though the authors define the genus Heloderma more broadly than most herpetologists, and explicitly synonymize the glyptosaurine genus Placosaurus with it).[20] |
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Upper Campanian |
A scincomorph lizard. The species is K. grandeprairiensis. |
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Lower Cretaceous |
A scincogekkonomorph lizard. The species is L. acanthocaudata. |
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Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian-early Valanginan) |
A scincogekkonomorph lizard. The species is P. latifrontalis. |
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Tropidophorus bavaricus[7] |
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Miocene (late Karpatian) |
A lygosomine skink, a species of Tropidophorus. |
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Varanus debiei[20] |
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Eocene |
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Newly named snakes
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Late Miocene |
An alethinophidian snake, a species of Colombophis. |
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Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
A nigerophiid snake |
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Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
A madtsoiid snake |
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Micronatrix[26] |
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Late Miocene (Clarendonian) |
A natricine colubrid snake. The type species is Micronatrix juliescottae. |
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Maastrichtian |
A madtsoiid snake which preyed on hatchling sauropods. |
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Turtles
Newly named turtles
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Paleocene |
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Campanian |
A taphrosphyini bothremydid | ||||
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Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) |
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Danian |
Beryozovaya beds |
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Late Cretaceous |
A nanhsiungchelyid turtle. | ||||
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Early Cretaceous |
A macrobaenid turtle. | ||||
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Late Campanian |
A sea turtle. A new genus for "Euclastes" coahuilaensis (Brinkman et al., 2009).[35] | ||||
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Miocene |
A sea turtle. | ||||
Pangshura tatrotia[36] |
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Pliocene |
Tatrot Formation |
A species of Pangshura. | ||
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Late Cretaceous |
A trionychid with unclear systematic position, a species of Trionyx sensu lato. | ||||
Archosauromorphs
Newly named basal archosauromorphs
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Ladinian/Carnian |
A basal archosauromorph. |
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Middle Triassic |
A rhynchosaur. | ||||
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Quebrada de los Fósiles Formation |
The best-known basal archosauriform from South America. | ||||
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Alaunian (early Norian) |
A drepanosaurid that is known from MBSN 25, a partial skeleton (Partial postcranial skeleton). | ||||
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Late Triassic |
A rhynchosaur. A new genus for "Scaphonyx" sulcognathus (Azevedo & Schultz, 1987). | ||||
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Late Triassic |
A venomous archosauriform known only from isolated teeth. | ||||
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Alaunian (early Norian) |
A basal drepanosauromorph that is known from MCSNB 4783, a set of vertebrae and hindlimbs. | ||||
Archosaurs
Synapsids
Newly named non-mammalian synapsids
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Lower Triassic |
Hongyanjing Formation |
A eucynodont. The type species is Beishanodon youngi. |
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Middle Triassic? (Ladinian or Carnian) |
A cynodont. |
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Early Triassic (Induan) |
A dicynodont. |
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Carnian - Norian |
A brasilodontid cynodont. |
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A pylaecephalid dicynodont. The type species is Prosictodon dubei. |
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Upper Triassic |
A cynodont. The type species is Trucidocynodon riograndensis. |
Mammals
Other animals
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Late Cambrian |
Tiñu Formation |
An animal of uncertain phylogenetic placement; it might be a bryozoan[50][51] or an octocoral.[52] The type species is Pywackia baileyi. |
Plants
Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
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Manchester, Xiang, and Xiang |
Sentinel Butte Formation, North Dakota |
Oldest member of Cornus subgenus Cornus. |
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sp nov |
Valid |
Calvillo-Canadell, Cevallos-Ferriz & Rico-Arce |
Second Hymenaea sp. from Mexican amber |
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Ploufolia[55] |
Gen. nov. |
Valid |
Sender et al. |
Utrillas Formation |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Bravia, Barone Lumagab, & Mickle |
Middle Albian |
Monti Alburni, near Petina |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Shaolin Zheng & Xin Wang |
Middle Jurassic |
An early flowering plant. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Xin Wang & Shijun Wang |
Middle Jurassic |
An early flowering plant. |
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Footnotes
Complete author list
As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.
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- Patrick S. Druckenmiller; Erin E. Maxwell (2010). "A new Lower Cretaceous (lower Albian) ichthyosaur genus from the Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 47 (8): 1037–1053. Bibcode:2010CaJES..47.1037D. doi:10.1139/E10-028. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- Michael W. Maisch (2010). "Phylogeny, systematics, and origin of the Ichthyosauria – the state of the art" (PDF). Palaeodiversity. 3: 151–214. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- Chen Xiao-hong; Cheng Long (2010). "A new species of Mixosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Pu'an, Guizhou, China". Acta Palaeontologica Sinica (2): 251–260.
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- Adam S. Smith; Peggy Vincent (2010). "A new genus of pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany". Palaeontology. 53 (5): 1049–1063. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00975.x.
- José Fernando Bonaparte; César Leandro Schultz; Marina Bento Soares; Agustín G. Martinelli (2010). "La Fauna local de faxinal do soturno, Triasico tardio de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil". Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia. 13 (3): 233–246. doi:10.4072/rbp.2010.3.07.
- Michael W. Caldwell; Alessandro Palci (2010). "A new species of marine ophidiomorph lizard, Adriosaurus skrbinensis, from the Upper Cretaceous of Slovenia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (3): 747–755. doi:10.1080/02724631003762963. S2CID 85570665.
- Jozef Klembara; Bryony Green (2010). "Anguimorph lizards (Squamata, Anguimorpha) from the Middle and Late Eocene of the Hampshire Basin of southern England". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8 (1): 97–129. doi:10.1080/14772011003603531. S2CID 128699883.
- Jacques Herman; Guy Van Den Eeckhaut (2010). "Inventaire systématique des Invertebrata, Vertebrata, Plantae et Fungi des Sables de Bruxelles à Zaventem" (PDF). Geominpal Belgica Découvertes Géologiques, Minéralogiques et Paléontologiques en Belgique. 1: 32–64. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2014-06-07.
- Randall L. Nydam; Michael W. Caldwell; Federico Fanti (2010). "Borioteiioidean lizard skulls from Kleskun Hill (Wapiti Formation; upper Campanian), west-central Alberta, Canada". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (4): 1090–1099. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.483539. S2CID 128403651.
- Susan E. Evans; Yuan Wang (2010). "A new lizard (Reptilia: Squamata) with exquisite preservation of soft tissue from the Lower Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8 (1): 81–95. doi:10.1080/14772010903537773. S2CID 56046960.
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- Annie S. Hsiou; Adriana M. Albino; Jorge Ferigolo (2010). "Reappraisal of the South American Miocene snakes of the genus Colombophis, with description of a new species". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (3): 365–379. doi:10.4202/app.2009.1111.
- Laduke, T.C.; Krause, D.W.; Scanlon, J.D. & Kley, N.J. (2010). "A Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) snake assemblage from the Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (1): 109–138. doi:10.1080/02724630903409188.
- Dennis Parmley; Katie Beth Hunter (2010). "Fossil Snakes of the Clarendonian (Late Miocene) Pratt Slide Local Fauna of Nebraska, with the Description of a New Natricine Colubrid". Journal of Herpetology. 44 (4): 525–543. doi:10.1670/09-248.1. S2CID 86633027.
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- Cadena, Edwin; Bloch, Jonathan; Jaramillo, Carlos (2010). "New podocnemidid turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira) from the middle-upper Paleocene of South America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (2): 367–382. doi:10.1080/02724631003621946. S2CID 84315151.
- Thomas M. Lehman; Steven L. Wick (2010). "Chupacabrachelys complexus, n. gen. n. sp. (Testudines: Bothremydidae), from the Aguja Formation (Campanian) of West Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (6): 1709–1725. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.520782. S2CID 129303574.
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- Chang-Fu Zhou (2010). "A new eucryptodiran turtle from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2676: 45–56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2676.1.3. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- James F. Parham; Nicholas D. Pyenson (2010). "New Sea Turtle from the Miocene of Peru and the Iterative Evolution of Feeding Ecomorphologies since the Cretaceous". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (2): 231–247. doi:10.1666/09-077R.1. S2CID 62811400.
- DONALD BRINKMAN; MARTHA CAROLINA AQUILLON-MARTINEZ; CLAUDIO ARTURO DE LEON DÁVILA; HEATHER JAMNICZKY; DAVID A. EBERTH & MATTHEW COLBERT (2010). "Euclastes coahuilaensis sp. nov., a basal cheloniid turtle from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation of Coahuila State, Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 28 (3): 76–88. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- Walter G. Joyce; Tyler R. Lyson (2010). "Pangshura tatrotia, a new species of pond turtle (Testudinoidea) from the Pliocene Siwaliks of Pakistan". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8 (3): 449–458. doi:10.1080/14772019.2010.500879. S2CID 54803213.
- Natasha S. Vitek; Igor G. Danilov (2010). "New Material and a Reassessment of Soft-Shelled Turtles (Trionychidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Middle Asia and Kazakhstan" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (2): 383–393. doi:10.1080/02724631003617548. S2CID 83498792.
- Flynn, J.J.; Nesbitt, S.J.; Parrish, J.M.; Ranivoharimanana, L. & Wyss, A.R. (2010). "A new species of Azendohsaurus (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic Isalo Group of southwestern Madagascar: cranium and mandible". Palaeontology. 53 (3): 669–688. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00954.x.
- Max C. Langer; Felipe C. Montefeltro; David E. Hone; Robin Whatley; Cesar L. Schultz (2010). "On Fodonyx spenceri and a new rhynchosaur from the Middle Triassic of Devon". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (6): 1884–1888. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521901. S2CID 53405231.
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- Silvio Renesto; Justin A. Spielmann; Spencer G. Lucas; Giorgio Tarditi Spagnoli (2010). "The taxonomy and paleobiology of the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian: Adamanian-Apachean) drepanosaurs (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha: Drepanosauromorpha)". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin. 46: 1–81.
- Felipe Chinaglia Montefeltro; Max Cardoso Langer; Cesar Leandro Schultz (2010). "Cranial anatomy of a new genus of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur (Diapsida, Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of southern Brazil" (PDF). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 101: 27–52. doi:10.1017/S1755691010009060. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- Julia B. Desojo; Lucas E. Fiorelli; Martín D. Ezcurra; Agustín G. Martinelli; Jahandar Ramezani; Átila. A. S. Da Rosa; M. Belén von Baczko; M. Jimena Trotteyn; Felipe C. Montefeltro; Miguel Ezpeleta; Max C. Langer (2020). "The Late Triassic Ischigualasto Formation at Cerro Las Lajas (La Rioja, Argentina): fossil tetrapods, high-resolution chronostratigraphy, and faunal correlations". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): Article number 12782. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-67854-1. PMC 7391656. PMID 32728077.
- Mitchell, Jonathan S.; Heckert, Andrew B. & Sues, Hans-Dieter (2010). "Grooves to tubes: evolution of the venom delivery system in a Late Triassic "reptile"". Naturwissenschaften. 97 (12): 1117–1121. Bibcode:2010NW.....97.1117M. doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0729-0. PMID 21060984. S2CID 10093308.
- Gao, K.; Fox, R.C.; Zhou, C.-F.; Li, D.-Q. (2010). "A new nonmammalian eucynodont (Synapsida, Therapsida) from the Triassic of northern Gansu Province, China, and its biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications". American Museum Novitates. 3685: 24p. doi:10.1206/649.1. hdl:2246/6069. S2CID 85789838.
- Christian F. Kammerer; John J. Flynn; Lovasoa Ranivoharimanana; André R. Wyss (2010). "The first record of a probainognathian (Cynodontia: Chiniquodontidae) from the Triassic of Madagascar". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (6): 1889–1894. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.520784. S2CID 85868922.
- Jörg Fröbisch; Kenneth D. Angielczyk; Christian A. Sidor (2010). "The Triassic dicynodont Kombuisia (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass extinction". Naturwissenschaften. 97 (2): 187–196. Bibcode:2010NW.....97..187F. doi:10.1007/s00114-009-0626-6. PMID 19956920. S2CID 20557454.
- Kenneth D. Angielczyk; Bruce S. Rubidge (2010). "A new pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Karoo Basin, Middle Permian of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (5): 1396–1409. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.501447. S2CID 129846697.
- Oliveira, T.V.; Soares, M.B.; Schultz, C.L. (2010). "Trucidocynodon riograndensis gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Eucynodontia), a new cynodont from the Brazilian Upper Triassic (Santa Maria Formation)". Zootaxa. 2382: 1–71. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2382.1.1. S2CID 86916094.
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