Plants

Angiosperms

General paleobotanical research

*An approximately Pennsylvanian ( Desmoinesian) age rainforest is reported from the Herrin #6 coal mine in Illinois by DiMichele ''et al''.

Fungi

newly named

Arthropoda

Crustaceans

Research

* Schram (2007) publishes a revision of

Paleozoic The Paleozoic ( , , ; or Palaeozoic) Era is the first of three Era (geology), geological eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. Beginning 538.8 million years ago (Ma), it succeeds the Neoproterozoic (the last era of the Proterozoic Eon) and ends 251.9 Ma a ...

stomatopods, erecting the families Gorgonophontidae and Daidalidae.

New taxa

Insects

New taxa

Fish

Bony fish

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Cartilaginous fish

Archosauromorphs

Pseudosuchians

Pterosaurs

Newly named non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs

Newly named non-avian dinosauromorphs

Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Lepidosauromorpha

Plesiosaurs

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Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Mammals

Footnotes

Complete author list

As science becomes more collaborative, papers with large numbers of authors are becoming more common. To prevent the deformation of the tables, these footnotes list the contributors to papers that erect new genera and have many authors.

References

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