2000 in paleontology

Plants

Angiosperms

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chaneya	Gen et 2 comb nov	Valid	Wang & Manchester	Late Eocene	Florissant Formation	United States Arthropods Crustaceans Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Tillocheles kaoriae Sp nov Valid Yokoi & Karasawa Cenomanian-Turonian Yezo Group Japan Insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Makarkiniidae Fam nov jr synonym Martins-Neto Aptian Crato Formation Brazil Archosauromorphs Newly named dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Name Status Authors Discovery year Age Unit Location Notes Images - Bambiraptor Valid Burnham Derstler et al. Two Medicine Formation United States Synapsids 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.