2011 in paleontology

Plants

Gymnosperms

Gymnosperm research

• An amplified whole plant reconstruction of the Ypresian Princeton chert pine Pinus arnoldii, expanding the diagnosis to include P. similkameenensis foliage and wood plus unnamed pollens cones found in attachment to the P. arnoldii ovulate cones is published by Klymiuk, Stockey, & Rothwell.

Nematoda

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Formicodiplogaster	Gen et sp nov	valid	Poinar	Burdigalian	Dominican amber	Dominican Republic Arthropods Basal reptiles Newly named captorhinids Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Gansurhinus Gen. et sp. Valid Reisz Liu et al. Middle Permian China Newly named basal diapsids Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Orovenator Gen. et sp. Valid Reisz Modesto Scott Sakmarian United States Turtles Newly named turtles Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images Albertwoodemys Gen. et sp. Valid Gaffney Meylan et al. Early Oligocene Jebel Qatrani Formation Egypt 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.