2003 in paleontology

Plants

Conifers

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chamaecyparis eureka	Sp nov	Valid	Kotyk, Basinger, & McIlver	Lutetian	Buchanan Lake Formation, Axel Heiberg Island		the oldest confirmed species of Chamaecyparis

Angiosperms

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Corylus johnsonii	Valid	Pigg Manchester Wehr	Ypresian	Tom Thumb Tuff, Klondike Mountain Formation
Araripia florifera''	Valid	Mohr Eklund	lower Cretaceous	Crato Formation

Gnetophytes

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cratonia cotyledon	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Rydin, Mohr, & Friis	lower Cretaceous	Crato Formation		A relative to Welwetschia

Fungi

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aureofungus	Get et sp nov	Valid	Hibbett et al	Burdigalian	Dominican amber.		one of four mushroom genera described from the fossil record

Arthropods

Newly described arachnids

New insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Brownimeciinae	Subfam. Gen. et Sp. nov	Valid	Bolton	Turonian	New Jersey amber		A stem group ant, type species B. clavata
Halictus? savenyei	Sp. nov	valid	Engel & Archibald	Ypresian	Coldwater beds, Princeton Group		first apoid bee fossil described from Canada
Lasioglossum celinae	Sp. nov	Valid	Nel & Petrulevicius	Rupelian	Dauphin		A sweat bee
Oligoapis	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Nel & Petrulevicius	Aquitanian	Bes-Konak		An apine bee, type species O. Oligoapis beskonakensis
Paraelectrobombus	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Nel & Petrulevicius	Aquitanian	Bes-Konak		An Electrobombini bee, type species P. patriciae
Raphidia funerata	sp nov	synonym	Engel	Priabonian	Florissant Formation		A snakefly. moved to Florissantoraphidia funerata in 2014
Wesmaelius mathewesi	Sp. nov	valid	Engel & Archibald	Ypresian	Coldwater beds, Princeton Group		A Hemerobiinae lacewing
Xylocopa celineae	Sp nov	valid	Nel & Petrulevicius	Chattian	Camoins-les-Bains		A carpenter bee	''

Conodont paleozoology

German paleontologist and stratigrapher Heinz Walter Kozur described the conodont genus Carnepigondolella.

Vertebrate paleozoology

Parareptiles

Non-avian dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes	Images
"Abdallahsaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus
"Blancocerosaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus	-
Amazonsaurus	Valid taxon	Carvalho Avilla Salgado
Antetonitrus	Valid taxon	Yates Kitching
Aviatyrannis	Valid taxon	Rauhut
Bainoceratops	Valid taxon	Tereschenko Alifanov
Brohisaurus	Valid taxon	Malkani
Colepiocephale	Valid taxon	Sullivan
"Domeykosaurus"	Nomen nudum	Rubilar-Rogers and Vargas vide: Anonymous in May 29, 2003 Reuters news reports.
Dromaeosauroides	Valid taxon	Christiansen Bonde
Equijubus	Valid taxon	You Luo Shubin Witmer Tang Z. Tang F.
Ferganasaurus	Valid taxon	Alifanov Averianov
Fukuisaurus	Valid taxon	Kobayashi Azuma
Gobititan	Valid taxon	You Tang F. Luo
Hanssuesia	Valid taxon	Sullivan
Heyuannia	Valid taxon	Lü
Hongshanosaurus	Valid taxon	You Xu X. Wang X.
Isisaurus	Valid taxon	Jeffrey A. Wilson. Upchurch
"Issasaurus"		Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Dicraeosaurus
Lamaceratops	Valid taxon	Alifanov
"Ligomasaurus"		Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus
Lusotitan	Valid taxon	Antunes Mateus
Magnirostris	Valid taxon	You Dong Zhiming
Mendozasaurus	Valid taxon	González-Riga
"Mohammadisaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Tornieria	-
"Mtapaiasaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus
"Mtotosaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Dicraeosaurus
"Nteregosaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Janenschia
"Nyororosaurus"		Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Dicraeosaurus
Olorotitan	Valid taxon	Godefroit Bolotsky Alifanov
Platyceratops	Valid taxon	Alifanov
Rajasaurus	Valid taxon	Jeffrey A. Wilson. Sereno Srivastava Bhatt Khosla Sahni
Rinconsaurus	Valid taxon	Calvo González-Riga
"Salimosaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus
"Selimanosaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Dicraeosaurus
Serendipaceratops	Valid taxon	T. Rich Vickers-Rich			-
Shenzhousaurus	Valid taxon	Ji Q. Mark Norell Makovicky Gao K. Ji S. Yuan
Shuangmiaosaurus	Valid taxon	You Ji Q. Li J. Li Y. X.
Silesaurus	Valid taxon	Dzik
Sinornithomimus	Valid taxon	Kobayashi Lü
Sphaerotholus	Possible junior synonym of Prenocephale	Williamson Carr
"Wangonisaurus"	Nomen nudum.	Gerhard Maier		Nomen nudum; possibly a junior synonym of Giraffatitan or Brachiosaurus
Yixianosaurus	Valid taxon	Xu X. Wang X.
Zalmoxes	Valid taxon	Weishampel Jianu Csiki Norman
Zupaysaurus	Valid taxon	Arcucci & Coria

Newly named birds

Plesiosaurs

Pterosaurs

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Archaeovenator	Valid	Reisz Dilkes		Upper Carboniferous	Hamilton Quarry		a pelycosaur	-
Brasilitherium	Valid	Bonaparte Martinelli Schultz Rupert
Brasilodon	Valid	Bonaparte Martinelli Schultz Rupert
Bullacephalus	Valid	Rubidge Kitching
Colobodectes	Valid	Modesto Rubidge Visser Welman		Upper/Middle Permian	Abrahamskraal formation		an anomodont
Lanthanostegus	Valid	Modesto Rubidge Welman		Middle/Upper Permian			an anomodont; replacement name for Lanthanocephalus Modesto, Rubidge & Welman, 2002, preoccupied by the cnidarian genus Lanthanocephalus Williams & Starmer, 2000
Santacruzodon	Valid	Abdala Ribeiro
Xiyukannemeyeria	Valid	Liu Li		Middle Triassic			an anomodont; new genus for "Parakannemeyeria" brevirostris
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Mammals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Caracal depereti	Sp nov	Disputed	Morales et al.	Pliocene			A Caracal. Boscaini et al. considered this species to be a junior synonym of Lynx issiodorensis.
Iridodon	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Morlo & Gunnell	Bridgerian	Wasatch Formation		A Limnocyonin Hyaenodontidae The type species is I. datzae.
Kogolepithecus	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Pickford et al.	Miocene			A catarrhine of uncertain affinity. The type species is K. morotoensis.

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