Protozoa

New taxa

Plants

Angiosperms

Monocots

Arthropoda

Arachnomorphs

Crustaceans

Research

Insects

Xiphosurans

Fishes

Bony fish

Cartilaginous fish

Placoderms

General research

Amphibians

Jenkins, F. A., jr, Shubin, N. H., Gatesy, S. M., and Warren, A., 2008, Gerrothorax pulcherrimus from the Upper Triassic Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland and a reassessment of head lifting in temnospondyl feeding: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 28, n. 4, p. 935-950.

Newly named amphibians

Archosaurs

Newly named pseudosuchians

Newly named pterosaurs

Dinosaurs

Newly named dinosaurs

28 new dinosaur genera were erected in 2008. Data courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.

Newly named birds

Other publications

Turtles

Newly named turtles

Squamates

new taxa

New papers

Sauropterygians

New taxa

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Mammal

Related happenings in geology

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 group="CAL"/>