2011 in paleontology#Turtles
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Protozoa
=New taxa=
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Vetufebrus{{cite journal |last1=Poinar |first1=G. |year=2011 |title=Vetufebrus ovatus n. gen., n. sp. (Haemospororida: Plasmodiidae) vectored by a streblid bat fly (Diptera: Streblidae) in Dominican amber |journal=Parasites & Vectors |volume=4 |issue=229 |pages= 1–5 |doi=10.1186/1756-3305-4-229|pmid=22152687 |pmc=3253689 |doi-access=free }}
| Gen et sp nov | Valid | | | | {{Flag|Dominican Republic}} | A Plasmodiidae vectored by the bat fly Enischnomyia stegosoma | |
Plants
=Ferns and fern allies=
=Gymnosperms=
==Gymnosperm research==
- An amplified whole plant reconstruction of the Ypresian Princeton chert pine Pinus arnoldii, expanding the diagnosis to include P. similkameenensis (Miller, 1973) foliage and wood plus unnamed pollens cones found in attachment to the P. arnoldii ovulate cones is published by Klymiuk, Stockey, & Rothwell.
=Angiosperms=
Nematoda
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Formicodiplogaster{{Cite journal |last1=Poinar |first1=G. |last2=Heiss |first2=E. |year=2011 |title=New Termitaphididae and Aradidae (Hemiptera) in Mexican and Dominican amber |journal= Palaeodiversity |volume=4 |pages = 51–62 |url= http://www.palaeodiversity.org/pdf/04/Palaeodiversity_4_PoinarHeiss.pdf}}
| Gen et sp nov | valid | Poinar | | | {{Flag|Dominican Republic}} | A diplogasterid nematode | |
Lobopods
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Diania cactiformis{{Cite journal | last1 = Liu | first1 = J.| last2 = Steiner | first2 = M.| last3 = Dunlop | first3 = J. A. | last4 = Keupp | first4 = H.| last5 = Shu | first5 = D.| last6 = Ou | first6 = Q.| last7 = Han | first7 = J.| last8 = Zhang | first8 = Z.| last9 = Zhang | first9 = X.
| year = 2011 | title = An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages | journal = Nature | volume = 470 | issue = 7335 | pages = 526–530| bibcode = 2011Natur.470..526L| doi = 10.1038/nature09704 | pmid = 21350485| s2cid = 4324509}} | | Valid | Liu et al. | Lower Cambrian | | {{Flag|China}} | A lobopodian. | |
Mureropodia apae
| | Valid | Gamez Vintaned, Linan, & Zhuravlev | Early Cambrian | | {{Flag|Spain}} | A lobopodian. | |
Siberion lenaicus
| | Valid | Dzik | Early Cambrian | | {{Flag|Russia}} | A lobopodian. | |
Vetulicolians
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Ooedigera peeli{{Cite journal | last1 = Vinther | first1 = J. | last2 = Smith | first2 = M. P. | last3 = Harper | first3 = D. A. T. | author-link3 = David Harper (palaeontologist)| doi = 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01034.x | title = Vetulicolians from the Lower Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland, and the polarity of morphological characters in basal deuterostomes | journal = Palaeontology | volume = 54 | issue = 3 | pages = 711–719 | year = 2011 | s2cid = 85602402 }}
| gen. nov | valid | Zinther, et al. | | | {{Flag|Greenland}} | earliest known vetulicolian described | |
Molluscs
{{main|List of gastropods described in 2011#Fossil gastropods}}
Arthropods
{{main|2011 in arthropod paleontology}}
Fishes
{{main|2011 in paleoichthyology}}
Amphibians
=Newly named lepospondyls=
=Newly named temnospondyls=
=Newly named lissamphibians=
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Urupia{{cite journal |author1=P.P. Skutschas |author2=S.A. Krasnolutskii |year=2011 |title=A new genus and species of basal salamanders from the Middle Jurassic of western Siberia, Russia |url=http://www.zin.ru/Journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_315_2/TZ_315_2_Skutschas.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences |volume=315 |issue=2 |pages=167–175 }}
| Gen. et sp. | Valid |
| Bathonian | |
| A basal stem salamander. | rowspan="47" | |
Basal reptiles
=Newly named captorhinids=
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Gansurhinus{{Cite journal|author1=Robert R. Reisz |author2=Jun Liu |author3=Jin-Ling Li |author4=Johannes Müller |year=2011 |title=A new captorhinid reptile, Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Permian of China |journal=Naturwissenschaften |volume=98 |issue=5 |pages=435–441 |doi=10.1007/s00114-011-0793-0|pmid=21484260 |bibcode = 2011NW.....98..435R |s2cid=20274349 }}
| Gen. et sp. | Valid |
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=Newly named basal diapsids=
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Orovenator{{cite journal |author1=Robert R. Reisz |author2=Sean P. Modesto |author3=Diane M. Scott |year=2011 |title=A new Early Permian reptile and its significance in early diapsid evolution |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B |volume=278 |issue=1725 |pages=3731–3737 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2011.0439 |pmid=21525061 |pmc=3203498}}
| Gen. et sp. | Valid |
| Sakmarian | |
| The oldest and most basal neodiapsid. | rowspan="99"| |
=Newly named ichthyosaurs=
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Sveltonectes{{cite journal |last=Fischer |first=V. |author2=Masure, E. |author3=Arkhangelsky, M.S. |author4=Godefroit, P. |year=2011 |title=A new Barremian (Early Cretaceous) ichthyosaur from western Russia |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=5 |pages=1010–1025 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.595464 |hdl=2268/92828 |s2cid=86036325 |url=https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/92828 }}
| Gen. et sp. | Valid |
| Barremian | |
| An ophthalmosaurid. | rowspan="99"| |
Lepidosauromorphs
=Newly named saurosphargids=
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Sinosaurosphargis{{cite journal |last=Li |first=Chun |author2=Olivier Rieppel |author3=Xiao-Chun Wu |author4=Li-Jun Zhao |author5=Li-Ting Wang |year=2011 |title=A new Triassic marine reptile from southwestern China |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=303–312 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.550368|s2cid=130698779 }}
| Gen. et sp. | Valid |
| Middle Anisian | |
| An incertae sedis. | rowspan="47" | |
=Newly named sauropterygians=
=Newly named lizards=
=Newly named snakes=
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Madtsoia pisdurensis{{cite journal |author1=Dhananjay M. Mohabey |author2=Jason J. Head |author3=Jeffrey A. Wilson |year=2011 |title=A new species of the snake Madtsoia from the Upper Cretaceous of India and its paleobiogeographic implications |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=588–595 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2011.560220 |s2cid=129792355 }}
| Species | Valid |
| Late Cretaceous | |
| A madtsoiid snake. | rowspan="47" | |
Turtles
=Newly named turtles=
Archosauromorphs
=Newly named basal archosauromorphs=
=Archosaurs=
{{main|2011 in archosaur paleontology}}
Synapsids
=Newly named non-mammalian synapsids=
=Mammals=
{{main|2011 in mammal paleontology}}
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.