- Added loads of information, both phylogenetic and species from:
Benton, M. J., Shishkin, M. A., Unvin, D. M. & Kurochkin, E. N., (eds.) 2000: The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia.
--Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, xxxix-696 - A new order, †Panameriungulata [Mammalia: Eutheria], of basal ungulates added.
- A large number of missing basal ungulate species added, most of them panameriungulates.
- Revision of advanced odontocetes [Odontoceti: Delphinida] after Hamilton, Caballero, Collins & Browell Jr., 2001.
- A new basal mammaliaform, †Hadrocodium wui Luo, Crompton & Sun, 2001, added.
- Alternative phylogeny of Palaeognathae [Aves: Neornithes] after Haddrath & Baker, 2001.
- Revision of Carnosauria [Dinosauria: Theropoda] after Currie & Carpenter, 2000
- Updated mosasaurids after Poling & Creisler, 2000
- Added new genera, Darevskia [Squamata: Lacertidae], and it's phylogeny after Murphy, Fu, MacCulloch, Darevsky & Kupriyanova, 2000
- Added new species of pleurodire turtles after Lapparent de Broin & Molnar, 2001.
- Added new species of acanthurid fishes, †Arambourgthurus scombrurus
- Revision of Acanthuroidei [Teleostei: Perciformes]
- Revision of ichthyodectiform fishes [Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha: Ichthyodectiformes] after Taverne & Chanet, 2000.
- Revision of basal clupeocephalans [Teleostei: Clupeocephala:] after Taverne, 2000.
- Added new order, †Guildayichthyiformes Lund, 2000, of basal actinoperygians.
- Added new species of fossil Tunicata, †Cheungkongella ancestralis
- Revision of protostomes [Coeleomata: Protostoma] after Rouse, 2001 and revision of Polychaeta [Annelida].