Plants
Ferns and fern allies
Angiosperms
Arthropods
Insects
Tetrapodomorphs
Amphibians
Newly named temnospondylians
Newly named amphibians
Ichthyosaurs
Lepidosauromorphs
Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs
Newly named plesiosaurs
Newly named squamates
Turtles
Archosauromorphs
Newly named crurotarsans
Newly named dinosaurs
* Vickaryous, M K., 2006, New information on the cranial anatomy of Edmontonia rugosidens Gilmore, a Late Cretaceous nodosaurid dinosaur from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta: JVP, v. 26, n. 4: 1011–1013.
Data are courtesy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.
Newly named birds
Newly named pterosaurs
Synapsids
Non-mammalian
Mammals
Trace fossils
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trace fossil
A trace fossil, also known as an ichnofossil (; from el, ἴχνος ''ikhnos'' "trace, track"), is a fossil record of biological activity but not the preserved remains of the plant or animal itself. Trace fossils contrast with body fossils, ...
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Nihilichnus
''Nihilichnus'' is an ichnogenus of trace fossil. It was first described from bite traces in 2006. The ichnogenus contains two ichnospecies, ''Nihilichnus nihilicus'' and ''Nihilichnus mortalis.'' The ichnogenera ''Brutalichnus'' and ''Machichnus ...
'' (''Nihilichnus nihilicus'' and ''Nihilichnus mortalis''), ''
Machichnus
''Machichnus'' is an ichnogenus. It was erected by Mikuláš et al. (2006) for shallow, thin, discrete, parallel to subparallel, smooth-bottomed scratches, occurring on bone tissue in small groups or series. According to modern analogues, the seri ...
'' (''Machichnus regularis,'' ''Machichnus multilineatus'', and ''Machichnus bohemicus'') and ''
Brutalichnus
''Brutalichnus'' is an ichnogenus. A Case Study from the Miocene of the Czech Republic found that Brutalichnus and two other Ichnogenera have evidence of biting and gnawing traces on Reptile, Reptilian and Mammalian bones. ''Brutalichnus'' contains ...
'' (''Brutalichnus'' ''brutalis'') are described from bite traces.
References
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2000s in paleontology
Paleontology
Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...