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Plants


Ferns and fern allies


Angiosperms


Arthropods


Crustaceans


Insects


Molluscs


Cephalopods


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 called an ichnofossil (; ), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms, but not the preserved remains of the organism itself. Trace fossils contrast with body fossils, which are the fossilized remains of part ...
genera ''
Nihilichnus ''Nihilichnus'' is an ichnogenus of trace fossil A trace fossil, also called an ichnofossil (; ), is a fossil record of biological activity by lifeforms, but not the preserved remains of the organism itself. Trace fossils contrast with bo ...
'' (''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 ser ...
'' (''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 reptilian and mammalian bones. ''Brutalichnus'' contains o ...
'' (''Brutalichnus'' ''brutalis'') are described from bite traces.


References

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Paleontology Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure ge ...