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Paleontology, palaeontology or [palæontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.^[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because mankind has encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2006.

Plants

Pteridophyta

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Wessiea oroszii[2]	Sp nov	Valid	Serbet & Rothwell	Campanian	Horseshoe Canyon Formation	Canada	A fern of uncertain affinity

Arthropods

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Avitomyrmex[3]	Gen et sp. nov	valid	Archibald, Cover, & Moreau	Ypresian	Unnamed Formation, Kamloops Group	Canada	New bulldog ant genus with three species
Emiliana[4]	Trib, Gen, et sp. nov	valid	Shcherbakov	Lutetian	Parachute Member, Green River Formation	USA	oldest member of Tropiduchidae
Feroseta[5]	Gen et sp nov	valid	Poinar	Burdigalian	Dominican amber	Dominican Republic	A mantidfly, type sp. F. prisca
Macabeemyrma[3]	Gen et sp. nov	valid	Archibald, Cover, & Moreau	Ypresian	Unnamed Formation, Kamloops Group	Canada	New bulldog ant genus with a single species
Ypresiomyrma[3][6]	Gen et sp. nov & sp nov comb	valid	Archibald, Cover, & Moreau	Ypresian	Fur, Unnamed, & Klondike Mountain Formations	Denmark  Canada  USA	New bulldog ant genus, Y. orbiculata, Y. bartletti, Y. rebekkae

Tetrapodomorphs

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Tiktaalik[7]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Daeschler, Shubin, & Jenkins	Late Devonian	Fram Formation	Canada	Type species T. roseae.	Tiktaalik roseae

Amphibians

Newly named temnospondylians

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Iberospondylus[8]	Valid	Laurin Soler-Gijon	Late Carboniferous		Spain	The type species is Iberospondylus schultzei.	Trematolestes
Tirraturhinus[9]	Valid	Nield Damiani Warren	Early Triassic	Arcadia Formation	Australia	The type species is Tirraturhinus smisseni.
Trematolestes[10]	Valid	Schoch	Middle Triassic	Erfurt Formation	Germany	The type species is Trematolestes hagdorni.

Newly named amphibians

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Pangerpeton[11]	Valid	Wang Evans	Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous	Daohugou Beds	China	The type species is Pangerpeton sinensis.

Ichthyosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Maiaspondylus[12]	Valid	Maxwell Caldwell	Early Cretaceous	Loon River Formation	Canada	The type species is Maiaspondylus lindoei.

Lepidosauromorphs

Newly named basal lepidosauromorphs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Rautiania[13]	Valid	Bulanov Sennikov	Late Permian	Vyasovka Formation	Russia	Two species was descript: Rautiania alexandri (type) and R. minchi.

Newly named plesiosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Bobosaurus[14]	Valid	Dalla Vecchia	Late Triassic	Rio del Lago Formation	Italy	The type species is Bobosaurus forojuliensis.
Futabasaurus[15]	Valid	Sato Hasegawa Manabe	Late Cretaceous	Tamayama Formation	Japan	The type species is Futabasaurus suzukii.
Opallionectes[16]	Valid	Kear	Early Cretaceous		Australia	The type species is Opallionectes andamookaensis.
Umoonasaurus[17]	Valid	Kear Schroeder Lee	Early Cretaceous	Bulldog Shale	Australia	The type species is Umoonasaurus demoscyllus.

Newly named squamates

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Najash[18]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Apesteguia & Zaher	Late Cretaceous	Candeleros Formation	Argentina	Type sp N rionegrina.

Archosauromorphs

Newly named crurotarsans

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Adamantinasuchus[19]	Valid	Nobre Carvalho	Late Cretaceous	Adamantina Formation	Brazil	A notosuchian. The type species is Adamantinasuchus navae.	Adamantinasuchus Effigia Isisfordia
Aldabrachampsus[20]	Valid	Brochu	Pleistocene		Seychelles	A crocodylid. The type species is Aldabrachampsus dilophus.
Effigia[21]	Valid	Nesbitt Norell	Late Triassic	Chinle Formation	USA	A rauisuchian. The type species is Effigia okeeffeae.
Isisfordia[22]	Valid	Salisbury Molnar Frey Willis	Early-Late Cretaceous	Winton Formation	Australia	A eusuchian. The type species is Isisfordia duncani.

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 coutersy of George Olshevky's dinosaur genera list.^[23]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes	Images
Adamantisaurus[24]	Valid taxon	Rodrigo Santucci	Reinaldo Jose Bertini		Agujaceratops Dracorex Europasaurus Guanlong Juravenator Mantellisaurus Mapusaurus Othnielosaurus Theiophytalia Tsaagan Yamaceratops Yinlong
Agujaceratops	Valid taxon	Spencer G. Lucas Sullivan	Hunt
Alaskacephale[25]	Valid taxon	Sullivan
Aniksosaurus[26]	Valid taxon	Martínez	Novas
Antarctopelta.[27]	Valid taxon	Salgado	Gasparini
Balochisaurus	Valid taxon	Malkani
"Bayosaurus"	Nomen nudum	Rodolfo Coria Phillip J. Currie	Paulina Carabajal
Cedrorestes[28]	Valid taxon	David Gilpin Tony DiCroce	Kenneth Carpenter
Dracorex[29]	Valid taxon	Robert Bakker Sullivan Porter	Larson Saulsbury
Dracovenator[30]	Valid taxon	Yates
Erketu[31]	Valid taxon	Ksepka	Mark Norell
Europasaurus[32]	Valid taxon	Mateus Laven Knötschke vide: Sander Mateus	Laven Knötschke
Fusuisaurus[33]	Valid taxon	Mo Wang W. Huang Z.	Huang X. Xu X.
Guanlong[34]	Valid taxon	Xu Xing Clark Forster Mark Norell	Erickson Eberth Jia C. Zhao Q.
Huanghetitan.[35]	Valid taxon	You Li D.	Zhou L. Ji Q.
Jiutaisaurus[36]	Valid taxon	Wu W. H. Dong Zhiming Sun	Li C. Li T.
Juravenator[37]	Valid taxon	Göhlich	Luis M. Chiappe
Khetranisaurus[38]	Valid taxon	Malkani
Koutalisaurus[39]	Valid taxon	Prieto-Marquez Gaete Rivas	Galobart Boada
Ligabuesaurus[40]	Valid taxon	Jose Bonaparte González-Riga (as González Riga)	Apesteguía
Mantellisaurus[41]	Valid taxon	Paul
Mapusaurus[42]	Valid taxon	Rodolfo Coria	Phillip J. Currie
Marisaurus[38]	Valid taxon	Malkani
Maxakalisaurus[43]	Valid taxon	Kellner Campos Azevedo Trotta	Henriques Craik Silva
"Moabosaurus"	Nomen nudum	Britt vide: Anonymous		The name was published in The Gigantic Dinosaur Expo 2006 Official Guidebook.
Othnielosaurus[44]	Valid taxon	Peter Galton
Pakisaurus[38]	Valid taxon	Malkani
Razanandrongobe[45]	Valid taxon	Maganuco Dal Sasso	Pasini	Described by the authors as a possible crocodylomorph or theropod.
Sacisaurus[46]	Valid taxon	Ferigolo	Langer
Sonidosaurus	Valid taxon	Xu X. Zhang X. H. Tan Q.	Zhao X. Tan L.
Sulaimanisaurus[38]	Valid taxon	Malkani
Theiophytalia[47]	Valid taxon	Brill	Carpenter
Tsaagan[48]	Valid taxon	Mark Norell Clark Turner	Makovicky Rinchen Barsbold Rowe
Turiasaurus[49]	Valid taxon	Royo-Torres Cobos	Alcalá
Vitakridrinda.[38]	Valid taxon	Malkani
Xuanhuaceratops[50]	Valid taxon	Zhao X. Cheng Z.	Xu X. Makovicky
Yamaceratops[51]	Valid taxon	Makovicky	Mark Norell
Yinlong[52]	Valid taxon	Xu X. Forster	Clark Mo
Yuanmousaurus[53]	Valid taxon	Lü Li S. Ji Q.	Wang G. F. Zhang J. H. Dong Zhiming
Zapalasaurus	Valid taxon	Salgado Carvalho	Garrido

Newly named birds

Name	Status	Novelty	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Abdounornis marinus [54]	Nomen Nudum	Thesis name	Bourdon	Early Eocene	Early Ypresian	Morocco	A species of Charadriiformes, Abdounornithidae.
Aequornis traversei [54]	Nomen Nudum	Thesis name	Bourdon	Middle Eocene		Togo	A species of Pelagornithidae.
Anas cheuen [55]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Agnolín	Early or Middle Pleistocene	Miramar Formation	Argentina	A species of Anas.
Archaeorhynchus spathula [56]	Valid	Gen et Sp. nov.	Zhonghe & Fucheng	Early Cretaceous	Yixian Formation	China	An Ornithurae, type sp A. spathula.
Branta thessaliensis [57]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Boev & Koufos	Middle Turolian		Greece	An Anatidae.
Cerebavis cenomanica [58]	Valid	Gen. et Sp. nov.	Kurochkin, Saveliev, Postnov, Pervushov, & Popov	Cenomanian		Russia	An Enantiornithes, described from a brain endocast.
Corvitalusoides grandiculus [59]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Walter E. Boles	Late Oligocene or Early Miocene	Riversleigh	Australia:  Queensland	A Passeriformes, family Incertae Sedis.
Cyanoliseus patagonopsis [60]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche Claudia Tambussi	Pleistocene	Miramar Formation	Argentina	A Psittacidae.
Dalingheornis liweii [61]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Zhang Zihui Hou Lianhai Yoshiasu Hasegawa Jingmai O'Connor Jerry D. Martin Luis M. Chiappe	Early Cretaceous	Yixian Formation	China	An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, the type species of the new genus.
Dapingfangornis sentisorhinus [62]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Li Li Duan Ye Hu Dongyu Wang Li Cheng Shaoli Hou Lianhai	Early Cretaceous	Jiufotang Formation	China	An Enantiornithes Walker, 1981, the type species of the new genus.
Didunculus placopedetes [63]	Valid	Sp. nov.	David W. Steadman	Subrecent	‘Eua	Tonga	A Columbidae.
Ducula harrisoni [64]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Graham M. Wragg Trevor H. Worthy	Subrecent	Henderson Island	Pitcairn Group	A Columbidae.
Eclectus infectus [65]	Valid	Sp. nov.	David W. Steadman	Holocene	‘Eua, ‘Anatu	Vanuatu	A Psittacidae.
Gallirallus ernstmayri [66]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Jeremy J. Kirchman David W. Steadman	Holocene	New Ireland, Bismarck Archipelago	Papua New Guinea	A Rallidae.
Gallirallus pendiculentus [66]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Jeremy J. Kirchman David W. Steadman	Holocene	Tinian	Northern Mariana Islands	A Rallidae.
Gallirallus pendiculentus [66]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Jeremy J. Kirchman David W. Steadman	Holocene	Tinian	Northern Mariana Islands	A Rallidae.
Gallirallus storrsolsoni [67]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Jeremy J. Kirchman David W. Steadman	Holocene	Huahine, Society Islands	French Polynesia	A Rallidae.
Gallirallus temptatus [66]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Jeremy J. Kirchman David W. Steadman	Holocene	Rota	Northern Mariana Islands	A Rallidae.
Jungornis geraldmayri [68]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Cécile Mourer-Chauviré Bernard Sigé	Late Eocene	Phosphorites du Quercy, MP 17	France	An Apodiformes, Jungornithidae Karkhu, 1988.
Loxioides kikuchi [69]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Helen F. James Storrs L. Olson	Subrecent	Kaua’i, Hawaii Islands	USA:  Hawaii	An Fringillidae, Carduelinae, Drepanidini.
Masillaraptor parvunguis [70]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Gerald Mayr	Middle Eocene	Messel pit MP 11	Germany:  Hessen	A Falconiformes, Masillaraptoridae Mayr, 2009.
Nyctanassa carcinocatactes [71]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Storrs L. Olson David B. Wingate	Holocene	Bermuda	Bermuda	An Ardeidae.
Odontopteryx gigas [54]	Nomen Nudum	Thesis name	Bourdon	Early Eocene	Early Ypresian	Morocco	A species of Odontopterygiformes Howard, 1957, Odontopterygidae Lydekker, 1891.
Odontoptila inexpectata [54]	Nomen Nudum	Thesis name	Bourdon	Early Eocene	Early Ypresian	Morocco	A species of Odontopterygiformes Howard, 1957, Odontopterygidae Lydekker, 1891.
Pleistoanser bravardi [55]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Federico L. Agnolín	Early or Middle Pleistocene	Miramar Formation	Argentina	A Tadorninae Anatidae. This is the type species of the new genus.
Plesiocathartes major [72]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Ilka Weidig	Early Eocene	Late Wasatchian, Green River Formation	USA:  Wyoming	A Leptosomidae.
Plesiocathartes wyomingensis [72]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Ilka Weidig	Early Eocene	Late Wasatchian, Green River Formation	USA:  Wyoming	A Leptosomidae.
Porphyrio mcnabi [67]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Jeremy J. Kirchman David W. Steadman	Holocene	Huahine, Fa’ahia, Society Islands	French Polynesia	A Rallidae.
Pygoscelis calderensis [73]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche Martin Chávez Omar Fritis	Late Miocene-Middle Pliocene	Bahia Inglesa Formation	Chile	A Spheniscidae.
Pygoscelis grandis [74]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Stig A. Walsh Mario E. Suárez	?Early Pliocene	Bahia Inglesa Formation	Chile	A Spheniscidae.
Shanxiornis fenyinis [75]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Wang Shuo Zhao Sining Hu Xiaoshan Sun Qingmin	Early Pleistocene	Sanmen Formation	China	A Phasianidae, the type species of the new genus.
Tonniornis mesetaensis [76]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Claudia P. Tambussi Carolina I. Acosta Hospitaleche Marcello A. Reguero Sergio A. Marenssi	Late Eocene	La Meseta Formation	Antarctica	A Spheniscidae, the type species of the new genus.
Tonniornis minimum [76]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Claudia P. Tambussi Carolina I. Acosta Hospitaleche Marcello A. Reguero Sergio A. Marenssi	Late Eocene	La Meseta Formation	Antarctica	A Spheniscidae.
Waimanu manneringi [77]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Kerryn E. Slack Craig M. Jones Tarsuro Ando G. L. (Abby) Harrison R. Ewan Fordyce Ulfur Arnason Davis Penny	Early Paleocene	Basic Waipara Greensand	New Zealand	A stem Spheniscidae, the type species of the new genus.
Waimanu tuatahi [77]	Valid	Sp. nov.	Kerryn E. Slack Craig M. Jones Tarsuro Ando G. L. (Abby) Harrison R. Ewan Fordyce Ulfur Arnason Davis Penny	Early-Late Paleocene	Basic Waipara Greensand	New Zealand	A stem Spheniscidae.
Wieslochia weissi [78]	Valid	Gen. nov. et Sp. nov.	Gerald Mayr Albrecht Manegold	Early Oligocene, Rupelian	MP 21-25	Germany:  Baden-Württemberg	An early Passeriformes, Passeriformes Incertae Sedis, the type species of the new genus.

Newly named pterosaurs

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Cathayopterus[79]	Valid	Wang Zhou	Early Cretaceous	Yixian Formation	China	A pterodactyloid. The type species is Cathayopterus grabaui.
Caviramus[80]	Valid	Fröbisch Fröbisch	Late Triassic	Kössen Formation	Switzerland	A rhamphorhynchoid. The type specie sis Caviramus schesaplanensis.
Longchengpterus[81]	Valid	Wang Li Duan Cheng	Early Cretaceous	Jiufotang Formation	China	A pterodactyloid. The type species is Longchengpterus zhoai.
Muzquizopteryx[82]	Valid	Frey Buchy Stinnesbeck Gonzalez Stefano	Late Cretaceous	Austin Group	Mexico	The type species is Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis.
Yixianopterus[83]	Valid	Lü Ji Yuan Gao Sun Ji	Early Cretaceous	Yixian Formation	China	A pterodactyloid. The type species is Yixianopterus jingangshanensis.

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Herpetoskylax[84]	Valid	Sidor Rubidge	Late Permian		South Africa	The type species is Herpetoskylax hopsoni.
Elliotherium[85]	Valid	Sidor Hancox	Upper Triassic	Lower Elliot Formation	South Africa	The type species is Elliotherium kerstenae (emmend.).
Idelesaurus[86]	Valid	Kurkin	Upper Permian		Russia	The type species is Idelisaurus tataricus.
Langbergia[87]	Valid	Abdala Neveling Welman	Early Triassic	Burgersdorp Formation	South Africa	The type species is Langbergia modisei.
Nanogomphodon[88]	Valid	Hopson Sues	Middle Triassic	Erfurt Formation	Germany	The type species is Nanogomphodon wildi.
Oromycter[89]	Valid	Reisz	Early Permian		USA	The type species is Oromycter dolesorum.
Pachydectes[90]	Valid	Rubidge Sidor Modesto	Middle Permian	Koonap Formation	South Africa	The type species is Pachydectes elsi.
Paraburnetia[91]	Valid	Smith Rubidge Sidor	Upper Permian	Teekloof Formation	South Africa	The type species is Paraburnetia sneeubergensis.
Protheriodon[92]	Valid	Bonaparte, Soares, & Schultz	Middle Triassic	Santa Maria Formation	Brazil	Type sp P. estudianti.

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