1967 in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology 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 humans have 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 1967.
Arthropoda
New taxa
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Camponotites[2] |
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Steinbach |
Piacenzian |
Willershausen clay pit |
A formicine ant, type species C. silvestris |
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Cataglyphis constrictus[3] |
Comb nov |
Jr synonym |
(Mayr, 1868) |
Middle Eocene |
Baltic amber |
Fossil formicine ant., |
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Archosauromorphs
Summarize
Perspective
Dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Casamiquela |
A primitive ornithischian |
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Birds
| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Murray |
Late Pliocene |
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Asio brevipes [7] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Ford & Murray |
Late Pliocene |
Glenns Ferry Formation |
A Strigidae. |
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|
Eogrus wetmorei [8] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Tungur Formation |
An Eogruidae |
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|
Gallinula kansarum [8] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Brodkorb |
A Rallidae. |
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Hirundo aprica [9] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pliocene |
A Hirundinidae. |
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Limosa ossivallis [8] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Brodkorb |
Early Pliocene |
Bone Valley Formation |
A Scolopacidae. |
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Ortalis affinis [10] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Feduccia & Wilson |
Early Pliocene |
A Cracidae. |
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|
Pararallus hassenkampi [11] |
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Martini |
Early/Middle Oligocene |
Described in Rallidae, |
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|
Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Murray |
Late Pliocene |
Glenns Ferry Formation |
A Podicipedidae, type species P. baryosteus |
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Pliopicus [10] |
Gen et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Feduccia & Wilson |
Early Pliocene |
Ogallala Formation |
A Picidae. Type species P. brodkorbi |
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|
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Murray |
Late Pliocene |
Glenns Ferry Formation |
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|
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Murray |
Late Pliocene |
Glenns Ferry Formation] |
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Pterosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Teriaev |
Late Jurassic (Tithonian) |
A junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus. | |||||
Synapids
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Valid |
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|
Valid |
A member of Limnoscelidae. |
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Popular culture
Literature
- Bronto the Dinosaur was published. Its storyline was similar to another 1960s work aimed at children,Pataud, le petit dinosaure. The book was marketed as "educationally sound, paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant said the book "cannot justly make that claim" on the basis of several scientific improbabilities.[12]
References
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