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.
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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., |
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Casamiquela |
A primitive ornithischian |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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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] |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
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Teriaev |
Late Jurassic (Tithonian) |
A junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus. |
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
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Valid |
A member of Limnoscelidae. |