1967 in paleontology
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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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
Dinosaurs
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 |
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Birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aechmophorus elasson [6] |
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 |
Early Pliocene |
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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Pliolymbus[6] |
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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Podiceps discors [6] |
Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Murray |
Late Pliocene |
Glenns Ferry Formation |
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Podilymbus majusculus[6] |
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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Junior synonym |
Teriaev |
Late Jurassic (Tithonian) |
A junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus. | ||||
Synapids
Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid |
Alfred Sherwood Romer |
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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
- Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
- Steinbach, G. (1967). "Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozans von Willershausen/Westharz". Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover. 111: 95–102.
- Dlussky, G. M. (2008). "Ants of the tribe Formicini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from late Eocene amber of Europe". Paleontological Journal. 42: 500–513.
- Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- Casamiquela, RM (1967). "Un nuevo Dinosaurio Ornithisquio Triasico (Pisanosaurus mertii: Ornithopoda) de la Formacion Ischigualasto, Argentina" (PDF). Ameghiniana. 4 (2): 47–60.
- Murry, BG Jr. (1967). "Grebes from the Late Pliocene of North America" (PDF). Condor. 69 (3): 277–288. doi:10.2307/1366317. JSTOR 1366317.
- Ford, NL; Murry, BG Jr (1967). "Fossil Owls from the Hagerman Local Fauna (Upper Pliocene) of Idaho" (PDF). Auk. 84 (1): 115–117. doi:10.2307/4083261. JSTOR 4083261.
- Brodkorb, P (1967). "Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 3 (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes, Charadriiformes)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 11: 99–220.
- Feduccia, A (1967). "A New Swallow from the Fox Canyon Local Fauna (Upper Pliocene) of Kansas" (PDF). Condor. 69 (5): 526–527. doi:10.2307/1366152. JSTOR 1366152.
- Feduccia, A; Wilson, RL (1967). "Avian fossils from the Lower Pliocene of Kansas" (PDF). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 655: 1–6.
- Martini, E (1967). "Pararallus hassenkampi n.sp., eine Neue Rallen-Art (Aves) aus dem Oligozän von Sieblos/Rhön". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 127: 288–292.
- Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, p. 504-529.