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[edit]

New taxa[edit]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Camponotites[2]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Steinbach

Piacenzian

Willershausen clay pit

 Germany

A formicine ant, type species C. silvestris

Camponotites silvestris

Cataglyphis constrictus[3]

Comb nov

Jr synonym

(Mayr, 1868)

Middle Eocene

Baltic amber

 Europe

Fossil formicine ant.,
moved to Cataglyphoides constrictus in 2008

Cataglyphoides constrictus

Archosauromorphs[edit]

Dinosaurs[edit]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Pisanosaurus[5]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Casamiquela

Carnian

Ischigualasto Formation

A primitive ornithischian

Pisanosaurus

Birds[edit]

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Aechmophorus elasson [6]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Murray

Late Pliocene

Glenns Ferry Formation

A Podicipedidae.

Asio brevipes [7]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Ford & Murray

Late Pliocene

Glenns Ferry Formation

A Strigidae.

Eogrus wetmorei [8]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Brodkorb

Late Miocene

Tungur Formation

An Eogruidae

Gallinula kansarum [8]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Brodkorb

Early Pliocene

Bone Valley Formation

A Rallidae.
originally Fulica americana,
redescribed 1967.

Hirundo aprica [9]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Feduccia

Late Pliocene

Rexroad Formation

A Hirundinidae.

Limosa ossivallis [8]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Brodkorb

Early Pliocene

Bone Valley Formation

A Scolopacidae.

Ortalis affinis [10]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Feduccia & Wilson

Early Pliocene

Ogallala Formation

A Cracidae.

Pararallus hassenkampi [11]

Gen. et sp. nov.

Valid

Martini

Early/Middle Oligocene

Described in Rallidae,
better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis.[citation needed]

Pliolymbus[6]

Gen. et sp. nov.

Valid

Murray

Late Pliocene

Glenns Ferry Formation

A Podicipedidae, type species P. baryosteus

Pliopicus [10]

Gen et sp. nov.

Valid

Feduccia & Wilson

Early Pliocene

Ogallala Formation

A Picidae. Type species P. brodkorbi

Podiceps discors [6]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Murray

Late Pliocene

Glenns Ferry Formation

A Podicipedidae.

Podilymbus majusculus[6]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Murray

Late Pliocene

Glenns Ferry Formation]

 USA

A Podicipedidae.

Pterosaurs[edit]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes

Pteromonodactylus

Junior synonym

Teriaev

Late Jurassic (Tithonian)

Solnhofen Limestone

 Germany

A junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus.

Synapids[edit]

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Massetognathus

Valid

Alfred Sherwood Romer

Middle Triassic

Chañares Formation

A traversodontid cynodont.

Massetognathus

Limnostygis

Valid

Carroll

Pennsylvanian

A member of Limnoscelidae.

Popular culture[edit]

Literature[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Steinbach, G. (1967). "Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozans von Willershausen/Westharz". Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover. 111: 95–102.
  3. ^ Dlussky, G. M. (2008). "Ants of the tribe Formicini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from late Eocene amber of Europe". Paleontological Journal. 42 (5): 500–513. doi:10.1134/S0031030108050055. S2CID 84151414.
  4. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. ^ Casamiquela, RM (1967). "Un nuevo Dinosaurio Ornithisquio Triasico (Pisanosaurus mertii: Ornithopoda) de la Formacion Ischigualasto, Argentina" (PDF). Ameghiniana. 4 (2): 47–60.
  6. ^ a b c d Murry, BG Jr. (1967). "Grebes from the Late Pliocene of North America" (PDF). Condor. 69 (3): 277–288. doi:10.2307/1366317. JSTOR 1366317.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ a b c Brodkorb, P (1967). "Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 3 (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes, Charadriiformes)" (PDF). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 11: 99–220.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ a b 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.