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.

Arthropoda

New taxa

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

Dinosaurs

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	Argentina	A primitive ornithischian	Pisanosaurus

Birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aechmophorus elasson [6]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation	USA ( California)	A Podicipedidae.
Asio brevipes [7]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Ford & Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation	USA	A Strigidae.
Eogrus wetmorei [8]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brodkorb	Late Miocene	Tungur Formation	Mongolia	An Eogruidae
Gallinula kansarum [8]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brodkorb	Early Pliocene	Bone Valley Formation	USA	A Rallidae. originally Fulica americana, redescribed 1967.
Hirundo aprica [9]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Feduccia	Late Pliocene	Rexroad Formation	USA	A Hirundinidae.
Limosa ossivallis [8]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brodkorb	Early Pliocene	Bone Valley Formation	USA	A Scolopacidae.
Ortalis affinis [10]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Feduccia & Wilson	Early Pliocene	Ogallala Formation	USA	A Cracidae.
Pararallus hassenkampi [11]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Martini	Early/Middle Oligocene		Germany	Described in Rallidae, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis.[citation needed]
Pliolymbus[6]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation	USA	A Podicipedidae, type species P. baryosteus
Pliopicus [10]	Gen et sp. nov.	Valid	Feduccia & Wilson	Early Pliocene	Ogallala Formation	USA ( Kansas)	A Picidae. Type species P. brodkorbi
Podiceps discors [6]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation	USA ( California)	A Podicipedidae.
Podilymbus majusculus[6]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation]	USA	A Podicipedidae.

Pterosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Pteromonodactylus	Junior synonym	Teriaev		Late Jurassic (Tithonian)	Solnhofen Limestone	Germany	A junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus.

Synapids

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Massetognathus	Valid	Alfred Sherwood Romer	Middle Triassic	Chañares Formation	Argentina	A traversodontid cynodont.	Massetognathus
Limnostygis	Valid	Carroll	Pennsylvanian		Canada ( Nova Scotia)	A member of Limnoscelidae.

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]