1967 in paleontology

none 1967 paleontology science 1967 Arthropoda New taxa Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesCamponotitesSteinbach G. 1967 Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozans von Willershausen/Westharz Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover 111 95–102Gen et sp novValid Steinbach Piacenzian Willershausen clay pitGermanyA formicine ant, type species C. silvestris thumb|center|upright|Camponotites silvestrisCataglyphis constrictusDlussky G. M. 2008 Ants of the tribe Formicini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from late Eocene amber of Europe Paleontological Journal 42 5 500–513 10.1134/S0031030108050055 2008PalJ...42..500D 84151414 Comb novJr synonym (Mayr, 1868)Middle EoceneBaltic amberEuropeFossil formicine ant., moved to Cataglyphoides constrictus in 2008 thumb|center|upright|Cataglyphoides constrictus Archosauromorphs Dinosaurs Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html dead Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPisanosaurusCasamiquela RM 1967 Un nuevo Dinosaurio Ornithisquio Triasico (Pisanosaurus mertii: Ornithopoda) de la Formacion Ischigualasto, Argentina Ameghiniana 4 2 47–60 http://paleoglot.org/files/Casamiquela_67.pdfGen et sp novValid CasamiquelaCarnianIschigualasto Formation ArgentinaA primitive ornithischianthumb|Pisanosaurus Birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAechmophorus elasson Murry BG Jr. 1967 Grebes from the Late Pliocene of North America Condor 69 3 277–288 10.2307/1366317 https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v069n03/p0277-p0288.pdf 1366317 Sp. nov.Valid MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation USA (California)A Podicipedidae.Asio brevipes Ford NL Murry BG Jr 1967 Fossil Owls from the Hagerman Local Fauna (Upper Pliocene) of Idaho Auk 84 1 115–117 10.2307/4083261 https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v084n01/p0115-p0117.pdf 4083261 Sp. nov.Valid Ford & MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation USAA Strigidae.Eogrus wetmorei Brodkorb P 1967 Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 3 (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes, Charadriiformes) Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 11 99–220 http://ufdcimages.uflib.ufl.edu/UF/00/00/15/35/00001/UF00001535_00001pdf.pdf Sp. nov.Valid BrodkorbLate MioceneTungur Formation MongoliaAn Eogruidae Gallinula kansarum Sp. nov.Valid BrodkorbEarly PlioceneBone Valley Formation USAA Rallidae. originally Fulica americana, redescribed 1967.Hirundo aprica Feduccia A 1967 A New Swallow from the Fox Canyon Local Fauna (Upper Pliocene) of Kansas Condor 69 5 526–527 10.2307/1366152 https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/condor/v069n05/p0526-p0527.pdf 1366152 Sp. nov.Valid FeducciaLate PlioceneRexroad Formation USAA Hirundinidae.Limosa ossivallis Sp. nov.Valid BrodkorbEarly PlioceneBone Valley Formation USAA Scolopacidae.Ortalis affinis Feduccia A Wilson RL 1967 Avian fossils from the Lower Pliocene of Kansas Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 655 1–6 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/57091/OP655.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Sp. nov.Valid Feduccia & WilsonEarly PlioceneOgallala Formation USAA Cracidae.Pararallus hassenkampi 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 Gen. et sp. nov.Valid MartiniEarly/Middle Oligocene GermanyDescribed in Rallidae, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis.April 2015Pliolymbus Gen. et sp. nov.Valid MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation USAA Podicipedidae, type species P. baryosteusPliopicus Gen et sp. nov.Valid Feduccia & WilsonEarly PlioceneOgallala Formation USA (Kansas)A Picidae. Type species P. brodkorbiPodiceps discors Sp. nov.Valid MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation USA (California)A Podicipedidae.Podilymbus majusculus Sp. nov.Valid MurrayLate PlioceneGlenns Ferry Formation]USAA Podicipedidae. Pterosaurs Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Pteromonodactylus Junior synonym Teriaev Late Jurassic (Tithonian)Solnhofen LimestoneGermanyA junior synonym of Rhamphorhynchus. Synapids Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesMassetognathusValidAlfred Sherwood RomerMiddle TriassicChañares Formation ArgentinaA traversodontid cynodont.thumb|MassetognathusLimnostygisValidCarrollPennsylvanian 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. References 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. Paleontology 7