1967 in paleontology explained

Arthropoda

New taxa

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Camponotites^[1]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Steinbach	Piacenzian	Willershausen clay pit		A formicine ant, type species C. silvestris
Cataglyphis constrictus^[2]	Comb nov	Jr synonym	(Mayr, 1868)	Middle Eocene	Baltic amber		Fossil formicine ant., moved to Cataglyphoides constrictus in 2008

Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Aechmophorus elasson ^[5]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation		A Podicipedidae.
Asio brevipes ^[6]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Ford & Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation		A Strigidae.
Eogrus wetmorei ^[7]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brodkorb	Late Miocene	Tungur Formation
Gallinula kansarum	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brodkorb	Early Pliocene	Bone Valley Formation		A Rallidae. originally Fulica americana, redescribed 1967.
Hirundo aprica ^[8]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Feduccia	Late Pliocene	Rexroad Formation		A Hirundinidae.
Limosa ossivallis	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brodkorb	Early Pliocene	Bone Valley Formation		A Scolopacidae.
Ortalis affinis ^[9]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Feduccia & Wilson	Early Pliocene	Ogallala Formation		A Cracidae.
Pararallus hassenkampi ^[10]	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Martini	Early/Middle Oligocene			Described in Rallidae, better treated as Aves Incertae Sedis.
Pliolymbus	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation		A Podicipedidae, type species P. baryosteus
Pliopicus	Gen et sp. nov.	Valid	Feduccia & Wilson	Early Pliocene	Ogallala Formation		A Picidae. Type species P. brodkorbi
Podiceps discors	Sp. nov.	Valid	Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation		A Podicipedidae.
Podilymbus majusculus	Sp. nov.	Valid	Murray	Late Pliocene	Glenns Ferry Formation]		A Podicipedidae.

Pterosaurs

Synapids

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Massetognathus	Valid	Alfred Sherwood Romer	Middle Triassic	Chañares Formation		A traversodontid cynodont.
Limnostygis	Valid	Carroll	Pennsylvanian			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.

Notes and References

1. Steinbach . G. . 1967 . Zur Hymenopterenfauna des Pliozans von Willershausen/Westharz . Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover . 111 . 95–102.
2. Dlussky . 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 . 84151414 .
3. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
4. Casamiquela . RM . 1967 . Un nuevo Dinosaurio Ornithisquio Triasico (Pisanosaurus mertii: Ornithopoda) de la Formacion Ischigualasto, Argentina . Ameghiniana . 4 . 2 . 47–60 .
5. Murry . BG Jr. . 1967 . Grebes from the Late Pliocene of North America . Condor . 69 . 3. 277–288 . 10.2307/1366317 . 1366317 .
6. 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 . 4083261 .
7. Brodkorb . P . 1967 . Catalogue of Fossil Birds. Part 3 (Ralliformes, Ichthyornithiformes, Charadriiformes) . Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences . 11 . 99–220 .
8. Feduccia . A . 1967 . A New Swallow from the Fox Canyon Local Fauna (Upper Pliocene) of Kansas . Condor . 69 . 5. 526–527 . 10.2307/1366152 . 1366152 .
9. 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 .
10. 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 .