1867 in paleontology

List of years in paleontology
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Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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 1867.

Arthropods

Insects

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Hypoclinea haueri[2]

Sp nov

Synonym

Mayr

Burdigalian

Radoboj

A dolichoderine ant.
synonym of Emplastus haueri

Liometopum antiquum[2]

Sp nov

Synonym

Mayr

Burdigalian

Radoboj

A dolichoderine ant.
synonym of Emplastus antiquus

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Acanthopholis

Nomen dubium

Thomas Henry Huxley

Orosaurus

Jr. synonym

Thomas Henry Huxley

Junior subjective synonym of Euskelosaurus.

Paleontologists

References

  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. 1 2 Dlussky, G.M.; Putyatina, T.S. (2014). "Early Miocene ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Radoboj, Croatia". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 272 (3): 237–285. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2014/0409.
  3. ↑ Farlow, James O.; M. K. Brett-Surmann (1999). The Complete Dinosaur. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 10. ISBN 0-253-21313-4.
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