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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 1968.
Flora
Ferns and fern allies
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Puget Group |
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Angiosperms
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A alder species. |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
A cashew foliage form genus. |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A dicot of uncertain affinity. |
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Comb nov |
jr synonym |
Ione Formation |
A dicot of uncertain affinity. |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A moon seed relative. |
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Comb nov |
valid |
A Camellia species. |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A chinquapin species. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A Cladrastis species legume. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A Dryophyllum species. |
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Sp. nov |
jr synonym |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A platanaceous species. |
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Gen et 2 Sp. nov |
valid |
A icacinaceous genus. |
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Comb nov |
Jr synonym |
A moon seed relative. |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A Macclintockia species. |
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Sp. nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A wingnut species. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A possible hickory relative. |
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Sp nov |
jr synonym |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
identified as a Rhamnites buckthorn foliage. |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A Ternstroemites theaceous foliage. |
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Sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A Viburnum species. |
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Gen et sp nov |
valid |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A walnut relative. |
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Gen et sp nov |
Jr homonym |
Late Eocene |
Puget Group |
A linden relative. |
Arthropods
Insects
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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sp nov |
Valid |
Early Eocene |
A Tenthredinidae sawfly |
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sp nov |
Valid |
Rice |
Early Eocene |
A Tenthredinidae sawfly |
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Conodonts
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen nov |
Valid taxon |
Archosauriformes
Non-avian dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[9]
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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gen et sp nov |
Valid taxon |
An aralosaurin hadrosaur. |
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Birds
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Miocene |
An Alcidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle Pleistocene |
An Alaudidae. |
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Gen et sp nov. |
Valid |
Howard |
Late Miocene? |
An Alcidae, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Early Miocene |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle Oligocene |
Tatal-Gol |
An Accipitridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Late Pliocene |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Kurochkin |
Late Eocene |
Zaysan Bassin |
An Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
valid |
Kurochkin |
Middle Oligocene |
Kustovskaya |
Phoenicopteriformes Incertae Sedis |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Tchernov |
Middle Pleistocene |
Ubeidiya Formation |
A Rallidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
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Gen et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Kurochkin |
Tatal-Gol |
An Accipitridae, Type sp G. edax |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Middle Oligocene |
Maykopian Clay |
A Swan, Anatidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Feduccia |
Late Pliocene |
A Rallidae. |
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Kurochkin |
Middle Oligocene-Miocene |
Myn-Say Gorge |
A Phalacrocoracidae, type species L. saiensis. |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Jr synonym |
Pleistocene-modern |
An Aegothelidae, type sp M. novaezealandiae, |
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Gen. et Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Kurochkin |
Middle Oligocene |
Kur-Say Gorge |
A Rallidae. type sp. M. harundinea |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Tchernov |
Middle Pleistocene |
Ubeidiya Formation |
An Alaudidae. |
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Sp. nov. |
nomen dubium |
Kurochkin |
Middle Oligocene |
Tatal-Gol |
A possible Rallidae, |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cracraft |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Cracraft |
Late Oligocene |
Brule Formation |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Tchernov |
Middle Pleistocene |
Ubeidiya Formation |
A Passeridae. |
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Sp. nov. |
Valid |
Howard |
Late Miocene |
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Gen. et sp. nov. |
Valid |
Kurochkin |
Middle Oligocene |
Tatal-Gol |
An Accipitridae, jr syn of Venerator dementievi |
Sauropterygians
Plesiosaurs
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
jr synonym |
Thurmond |
junior synonym of Trinacromerum |
Synapsids
Mammaliformes
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov |
Valid |
Crompton & Jenkins |
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- ^ a b Rice, H.M.A. (1968). "Two Tertiary sawflies, (Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae), from British Columbia". Geological Survey of Canada. 67 (59): 1–21.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
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- ^ a b c d Tchernov, E (1968). "A Preliminary Investigation of the Birds on the Pleistocene Deposits of Ubeidia". Publications of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities. 1968: 1–44.
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