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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 1868.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | Jr synonym | Schlüter | Moved to the genus Protastacus in 1983. | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | An erymid. | |||||
Gen et sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | A decapod, type species is E. nanodactylus. | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | A lobster | |||||
Sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | ||||||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Schlüter | Late Cretaceous (Upper Santonian) | Moved to Bournelyreidus in 2012. | ||||
Sp nov | Valid | Schlüter | ||||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aphaenogaster berendti [3] | Sp nov | jr synonym | ![]() | |||||
Sp nov | valid | A myrmicine ant. | ![]() | |||||
Camponotus constrictus [3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil formicine ant., | ![]() | |
Camponotus mengei [3] | Sp nov | valid | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil formicine ant. | ![]() | |
Enneamerus [3] | Gen et 2 sp nov | valid | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | A myrmecine ant. 2 species | ![]() | |
Formica flori [3] | Sp nov | valid | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil formicine ant | ![]() | |
Hypoclinea balticus [3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus balticus in 1893 | ![]() | |
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, jr synonym of Yantaromyrmex constricta | ![]() | ||
Hypoclinea cornuta [3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus cornutus in 1893 | ![]() | |
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | ![]() | ||
Hypoclinea goepperti [3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, | ![]() | |
Hypoclinea longipennis [3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus longipennis in 1893 | ![]() | |
Hypoclinea sculpturata [3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus sculpturata in 1893 | ![]() | |
Hypoclinea tertiaria [3] | Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Dolichoderine ant, moved to Dolichoderus tertiaria in 1893 | ![]() | |
sp nov | jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil Agroecomyrmecine ant, moved to Agroecomyrmex duisburgi in 1910 | ![]() | ||
Pheidologeton antiquus [3] | sp nov | jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic amber | Fossil myrmicine ant, | ![]() | |
Sp nov | jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | Baltic Amber | A ponerine ant, moved to Pachycondyla succinea in 1995 | ![]() | ||
Sp nov | Jr synonym | Mayr | Middle Eocene | European amber | Fossil formicine ant, jr synonym of Nylanderia pygmaea | ![]() | ||
Stigmomyrmex [3] | Gen et sp nov | valid | Mayr | Middle Eocene | European amber | A myrmicin ant. | ![]() | |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | ( | Possible subjective synonym of Albertosaurus or Deinodon . | ![]() | |||||
Gen nov | Leidy |
| Possible subjective synonym of Dryptosaurus . | |||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Discovery year | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Valid | Huxley | |||||||