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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.
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | valid | Puget Group | ![]() | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A alder species. | ||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | A cashew foliage form genus. | |||||
Sp nov | jr synonym | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A dicot of uncertain affinity. | ||||
Comb nov | jr synonym | Ione Formation | A dicot of uncertain affinity. | ![]() | ||||
Gen et sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A moon seed relative. | ||||
Comb nov | valid | A Camellia species. | ||||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | |||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | |||||
Sp. nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A chinquapin species. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A Cladrastis species legume. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A Dryophyllum species. | ||||
Sp. nov | jr synonym | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A platanaceous species. | ||||
Gen et 2 Sp. nov | valid | A icacinaceous genus. | ||||||
Comb nov | Jr synonym | A moon seed relative. | ||||||
Gen et sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | |||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | |||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | |||||
Sp. nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | |||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A Macclintockia species. | ||||
Sp. nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A wingnut species. | ||||
Gen et sp nov | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A possible hickory relative. | |||||
Sp nov | jr synonym | Late Eocene | Puget Group | identified as a Rhamnites buckthorn foliage. | ||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | |||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A Ternstroemites theaceous foliage. | ||||
Sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A Viburnum species. | ||||
Gen et sp nov | valid | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A walnut relative. | ||||
Gen et sp nov | Jr homonym | Late Eocene | Puget Group | A linden relative. | ||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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sp nov | Valid | Early Eocene | A Tenthredinidae sawfly | ![]() | ||||
sp nov | Valid | Rice | Early Eocene | A Tenthredinidae sawfly | ![]() | |||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
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gen nov | Valid taxon | ||||||
Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
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Aralosaurus tuberiferus [9] | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Rozhdestvensky | Santonian | Bostobe Svita | ![]() | A hadrosaur | ![]() |
Procheneosaurus convincens [9] | Sp. nov. | Valid | Rozhdestvensky | Santonian | Dabrazinskaya Svita | ![]() | A species of Procheneosaurus , later given the genus name Kazaklambia | |
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Country | Notes | Images |
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Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Miocene |
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Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle Pleistocene | An Alaudidae. | |||||
Gen et sp nov. | Valid | Howard | Late Miocene? | An Alcidae, | ||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Early Miocene | ||||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Middle Oligocene | Tatal-Gol | An Accipitridae. | ||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Late Pliocene | A Rallidae. | |||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Kurochkin | Late Eocene | Zaysan Bassin | An Anatidae. | |||
Sp. nov. | valid | Kurochkin | Middle Oligocene | Kustovskaya | Phoenicopteriformes Incertae Sedis | |||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Tchernov | Middle Pleistocene | Ubeidiya Formation | A Rallidae. | |||
Sp. nov. | Valid |
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Gen et Sp. nov. | Valid | Kurochkin | Tatal-Gol | An Accipitridae, Type sp G. edax | ||||
Sp. nov. | Invalid [17] | Middle Oligocene | Maykopian Clay | A Swan, Anatidae. | ||||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Feduccia | Late Pliocene | A Rallidae. | ||||
Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Kurochkin | Middle Oligocene-Miocene | Myn-Say Gorge | A Phalacrocoracidae, type species L. saiensis. | |||
Gen. et sp. nov. | Jr synonym | Pleistocene-modern | An Aegothelidae, type sp M. novaezealandiae, | |||||
Gen. et Sp. nov. | Valid | Kurochkin | Middle Oligocene | Kur-Say Gorge | A Rallidae. type sp. M. harundinea | |||
Sp. nov. | Valid | Tchernov | Middle Pleistocene | Ubeidiya Formation | An Alaudidae. | |||
Sp. nov. | nomen dubium | Kurochkin | Middle Oligocene | Tatal-Gol | A possible Rallidae, | |||
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. | |||
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 | |||
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 | |||||
Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Type locality | Location | Notes | Images |
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Gen et sp nov | Valid | Crompton & Jenkins | ![]() | |||||