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["Gary Rosenberg" <rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm an adviser to the Oxford English Dictionary, and have forwarded the message to the appropriate editor. I'd guess they'd standardize it to palaeoology if the word and its cognates continue to be used. The first occurrence may be

Estudios Geologicos 60, no.3-6 (2004) p. 179: "Most sites contain bony remains, but there are also paleoichnological and paleoological sites, with dinosaur and other reptilian tracks and eggshells."

Gary Rosenberg

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palaeooobiology

I like this word.    You should nominate it for the Oxford English 
Dictionary.   But you spelled it with only 2 "o" earlier in the 
email.   Which is correct.   I hope it's the 3 "o" version, although 
a purist would insist on a hyphen, I'd guess, between no. 1 and no. 2.