1964 in paleontology explained

Arthropods

Newly named insects

Mollusca

Newly named bivalves

Archosauromorphs

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chilantaisaurus^[4]	Valid taxon	Hu S.		Late Cretaceous (Turonian)	Ulansuhai Formation		A member of Neovenatoridae.
Eustreptospondylus^[5]	Valid taxon	Alick Walker		Middle Jurassic (Callovian)	Oxford Clay		A megalosaurid.
Fabrosaurus^[6]	Nomen dubium.	Leonard Ginsburg		Early Jurassic (Sinemurian-Pliensbachian)	Upper Elliot Formation		A dubious ornithischian.
Metriacanthosaurus	Valid taxon	Alick Walker		Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)	Oxford Clay		A member of Metriacanthosauridae.

Newly named birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Agriocharis progenes ^[7]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brodkorb	Blancan			A Meleagridae.
Anabernicula oregonensis ^[8]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Howard	Middle Pleistocene	Fossil Lake		An Anatidae.
Asio priscus ^[9]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Howard	Late Pleistocene	Santa Rosa Island Formation		A Strigidae.
Nettion greeni ^[10]	Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Brodkorb	Early Pliocene	Ash Hollow Formation		An Anatidae, transferred to Anas greeni.
Tympanonesiotes ^[11]	Gen et Sp. nov.	jr synonym?	Hopson	Early Miocene	Hawthorne Formation	(and	A Pseudodontornithidae, type species T. wetmorei, transferred tentatively to Pelagornis wetmorei

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Other animals

Other newly named animals

References

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2. Cope . J.C.W. . 1999 . Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland . Palaeontology . 42 . 3 . 467–499 . 10.1111/1475-4983.00081. free . 1999Palgy..42..467C .
3. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
4. Hu S. 1964. Carnosaurian remains fromAlashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica8: pp. 42-63.
5. Walker, A.D. 1964. Triassic Reptiles from theElgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin ofCarnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of theRoyal Society of London, series B 248: pp. 53-135.
6. Ginsburg, L. 1964. Decouverte d'unScelidosaurian (Dinosaure ornithischien) dans leTrias superieur du Basutoland. Compte renduhebdomadaire des seances de l’Academie desSciences Paris, tomo 258: pp. 2366-2368.
7. Brodkorb . P . 1964 . Notes of Fossil Turkeys . Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences . 27 . 3 . 223–229 . 2014-12-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141216021521/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/bd/94/d5/bd94d534303228894b3753cfb9aebb5d.pdf . 2014-12-16 . dead .
8. Howard . H . 1964 . A New Species of "Pygmee Goose," Anabernicula, from the Oregon Pleistocene, with a Discussion of the genus . American Museum Novitates . 2200 . 1–14 .
9. Howard . H . 1964 . A fossil owl from Santa Rosa Island . Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences . 163 . 27–31 . 2014-12-13 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221234/http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Asio%20priscus%20(Howard)%201964..pdf . dead .
10. Brodkorb . P . 1964 . A Pliocene Teal from South Dakota . Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences . 27 . 1 . 55–58 .
11. Hopson . JA . 1964 . Pseudodontornis and Other Large Marine Birds from the Miocene of South Carolina . Postilla, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University . 83 . 1–19 . 2014-12-05 . 2014-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140304224628/http://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/scientific-publications/ypmP083_1964.pdf . dead .
12. Cooper . Kenneth W. . 1964-01-01 . The first fossil tardigrade: Beorn leggi Cooper, from Cretaceous amber . . en . 71 . 2 . 41–48 . 10.1155/1964/48418 . free . 0033-2615.
13. Mapalo . Marc A. . Wolfe . Joanna M. . Ortega-Hernández . Javier . 2024-08-06 . Cretaceous amber inclusions illuminate the evolutionary origin of tardigrades . . en . 7 . 1 . 10.1038/s42003-024-06643-2 . 2399-3642. 11303527 .