1964 in paleontology

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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 1964.

Arthropods[]

Newly named insects[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Poneropsis hypolitha^[2]	Comb nov	Syn	(Cockerell)	Late Eocene	Bembridge Marls	UK	A Dolichoderin ant jr synonym of Emplastus hypolithus	Emplastus hypolithus

Mollusca[]

Newly named bivalves[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images
Similodonta.^[3]	Gen et sp nov	Valid	Soot-Reyn	Middle Ordovician to Middle Silurian	Canada ( Quebec) China Estonia Norway Spain Sweden UK USA ( Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin)	New genus and species with five other species moved from other genera

Archosauromorphs[]

Newly named dinosaurs[]

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chilantaisaurus^[5]	Valid taxon	Hu S.	Late Cretaceous (Turonian)	Ulansuhai Formation	China	A member of Neovenatoridae.	Chilantaisaurus
Eustreptospondylus^[6]	Valid taxon	Alick Walker	Middle Jurassic (Callovian)	Oxford Clay	UK	A megalosaurid.	Eustreptospondylus
Fabrosaurus^[7]	Nomen dubium.		Early Jurassic (Sinemurian-Pliensbachian)	Upper Elliot Formation	Lesotho	A dubious ornithischian.
Metriacanthosaurus^[6]	Valid taxon	Alick Walker	Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)	Oxford Clay	UK	A member of Metriacanthosauridae.	Metriacanthosaurus

Newly named birds[]

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes
^[8]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Brodkorb	Blancan		USA	A .
^[9]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Howard	Middle Pleistocene	Fossil Lake	USA ( Oregon)	An Anatidae.
^[10]	Sp. nov.	Valid	Howard	Late Pleistocene	Santa Rosa Island Formation	USA ( California)	A Strigidae.
^[11]	Sp. nov.	jr synonym	Brodkorb	Early Pliocene	Ash Hollow Formation	USA ( Nebraska)	An Anatidae, transferred to .
Tympanonesiotes ^[12]	Gen et Sp. nov.	jr synonym?	Hopson	Early Miocene		USA ( Florida and Georgia (U.S. state)	A , type species T. wetmorei, transferred tentatively to Pelagornis wetmorei

Pterosaurs[]

New taxa[]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Dsungaripterus	Valid	Young		China Mongolia Korea	A Crested Shellfish-eating Pterosaur.	Dsungaripterus
Germanodactylus	Valid	Yang		Germany UK	The German Finger.	Germanodactylus

Plesiosaurs[]

New taxa[]

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Strongylokrotaphus	junior synonym	Novozhilov		junior synonym of Pliosaurus

References[]

^ Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.
^ Antropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, KolyadaVA, Kozlov MA, PerfilievaKS, Rasnitsyn AP (2014). "The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK" (PDF). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (3–4): 335–446. doi:10.1017/S1755691014000103.
^ Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Hu S. 1964. Carnosaurian remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8: pp. 42-63.
^ ^a ^b Walker, A.D. 1964. Triassic Reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of Carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B 248: pp. 53- 135.
^ Ginsburg, L. 1964. Decouverte d'un Scelidosaurian (Dinosaure ornithischien) dans le Trias superieur du Basutoland. Compte rendu hebdomadaire des seances de l’Academie des Sciences Paris, tomo 258: pp. 2366-2368.
^ Brodkorb, P (1964). "Notes of Fossil Turkeys" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 27 (3): 223–229. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
^ Howard, H (1964). "A New Species of "Pygmee Goose," Anabernicula, from the Oregon Pleistocene, with a Discussion of the genus" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2200: 1–14.
^ Howard, H (1964). "A fossil owl from Santa Rosa Island" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 163: 27–31.
^ Brodkorb, P (1964). "A Pliocene Teal from South Dakota". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 27 (1): 55–58.
^ Hopson, JA (1964). "Pseudodontornis and Other Large Marine Birds from the Miocene of South Carolina" (PDF). Postilla, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. 83: 1–19.

[1] Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 9780070887398. OCLC 46769716.

[Antropov2014-2] Antropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, KolyadaVA, Kozlov MA, PerfilievaKS, Rasnitsyn AP (2014). "The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK" (PDF). Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (3–4): 335–446. doi:10.1017/S1755691014000103.

[Cope1999-3] Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.

[ddinogeorge-4] Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.

[5] Hu S. 1964. Carnosaurian remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8: pp. 42-63.

[walker64elgin-6] Walker, A.D. 1964. Triassic Reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the origin of Carnosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B 248: pp. 53- 135.

[7] Ginsburg, L. 1964. Decouverte d'un Scelidosaurian (Dinosaure ornithischien) dans le Trias superieur du Basutoland. Compte rendu hebdomadaire des seances de l’Academie des Sciences Paris, tomo 258: pp. 2366-2368.

[Agriocharis-8] Brodkorb, P (1964). "Notes of Fossil Turkeys" (PDF). Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 27 (3): 223–229. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-16. Retrieved 2014-12-13.

[Anabernicula-9] Howard, H (1964). "A New Species of "Pygmee Goose," Anabernicula, from the Oregon Pleistocene, with a Discussion of the genus" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 2200: 1–14.

[Asio-10] Howard, H (1964). "A fossil owl from Santa Rosa Island" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 163: 27–31.

[Nettion-11] Brodkorb, P (1964). "A Pliocene Teal from South Dakota". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 27 (1): 55–58.

[Tympanonesiotes-12] Hopson, JA (1964). "Pseudodontornis and Other Large Marine Birds from the Miocene of South Carolina" (PDF). Postilla, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. 83: 1–19.

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