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

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Newly named insects

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Poneropsis hypolitha[2]

Comb nov

Syn

(Cockerell)

Late Eocene

Bembridge Marls

A Dolichoderin ant
jr synonym of Emplastus hypolithus

Emplastus hypolithus

Mollusca

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Newly named bivalves

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes Images

Similodonta.[3]

Gen et sp nov

Valid

Soot-Reyn

Middle Ordovician to Middle Silurian

New genus and species with five other species moved from other genera

Archosauromorphs

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Newly named dinosaurs

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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

A member of Neovenatoridae.

Chilantaisaurus
Eustreptospondylus[6] Valid taxon

Middle Jurassic (Callovian)

Oxford Clay

A megalosaurid.

Eustreptospondylus
Fabrosaurus[7] Nomen dubium.

Early Jurassic (Sinemurian-Pliensbachian)

Upper Elliot Formation

A dubious ornithischian.

Metriacanthosaurus[6] Valid taxon

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

Oxford Clay

A member of Metriacanthosauridae.

Metriacanthosaurus

Newly named birds

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Agriocharis progenes [8]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Brodkorb

Blancan

A Meleagridae.

Anabernicula oregonensis [9]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Howard

Middle Pleistocene

Fossil Lake

An Anatidae.

Asio priscus [10]

Sp. nov.

Valid

Howard

Late Pleistocene

Santa Rosa Island Formation

A Strigidae.

Nettion greeni [11]

Sp. nov.

jr synonym

Brodkorb

Early Pliocene

Ash Hollow Formation

An Anatidae, transferred to Anas greeni.

Tympanonesiotes [12]

Gen et Sp. nov.

jr synonym?

Hopson

Early Miocene

Hawthorne Formation

A Pseudodontornithidae, type species T. wetmorei,
transferred tentatively to Pelagornis wetmorei

Pterosaurs

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New taxa

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Name Status Authors Location Notes Images

Dsungaripterus

Valid

Young

A Crested Shellfish-eating Pterosaur.
Dsungaripterus

Germanodactylus

Valid

Yang

The German Finger.
Germanodactylus

Plesiosaurs

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New taxa

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Name Status Authors Notes

Strongylokrotaphus

junior synonym

Novozhilov

junior synonym of Pliosaurus

Other animals

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Other newly named animals

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Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Beorn[13]

Gen et Sp. nov.

Valid

Cooper

Late Cretaceous (Campanian)

A tardigrade; originally placed in its own family (Beornidae), it was later reclassified as a member of the Hypsibiidae.[14]

Beorn

References

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  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.
  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. S2CID 85699800.
  3. ^ Cope, J.C.W. (1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology. 42 (3): 467–499. Bibcode:1999Palgy..42..467C. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00081.
  4. ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  5. ^ Hu S. 1964. Carnosaurian remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8: pp. 42-63.
  6. ^ 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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  10. ^ Howard, H (1964). "A fossil owl from Santa Rosa Island" (PDF). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. 163: 27–31. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2014-12-13.
  11. ^ Brodkorb, P (1964). "A Pliocene Teal from South Dakota". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences. 27 (1): 55–58.
  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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2014-12-05.
  13. ^ Cooper, Kenneth W. (1964-01-01). "The first fossil tardigrade: Beorn leggi Cooper, from Cretaceous amber". Psyche: A Journal of Entomology. 71 (2): 41–48. doi:10.1155/1964/48418. ISSN 0033-2615.
  14. ^ Mapalo, Marc A.; Wolfe, Joanna M.; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (2024-08-06). "Cretaceous amber inclusions illuminate the evolutionary origin of tardigrades". Communications Biology. 7 (1). doi:10.1038/s42003-024-06643-2. ISSN 2399-3642. PMC 11303527.