1964 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology (from Greek: paleo, "ancient"; ontos, "being"; and logos, "knowledge") 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	England	A Dolichoderin ant jr synonym of Emplastus hypolithus	Emplastus hypolithus

Mollusca

Newly named bivalves

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.	Eustreptospondylus
Eustreptospondylus[6]	Valid taxon	Alick Walker		Middle Jurassic (Callovian)	Oxford Clay	England	A megalosaurid.
Fabrosaurus[7]	Nomen dubium.	Leonard Ginsburg		Early Jurassic (Sinemurian-Pliensbachian)	Upper Elliot Formation	Lesotho	A dubious ornithischian.
Metriacanthosaurus[6]	Valid taxon	Alick Walker		Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)	Oxford Clay	England	A member of Metriacanthosauridae.

Newly named birds

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Pterosaurs

New taxa

References

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". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 104 (3-4): 335–446. doi:10.1017/S1755691014000103. 
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. 
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.
6. 1 2 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. 
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. 
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.