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none 1964 paleontology science 1964 Arthropods Newly named insects Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesPoneropsis hypolithaAntropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, KolyadaVA, Kozlov MA, PerfilievaKS, Rasnitsyn AP 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 2014 10.1017/S1755691014000103 85699800 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80030/1/2014_Archaeagaon%5B1%5D.pdf Comb novSyn(Cockerell)Late EoceneBembridge Marls UKA Dolichoderin antjr synonym of Emplastus hypolithusthumb|center|150px|Emplastus hypolithus Mollusca Newly named bivalves Name Novelty Status Authors Age Location Notes ImagesSimilodonta.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 Gen et sp novValid Soot-ReynMiddle Ordovician to Middle SilurianNew genus and species with five other species moved from other genera Archosauromorphs Dinosaurs Taxon Novelty Status Author(s) Age Unit Location Notes Images Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensisHu S. 1964. Carnosaurian remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8: pp. 42-63. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Hu Turonian Ulansuhai Formation China A member of Neovenatoridae 200px Eustreptospondylus oxoniensisWalker, 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. 53-35. Gen. et sp. nov. Valid Walker Callovian Oxford Clay Formation England A megalosaurid 200px Eustreptospondylus divesensis Sp. nov. Valid Walker Callovian Marnes de Dives France Later given the genus Piveteausaurus Fabrosaurus australisGinsburg, L. 1964. Découverte d'un Scelidosaurian (Dinosaure ornithischien) dans le Trias supérieur du Basutoland. Compte rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, tome 258: pp. 2366-2368. Gen. et sp. nov. Nomen dubium. Ginsburg Sinemurian Upper Elliot Formation Lesotho An early ornithischian Lambeosaurus paucidensOstrom J.H. John Ostrom 1964 The systematic position of Hadrosaurus (Ceratops) paucidens Marsh Journal of Paleontology 38 1 130–134 1301503 Comb. nov. Nomen dubium Ostrom Campanian Judith River Formation Montana A new combination for Hadrosaurus paucidens, which may be a ceratopsian Metriacanthosaurus Gen. nov. Valid Walker Oxfordian Oxford Clay Formation England A new species for Megalosaurus parkeri 200px Newly named birds Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesAgriocharis progenes Brodkorb P 1964 Notes of Fossil Turkeys Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 27 3 223–229 http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/bd/94/d5/bd94d534303228894b3753cfb9aebb5d.pdf 2014-12-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20141216021521/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/bd/94/d5/bd94d534303228894b3753cfb9aebb5d.pdf 2014-12-16 dead Sp. nov.Valid BrodkorbBlancan USAA Meleagridae.Anabernicula oregonensis 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 http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/3311//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2200.pdf?sequence=1 Sp. nov.Valid HowardMiddle PleistoceneFossil Lake USA (Oregon)An Anatidae.Asio priscus Howard H 1964 A fossil owl from Santa Rosa Island Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 163 27–31 http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Asio%20priscus%20(Howard)%201964..pdf 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 Sp. nov.Valid HowardLate PleistoceneSanta Rosa Island Formation USA (California)A Strigidae.Nettion greeni Brodkorb P 1964 A Pliocene Teal from South Dakota Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 27 1 55–58 https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41496068#page/67/mode/1up Sp. nov.jr synonym BrodkorbEarly PlioceneAsh Hollow Formation USA (Nebraska)An Anatidae, transferred to Anas greeni.Tympanonesiotes 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 http://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/scientific-publications/ypmP083_1964.pdf 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 Gen et Sp. nov.jr synonym? HopsonEarly MioceneHawthorne Formation USA (Florida and Georgia (U.S. state)A Pseudodontornithidae, type species T. wetmorei, transferred tentatively to Pelagornis wetmorei Pterosaurs New taxa Name Status AuthorsLocation NotesImages Dsungaripterus Valid Young China Mongolia KoreaA Crested Shellfish-eating Pterosaur.200px Germanodactylus Valid Yang Germany UKThe German Finger.200px Plesiosaurs New taxa Name Status Authors Notes Strongylokrotaphus junior synonym Novozhilov junior synonym of Pliosaurus Other animals Other newly named animals Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes ImagesBeornCooper Kenneth W. 1964-01-01 The first fossil tardigrade: Beorn leggi Cooper, from Cretaceous amber https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27372493 Psyche: A Journal of Entomology en 71 2 41–48 10.1155/1964/48418 free 0033-2615Gen et Sp. nov.ValidCooperLate Cretaceous (Campanian) CanadaA tardigrade; originally placed in its own family (Beornidae), it was later reclassified as a member of the Hypsibiidae.Mapalo Marc A. Wolfe Joanna M. Ortega-Hernández Javier 2024-08-06 Cretaceous amber inclusions illuminate the evolutionary origin of tardigrades Communications Biology en 7 1 953 10.1038/s42003-024-06643-2 free 39107512 2399-3642 11303527 thumb|center|150px|Beorn References Paleontology Paleontology