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{{Year in paleontology header|1964}}

==Arthropods==
===Newly named insects===
{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''[[Emplastus|Poneropsis hypolitha]]''<ref name="Antropov2014">{{cite journal |vauthors=Antropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, KolyadaVA, Kozlov MA, PerfilievaKS, Rasnitsyn AP |title=The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |volume=104 |issue=3–4 |pages=335–446 |date=2014 |doi=10.1017/S1755691014000103| s2cid=85699800 |url=http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80030/1/2014_Archaeagaon%5B1%5D.pdf }}</ref>
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Comb nov
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Syn
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([[Theodore Cockerell|Cockerell]])
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Late Eocene
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[[Bembridge Marls]]
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* {{Flag|UK}}
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A [[Dolichoderinae|Dolichoderin]] ant<br/>jr synonym of ''[[Emplastus|Emplastus hypolithus]]''
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[[File:Emplastus hypolithus BMNHP24988 wing.jpg|thumb|center|150px|''[[Emplastus hypolithus]]'']]
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==Mollusca==
===Newly named bivalves===
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''[[Similodonta]]''.<ref name="Cope1999">{{cite journal |last1=Cope |first1=J.C.W. |year=1999 |title=Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland |journal=Palaeontology |volume=42 |issue=3 |pages=467–499 |doi=10.1111/1475-4983.00081|doi-access=free |bibcode=1999Palgy..42..467C }}</ref>
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Gen et sp nov
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Valid
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Soot-Reyn
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[[Middle Ordovician]] to [[Silurian|Middle Silurian]]
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* {{Flag|Canada}} ({{Flag|Quebec}})
* {{Flag|China}}
* {{Flag|Estonia}}
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* {{Flag|Spain}}
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* {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|Illinois}}, {{Flag|Iowa}}, {{Flag|Kentucky}}, {{Flag|Minnesota}}, {{Flag|Ohio}} and  {{Flag|Wisconsin}})
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New genus and species with five other species moved from other genera
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==Archosauromorphs==

===Newly named dinosaurs===
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.<ref name="ddinogeorge">{{cite web | last = Olshevsky | first = George | title = Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List | url = http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | access-date = 2008-08-07 | archive-date = 2011-07-15 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" align="center" width="100%"
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! Name
! Status
! colspan="2" | Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! class="unsortable" | Notes
!Images
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| ''[[Chilantaisaurus]]''<ref>Hu S. 1964. Carnosaurian remains from
Alashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica
8: pp. 42-63.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
*Hu S.
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"|
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Late Cretaceous ([[Turonian]])
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[[Ulansuhai Formation]]
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* {{Flag|China}}
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A member of [[Neovenatoridae]].
|[[File:Chilantaisaurus.jpg|thumb|''[[Chilantaisaurus]]'']]
|-
| ''[[Eustreptospondylus]]''<ref name="walker64elgin">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.</ref>
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
* [[Alick Walker]]
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"|
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Middle Jurassic ([[Callovian]])
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[[Oxford Clay]]
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* {{Flag|UK}}
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A [[megalosaurid]].
|[[Image:Eustrept1DB1.jpg|thumb|center|200px|''[[Eustreptospondylus]]'']]
|-
| ''[[Fabrosaurus]]''<ref>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.</ref>
| ''[[Nomen dubium]]''.
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
* [[Leonard Ginsburg]]
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"|
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Early Jurassic ([[Sinemurian]]-[[Pliensbachian]])
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[[Upper Elliot Formation]]
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* {{Flag|Lesotho}}
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A dubious [[ornithischian]].
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|-
| ''[[Metriacanthosaurus]]''<ref name="walker64elgin" />
| Valid taxon
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
* [[Alick Walker]]
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"|
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Late Jurassic ([[Oxfordian (stage)|Oxfordian]])
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[[Oxford Clay]]
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* {{Flag|UK}}
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A member of [[Metriacanthosauridae]].
|[[File:Metriacanthosaurus.jpg|thumb|''[[Metriacanthosaurus]]'']]
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|}

===Newly named birds===
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! Name
! Novelty
! Status
! Authors
! Age
! Unit
! Location
! Notes
! Images
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''[[Agriocharis progenes]]'' <ref name=Agriocharis>{{Cite journal |last1=Brodkorb |first1=P |year=1964 |title=Notes of Fossil Turkeys |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=223–229 |url=http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/bd/94/d5/bd94d534303228894b3753cfb9aebb5d.pdf |access-date=2014-12-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216021521/http://biostor.org/cache/pdf/bd/94/d5/bd94d534303228894b3753cfb9aebb5d.pdf |archive-date=2014-12-16 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| 
Sp. nov.
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Valid
| 
[[Pierce Brodkorb|Brodkorb]]
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[[Blancan]]
| 
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* {{Flag|USA}}
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A [[Meleagridae]].
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|-
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''[[Anabernicula oregonensis]]'' <ref name=Anabernicula>{{Cite journal |last1=Howard |first1=H |year=1964 |title=A New Species of "Pygmee Goose," Anabernicula, from the Oregon Pleistocene, with a Discussion of the genus |journal=American Museum Novitates |issue=2200 |pages=1–14 |url=http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/handle/2246/3311//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/nov/N2200.pdf?sequence=1 }}</ref>
| 
Sp. nov.
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Valid
| 
[[Hildegarde Howard|Howard]]
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[[Middle Pleistocene]]
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[[Fossil Lake (Oregon)|Fossil Lake]]
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* {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|Oregon}})
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An [[Anatidae]].
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|-
|
''[[Asio priscus]]'' <ref name=Asio>{{Cite journal |last1=Howard |first1=H |year=1964 |title=A fossil owl from Santa Rosa Island |journal=Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences |volume=163 |pages=27–31 |url=http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Asio%20priscus%20(Howard)%201964..pdf |access-date=2014-12-13 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221234/http://www2.nrm.se/ve/birds/sape/GlobalOwlProject/Fossil_owls/Asio%20priscus%20(Howard)%201964..pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| 
Sp. nov.
|
Valid
| 
Howard
|
Late Pleistocene
|
[[Santa Rosa Island Formation]]
|
* {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|California}})
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A [[Strigidae]].
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|-
|
''[[Nettion greeni]]'' <ref name=Nettion>{{Cite journal |last1=Brodkorb |first1=P |year=1964 |title=A Pliocene Teal from South Dakota  |journal=Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=55–58 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41496068#page/67/mode/1up }}</ref>
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Sp. nov.
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jr synonym
| 
Brodkorb
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[[Early Pliocene]]
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[[Ash Hollow Formation]]
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* {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|Nebraska}})
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An [[Anatidae]], transferred to ''[[Anas greeni]]''.
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|-
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''[[Tympanonesiotes]]'' <ref name="Tympanonesiotes">{{cite journal |last1=Hopson |first1=JA |year=1964 |title=''Pseudodontornis'' and Other Large Marine Birds from the Miocene of South Carolina |journal=Postilla, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University |volume=83 |pages=1–19 |url=http://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/scientific-publications/ypmP083_1964.pdf |access-date=2014-12-05 |archive-date=2014-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304224628/http://peabody.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/scientific-publications/ypmP083_1964.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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Gen et Sp. nov.
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jr synonym?
| 
[[James A. Hopson|Hopson]]
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[[Early Miocene]]
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[[Hawthorne Formation]]
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* {{Flag|USA}} ({{Flag|Florida}} and {{Flag|Georgia (U.S. state)}}
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A [[Pseudodontornithidae]], type species ''T. wetmorei'',<br> transferred tentatively to ''[[Pelagornis|Pelagornis wetmorei]]''
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|-
|}

===Pterosaurs===

====New taxa====
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''[[Dsungaripterus]]''
| 
Valid
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Young
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"| 
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* {{Flag|China}}
* {{Flag|Mongolia}}
* {{Flag|Korea}}
|A Crested Shellfish-eating Pterosaur.
|[[File:Dsungaripterus weii 01.jpg|thumb|''[[Dsungaripterus]]'']]
|-
| 
''[[Germanodactylus]]''
| 
Valid
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Yang
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"| 
|
* {{Flag|Germany}}
* {{Flag|UK}}
|The German Finger.
|[[File:Altmuehlopterus DB.jpg|thumb|''[[Germanodactylus]]'']]
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<!-- [[Image:Anhanguera.jpg|thumb|center|100px|''[[Anhanguera]]''.]] -->
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==Plesiosaurs==

===New taxa===
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''[[Strongylokrotaphus]]''
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[[junior synonym]]
|style="border-right:0px" valign="top"| 
Novozhilov
|style="border-left:0px" valign="top"| 
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junior synonym of ''[[Pliosaurus]]''
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<!-- [[Image:Anhanguera.jpg|thumb|center|100px|''[[Anhanguera]]''.]] -->
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==Other animals==
===Other newly named animals===
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''[[Beorn (tardigrade)|Beorn]]''<ref name="Beorn">{{Cite journal |last=Cooper |first=Kenneth W. |date=1964-01-01 |title=The first fossil tardigrade: ''Beorn leggi'' Cooper, from Cretaceous amber |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27372493 |journal=[[Psyche (entomology journal)|Psyche: A Journal of Entomology]] |language=en |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=41–48 |doi=10.1155/1964/48418 |doi-access=free |issn=0033-2615}}</ref>
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Gen et Sp. nov.
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Valid
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Cooper
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Late Cretaceous ([[Campanian]])
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* {{Flag|Canada}}
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A [[tardigrade]]; originally placed in its own family (Beornidae), it was later reclassified as a member of the [[Hypsibiidae]].<ref name="Aerobius">{{Cite journal |last1=Mapalo |first1=Marc A. |last2=Wolfe |first2=Joanna M. |last3=Ortega-Hernández |first3=Javier |date=2024-08-06 |title=Cretaceous amber inclusions illuminate the evolutionary origin of tardigrades |journal=[[Communications Biology]] |language=en |volume=7 |issue=1 |doi=10.1038/s42003-024-06643-2 |issn=2399-3642|pmc=11303527 }}</ref>
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[[File:Beorne (holotype, MCZ PALE-5213).png|thumb|center|150px|''[[Beorn (tardigrade)|Beorn]]'']]
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