# 1964 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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 | 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. | 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
### Dinosaurs

| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Hu | Turonian | Ulansuhai Formation | China | A member of Neovenatoridae |
| Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Walker | Callovian | Oxford Clay Formation | England | A megalosaurid |
| Eustreptospondylus divesensis | Sp. nov. | Valid | Walker | Callovian | Marnes de Dives | France | Later given the genus Piveteausaurus |
| Fabrosaurus australis | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium. | Ginsburg | Sinemurian | Upper Elliot Formation | Lesotho | An early ornithischian |
| Lambeosaurus paucidens | 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 |

### Newly named birds

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| Agriocharis progenes | Sp. nov. | Valid | Brodkorb | Blancan | | USA | A Meleagridae. |
| Anabernicula oregonensis | Sp. nov. | Valid | Howard | Middle Pleistocene | Fossil Lake | USA ( Oregon) | An Anatidae. |
| Asio priscus | Sp. nov. | Valid | Howard | Late Pleistocene | Santa Rosa Island Formation | USA ( California) | A Strigidae. |
| Nettion greeni | Sp. nov. | jr synonym | Brodkorb | Early Pliocene | Ash Hollow Formation | USA ( Nebraska) | An Anatidae, transferred to Anas greeni. |
| Tympanonesiotes | Gen et Sp. nov. | jr synonym? | Hopson | Early Miocene | Hawthorne Formation | USA ( Florida and Georgia (U.S. state) | A Pseudodontornithidae, type species T. wetmorei, transferred tentatively to Pelagornis wetmorei |

### Pterosaurs
#### New taxa

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

## Plesiosaurs
### New taxa

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

## Other animals
### Other newly named animals

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Beorn | Gen et Sp. nov. | Valid | Cooper | Late Cretaceous (Campanian) | | Canada | A tardigrade; originally placed in its own family (Beornidae), it was later reclassified as a member of the Hypsibiidae. | Beorn |