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Arthropods

Newly named insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Mollusca

Newly named bivalves

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Location	Notes	Images

Archosauromorphs

Dinosaurs

Taxon	Novelty	Status	Author(s)	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Hu	Turonian	Ulansuhai Formation	China	A member of Neovenatoridae	[[File:Chilantaisaurus.jpg	200px]]
Eustreptospondylus oxoniensis	Gen. et sp. nov.	Valid	Walker	Callovian	Oxford Clay Formation	England	A megalosaurid	[[File:Eustrept1DB1.jpg	200px]]
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
last=Ostrom	first=J.H.	author-link=John Ostrom	year=1964	title=The systematic position of Hadrosaurus (Ceratops) paucidens Marsh	journal=Journal of Paleontology	volume=38	issue=1	pages=130–134	jstor=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	[[File:Metriacanthosaurus.jpg	200px]]

Newly named birds

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

Pterosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Location	Notes	Images
					A Crested Shellfish-eating Pterosaur.
					The German Finger.

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Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors	Notes

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Other animals

Other newly named animals

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images

References

(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.
(1999). "Middle Ordovician bivalves from Mid-Wales and the Welsh Borderland". Palaeontology.
Hu S. 1964. Carnosaurian remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8: pp. 42-63.
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. 53-35.
Ginsburg, 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.
Ostrom, J.H.. (1964). "The systematic position of ''Hadrosaurus'' (''Ceratops'') ''paucidens'' Marsh". Journal of Paleontology.
(1964). "Notes of Fossil Turkeys". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences.
(1964). "A New Species of "Pygmee Goose," Anabernicula, from the Oregon Pleistocene, with a Discussion of the genus". American Museum Novitates.
(1964). "A fossil owl from Santa Rosa Island". Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.
(1964). "A Pliocene Teal from South Dakota". Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences.
(1964). "''Pseudodontornis'' and Other Large Marine Birds from the Miocene of South Carolina". Postilla, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.
Cooper, Kenneth W.. (1964-01-01). "The first fossil tardigrade: ''Beorn leggi'' Cooper, from Cretaceous amber". [[Psyche (entomology journal).
(2024-08-06). "Cretaceous amber inclusions illuminate the evolutionary origin of tardigrades". [[Communications Biology]].

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