1913 in paleontology

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Paleontology, palaeontology or [palæontology (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 mankind has 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 1913.

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries


Invertebrate paleozoology

Name Novelty Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Leucotermes robustus[4]

sp. nov

Synonym

von Rosen

Lutetian

Baltic amber

 Europe

A Stylotermitid termite. synonym of Parastylotermes robustus

Vertebrate paleozoology

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images

Diictodon

Valid

Robert Broom

Middle Permian

Pristerognathus zone

 South Africa

A dicynodont belonging to Pylaecephalidae.

Eocyclops

Junior synonym

Robert Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus zone

 South Africa

Junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus.

Ictidorhinus

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Dicynodon assemblage zone

 South Africa

A biarmosuchian.

Scylacops

Valid

Broom

Late Permian

Cistecephalus assemblage zone

 South Africa

A member of Gorgonopsia.

Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
Aggiosaurus[5]

Valid

  • Ambayrac

Late Jurassic (Oxfordian)

unnamed unit

 France

A geosaurine metriorhynchid.

Name Status Authors Notes

Leurospondylus

Valid

Brown

Ogmodirus

Valid

Williston Moodie

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[6]

Name Status Authors Notes Images

Elopteryx[7]

Nomen dubium

  • Andrews

Probable a misidentified bird, but may be a troodontid dinosaur.

Hypacrosaurus[8] Valid taxon
Procompsognathus[9] Valid taxon

Pterospondylus[10]

Disputed.

  • Jaekel

Possible junior synonym of Procompsognathus.

Styracosaurus[11]

Valid taxon

Thescelosaurus[12] Valid taxon

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. 1 2 3 4 D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550.
  3. Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.
  4. Emerson, A.E. (1971). "Tertiary fossil species of the Rhinotermitidae (Isoptera), phylogeny of genera, and reciprocal phylogeny of associated Flagellata (Protozoa) and the Staphylinidae (Coleoptera)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 146 (3): 243–304.
  5. Ambayrac, M. 1913. Une machoire de grand Reptile du Jurasique supérieur (Oxfordien). [journal title unknown]: pp. 97-98.
  6. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
  7. Andrews, C.W. (1913): On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transylvania. Geological Magazine 5: 193-196.
  8. Brown, B. 1913. A new trachodont dinosaur, Hypacrosaurus. from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull. Am. Nat. Hist. 32: pp. 395-406.
  9. Fraas, E. 1913. Die neuesten Dinosaurierfunde in der schwabischen Trias. Naturwissenschaften 45: pp. 1097-1100.
  10. Jaekel, O. 1913/1914. Uber die Wirbeltierfunde in der oberen Trias von Halberstadt. Palaontologische Zeitschrift 1: pp. 155-215.
  11. Lambe, L. M. 1913. A new genus and species of Ceratopsia from the Belly River Formation of Alberta. The Ottawa Naturalist 27 (9): pp. 109- 116.
  12. Gilmore, C.W. 1913. A new dinosaur from the Lance Formation of Wyoming. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61: pp. 1-5.
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