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 faeces (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 in the year 1913.

1 Dinosaurs
- 1.1 Newly named dinosaurs
2 Plesiosaurs
- 2.1 New taxa
3 Synapsids
- 3.1 Non-mammalian
4 Footnotes
5 References

Dinosaurs

A US Geological Survey crew headed by Eugene Stebinger and a US National Museum crew headed by Charles Gilmore worked together to excavate the first dinosaur discovery of the Two Medicine Formation.^[2]

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list^[3] and Dr. Jeremy Montague's dinosaur genus database.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors	Notes
"Aggiosaurus"^[5]	Misidentification.	Ambayrac	A misidentified metriorhynchid.
"Elopteryx"^[6]	Nomen dubium.	Andrews	Probable a misidentified bird, but may be a troodontid dinosaur.
Hypacrosaurus^[7]	Valid taxon	Barnum Brown
Procompsognathus^[8]	Valid taxon	Eberhard Fraas
"Pterospondylus"^[9]	Disputed.	Jaekel	Possible junior synonym of Procompsognathus.
Styracosaurus^[10]	Valid taxon	Lawrence Lambe
Thescelosaurus^[11]	Valid taxon	Charles W. Gilmore

Plesiosaurs

New taxa

Name	Status	Authors		Notes
Leurospondylus	Valid	Brown
Ogmodirus	Valid	Williston Moodie

Synapsids

Non-mammalian

Name	Status	Authors	Discovery year	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Diictodon	Valid
Eocyclops	Valid
Ictidorhinus	Valid
Scylacops	Valid

Footnotes

^ Newman, Garfield, et al (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN 0-07-088739-X.
^ "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Montague, Jeremy. "Dr. Montague's Database". http://www.barry.edu/bio300/pdf/montague%20dino%20web%20data%2012-3-2005.pdf. Retrieved 2008-10-29.
^ Ambayrac, M. 1913. Una machoire de grand Reptile du Jurasique superieur (Oxfordien). [journal title unknown]: pp. 97-98.
^ Andrews, C.W. 1913. On the skull and part of the skeleton of a crocodile from the Middle Purbeck of Swanage, with a descreption of a new species (Pholidosaurus laevis), and a note on the skull of Hylaeochampsa. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 8 (11): pp. 485-494.
^ Brown, B. 1913. A new trachodont dinosaur, Hypacrosaurus. from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull. Am. Nat. Hist. 32: pp. 395-406.
^ Fraas, E. 1913. Die neuesten Dinosaurierfunde in der schwabischen Trias. Naturwissenschaften 45: pp. 1097-1100.
^ Jaekel, O. 1913/1914. Uber die Wirbeltierfunde in der oberen Trias von Halberstadt. Palaontologische Zeitschrift 1: pp. 155-215.
^ 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.
^ Gilmore, C.W. 1913. A new dinosaur from the Lance Formation of Wyoming. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 61: pp. 1-5.

References

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.