1914 in paleontology
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 1914.
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
- While collecting fossils in Dinosaur Provincial Park, William Edmund Cutler discovered the type specimen of an ankylosaur taxon that would later be named Scolosaurus cutleri in his honor. However, while undercutting the specimen it collapsed on him "resulting in serious upper body injuries."[2]
Scientific advances
Vertebrate paleozoology
- Eugene Stebinger became the first to identify the Two Medicine Formation and to formally described its first fossil finds, which were excavated the previous year.[3]
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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[4]
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References
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ↑ Brown, B. 1914. Anchiceratops, a new genus of
horned dinosaurs from the Edmonton Cretaceous
of Alberta, with discussion of the origin of the
ceratopsian crests and brain casts of
Anchiceratops and Trachodon. Bull. Amer. Mus.
Nat. Hist. 33: pp. 559-565.
- ↑ Gilmore, C.W. 1914. A new ceratopsian dinosaur
from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana, with a
note on Hypacrosaurus. Smithosian
Miscellaneous Collections 43: pp. 1-10.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Lambe, L.M. 1914. On Gryposaurus notabilts, a
new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur
from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a
description of the skull of Chasmosaurus belli.
Ottawa Nat. 27: pp. 145-155.
- ↑ Brown, B. 1914. Corythosaurus casuarius, a new
crested dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous,
with provisional classification of the family
Trachodontidae. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33:
pp. 559-565.
- ↑ Janensch, W. 1914. Ubersicht uber die
Wirbeltierfauna der Tendaguru-Schichten nebst
einer kurzen Charakterisierung der neu
aufgefuhrten Arten von Sauropoden. Arch.
Biontol. 3: pp. 81-110.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Lambe, L.M. 1914. On a new genus and species
of carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River
Formation of Alberta with a description of the skull
of Stephanosaurus marginatus from the same
horizon. Ottawa Nat. 28: pp. 13-20.
- ↑ Brown, B. 1914. Leptoceratops, a new genus of
Ceratopsia from the Edmonton Cretaceous of
Alberta. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 33: pp. 567-
580.
