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.
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Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
- April: William Edmund Cutler prospected in Dinosaur Provincial Park. His work was underwritten by the Calgary Syndicate for Prehistoric Research, a group of local philanthropist businessmen, and a small local museum, the Calgary Public Museum, which no long exists.[2]
- Summer: The American Museum of Natural History dispatched a team of fossil hunters to Dinosaur Provincial Park. Cutler joined the expedition but was "asked to leave" after only a few months of involvement.[2]
- Cutler excavated a juvenile Grypsaurus now catalogued by the Canadian Museum of Nature as CMN 8784. The site of the excavation has since been designated "quarry 252".[2]
- Winter: Cutler partly prepared the young Gryposaurus specimen, possibly in Calgary while working on dinosaurs for Euston Sisely.[2]
- 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.[3]
Invertebrate paleozoology
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Synonym |
von Rosen |
A Stylotermitid termite. synonym of Parastylotermes robustus |
Vertebrate paleozoology
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Valid |
Middle Permian |
A dicynodont belonging to Pylaecephalidae. |
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Junior synonym |
Robert Broom |
Late Permian |
Junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus. |
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Broom |
Late Permian |
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Broom |
Late Permian |
A member of Gorgonopsia. |
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| Aggiosaurus[5] |
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Late Jurassic (Oxfordian) |
unnamed unit |
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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[6]
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Probable a misidentified bird, but may be a troodontid dinosaur. |
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| Hypacrosaurus[8] | Valid taxon | ||||
| Procompsognathus[9] | Valid taxon | ||||
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Disputed. |
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Possible junior synonym of Procompsognathus. |
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| Styracosaurus[11] |
Valid taxon |
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| Thescelosaurus[12] | Valid taxon | ||||
See also
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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.
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- ↑ Ambayrac, M. 1913. Une machoire de grand Reptile du Jurasique supérieur (Oxfordien). [journal title unknown]: pp. 97-98.
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- ↑ Andrews, C.W. (1913): On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transylvania. Geological Magazine 5: 193-196.
- ↑ 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.
