1913 in paleontology explained

Insects

Name	Novelty	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Leucotermes robustus^[1]	sp. nov	Synonym	von Rosen	Lutetian	Baltic amber		A Stylotermitid termite. synonym of Parastylotermes robustus
Protosmylus picta^[2]	Gen et comb. nov	Synonym	(Hagen)	Priabonian	Baltic amber		A protosmyline Osmylid lance lacewing Moved from "Osmylus" picta (1856) moved to Osmylidia picta (2021)

Vertebrates

Name	Status	Authors	Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Diictodon	Valid	Robert Broom	Middle Permian	Pristerognathus zone		A dicynodont belonging to Pylaecephalidae, living in burrows.	thumb|Diictodon
Eocyclops	Junior synonym	Robert Broom	Late Permian			Junior synonym of Rhachiocephalus.
Ictidorhinus	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Dicynodon assemblage zone		A biarmosuchian.
Scylacops	Valid	Broom	Late Permian	Cistecephalus assemblage zone		A member of Gorgonopsia.

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[4]

Name	Status	Authors		Location	Notes	Images
Elopteryx^[5]	Nomen dubium	Andrews			Probable a misidentified bird, but may be a troodontid dinosaur.
Hypacrosaurus^[6]	Valid taxon	Barnum Brown
Procompsognathus^[7]	Valid taxon	Eberhard Fraas			a Coelophysoid.
Pterospondylus^[8]	Disputed.	Jaekel			Possible junior synonym of Procompsognathus.
Styracosaurus^[9]	Valid taxon	Lawrence Lambe			A horned ceratopsian.
Thescelosaurus^[10]	Valid taxon	Charles W. Gilmore		(and) (and)	A small, agile Ornithopod.

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.^[11]
• 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.
• Cutler excavated a juvenile Gryposaurus now catalogued by the Canadian Museum of Nature as CMN 8784. The site of the excavation has since been designated "quarry 252".
• Winter: Cutler partly prepared the young Gryposaurus specimen, possibly in Calgary while working on dinosaurs for Euston Sisely.
• 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.

Notes and References

1. 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 .
2. Makarkin . V.N. . Archibald . S.B. . Mathewes . R.W. . 2021 . New Protosmylinae (Neuroptera: Osmylidae) from the early Eocene of western North America, with taxonomic remarks . Zootaxa . 4980 . 1 . 142–156.
3. Ambayrac, M. 1913. Une machoire de grand Reptile du Jurasique supérieur (Oxfordien). [journal title unknown]: pp. 97-98.
4. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
5. Andrews, C.W. (1913): On some bird remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Transylvania. Geological Magazine 5: 193-196.
6. Brown, B. 1913. A new trachodont dinosaur, Hypacrosaurus. from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta. Bull. Am. Nat. Hist. 32: pp. 395-406.
7. Fraas, E. 1913. Die neuesten Dinosaurierfunde in der schwabischen Trias. Naturwissenschaften 45: pp. 1097-1100.
8. Jaekel, O. 1913/1914. Uber die Wirbeltierfunde in der oberen Trias von Halberstadt. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 1: pp. 155-215.
9. Lambe, L. M. 1913. A new genus and species ofCeratopsia from the Belly River Formation ofAlberta. The Ottawa Naturalist 27 (9): pp. 109-116.
10. Gilmore, C.W. 1913. A new dinosaur from theLance Formation of Wyoming. Smithsonian Misc.Coll. 61: pp. 1-5.
11. 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.