# 1914 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have 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.

## Arthropods
### Newly named insects

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Raphidia pulveris | Sp nov | jr synonym | Cockerell | Eocene Priabonian | Florissant Formation | USA Colorado | A raphidiid snakefly Synonymized with Megaraphidia exhumata in 2014 | Megaraphidia exhumata |

## Dinosaurs

* Eugene Stebinger became the first to identify the Two Medicine Formation and to formally describe its first fossil finds, which were excavated the previous year.

### New taxa

| Taxon | Novelty | Status | Author(s) | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| Anchiceratops ornatus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Brown | Maastrichtian | Horseshoe Canyon Formation | Alberta | A ceratopsid |
| Brachyceratops montanensis | Gen. et sp. nov. | Nomen dubium | Gilmore | Campanian | Two Medicine Formation | Montana | A ceratopsid |
| Chasmosaurus | Gen. nov. | Valid | Lambe | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Alberta | A replacement name for Protorosaurus, a new genus for Monoclonius belli |
| Corythosaurus casuarius | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Brown | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Alberta | A hadrosaurid |
| Dicraeosaurus hansemanni | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Janensch | Kimmeridgian | Tendaguru Formation | Tanzania | A Jurassic sauropod |
| Dicraeosaurus sattleri | Sp. nov. | Valid | Janensch | Kimmeridgian | Tendaguru Formation | Tanzania | A second species of Dicraeosaurus |
| Gorgosaurus libratus | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Lambe | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Alberta | A tyrannosaurid |
| Gryposaurus notabilis | Gen. et sp. nov. | Valid | Lambe | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Alberta | A hadrosaurid |
| Leptoceratops gracilis | Gen. et sp. nov | Valid | Brown | Maastrichtian | Scollard Formation | Alberta | An early ceratopsian |
| Protorosaurus | Gen. nov. | Preoccupied | Lambe | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Alberta | New genus for Monoclonius belli, but preoccupied by a non-dinosaurian archosauromorph von Meyer, 1830. Renamed Chasmosaurus. |
| Stephanosaurus | Gen. nov. | Nomen dubium | Lambe | Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Alberta | A new genus name for Trachodon marginatus |

## Plesiosaurs
### New taxa

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Brancasaurus | Gen et sp nov | Valid | Wegner | Berriasian | Isterberg Formation | Germany | A possibly freshwater dwelling plesiosaur | Brancasaurus |

## Pterosaurs
### New taxa

| Name | Novelty | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| Lonchodectes | Fam et Gen nov | Valid | Hooley | Late Cretaceous | | UK | An ornithocheiromorph | Lonchodectes compressirostris |

## Synapsids
### Non-mammalian

| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Location | Notes | Images |
| Arctops | Valid | Watson | 255 million years ago | South Africa | A Gorgonopsian. | Arctops |
| Mormosaurus | Valid | Watson | 270 million years ago | South Africa | A Dinocephalian. | Mormosaurus |
| Moschognathus | Valid | | 263 million years ago | South Africa | | |
| Pnigalion | Valid | | | | | |

## Footnotes

* Paleontology portal
* ↑ 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.
* ↑ Cockerell, T. (1914). "New and little known insects from the Miocene of Florissant, Colorado". Journal of Geology. 22: 714–724.
* ↑ Makarkin, V.; Archibald, S. (2014). "A revision of the late Eocene snakeflies (Raphidioptera) of the Florissant Formation, Colorado, with special reference to the wing venation of the Raphidiomorpha". Zootaxa. 3784 (4): 401–444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3784.4.4. PMID 24872063.
* ↑ "Previous Work," Trexler (2001); page 300.
* ↑ 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.
* 1 2 Lambe, L.M. (1914). "On Gryposaurus notabilis, a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, with a description of the skull of Chasmosaurus belli". The Ottawa Naturalist. 27 (11): 145–155.
* ↑ Brown, B. (1914). "Corythosaurus casuarius, a new crested dinosaur from the Belly River Cretaceous, with provisional classification of the family Trachodontidae". American Museum of Natural History Bulletin. 33: 559–565.
* 1 2 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.
* 1 2 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". The Ottawa Naturalist. 28 (1): 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.
* ↑ Lambe, L.M. (1914). "On the forelimb of a carnivorous dinosaur from the Belly River Formation of Alberta, and a new genus of Ceratopsia from the same horizon, with remarks on the integument of some Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs". The Ottawa Naturalist. 27 (10): 129–135.