The year 2013 in Archosaur paleontology was eventful. Archosaurs include the only living dinosaur group — birds — and the reptile crocodilians, plus all extinct dinosaurs, extinct crocodilian relatives, and pterosaurs. Archosaur palaeontology is the scientific study of those animals, especially as they existed before the Holocene Epoch began about 10,000 years ago. The year 2013 in paleontology included various significant developments regarding archosaurs.
This article records new taxa of fossilarchosaurs of every kind that have been described during the year 2013, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleontology of archosaurs that occurred in the year 2013.
A study on the reproductive strategies of dinosaurs is published by Werner & Griebeler (2013).[30]
A re-analysis of prior studies on the dinosaur growth rates is published by Myhrvold (2013).[31]
A study on an assemblage of specimens of Aniksosaurus darwini from the Upper CretaceousBajo Barreal Formation (Argentina) evaluating whether the assemblage is truly monospecific and whether or not all the individuals died at the same time based on taphonomic data, is published by Ibiricu et al. (2013).[32]
A review of all fossil specimens referred to Euoplocephalus tutus, as well as specimens that were previously referred to Euoplocephalus but subsequently were assigned to different genera, is published by Arbour & Currie (2013).[34]
A member of Oviraptoridae; a replacement name for Ingenia Barsbold (1981). Funston et al. (2018) considered this genus to be a junior synonym of the genus Heyuannia.[38]
A caenagnathidoviraptorosaur. The type species is Leptorhynchos gaddisi.[60] Originally genus also contained "Ornithomimus" elegans Parks (1933),[59] but this species was subsequently transferred to the separate genus Citipes.[61]
Originally described as a species of Saurolophus; subsequently made the type species of a separate genus Augustynolophus by Prieto-Márquez et al. (2015).[71]
A carcharodontosaurid. The type species is Sauroniops pachytholus. Announced in 2012; the final version of the article naming it was published in 2013.
Originally classified as a member of Otididae.[106] Zelenkov, Boev & Lazaridis (2016) reinterpreted it as a member of Gruiformes belonging to the family Eogruidae and the subfamily Ergilornithinae; the authors considered it to be a possible member of the genus Amphipelargus of uncertain specific assignment.[107]
A bird of uncertain phylogenetic placement, but placed in a new family: Qianshanornithidae fam. nov. Mayr, Yang, De Bast, Li et Smith, 2013, most closely resembling Strigogyps Gaillard, 1908, Ameghinornithidae Mourer-Chauviré, 1981. The type species of the new genus.
A Sittidae; the name is preoccupied, a junior homonym of the brown-headed nuthatch, Sitta pusilla Latham, 1790. In the article describing the taxon its name is spelled Sitta pusilla or Sitta pussila on different pages.[83]
Initially thought to be a stone-curlew (a member of Burhinidae); subsequently argued to be a member of Presbyornithidae by De Pietri et al. (2016).[122] The type species of the new genus.
A new genus for "Ornithocheirus" nasutus Seeley (1870); genus might also contain "Ornithocheirus" colorhinus Seeley (1870). Rodrigues & Kellner (2013) also considered it possible that "Pterodactylus" sedgwickii Owen (1859) belonged to the genus Camposipterus,[128] but subsequently it was made the type species of a separate genus Aerodraco.[129]
A new genus for "Pterodactylus" giganteus Bowerbank (1846); genus also contains "Ornithocheirus" machaerorhynchus Seeley (1870) and "Ornithocheirus" microdon Seeley (1870).
^E. Puértolas-Pascual; J. I. Canudo; M. Moreno-Azanza (2014). "The eusuchian crocodylomorph Allodaposuchus subjuniperus sp. nov., a new species from the latest Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian) of Spain". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 26 (1): 91–109. doi:10.1080/08912963.2012.763034. S2CID85004774.
^ abDiego Pol; Oliver W. M. Rauhut; Agustina Lecuona; Juan M. Leardi; Xing Xu; James M. Clark (2013). "A new fossil from the Jurassic of Patagonia reveals the early basicranial evolution and the origins of Crocodyliformes". Biological Reviews. 88 (4): 862–872. doi:10.1111/brv.12030. hdl:11336/7536. PMID23445256. S2CID14648168.
^Jack L. Conrad; Kirsten Jenkins; Thomas Lehmann; Fredrick K. Manthi; Daniel J. Peppe; Sheila Nightingale; Adam Cossette; Holly M. Dunsworth; William E. H. Harcourt-Smithb; Kieran P. Mcnulty (2013). "New specimens of 'Crocodylus' pigotti (Crocodylidae) from Rusinga Island, Kenya, and generic reallocation of the species". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (3): 629–646. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.743404. S2CID86141651.
^Paula Bona; Ariana Paulina Carabajal (2013). "Caiman gasparinae sp. nov., a huge alligatorid (Caimaninae) from the late Miocene of Paraná, Argentina". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 37 (4): 462–473. doi:10.1080/03115518.2013.785335. hdl:11336/19850. S2CID84672157.
^Paula Bona; Francisco Barrios; Martín Daniel Ezcurra; María Victoria Fernandez Blanco; Giovanne Mendes Cidade (2024). "New taxa of giant caimans from the southernmost hyperdiverse wetlands of the South American late Miocene". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 22 (1). 2375027. doi:10.1080/14772019.2024.2375027.
^Daniel Costa Fortier; Ascanio Daniel Rincón (2013). "Pleistocene crocodylians from Venezuela, and the description of a new species of Caiman". Quaternary International. 305: 141–148. Bibcode:2013QuInt.305..141F. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2012.03.018.
^Giovanne M. Cidade; Daniel Fortier; Ascanio Daniel Rincón; Annie Schmaltz Hsiou (2019). "Taxonomic review of two fossil crocodylians from the Cenozoic of South America and its implications for the crocodylian fauna of the continent". Zootaxa. 4656 (3): 475–486. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4656.3.5. PMID31716812. S2CID202012442.
^André E.P. Pinheiro; Daniel C. Fortier; Diego Pol; Diógenes A. Campos; Lílian P. Bergqvist (2013). "A new Eocaiman (Alligatoridae, Crocodylia) from the Itaboraí Basin, Paleogene of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 25 (3): 327–337. doi:10.1080/08912963.2012.705838. hdl:11336/5404. S2CID84897348.
^Thiago da Silva Marinho; Fabiano Vidoi Iori; Ismar de Souza Carvalho; Felipe Mesquita de Vasconcellos (2013). "Gondwanasuchus scabrosus gen. et sp. nov., a new terrestrial predatory crocodyliform (Mesoeucrocodylia: Baurusuchidae) from the Late Cretaceous Bauru Basin of Brazil". Cretaceous Research. 44: 104–111. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.03.010.
^Thomas L. Adams (2013). "A new neosuchian crocodyliform from the Lower Cretaceous (late Aptian) Twin Mountains Formation of North-Central Texas". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (1): 85–101. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.713277. S2CID140535823.
^Bryan J. Small; Jeffrey W. Martz (2013). "A new aetosaur from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of the Eagle Basin, Colorado, USA". In S.J. Nesbitt; J.B. Desojo; R.B. Irmis (eds.). Anatomy, Phylogeny and Palaeobiology of Early Archosaurs and their Kin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications. Vol. 379. The Geological Society of London. pp. 393–412. doi:10.1144/SP379.18. S2CID129503069.
^Mark T. Young; Marco Brandalise De Andrade; Steve Etches; Brian L. Beatty (2013). "A new metriorhynchid crocodylomorph from the Lower Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Late Jurassic) of England, with implications for the evolution of dermatocranium ornamentation in Geosaurini". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 169 (4): 820–848. doi:10.1111/zoj.12082.
^Mark T. Young; Marco Brandalise de Andrade; Stephen L. Brusatte; Manabu Sakamoto; Jeff Liston (2013). "The oldest known metriorhynchid super-predator: a new genus and species from the Middle Jurassic of England, with implications for serration and mandibular evolution in predacious clades". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 11 (4): 475–513. doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.704948. S2CID85276836.
^Ricardo N. Martínez; Cecilia Apaldetti; Oscar A. Alcober; Carina E. Colombi; Paul C. Sereno; Eliana Fernandez; Paula Santi Malnis; Gustavo A. Correa; Diego Abelin (2013). "Vertebrate succession in the Ischigualasto Formation". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Memoir 12: Basal sauropodomorphs and the vertebrate fossil record of the Ischigualasto Formation (Late Triassic: Carnian-Norian) of Argentina: 10–30. Bibcode:2013JVPal..32S..10M. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.818546. hdl:11336/7771. S2CID37918101.
^Brandon R. Peecook; Christian A. Sidor; Sterling J. Nesbitt; Roger M. H. Smith; J. Sebastien Steyer; Kenneth D. Angielczyk (2013). "A new silesaurid from the upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia (Middle Triassic) demonstrates the rapid diversification of Silesauridae (Avemetatarsalia, Dinosauriformes)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (5): 1127–1137. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.755991. S2CID140653951.
^Jesse Easter (2013). "A new name for the oviraptorid dinosaur "Ingenia" yanshini (Barsbold, 1981; preoccupied by Gerlach, 1957)". Zootaxa. 3737 (2): 184–190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3737.2.6. PMID25112747. S2CID36962160.
^G.F. Funston; S.E. Mendonca; P.J. Currie; R. Barsbold (2018). "Oviraptorosaur anatomy, diversity and ecology in the Nemegt Basin". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 494: 101–120. Bibcode:2018PPP...494..101F. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.10.023.
^Caleb Marshall Brown; David C. Evans; Michael J. Ryan; Anthony P. Russell (2013). "New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (3): 495–520. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.746229. S2CID129160518.
^ abPascal Godefroit; Andrea Cau; Hu Dong-Yu; François Escuillié; Wu Wenhao; Gareth Dyke (2013). "A Jurassic avialan dinosaur from China resolves the early phylogenetic history of birds". Nature. 498 (7454): 359–362. Bibcode:2013Natur.498..359G. doi:10.1038/nature12168. PMID23719374. S2CID4364892.
^Elaine B. Machado; Leonardo dos S. Avilla; William R. Nava; Diogenes de A. Campos; Alexander W. A. Kellner (2013). "A new titanosaur sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil". Zootaxa. 3701 (3): 301–321. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3701.3.1. PMID26191585.
^Nicholas R. Longrich (2013). "Judiceratops tigris, a New Horned Dinosaur from the Middle Campanian Judith River Formation of Montana". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 54 (1): 51–65. doi:10.3374/014.054.0103. S2CID129801786.
^Lucio M. Ibiricu; Gabriel A. Casal; Rubén D. Martínez; Matthew C. Lamanna; Marcelo Luna; Leonardo Salgado (2013). "Katepensaurus goicoecheai, gen. et sp. nov., a Late Cretaceous rebbachisaurid (Sauropoda, Diplodocoidea) from central Patagonia, Argentina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (6): 1351–1366. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.776562. hdl:11336/5389. S2CID130685837.
^Phil R. Bell; Kirstin S. Brink (2013). "Kazaklambia convincens comb. nov., a primitive juvenile lambeosaurine from the Santonian of Kazakhstan". Cretaceous Research. 45: 265–274. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.05.003.
^ abNicholas R. Longrich; Ken Barnes; Scott Clark; Larry Millar (2013). "Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a Revision of the Caenagnathinae". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 54 (1): 23–49. doi:10.3374/014.054.0102. S2CID128444961.
^Nicholas R. Longrich; Ken Barnes; Scott Clark; Larry Millar (2013). "Correction to "Caenagnathidae from the Upper Campanian Aguja Formation of West Texas, and a Revision of the Caenagnathinae"". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 54 (2): 263–264. doi:10.3374/014.054.0204. S2CID128898931.
^Rodolfo A. Coria; Leonardo S. Filippi; Luis M. Chiappe; Rodolfo García; Andrea B. Arcucci (2013). "Overosaurus paradasorum gen. et sp. nov. , a new sauropod dinosaur (Titanosauria: Lithostrotia) from the Late Cretaceous of Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina". Zootaxa. 3683 (4): 357–376. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3683.4.2. hdl:11336/21928. PMID25250458.
^Albert Prieto-Márquez; Jonathan R. Wagner; Phil R. Bell; Luis M. Chiappe (2015). "The late-surviving 'duck-billed' dinosaur Augustynolophus from the upper Maastrichtian of western North America and crest evolution in Saurolophini". Geological Magazine. 152 (2): 225–241. Bibcode:2015GeoM..152..225P. doi:10.1017/S0016756814000284. S2CID131049979.
^Andrea Cau; Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia; Matteo Fabbri (2013). "A thick-skulled theropod (Dinosauria, Saurischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco with implications for carcharodontosaurid cranial evolution". Cretaceous Research. 40: 251–260. Bibcode:2013CrRes..40..251C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.09.002.
^Rodolfo A. Coria; Juan J. Moly; Marcelo Reguero; Sergio Santillana; Sergio Marenssi (2013). "A new ornithopod (Dinosauria; Ornithischia) from Antarctica". Cretaceous Research. 41: 186–193. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.12.004. hdl:11336/76749.
^Junchang Lü; Li Xu; Hanyong Pu; Xingliao Zhang; Yiyang Zhang; Songhai Jia; Huali Chang; Jiming Zhang; Xuefang Wei (2013). "A new sauropod dinosaur (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the late Early Cretaceous of the Ruyang Basin (central China)". Cretaceous Research. 44: 202–213. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2013.04.009.
^Storrs L. Olson (2013). "Fossil woodpeckers from Bermuda with the description of a new species of Colaptes (Aves: Picidae)". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 126 (1): 17–24. doi:10.2988/0006-324X-126.1.17. S2CID84248107.
^Vanesa L. De Pietri (2013). "Interrelationships of the Threskiornithidae and the phylogenetic position of the Miocene ibis 'Plegadis' paganus from the Saint-Gérand-le-Puy area in central France". Ibis. 155 (3): 544–560. doi:10.1111/ibi.12062.
^E. N. Kurochkin; S. Chatterjee; K. E. Mikhailov (2013). "An embryonic enantiornithine bird and associated eggs from the Cretaceous of Mongolia". Paleontological Journal. 47 (11): 1252–1269. doi:10.1134/S0031030113110087. S2CID86747842.
^Nikita Zelenkov; Zlatozar Boev; Georgios Lazaridis (2016). "A large ergilornithine (Aves, Gruiformes) from the Late Miocene of the Balkan Peninsula". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 90 (1): 145–151. doi:10.1007/s12542-015-0279-z. S2CID131264199.
^Juan C. Rando; Josep A. Alcover; Storrs L. Olson; Harald Pieper (2013). "A new species of extinct scops owl (Aves: Strigiformes: Strigidae: Otus) from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago, North Atlantic Ocean)". Zootaxa. 3647 (2): 343–357. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.6. hdl:10261/85708. PMID26295111.
^Trevor H. Worthy; Jennifer P. Worthy; Alan J. D. Tennyson; Steven W. Salisbury; Suzanne J. Hand; R. Paul Scofield (2013). "Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves"(PDF). In Ursula B. Göhlich; Andreas Kroh (eds.). Paleornithological Research 2013. Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, 2012. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. pp. 63–80. ISBN978-3-902421-82-1.
^Gerald Mayr (2013). "Parvigruidae (Aves, core Gruiformes) from the early Oligocene of Belgium". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 93 (1): 77–89. doi:10.1007/s12549-012-0083-7. S2CID129818639.
^Sara Bertelli; Bent E. K. Lindow; Gareth J. Dyke; Gerald Mayr (2013). "Another charadriiform-like bird from the lower Eocene of Denmark". Paleontological Journal. 47 (11): 1282–1301. doi:10.1134/S0031030113110026. hdl:11336/7192. S2CID85141394.
^Jingmai K. O’Connor; Yuguang Zhang; Luis M. Chiappe; Qingjin Meng; Li Quanguo; Liu Di (2013). "A new enantiornithine from the Yixian Formation with the first recognized avian enamel specialization". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1080/02724634.2012.719176. S2CID85261944.
^Zihui Zhang; Luis M. Chiappe; Gang Han; Anusuya Chinsamy (2013). "A large bird from the Early Cretaceous of China: new information on the skull of enantiornithines". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (5): 1176–1189. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.762708. S2CID84677039.
^ abBrian Andres; Timothy S. Myers (2013). "Lone Star Pterosaurs". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103 (3–4): 383–398. doi:10.1017/S1755691013000303. S2CID84617119.
^S. Christopher Bennett (2013). "New information on body size and cranial display structures of Pterodactylus antiquus, with a revision of the genus". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 87 (2): 269–289. doi:10.1007/s12542-012-0159-8. S2CID83722829.
^Alexander W. A. Kellner (2013). "A new unusual tapejarid (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Romualdo Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103 (3–4): 409–421. doi:10.1017/S1755691013000327. S2CID131574480.
^Laura Codorniú; Zulma Gasparini (2013). "The Late Jurassic pterosaurs from northern Patagonia, Argentina". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103 (3–4): 399–408. doi:10.1017/S1755691013000388. hdl:11336/1319. S2CID130885184.