Paleontology or palaeontology 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 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 1919.
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Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries edit
- Summer: William Edmund Cutler resumed collecting dinosaur fossils in Dinosaur Provincial Park. One discovery was a disarticulated ceratopsian he identified as an "Eoceratops". He spent the remainder of the year excavating the specimen although his progress was hampered by illness and bad weather.[2]
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Vertebrate paleozoology edit
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1919 | ||||||||
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late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian |
A dryosaurid. |
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Panoplosaurus[5] | Valid taxon |
middle-late Campanian |
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"Uintasaurus"[6] |
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late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian |
Junior synonym of Camarasaurus. |
Pterosaurs described in 1919 | ||||||||
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von Arthaber |
A rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888). |
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- In the Morning of Time by Charles G. D. Roberts was published. Paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant has described it as unusually factual for a work of fiction.[7]
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References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
- ^ Virchow, H. 1919. Atlas and Epistropheus bei den Schildkroten. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1919: pp. 303-332.
- ^ Lambe, L.M. 1919. Description of a new genus and species (Panoplosaurus mirus) of armored dinosaur from the Belly River Beds of Alberta. Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. (ser. 3) 13: pp. 39-50.
- ^ Holland, W.J. 1919. Report on Section of Paleontology. Annual Report of the Carnegie Museum (for 1919): p. 38 [and see Holland, W.J. 1924. Description of the type of Uintasaurus douglassi Holland. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 15 (2-3): pp. 119-138.]
- ^ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.