On this day in December
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 1
December 1:
- 1979 - Bryan Patterson died in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 2
December 2:
- 1869 - John William Salter died.
- 1949 - Sue Hendrickson was born.
The Basal Nodosaurid Ankylosaur Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. from the Lower Cretaceous (Lower Albian) Escucha Formation of Northeastern Spain
James I. Kirkland, Luis Alcalá, Mark A. Loewen, Eduardo Espílez, Luis Mampel, Jelle P. Wiersma
published 02 Dec 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 3
December 3:
- 1819 - Robert Etheridge was born in Ross-on-Wye, England.
- 1893 - T. H. Clark was born in London, England.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 4
December 4:
- 1899 - Ethel Currie was born in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1905 - Henry Fairfield Osborn announced the description of Tyrannosaurus rex in the New York Times' first magazine section.
- 1999 - Alick Walker died.
Cockroaches Probably Cleaned Up after Dinosaurs
Peter Vršanský, Thomas van de Kamp, Dany Azar, Alexander Prokin, L'ubomír Vidlička, Patrik Vagovič
published 04 Dec 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 5
December 5:
- 1839 - Franz Martin Hilgendorf was born in Neudamm (Mark Brandenburg), Germany.
- 1876 - Charles Anderson was born in Stenness, Scotland.
- 2008 - Rodolfo Casamiquela died in Cipolletti, Río Negro Province, Argentina.
Cavemen Were Better at Depicting Quadruped Walking than Modern Artists: Erroneous Walking Illustrations in the Fine Arts from Prehistory to Today
Gabor Horvath, Etelka Farkas, Ildiko Boncz, Miklos Blaho, Gyorgy Kriska
published 05 Dec 2012
Pedal Claw Curvature in Birds, Lizards and Mesozoic Dinosaurs – Complicated Categories and Compensating for Mass-Specific and Phylogenetic Control
Aleksandra V. Birn-Jeffery, Charlotte E. Miller, Darren Naish, Emily J. Rayfield, David W. E. Hone
published 05 Dec 2012
Large-Diameter Burrows of the Triassic Ischigualasto Basin, NW Argentina: Paleoecological and Paleoenvironmental Implications
Carina E. Colombi, Eliana Fernández, Brian S. Currie, Oscar A. Alcober, Ricardo Martínez, Gustavo Correa
published 05 Dec 2012
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 6
December 6:
- 1857 -
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 7
December 7:
- 1857 - Louis Dollo was born in Lille, France.
- 1995 - Mildred Adams Fenton died at age 96.
Crocodilian Nest in a Late Cretaceous Sauropod Hatchery from the Type Lameta Ghat Locality, Jabalpur, India
Rahul Srivastava, Rajeev Patnaik, U. K. Shukla, Ashok Sahni
published 07 Dec 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 8
December 8:
- 1922 - Cesare Emiliani was born in Bologna, Italy.
- 1943 - Larry Martin was born.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 9
December 9:
- 1857 -
Osteological and Soft-Tissue Evidence for Pneumatization in the Cervical Column of the Ostrich (Struthio camelus) and Observations on the Vertebral Columns of Non-Volant, Semi-Volant and Semi-Aquatic Birds
Naomi E. Apostolaki, Emily J. Rayfield, Paul M. Barrett
published 09 Dec 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 10
December 10:
- 1817 - Fielding Bradford Meek was born in Madison, Indiana, USA.
- 1831 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, attempted to embark on its second voyage but was driven back by foul weather.
- 1943 - Frederick Chapman died.
2014 - Amy M. Balanoff, G. S. Bever, and Mark A. Norell published a study comparing the brains of Conchoraptor gracilis and modern birds.
Andrew A. Farke and others described the new genus and species Aquilops americanus from the Albian Cloverly Formation of Montana, USA.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 11
December 11:
- 1868 - William Parks was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1908 - Edmund Dwen Gill was born in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 1932 - Rodolfo Casamiquela was born in Ingeniero Jacobacci, Río Negro Province, Argentina.
- 2005 - Roy Herbert Reinhart died in Oxford, Ohio, USA.
Absence of Suction Feeding Ichthyosaurs and Its Implications for Triassic Mesopelagic Paleoecology
Ryosuke Motani, Cheng Ji, Taketeru Tomita, Neil Kelley, Erin Maxwell, Da-yong Jiang, Paul Martin Sander
published 11 Dec 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 12
December 12:
- 1954 - Gustaf Troedsson died Lund, Sweden.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 13
December 13:
- 1932 - William Jacob Holland died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
- 2011 - Evgeny Kurochkin died.
Tetradactyl Footprints of an Unknown Affinity Theropod Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Morocco
Jaouad Nouri, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Félix Pérez-Lorente
published 13 Dec 2011
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 14
December 14:
- 1998 - James A. Jensen died.
Reproductive Biology and Its Impact on Body Size: Comparative Analysis of Mammalian, Avian and Dinosaurian Reproduction
Jan Werner, Eva Maria Griebeler
published 14 Dec 2011
‘Nedoceratops’: An Example of a Transitional Morphology
John B. Scannella, John R. Horner
published 14 Dec 2011
The Predatory Ecology of Deinonychus and the Origin of Flapping in Birds
Denver W. Fowler, Elizabeth A. Freedman, John B. Scannella, Robert E. Kambic
published 14 Dec 2011
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 15
December 15:
- 1820 - John William Salter was born.
- 1857 - Walter Drawbridge Crick was born in Hanslope, England.
- 1917 - Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii died at age 57.
- 2010 - Nieves López Martínez died in Madrid, Spain.
A New Troodontid Theropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah
Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, John Bird, Jeff A. Bartlett
published 15 Dec 2010
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 16
December 16:
- 1940 - Eugène Dubois died.
- 2013 - Mário Costa Barberena died in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Revisiting the Estimation of Dinosaur Growth Rates
Nathan P. Myhrvold
published 16 Dec 2013
- 2014 - Martin Brasier died in a car accident near Burford, England.
Resting Orientations of Dinosaur Scapulae and Forelimbs: A Numerical Analysis, with Implications for Reconstructions and Museum Mounts
Phil Senter, James H. Robins
published 16 Dec 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 17
December 17:
- 1924 - Anton Ramovš was born in Dolenja Vas, Slovenia.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 18
December 18:
- 1832 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Tierra del Fuego. His encounters with the native Yaghan people would inflence his later views of human evolution.
- 1868 - Henry Woods was born in Cottenham, England.
- 1892 - Richard Owen died in London, England at age 88.
- 1903 - Robert Etheridge died in London, England.
Vertebral Pneumaticity in the Ornithomimosaur Archaeornithomimus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Revealed by Computed Tomography Imaging and Reappraisal of Axial Pneumaticity in Ornithomimosauria
Akinobu Watanabe, Maria Eugenia Leone Gold, Stephen L. Brusatte, Roger B. J. Benson, Jonah Choiniere, Amy Davidson, Mark A. Norell
published 18 Dec 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 19
December 19:
- 1809 - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden was born in Mechelen, Belgium.
- 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at New Zealand.
- 1861 - Nicolai Ivanovich Andrusov was born in Odessa, Russia (now in Ukraine).
- 1911 - Josef Ladislav Píč killed himself in Prague.
- 1944 - Richard Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya.
The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids
László Makádi, Michael W. Caldwell, Attila Ősi
published 19 Dec 2012
Body Size Distribution of the Dinosaurs
Eoin J. O’Gorman, David W. E. Hone
published 19 Dec 2012
The Endocranial Anatomy of Therizinosauria and Its Implications for Sensory and Cognitive Function
Stephan Lautenschlager, Emily J. Rayfield, Perle Altangerel, Lindsay E. Zanno, Lawrence M. Witmer
published 19 Dec 2012
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 20
December 20:
- 1795 - Peter Merian was born in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1830 - Georges de Tribolet was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 21
December 21:
- 1795 - Francisco Javier Muñiz was born in San Isidro, Argentina.
- 1824 - James Parkinson died of a stroke in Langthorne, England.
- 1831 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, attempted to embark on its second voyage, but was driven back by foul weather.
- 1889 - Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps died.
- 1935 - Rinchen Barsbold was born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 22
December 22:
- 1876 - Fielding Bradford Meek died of tuberculosis in Washington, D.C., USA.
- 1898 - Wilhelm Dames died in Berlin, Germany.
- 1946 - Mikhail Zalessky died.
- 1960 - Neil Shubin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 23
December 23:
- 1833 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Puerto Deseado, Argentina.
- 1903 - Walter Drawbridge Crick died.
- 1908 - Perceval de Loriol died in Cologny, Switzerland.
- 1933 - Anthony Hallam was born in Leicester, England.
- 1938 - Armand de Ricqlès was born in Brussels, Belgium.
- 2001 - Vladimir Zherikhin died at age 56.
- 2003 - Stanley John Olsen died.
A New Leptoceratopsid (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) with a Unique Ischium from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong Province, China
Yiming He, Peter J. Makovicky, Kebai Wang, Shuqing Chen, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Xing Xu
published 23 Dec 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 24
December 24:
- 1875 - Guy Ellcock Pilgrim was born in Stepney, Barbados.
- 1907 - André Cailleux was born in Paris, France.
- 1919 - Venceslau de Sousa Pereira de Lima died in Lisbon, Portugal at age 61.
- 1936 - Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger died in Zagreb, Croatia at age 80.
- 1938 - François Doumergue died in Oran, Algeria.
- 1954 - Gregory S. Paul was born in Washington, D.C., USA.
- 2003 - James Kitching died at age 81.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 25
December 25:
- 1831 - The HMS Beagle was intended to embark on its second voyage after previous delays by foul weather, but its crew was too drunk from celebrating Christmas.
- 1893 - Isabel Clifton Cookson was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
- 1906 - Martin Glaessner was born in Aussig, Austro-Hungarian Empire.
- 1934 - Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski was born in Granit, Bulgaria.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 26
December 26:
- 1835 - Joseph Frederick Whiteaves was born in Oxford, England.
First Dinosaurs from Saudi Arabia
Benjamin P. Kear, Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Mohammed A. Ali, Yahya A. Al-Mufarreh, Adel H. Matari, Abdu M. Al-Massari, Abdulaziz H. Nasser, Yousry Attia, Mohammed A. Halawani
published 26 Dec 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 27
December 27:
- 1831 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin, finalled embarked on its second voyage, from Plymouth, England.
- 1937 - Dale Russell was born.
- 1986 - André Cailleux died in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 28
December 28:
- 1894 - Alfred Romer was born in White Plains, New York, USA.
- 1988 - Björn Kurtén died.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 29
December 29:
- 1867 - Annie Montague Alexander was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- 1970 - William King Gregory died in Woodstock, New York, USA at age 94.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 30
December 30:
- 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed New Zealand for Australia.
- 1905 - The first exhibit of Tyrannosaurus rex fossils was put on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA.
- 1995 - Katsura Ōyama died.
A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation in Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Northeastern Thailand
Masateru Shibata, Pratueng Jintasakul, Yoichi Azuma, Hai-Lu You
published 30 Dec 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/December 31
December 31:
- 1894 - Frederik Johnstrup died.