Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January

1839 - William More Gabb was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1991 - Preston Cloud died of pneumonia, brought on as a complication of Lou Gehrig's disease in Santa Barbara, California, USA at age 78.
2013 - J. Alistair Crame found differences in the neogastropod taxa present at Earth's poles as far back as the early Cenozoic, suggesting that the polar faunas started becoming distinct from each other earlier than traditionally believed.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 17

January 17:

1794 - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps was born in Caen, France.
1867 - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps died.
1946 - Ethel Shakespear died of cancer at age 74.
2004 - Walter Auffenberg died in Gainesville, Florida at age 76.
2012 - Fabien Knoll and others published a study of the braincase of primitive Jurassic sauropod Spinophorosaurus from Niger. They found that it shared some traits with more advanced sauropods, but couldn't determine if these traits developed independently or not.
Caleb Marshall Brown and Anthony P. Russell examined some mysterious bony structures in the tails of pachycephalosaurs and found theme to be normally soft connective tissue in the tail that evolved into bone. They concluded that these boney structures distinguished them from other four-limbed animals.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 18

January 18:

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Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 19

January 19:

1847 - Josef Ladislav Píč was born in Mšeno.
1899 - Henry Alleyne Nicholson died in Aberdeen, Scotland.
1904 - Pei Wenzhong was born.
1919 - Gerard Frederick van Tets was born in London, England.
1935 - Jane Longstaff died in Bath, England.
1937 - Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douvillé died.
1965 - Zhou Zhonghe was born in Jiangdu, Jiangsu, China.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 20

January 20:

1921 - Alfred Gabriel Nathorst died in Stockholm, Sweden.
2011 - Andrew A. Farke re-examined the anatomy and taxonomy of the Late Cretaceous chasmosaurine ceratopsid Nedoceratops hatcheri from the western United States. He concluded that it was a distinct species, as was Torosaurus, and that the coexistence of these three species during the end of the Cretaceous suggested that dinosaur biodiversity was not in decline before the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 21

January 21:

1783 - Charles Léopold Laurillard was born in Montbéliard, France.
1921 - Raymond Thorsteinsson was born in Wynyard, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1950 - Andrzej Elżanowski was born.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 22

January 22:

2013 - William J. Breed died in Flagstaff, Arizona at age 84.

Manus Track Preservation Bias as a Key Factor for Assessing Trackmaker Identity and Quadrupedalism in Basal Ornithopods

Diego Castanera, Bernat Vila, Novella L. Razzolini, Peter L. Falkingham, José I. Canudo, Phillip L. Manning, Àngel Galobart

published 22 Jan 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 23

January 23:

1833 - The crew of the HMS Beagle, which carried Charles Darwin on its second voyage, helped set up a missionary outpost in South America.
1869 - Elmer S. Riggs was born in Trafalgar, Indiana, USA.

Multivariate Analyses of Small Theropod Dinosaur Teeth and Implications for Paleoecological Turnover through Time

Derek W. Larson, Philip J. Currie

published 23 Jan 2013

Neurocranial Osteology and Neuroanatomy of a Late Cretaceous Titanosaurian Sauropod from Spain (Ampelosaurus sp.)

Fabien Knoll, Ryan C. Ridgely, Francisco Ortega, Jose Luis Sanz, Lawrence M. Witmer

published 23 Jan 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 24

January 24:

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Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 25

January 25:

2015 - Giancarlo Ligabue died in Venice, Italy at age 83.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 26

January 26:

1826 - Charles Abiathar White was born in North Dighton, Massachusetts, USA.
1834 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, passed through the Straits of Magellan.
1884 - Roy Chapman Andrews was born in Beloit, Wisconsin.
1895 - Gaston de Saporta died in Aix-en-Provence, France.

A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia and the Origin and Evolution of the Sauropod-type Sacrum

Diego Pol, Alberto Garrido, Ignacio A. Cerda

published 26 Jan 2011

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 27

January 27:

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Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 28

January 28:

1846 - J. K. Murphy donated some fossils to the Smithsonian Institution of a large theropod dinosaur discovered in Washington D.C., USA by workers attempting to install a sewage system. The specimen was catalogued as NMNH 3049 and known by the nickname Capitalsaurus.
1858 - Eugène Dubois was born in Eijsden, Netherlands.
1878 - Édouard Lartet was born in Séissan, France.
1930 - Edwin Tulley Newton died.
1956 - Tim Flannery was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
1998 - Capitalsaurus was recognized as the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.
2000 - The site in Washington, D.C. where Capitalsaurus was discovered was named Capitalsaurus Court.
2001 - Washington, D.C. mayor Anthony A. Williams declared January 28th a local holiday, "Capitalsaurus Day".