On this day in May
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 1
May 1:
- 1793 - Ernst Friedrich Glocker was born in Stuttgart, Germany
- 1822 - Julius von Haast was born in Bonn, Prussia.
- 1881 - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was born in Orcines, France.
- 1999 - Jack Sepkoski died of heart failure.
- 2011 - Anton Ramovš died in Kranj, Slovenia.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 2
May 2:
- 1857 -
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 3
May 3:
- 1803 - George Bax Holmes was born.
- 1809 - Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck was born in Leuven, Belgium.
- 1845 - Jan Czerski was born in Verkhnyadzvinsk Raion, Russian Empire.
- 1877 - Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás was born in Négyfalu, Austria-Hungary.
- 1992 - The Seattle Times ran an article announcing the possible discovery of the first known Diatryma footprint in the Puget Group of Flaming Geyser State Park, Washington state, USA. The track dated back to the Eocene.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 4
May 4:
- 1816 - Thomas Oldham was born in Dublin, Ireland.
- 1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing, England.
- 1865 - Henry Christy died of inflammation in his lungs.
- 1898 - Robert Damon died of heart disease in Weymouth, England at age 75.
- 1906 - Eugène Renevier died.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 5
May 5:
- 1879 - Ludwig Glauert was born in Ecclesall, England.
- 1923 - Reginald Hooley died.
- 1938 - Robert L. Carroll was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
- 2006 - Michael Mapps was found guilty of masterminding the 2005 murder of Charles Repenning in Lakewood, Colorado, USA.
3-D Modelling of Megaloolithid Clutches: Insights about Nest Construction and Dinosaur Behaviour
Bernat Vila, Frankie D. Jackson, Josep Fortuny, Albert G. Sellés, Àngel Galobart
published 05 May 2010
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 6
May 6:
- 1882 - Charles M. Wheatley died in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA at age 60.
- 1888 - Amos Henry Worthen died in Warsaw, Illinois, USA at age 74.
- 1955 - Wilfrid Chapman died.
- 2009 - Cyril Walker died.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 7
May 7:
- 1845 - Josef Victor Rohon was born in Temes-Buttyin, Austria.
- 1888 - Sidney H. Haughton was born in London, England.
- 2015 - Leonardo Maiorino and others found no evidence for sexual dimorphism in Protoceratops andrewsi despite past claims of supporting evidence for such.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 8
May 8:
- 1891 - Alexander Keyserling died in Raikküla Parish.
- 1905 - Curt Teichert was born in Königsberg, German Empire.
- 1969 - Remington Kellogg died of a heart attack in Washington, D.C., USA at age 76.
Euoplocephalus tutus and the Diversity of Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs in the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada, and Montana, USA
Victoria M. Arbour, Philip J. Currie
published 08 May 2013
An Additional Baurusuchid from the Cretaceous of Brazil with Evidence of Interspecific Predation among Crocodyliformes
Pedro L. Godoy, Felipe C. Montefeltro, Mark A. Norell, Max C. Langer
published 08 May 2014
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 9
May 9:
- 1891 - Gustaf Troedsson was born in Kulleröd, Sweden.
Probable Ankylosaur Ossicles from the Middle Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation of Northwestern Alberta, Canada
Michael E. Burns, Matthew J. Vavrek
published 09 May 2014
Air Space Proportion in Pterosaur Limb Bones Using Computed Tomography and Its Implications for Previous Estimates of Pneumaticity
Elizabeth G. Martin, Colin Palmer
published 09 May 2014
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 10
May 10:
- 1905 - Curt Teichert died in Arlington, Virginia, United States.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 11
May 11:
- 1858 - François Doumergue was born in Carcassonne, France.
- 1913 - Léon Pervinquière was born in La Roche-sur-Yon, France.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 12
May 12:
- 1855 - Pramatha Nath Bose was born in Gaipur, West Bengal, India.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 13
May 13:
- 1832 - Georges Cuvier died of cholera in Paris, France at age 62.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 14
May 14:
- 1887 - Alois Humbert died.
A Diplodocid Sauropod Survivor from the Early Cretaceous of South America
Pablo A. Gallina, Sebastián Apesteguía, Alejandro Haluza, Juan I. Canale
published 14 May 2014
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 15
May 15:
- 1979 - Leif Størmer died in Oslo, Norway at age 73.
New Dromaeosaurids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, and the Evolution of the Dromaeosaurid Tail
Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, Donald D. DeBlieux, Scott Madsen, Natalie Toth
published 15 May 2012
Shake a Tail Feather: The Evolution of the Theropod Tail into a Stiff Aerodynamic Surface
Michael Pittman, Stephen M. Gatesy, Paul Upchurch, Anjali Goswami, John R. Hutchinson
published 15 May 2013
Palaeopathological Survey of a Population of Mapusaurus (Theropoda: Carcharodontosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Huincul Formation, Argentina
Phil R. Bell, Rodolfo A. Coria
published 15 May 2013
The Behavioral Implications of a Multi-Individual Bonebed of a Small Theropod Dinosaur
Lucio M. Ibiricu, Rubén D. Martínez, Gabriel A. Casal, Ignacio A. Cerda
published 15 May 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 16
May 16:
- 1891 - Wilfrid Chapman was born in London, England.
- 1899 - Frederick McCoy died in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Modified Laminar Bone in Ampelosaurus atacis and Other Titanosaurs (Sauropoda): Implications for Life History and Physiology
Nicole Klein, P. Martin Sander, Koen Stein, Jean Le Loeuff, Jose L. Carballido, Eric Buffetaut
published 16 May 2012
Theropod Fauna from Southern Australia Indicates High Polar Diversity and Climate-Driven Dinosaur Provinciality
Roger B. J. Benson, Thomas H. Rich, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Mike Hall
published 16 May 2012
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 17
May 17:
- 1817 - Thomas Davidson was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1911 - Samuel Hubbard Scudder died in Boston, Massachusetts, USA at age 74.
- 1942 - Elisabeth Vrba was born in Hamburg, Germany.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 18
May 18:
- 1873 - Georges de Tribolet died.
- 1884 - Heinrich Göppert died in Breslau, Poland.
- 1929 - Charles Depéret died in Lyon, France.
- 1963 - Vadim Gratshev was born.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 19
May 19:
- 1845 - Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot died in Versaille, France.
- 1876 - William King Gregory was born in Greenwich Village, New York, USA.
- 1940 - Farish Jenkins was born in New York City, New York, USA.
- 2006 - Ginny Kasparson was sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to being accessory to the 2005 murder of Charles Repenning in Lakewood, Colorado, USA.
- 2010 - Hans J. Hofmann died in Montreal, Canada.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 20
May 20:
- 1902 - Oliver Bulman was born in London, England.
- 2002 - Stephen Jay Gould died of cancer in New York City, New York, USA at age 60.
2015 - Brandon R. Peecook and Christian A. Sidor reported the first non-avian dinosaur fossil discovered in the US state of Washington, a large theropod from the Campanian Cedar District Formation.
Lida Xing and others reinterpreted the Early Cretaceous small non-avian theropod ichnospecies Wupus agilis from China as the tracks of a heron-like bird.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 21
May 21:
- 1799 - Mary Anning was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
- 1892 - Grigore Cobălcescu died in Romania.
- 1930 - Emily H. Vokes was born in the USA.
First Dinosaur Tracks from the Arabian Peninsula
Anne S. Schulp, Mohammed Al-Wosabi, Nancy J. Stevens
published 21 May 2008
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 22
May 22:
- 1846 - Oliver Perry Hay was born.
- 1956 - Helen F. James was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA.
- 1977 - Roman Kozłowski died.
Phylogeny of Basal Iguanodonts (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): An Update
Andrew T. McDonald
published 22 May 2012
Limb-Bone Scaling Indicates Diverse Stance and Gait in Quadrupedal Ornithischian Dinosaurs
Susannah C. R. Maidment, Deborah H. Linton, Paul Upchurch, Paul M. Barrett
published 22 May 2012
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 23
May 23:
- 1847 - Robert Etheridge, Junior was born in Cheltenham, England.
- 1864 - Arthur Smith Woodward was born in Macclesfield, England.
- 1873 - Nikolai Yakovlevich Kuznetsov was born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 1905 - Myra Keen was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 24
May 24:
- 1793 - Edward Hitchcock was born in Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1803 - Alexander von Nordmann was born in Ruotsinsalmi, Finland.
- 1830 - John Samuel Miller died.
- 1965 - The Agate Fossil Beds in Nebraska, USA was designated a US national monument.
- 1982 - Sidney H. Haughton died.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 25
May 25:
- 1786 - Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy was born.
- 1854 - David P. Penhallow was born in Kittery Point, Maine, USA.
- 1880 - Peter Wilhelm Lund died in Lagoa Santa, Empire of Brazil at age 78.
- 1924 - Charles William Andrews died.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 26
May 26:
- 1964 - Caitlín R. Kiernan was born in Dublin, Ireland.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 27
May 27:
- 1960 - Robert C. Thorne died in Vernal, Utah, USA.
- 1967 - Tilly Edinger died of injuries received in a car accident in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA at age 69.
- 2005 - Geneviève Termier died in Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse, France.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 28
May 28:
- 1822 - Tiberius Cornelis Winkler was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
- 1891 - Peter Martin Duncan died.
- 1922 - Giovanni Capellini died in Bologna, Italy at age 88.
Feeding Mechanics in Spinosaurid Theropods and Extant Crocodilians
Andrew R. Cuff, Emily J. Rayfield
published 28 May 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 29
May 29:
- 1873 - Édouard de Verneuil died in Paris, France.
- 1925 - John Mason Clarke died in Albany, New York, USA.
An Unusual Basal Therizinosaur Dinosaur with an Ornithischian Dental Arrangement from Northeastern China
Hanyong Pu, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Junchang Lü, Li Xu, Yanhua Wu, Huali Chang, Jiming Zhang, Songhai Jia
published 29 May 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 30
May 30:
- 1878 - William More Gabb died of malaria contracted during field work in Costa Rica in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1919 - Dirk Albert Hooijer was born in Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia.
- 1931 - Hans C. Bjerring was born.
A New Saurolophine Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Far Eastern Russia
Pascal Godefroit, Yuri L. Bolotsky, Pascaline Lauters
published 30 May 2012
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 31
May 31:
- 1810 - William Martin died of tuberculosis in Macclesfield, England.
- 1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope.
- 1926 - Richard Gilbert West was born.