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Portal:Paleontology/On this day/May 1

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.