On this day in October
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 1
- 1819 - Thomas Rupert Jones was born in London, England.
- 1833 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin discovered a large fossil tooth in the cliffs of the Carcarañá River and poorly preserved mastodon remains at the Paraná River.
- 1835 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, arrived at Tagus Cove, Albemarle Island in the Galapagos.
- 1841 - Carl Hermann Credner was born in Gotha, Germany.
- 1904 - Jean-François-Albert du Pouget died in Rougemont, France.
- 1950 - Derek Briggs was born in Ireland.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 2
- 1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, finally returned home to Falmouth, England.
- 1848 - Georg August Goldfuss died in Bonn, Germany.
- 1891 - Erik Stensiö was born in Stensjö , Sweden.
- 1958 - Marie Stopes died of breast cancer in Dorking, England at age 77.
- 1964 - Excavations on the site of Stanford University's campus in California, USA uncovered the remains of an aquatic desmostyle mammal called Neoparadoxia. The discovery was considered one of the most significant finds in North American paleontology at the time.
- 1966 - Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov died Moscow, USSR at age 73.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 3
- 1936 - Hans J. Hofmann was born in Kiel, Germany. William Parks died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- 1961 - Ray S. Bassler died.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 4
- 1836 - Charles Darwin after the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, finally returned to his family home in Shrewsbury, England.
- 1905 - Henry Fairfield Osborn described the new genera and species of Cretaceous carnivorous theropod dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus rex, Dynamosaurus imperiosus, and Albertosaurus sarcophagus. D. imperiosus is now considered a junior synonym of T. rex, however.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 5
- 1787 - Caspar Wistar and Timothy Matlack reported the discovery of a "'a large thigh bone'" in to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. The bone was probably a dinosaur metatarsal discovered in Late Cretaceous rocks near Woodbury Creek.
- 1883 - Joachim Barrande died in Frohsdorf, Austria.
- 1892 - Remington Kellogg was born in Davenport, Iowa, USA.
- 1915 - Robert Masterman Stainforth was born in Kingston upon Hull, England.
- 1925 - Emiliano Aguirre Enríquez was born in Ferrol, Spain.
- 1937 - Wolfgang H. Berger was born in Erlangen, Germany.
- 1972 - Ivan Yefremov died in Leningrad, USSR at age 64.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 6
- 1917 - Katsura Ōyama was born.
- 1960 - Karel Absolon died in Brno, Czech Republic .
- 1984 - George Gaylord Simpson died in Fresno, California, USA at age 82.
Dynamic Locomotor Capabilities Revealed by Early Dinosaur Trackmakers from Southern Africa
Jeffrey A. Wilson, Claudia A. Marsicano, Roger M. H. Smith
published 06 Oct 2009
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 7
- 1934 - William Sutherland Dun died of cancer.
A New Titanosaurian Braincase from the Cretaceous “Lo Hueco” Locality in Spain Sheds Light on Neuroanatomical Evolution within Titanosauria
Fabien Knoll, Lawrence M. Witmer, Ryan C. Ridgely, Francisco Ortega, Jose Luis Sanz
published 07 Oct 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 8
- 1832 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin returned to the site of his September 23rd discovery of a large fossil mammal skull in the Punta Alta, Argentina area, which he recognized as the remains of a giant ground sloth.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 9
- 1856 - Charles Emerson Beecher was born in Dunkirk New York, USA.
- 1905 - Llewellyn Ivor Price was born in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Was Dinosaurian Physiology Inherited by Birds? Reconciling Slow Growth in Archaeopteryx
Gregory M. Erickson, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Zhonghe Zhou, Alan H. Turner, Brian D. Inouye, Dongyu Hu, Mark A. Norell
published 09 Oct 2009
What Lies Beneath: Sub-Articular Long Bone Shape Scaling in Eutherian Mammals and Saurischian Dinosaurs Suggests Different Locomotor Adaptations for Gigantism
Matthew F. Bonnan, D. Ray Wilhite, Simon L. Masters, Adam M. Yates, Christine K. Gardner, Adam Aguiar
published 09 Oct 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 10
- 1863 - Vladimir Obruchev was born in Klepenino, Tver Oblast, Russian Empire.
- 1948 - David Ward was born in London, England.
- 2007 - Karol Sabath died.
Ancient Origin of the Modern Deep-Sea Fauna
Ben Thuy, Andy S. Gale, Andreas Kroh, Michal Kucera, Lea D. Numberger-Thuy, Mike Reich, Sabine Stöhr
published 10 Oct 2012
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 11
- 1861 - John Bell Hatcher was born in Cooperstown, Illinois, USA.
- 1957 - Paul Sereno was born in Aurora, Illinois, USA.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 12
- 1917 - Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich was born in Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
- 1978 - Vasiliy E. Ruzhentsev died.
- 2001 - John T. Robinson died in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
Influence of Microbial Biofilms on the Preservation of Primary Soft Tissue in Fossil and Extant Archosaurs
Joseph E. Peterson, Melissa E. Lenczewski, Reed P. Scherer
published 12 Oct 2010
A Computational Analysis of Limb and Body Dimensions in Tyrannosaurus rex with Implications for Locomotion, Ontogeny, and Growth
John R. Hutchinson, Karl T. Bates, Julia Molnar, Vivian Allen, Peter J. Makovicky
published 12 Oct 2011
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 13
- 1771 - Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim was born in Waldheim, Germany.
- 1820 - John William Dawson was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1933 - Colin Patterson was born in London, England.
- 1952 - Margaret Crosfield died.
- 1983 - Allan Bé died.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 14
- 1885 - Thomas Davidson died in Brighton, England.
Spondarthritis in the Triassic
Juan Carlos Cisneros, Uiara Gomes Cabral, Frikkie de Beer, Ross Damiani, Daniel Costa Fortier
published 14 Oct 2010
Perinatal Specimens of Saurolophus angustirostris (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae), from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia
Leonard Dewaele, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Rinchen Barsbold, Géraldine Garcia, Koen Stein, François Escuillié, Pascal Godefroit
published 14 Oct 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 15
- 1880 - Marie Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Cannibalism in Tyrannosaurus rex
Nicholas R. Longrich, John R. Horner, Gregory M. Erickson, Philip J. Currie
published 15 Oct 2010
Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region
Steffen Kiel, Bent T. Hansen
published 15 Oct 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 16
- 1864 - Rudolf Ruedemann was born.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 17
- 1848 - Truman H. Aldrich was born in Palmyra, New York
- 2006 - Vadim Gratshev died.
Dinosaur Speed Demon: The Caudal Musculature of Carnotaurus sastrei and Implications for the Evolution of South American Abelisaurids
W. Scott Persons, Philip J. Currie
published 17 Oct 2011
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 18
- 1853 - Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim died.
- 2004 - Elizabeth Nicholls died of cancer at age 58.
A New Hadrosauroid Dinosaur from the Early Late Cretaceous of Shanxi Province, China
Run-Fu Wang, Hai-Lu You, Shi-Chao Xu, Suo-Zhu Wang, Jian Yi, Li-Juan Xie, Lei Jia, Ya-Xian Li
published 18 Oct 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 19
- 1832 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed from Punta Alta, Argentina to Monte Hermoso. There Darwin found small rodent fossils.
- 1941 - Atílio Munari died in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Sabretoothed Carnivores and the Killing of Large Prey
Ki Andersson, David Norman, Lars Werdelin
published 19 Oct 2011
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 20
- 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed the Galapagos Islands for Tahiti. Darwin noticed that every species of mockingbird he collected came from a different island and that all were similar to the mockingbirds of mainland Chile.
- 1864 - Andrew Geddes Bain died of a heart attack in Cape Town, South Africa at age 67.
- 1869 - John Campbell Merriam was born in Hopkinton, Iowa, USA.
- 1882 - Leonard Frank Spath was born.
- 1884 - An Early Jurassic prosauropod specimen was discovered in a Manchester Connecticut, USA quarry. Workers noticed the pelvis and hindlimb of the animal after the block hypothesized to preserve the front half of the animal had already been used to build a bridge in South Manchester. Othniel Charles Marsh named the animal Anchisaurus major.
- 1910 - David P. Penhallow died on the S.S. Lake Manitoba during a voyage from Montreal to Liverpool, England.
The Effects of Biting and Pulling on the Forces Generated during Feeding in the Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis)
Domenic C. D'Amore, Karen Moreno, Colin R. McHenry, Stephen Wroe
published 20 Oct 2011
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 21
- 1907 - Archibald Lamont was born in Rothesay, Scotland.
- 1960 - Paul Fallot died in Paris, France.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 22
- 1857 -
An Ornithopod-Dominated Tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation (Barremian–Albian) of Qijiang, South-Central China: New Discoveries, Ichnotaxonomy, Preservation and Palaeoecology
Lida Xing, Martin G. Lockley, Daniel Marty, Jianping Zhang, Yan Wang, Hendrik Klein, Richard T. McCrea, Lisa G. Buckley, Matteo Belvedere, Octávio Mateus, Gerard D. Gierliński, Laura Piñuela, W. Scott Persons, Fengping Wang, Hao Ran, Hui Dai, Xianming Xie
published 22 Oct 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 23
- 1857 -
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 24
- 1965 - Alexander V. Markov was born.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 25
- 1856 - Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger was born in Zagreb, Croatia.
- 1944 - Charles Anderson died in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 26
- 1880 - Searles Valentine Wood died in Martlesham, England.
- 1925 - Alick Walker was born.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 27
- 1857 -
Extreme Cranial Ontogeny in the Upper Cretaceous Dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus
John R. Horner, Mark B. Goodwin
published 27 Oct 2009
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 28
- 1873 - Adolf Carl Noé was born in Graz, Austria.
- 1954 - Vicentino Prestes de Almeida died in São Pedro do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Exploring the Relationship between Skeletal Mass and Total Body Mass in Birds
Elizabeth Martin-Silverstone, Orsolya Vincze, Ria McCann, Carl H. W. Jonsson, Colin Palmer, Gary Kaiser, Gareth Dyke
published 28 Oct 2015
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 29
- 1831 - Othniel Charles Marsh was born in Lockport, New York, USA.
- 1836 - Charles Darwin met with Sir Richard Owen, who would describe many of the fossils collected by Darwin during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle.
- 1960 - Johan Gunnar Andersson died.
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 30
- 1866 - Charles William Andrews was born in Hampstead, Middlesex.
- 1931 - Giancarlo Ligabue was born in Venice, Italy.
- 1945 - John Campbell Merriam died.
Herbivory and Body Size: Allometries of Diet Quality and Gastrointestinal Physiology, and Implications for Herbivore Ecology and Dinosaur Gigantism
Marcus Clauss, Patrick Steuer, Dennis W. H. Müller, Daryl Codron, Jürgen Hummel
published 30 Oct 2013
Biomechanical Reconstructions and Selective Advantages of Neck Poses and Feeding Strategies of Sauropods with the Example of Mamenchisaurus youngi
Andreas Christian, Guangzhao Peng, Toru Sekiya, Yong Ye, Marco G. Wulf, Thorsten Steuer
published 30 Oct 2013
Body Temperatures in Dinosaurs: What Can Growth Curves Tell Us?
Eva Maria Griebeler
published 30 Oct 2013
Sauropod Necks: Are They Really for Heat Loss?
Donald M. Henderson
published 30 Oct 2013
Preliminary Analysis of Osteocyte Lacunar Density in Long Bones of Tetrapods: All Measures Are Bigger in Sauropod Dinosaurs
Koen W. H. Stein, Jan Werner
published 30 Oct 2013
Ecological Interactions in Dinosaur Communities: Influences of Small Offspring and Complex Ontogenetic Life Histories
Daryl Codron, Chris Carbone, Marcus Clauss
published 30 Oct 2013
Quantitative Interpretation of Tracks for Determination of Body Mass
Tom Schanz, Yvonne Lins, Hanna Viefhaus, Thomas Barciaga, Sashima Läbe, Holger Preuschoft, Ulrich Witzel, P. Martin Sander
published 30 Oct 2013
Caudal Pneumaticity and Pneumatic Hiatuses in the Sauropod Dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus
Mathew J. Wedel, Michael P. Taylor
published 30 Oct 2013
The Effect of Intervertebral Cartilage on Neutral Posture and Range of Motion in the Necks of Sauropod Dinosaurs
Michael P. Taylor, Mathew J. Wedel
published 30 Oct 2013
An Evolutionary Cascade Model for Sauropod Dinosaur Gigantism - Overview, Update and Tests
P. Martin Sander
published 30 Oct 2013
Torsion and Bending in the Neck and Tail of Sauropod Dinosaurs and the Function of Cervical Ribs: Insights from Functional Morphology and Biomechanics
Holger Preuschoft, Nicole Klein
published 30 Oct 2013
March of the Titans: The Locomotor Capabilities of Sauropod Dinosaurs
William Irvin Sellers, Lee Margetts, Rodolfo Aníbal Coria, Phillip Lars Manning
published 30 Oct 2013
Portal:Paleontology/On this day/October 31
- 1813 - Amos Henry Worthen was born in Bradford, Vermont, USA.