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On this day in September

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Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 1

September 1:

1831 - Charles Darwin accepted the offer of a supernumerary naturalist position aboard the HMS Beagle, which was being prepared for its second voyage.
1833 - During the second voyage of the Beagle, Darwin discovered an articulated fossil skeleton near the sites of his 1832 fossil discoveries near Punta Alta, Argentina.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 2

September 2:

1944 - Arthur Smith Woodward died in Haywards Heath, England at age 80.
2013 - Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov died.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 3

September 3:

1857 -

Broad-Scale Patterns of Late Jurassic Dinosaur Paleoecology

Christopher R. Noto, Ari Grossman

published 03 Sep 2010

The Latest Succession of Dinosaur Tracksites in Europe: Hadrosaur Ichnology, Track Production and Palaeoenvironments

Bernat Vila, Oriol Oms, Víctor Fondevilla, Rodrigo Gaete, Àngel Galobart, Violeta Riera, José Ignacio Canudo

published 03 Sep 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 4

September 4:

1831 - Captain Robert FitzRoy strongly objected to taking on Charles Darwin as the supernumerary naturalist for the second voyage of the HMS Beagle.
1890 - Samuel Beckles died in Hastings, England.
2011 - Lukas Hottinger died in Basel, Switzerland.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 5

September 5:

1813 - Edward Charlesworth was born in Clapham, England.
1831 - Charles Darwin journeyed to London, England to talk to Captain Robert FitzRoy despite being rejected for the role of supernumerary naturalist aboard the second voyage of the HMS Beagle the previous day. Darwin learned that FitzRoy had been saving the position for a friend from whom he just received a letter declining the position. Darwin was accepted for the now-open position.
1865 - Reginald Hooley was born in Southampton, England.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 6

September 6:

1802 - Alcide d'Orbigny was born in Couëron, France.
1807 - William Clark and his brother George Rogers Clark arrived at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, USA to obtain fossils. William Clark reported that so many people had taken bones from the site that even after two weeks of effort it was difficult to find quality specimens. Nevertheless, the Clarks' expedition uncovered about 300 bones they felt of sufficient caliber to send to then-US president Thomas Jefferson.
1921 - Henry Woodward died at age 88.
1941 - Walter W. Granger died of heart failure in Lusk, Wyoming, USA at age 68.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 7

September 7:

1859 - Margaret Crosfield was born.
1968 - Graham Budd was born in Colchester, England.
2000 - The Des Moines Register reported the discovery of the first identifiable dinosaur fossil in Iowa, USA, a three inch long vertebra discovered in landscaping gravel excavated from a local pit.

A Short-Armed Troodontid Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and Its Implications for Troodontid Evolution

Xing Xu, Qingwei Tan, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Dong Xiao

published 07 Sep 2011

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 8

September 8:

1857 -

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 9

September 9:

1794 - William Lonsdale was born in Bath, England.
1823 - Joseph Leidy was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
1844 - Wilhelm von Branca was born in Potsdam, Germany.
1987 - Vratislav Mazák died in Prague, Czech Republic.
1994 - Alfred R. Loeblich Jr died.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 10

September 10:

1804 - Four members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition recorded in their journals a fossil discovery along the banks of the Missouri River in what is now Gregory County South Dakota, USA. They had discovered a 45-foot long articulated vertebral column with some ribs and teeth associated that was located at the top of a high ridge. The men interpreted the remains as originating from a giant fish, but today scientists think the specimen was probably a mosasaur, or maybe a plesiosaur. The expedition sent back some of the fossils, but these were later lost.
1897 - Egidio Feruglio was born in Tavagnacco, Italy.
1941 - Stephen Jay Gould was born in New York City, New York, USA.
1950 - Annie Montague Alexander died of a stroke in Oakland, California, USA at age 82.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 11

Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae)

Matt A. White, Phil R. Bell, Alex G. Cook, David G. Barnes, Travis R. Tischler, Brant J. Bassam, David A. Elliott

published 14 Sep 2015

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 15

September 15:

1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at the Galapagos Islands.
1877 - Mikhail Zalessky was born.
1903 - Edna P. Plumstead was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
1930 - Halszka Osmólska was born in Poznań, Poland.
1943 - Guy Ellcock Pilgrim died in Upton, England.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 16

September 16:

1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, dropped anchor at Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Chatham Island in the Galapagos.
1956 - Kirill Eskov was born in Moscow, USSR.

A New Basal Sauropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the Early Evolution of Sauropoda

Kristian Remes, Francisco Ortega, Ignacio Fierro, Ulrich Joger, Ralf Kosma, José Manuel Marín Ferrer, for the Project PALDES, for the Niger Project SNHM, Oumarou Amadou Ide, Abdoulaye Maga

published 16 Sep 2009

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 17

September 17:

1919 - Gunnar Henningsmoen was born in Kristiania, Norway.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 18

September 18:

1857 - Florentino Ameghino was born in Luján, Argentina.
1943 - Charles E. Resser died in Washington, DC, USA.
1962 - Larry Kramer discovered a lower mastodon molar now catalogued as GRPM 12540 in Michigan, USA.
1982 - Pei Wenzhong died.

Forearm Posture and Mobility in Quadrupedal Dinosaurs

Collin S. VanBuren, Matthew Bonnan

published 18 Sep 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 19

September 19:

1857 -

A New Troodontid Theropod, Talos sampsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America

Lindsay E. Zanno, David J. Varricchio, Patrick M. O'Connor, Alan L. Titus, Michael J. Knell

published 19 Sep 2011

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 20

September 20:

1821 - Auguste Pomel was born in Issoire, France.
1834 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, fell seriously ill, possibly of Chagas disease, and spent the next month in bed.
1932 - Theodor Anton Neagu was born in Giurgiu, Romania.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 21

September 21:

1873 - Émilien Dumas died in Ax-sur-Ariège, France.
1949 - Kenneth Carpenter was born in Tokyo, Japan.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 22

September 22:

1829 - Alois Humbert was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
1831 - Grigore Cobălcescu was born in Moldavia.
1832 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Captain Robert FitzRoy took Charles Darwin for a "pleasant cruise" to Punta Alta, Argentina. In the Punta Alta area he found fossils of shells and large mammal fossils.
1842 - Henri Émile Sauvage was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
1865 - Heinz Christian Pander died in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire at age 71.
1957 - David Grimaldi was born.

New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism

Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Eric M. Roberts, Catherine A. Forster, Joshua A. Smith, Alan L. Titus

published 22 Sep 2010

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 23

September 23:

1832 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin collected fossils in the Punta Alta, Argentina area, including the skull of a large rhinoceros-like mammal.
1953 - Kenneth Garrett was born in Columbia, Missouri, USA.
1972 - Norman Arthur Wakefield died as a result of a fall from a tree while trimming its branches at his home in Sherbrooke, Victoria, Australia at age 53.
1989 - Edna P. Plumstead died in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2014 - Washington Luiz Silva Vieira and others performed a statistical analysis of titanosaur biodiversity and co-occurrence in South America during the Late Cretaceous, finding that the coexistence of titanosaurs at various times and places in Late Cretaceous South America were essentially random rather than driven by ecological factors like niche partitioning.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 24

September 24:

1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac was born in Reims, France.
1930 - William Diller Matthew died.
1936 - Alexandr Rasnitsyn was born in Moscow, USSR.
1971 - Michael S. Engel was born in Creve Coeur, Missouri, USA.
2014 - Victoria M. Arbour and others described the new ankylosaurid genus and species Ziapelta sanjuanensis from the Campanian Kirtland Formation of New Mexico, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 25

September 25:

1857 -

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 26

September 26:

1816 - Paul Gervais was born in Paris, France.
1832 - Zsófia Torma was born in Csicsókeresztúr, Austria-Hungary (now Cristeștii Ciceului, Romania).
1912 - Preston Cloud was born in West Upton, Massachusetts, USA.
1961 - Alexander Kellner was born in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
1975 - C. H. Waddington died in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 27

September 27:

1809 - François Jules Pictet de la Rive was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
1883 - Oswald Heer died in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 74.
1941 - J. William Schopf was born in Urbana, Illinois, USA.
1945 - Charles W. Gilmore died.
1964 - Peter J. Wagner was born in the USA.

A Second Soundly Sleeping Dragon: New Anatomical Details of the Chinese Troodontid Mei long with Implications for Phylogeny and Taphonomy

Chunling Gao, Eric M. Morschhauser, David J. Varricchio, Jinyuan Liu, Bo Zhao

published 27 Sep 2012

A New Archosauriform (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Manda Beds (Middle Triassic) of Southwestern Tanzania

Sterling J. Nesbitt, Richard J. Butler, David J. Gower

published 27 Sep 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 28

September 28:

1856 - Jules Haime died in Paris, France at age 32.
1905 - Edwin H. Colbert was born in Clarinda, Iowa, USA.
1946 - Geerat J. Vermeij was born in Sappemeer, Netherlands.
1954 - Christopher P. Sloan was born.

Cranial Growth and Variation in Edmontosaurs (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae): Implications for Latest Cretaceous Megaherbivore Diversity in North America

Nicolás E. Campione, David C. Evans

published 28 Sep 2011

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 29

September 29:

1908 - Pierce Brodkorb was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1984 - A small monument was dedicated to Hadrosaurus foulkii near the site of its discovery in Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA. The dedication was the culmination of Haddonfield resident Christopher Brees's Eagle Scout project.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 30

September 30:

1900 - William Elgin Swinton was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
2002 - Robert Masterman Stainforth died.

Evidence for Avian Intrathoracic Air Sacs in a New Predatory Dinosaur from Argentina

Paul C. Sereno, Ricardo N. Martinez, Jeffrey A. Wilson, David J. Varricchio, Oscar A. Alcober, Hans C. E. Larsson

published 30 Sep 2008

Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs

Ewan D. S. Wolff, Steven W. Salisbury, John R. Horner, David J. Varricchio

published 30 Sep 2009

Cartilaginous Epiphyses in Extant Archosaurs and Their Implications for Reconstructing Limb Function in Dinosaurs

Casey M. Holliday, Ryan C. Ridgely, Jayc C. Sedlmayr, Lawrence M. Witmer

published 30 Sep 2010