1919 in paleontology

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Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils . ^[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks ( ichnites ), burrows , cast-off parts, fossilised feces ( coprolites ), palynomorphs and chemical residues . Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science . This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1919.

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries

• Summer: William Edmund Cutler resumed collecting dinosaur fossils in Dinosaur Provincial Park. One discovery was a disarticulated ceratopsian he identified as an " Eoceratops ". He spent the remainder of the year excavating the specimen although his progress was hampered by illness and bad weather. ^[2]

Vertebrate paleontology

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. ^[3]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dysalotosaurus [4]	Valid taxon.	Virchow		late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	A dryosaurid.	Dysalotosaurus
Panoplosaurus [5]	Valid taxon	Lawrence Lambe		middle-late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada (  Alberta)	A nodosaurid	Panoplosaurus
Uintasaurus [6]	Junior synonym.	Holland		late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian	Morrison Formation		Junior synonym of Camarasaurus .

Newly named pterosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Parapsicephalus	Valid	von Arthaber		Toarcian	Whitby Limestone Formation	UK	A rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888).

See also

• Paleontology portal

References

1. Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN   9780070887398. OCLC   46769716.
2. D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing Eoceratops. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550.
3. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
4. Virchow, H. 1919. Atlas and Epistropheus bei den Schildkroten. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch. Freunde Berlin 1919: pp. 303-332.
5. Lambe, L.M. 1919. Description of a new genus and species (Panoplosaurus mirus) of armored dinosaur from the Belly River Beds of Alberta. Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. (ser. 3) 13: pp. 39-50.
6. Holland, W.J. 1919. Report on Section of Paleontology. Annual Report of the Carnegie Museum (for 1919): p. 38 [and see Holland, W.J. 1924. Description of the type of Uintasaurus douglassi Holland. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 15 (2-3): pp. 119-138.]