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1919 in paleontology
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1919 paleontology science
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.
Vertebrate paleontology
Newly named dinosaurs
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list. Olshevsky George Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html 2008-08-07 2011-07-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html dead
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes Images
DysalotosaurusVirchow, H. 1919. Atlas and Epistropheus bei
den Schildkroten. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch.
Freunde Berlin 1919: pp. 303-332.
Valid taxon.
Virchow late Kimmeridgian-TithonianTendaguru Formation Tanzania
A dryosaurid.thumb|Dysalotosaurus PanoplosaurusLambe, 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. Valid taxon
Lawrence Lambe middle-late CampanianDinosaur Park Formation Canada (Alberta)A nodosauridthumb|Panoplosaurus UintasaurusHolland, 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.]
Junior synonym.
Holland late Kimmeridgian-TithonianMorrison FormationJunior synonym of Camarasaurus.
Newly named pterosaurs
Name Status Authors Age Unit Location Notes
Parapsicephalus
Valid
von Arthaber ToarcianWhitby Limestone Formation UKA rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888).
See also
Paleontology
References
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.
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