1919 in paleontology – Wikipedia

Overview of the events of 1919 in paleontology

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.

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Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries[edit]

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]

Institutions and organizations[edit]

Natural history museums[edit]

Scientific organizations[edit]

Scientific advances[edit]

Paleoanthropology[edit]

Paleobotany[edit]

Evolutionary biology[edit]

Exopaleontology[edit]

Extinction research[edit]

Micropaleontology[edit]

Invertebrate paleozoology[edit]

Trace fossils[edit]

Vertebrate paleozoology[edit]

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

Research techniques[edit]

Fossil trade[edit]

Law and politics[edit]

Regulation of fossil collection, transport, or sale[edit]

Fossil-related crime[edit]

Official symbols[edit]

Protected areas[edit]

Ethics and practice[edit]

Hoaxes[edit]

Scandals[edit]

Unethical practice[edit]

Births[edit]

Awards and recognition[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Historiography and anthropology of paleontology[edit]

Pseudoscience[edit]

Popular culture[edit]

Amusement parks and attractions[edit]

Art[edit]

Comics[edit]

Film[edit]

Gaming[edit]

Literature[edit]

In the Morning of Time by Charles G. D. Roberts was published. Paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant has described it as unusually factual for a work of fiction.^[7]

Philately[edit]

Television[edit]

References[edit]

^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Olshevsky, George. “Dinogeorge’s Dinosaur Genera List”. Retrieved 2008-08-07.
^ Virchow, H. 1919. Atlas and Epistropheus bei
den Schildkroten. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch.
Freunde Berlin 1919: pp. 303-332.
^ 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.
^ 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.]
^ Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.

[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.

[cutler-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.

[ddinogeorge-3] Olshevsky, George. “Dinogeorge’s Dinosaur Genera List”. 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.]

[sarjeant-fic-7] Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529.