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 | |
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Valid taxon. |
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late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian |
A dryosaurid. |
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| Panoplosaurus[5] | Valid taxon |
middle-late Campanian |
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| Uintasaurus[6] |
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late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian |
Junior synonym of Camarasaurus. |
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Newly named pterosaurs
| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Valid |
von Arthaber |
Whitby Limestone Formation |
A rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888). | ||||
