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

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* 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

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### Newly named dinosaurs

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

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Dysalotosaurus[4]

Valid taxon.

* Virchow

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late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian

Tendaguru Formation

* Tanzania

A dryosaurid.

| Dysalotosaurus
Panoplosaurus[5] | Valid taxon  |

* Lawrence Lambe

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middle-late Campanian

Dinosaur Park Formation

* Canada ( Alberta)

A nodosaurid

| Panoplosaurus
Uintasaurus[6] |

Junior synonym.

* Holland

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late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian

Morrison Formation

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Junior synonym of Camarasaurus.

### Newly named pterosaurs

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Parapsicephalus

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von Arthaber

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Toarcian

Whitby Limestone Formation

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A rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888).

## See also

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* Paleontology portal

## References

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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.]

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