Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoriclife 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]
Institutions and organizations
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Paleoanthropology
Paleobotany
Evolutionary biology
Exopaleontology
Extinction research
Micropaleontology
Invertebrate paleozoology
Trace fossils
Vertebrate paleozoology
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
A rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888).
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Fossil trade
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Hoaxes
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People
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Historiography and anthropology of paleontology
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Literature
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]
^Gini-Newman, Garfield; Graham, Elizabeth (2001). Echoes from the past: world history to the 16th century. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd. ISBN9780070887398. OCLC46769716.
^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.
^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.