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Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 1

Standardized Terminology and Potential Taxonomic Utility for Hadrosaurid Skin Impressions: A Case Study for Saurolophus from Canada and Mongolia

Phil R. Bell

published 03 Feb 2012

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 4

February 4:

1922 - Joan Wiffen was born.
2014 - Richard Aldridge died.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 5

February 5:

1820 - Adriaan Gilles Camper died.
1826 - Henry Testot-Ferry was born in La Chapelle-la-Reine, France.
1949 - Nieves López Martínez was born in Burgos, Spain.
1963 - Barnum Brown died in New York City, New York, USA at age 89.

Walking Like Dinosaurs: Chickens with Artificial Tails Provide Clues about Non-Avian Theropod Locomotion

Bruno Grossi, José Iriarte-Díaz, Omar Larach, Mauricio Canals, Rodrigo A. Vásquez

published 05 Feb 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 6

February 6:

1922 - James Kitching was born.
1928 - Walter Auffenberg was born in Detroit, Michigan.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 7

February 7:

1815 - Hermann Friedrich Emmrich was born in Meiningen, Germany.
1868 - Theobald Jones died in London, England.
1896 - Charles Wachsmuth died.

A Complete Skull of an Early Cretaceous Sauropod and the Evolution of Advanced Titanosaurians

Hussam Zaher, Diego Pol, Alberto B. Carvalho, Paulo M. Nascimento, Claudio Riccomini, Peter Larson, Rubén Juarez-Valieri, Ricardo Pires-Domingues, Nelson Jorge da Silva, Diógenes de Almeida Campos

published 07 Feb 2011

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 8

February 8:

1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Valdivia, Chile.
1839 - Gustav Karl Laube was born in Teplitz, Czech Republic.
1883 - Peter Merian died in Basel, Switzerland at age 87.
1889 - Arthur Bache Walkom was born in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia.
1939 - Cyril Walker was born.

New Specimens of Nemegtomaia from the Baruungoyot and Nemegt Formations (Late Cretaceous) of Mongolia

Federico Fanti, Philip J. Currie, Demchig Badamgarav

published 08 Feb 2012

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 9

February 9:

1898 - Anatol Heintz was born in Petrograd.
1907 - Miklós Kretzoi was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire.
1927 - Charles Doolittle Walcott died in Washington, D.C., USA at age 76.

Dinosaur Census Reveals Abundant Tyrannosaurus and Rare Ontogenetic Stages in the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), Montana, USA

John R. Horner, Mark B. Goodwin, Nathan Myhrvold

published 09 Feb 2011

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 10

February 10:

1796 - Henry De la Beche was born in London, England.
1818 - Bartolomeo Gastaldi was born in Turin, Sardinia.
1879 - Paul Gervais died in Paris, France.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 11

February 11:

1857 -

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 12

February 12:

1790 - Jean Jacques Nicolas Huot was born in Paris, France.
1815 - Edward Forbes was born in Douglas, Isle of Man.
1858 - William Berryman Scott was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
1859 - Samuel Stutchbury died in Bristol, England.
1873 - Barnum Brown was born in Carbondale, Kansas, Kansas, USA.
1900 - Carroll Lane Fenton was born in Iowa, USA.

Terrestrial Origin of Viviparity in Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Indicated by Early Triassic Embryonic Fossils

Ryosuke Motani, Da-yong Jiang, Andrea Tintori, Olivier Rieppel, Guan-bao Chen

published 12 Feb 2014

2015 - Ignacio Díaz-Martínez and others published a review summarizing science's knowledge about the fossilized footprints of large ornithopod dinosaurs.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 13

February 13:

1805 - Édouard de Verneuil was born in Paris, France.
1864 - Frederick Chapman was born in London, England.
1870 - Franz Unger died in Graz, Austria at age 69.
1891 - William Davies died in Hertford, England.

Secondary Cartilage Revealed in a Non-Avian Dinosaur Embryo

Alida M. Bailleul, Brian K. Hall, John R. Horner

published 13 Feb 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 14

February 14:

1798 - Searles Valentine Wood was born.
1904 - Charles Emerson Beecher died of heart disease in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
1940 - Francesco Mallegni was born in Camariore.

Didactyl Tracks of Paravian Theropods (Maniraptora) from the ?Middle Jurassic of Africa

Alexander Mudroch, Ute Richter, Ulrich Joger, Ralf Kosma, Oumarou Idé, Abdoulaye Maga

published 14 Feb 2011

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 15

February 15:

1946 - Richard Fortey was born in London, England.
2010 - Claud William Wright died in Burford, England.

The Extent of the Preserved Feathers on the Four-Winged Dinosaur Microraptor gui under Ultraviolet Light

David W. E. Hone, Helmut Tischlinger, Xing Xu, Fucheng Zhang

published 15 Feb 2010

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 16

February 16:

1832 - Captain Robert FitzRoy, Charles Darwin and other members of the crew of second voyage of the HMS Beagle arrived at St. Paul's rocks, finding the seabirds so tame that they could be killed easily.
1954 - Albert Heber Longman died in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

A Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Ischigualasto Formation (Triassic, Carnian) and the Early Evolution of Sauropodomorpha

Ricardo N. Martinez, Oscar A. Alcober

published 16 Feb 2009

2012 - Mitja Brodar died.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 17

February 17:

1832 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, crossed the equator into the Southern Hemisphere. The crew of the ship marked the event with a traditional line-crossing ceremony.
1863 - Francis Arthur Bather was born in London, England.
1922 - Józef Grzybowski died.
1953 - Eudald Carbonell was born in Ribes de Freser, Spain.
1965 - Walter Hermann Bucher died in Houston, Texas, USA at age 76.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 18

February 18:

1839 - Harry Seeley was born in London, England.
1876 - Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart died.
1928 - John Ostrom was born in New York City, New York, USA.
1938 - Dmitrii Mushketov died in the Great Purge of the USSR.
1974 - Oliver Bulman died in Cambridge, England at age 71.
2015 - Femke M. Holwerda, Diego Pol, and Oliver W. M. Rauhut demonstrated that the wrinkled texture of sauropod tooth enamel could be used to distinguish different species found in the Early - Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina and possibly elsewhere.
Momo Yamashita, Takuya Konishi, and Tamaki Sato published a study of the sclerotic rings of mosasaur eyes.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 19

February 19:

1810 - John Morris was born in London, England.
1871 - William Diller Matthew was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
1986 - André Leroi-Gourhan died in Paris, France.

Estimating Mass Properties of Dinosaurs Using Laser Imaging and 3D Computer Modelling

Karl T. Bates, Phillip L. Manning, David Hodgetts, William I. Sellers

published 19 Feb 2009

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 20

February 20:

1835 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, experienced an earthquake at Valdivia, Chile. After the quake, the local mussel beds had been raised above the high tide line. Darwin had witnessed the gradual elevation of the continent as theorized by Charles Lyell.
1841 - Nathaniel Shaler was born in Newport, Kentucky, USA.
1892 - Raymond Cecil Moore was born in Roslyn, Washington, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 21

February 21:

1809 - Wilhelm Dunker was born in Eschwege, Germany.
1954 - Donald Prothero was born in Glendale, California, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 22

February 22:

1944 - Edward Oscar Ulrich died in Washington, D.C., USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 23

February 23:

1835 - Henry Bowman Brady was born in Gateshead, England.
1975 - Anatol Heintz died in Bærum, Norway.
2015 - David K. Smith published a study of the skull and neck musculature of the North American therizinosaurs Falcarius utahenisis and Nothronychus mckinleyi.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 24

February 24:

1925 - Adolf Seilacher was born.
1944 - Paul Bertrand died in Paris, France.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 25

February 25:

1882 - Philippe de La Harpe died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
1930 - Natascha Heintz was born in New York, USA.
1933 - Lukas Hottinger was born in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Dynamic Similarity in Titanosaur Sauropods: Ichnological Evidence from the Fumanya Dinosaur Tracksite (Southern Pyrenees)

Bernat Vila, Oriol Oms, Àngel Galobart, Karl T. Bates, Victoria M. Egerton, Phillip L. Manning

published 25 Feb 2013

Allometries of Maximum Growth Rate versus Body Mass at Maximum Growth Indicate That Non-Avian Dinosaurs Had Growth Rates Typical of Fast Growing Ectothermic Sauropsids

Jan Werner, Eva Maria Griebeler

published 25 Feb 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 26