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On this day in July

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Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 1

July 1:

1868 - William Sutherland Dun was born in Cheltenham, England.
1905 - Leif Størmer was born in Kristiania, Norway.
1973 - Isabel Clifton Cookson died.
2015 - Jack L. Conrad described the new genus and species of casquehead Lizard Babibasiliscus alxi from the Eocene Bridger Formation of Wyoming, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 2

July 2:

1976 - Arthur Bache Walkom died.

Radiographs Reveal Exceptional Forelimb Strength in the Sabertooth Cat, Smilodon fatalis

Julie A. Meachen-Samuels, Blaire Van Valkenburgh

published 02 Jul 2010

Geochronological and Taxonomic Revisions of the Middle Eocene Whistler Squat Quarry (Devil’s Graveyard Formation, Texas) and Implications for the Early Uintan in Trans-Pecos Texas

Christopher J. Campisano, E. Christopher Kirk, K. E. Beth Townsend, Alan L. Deino

published 02 Jul 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 3

July 3:

1858 - Charles Schuchert was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
1874 - Johan Gunnar Andersson was born.
1904 - John Bell Hatcher died of typhoid fever in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, at age 42.
1919 - Irajá Damiani Pinto was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

New Mid-Cretaceous (Latest Albian) Dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland, Australia

Scott A. Hocknull, Matt A. White, Travis R. Tischler, Alex G. Cook, Naomi D. Calleja, Trish Sloan, David A. Elliott

published 03 Jul 2009

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 4

July 4:

1899 - Arthur Coggeshall discovered the type specimen of Diplodocus carnegii near Sheep Creek, Wyoming, USA. The specimen is now curated by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, whose exhibit hall had to be expanded to make room for it.
1942 - Marcellin Boule died.
1946 - Othenio Abel died in Mondsee, Austria at age 71.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 5

July 5:

1832 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil towards Montevideo, Uruguay.
1862 - Heinrich Georg Bronn died in Heidelberg, Germany.
1904 - Franz Martin Hilgendorf died of a gastrointestinal ailment in Berlin, Germany at age 64.

Maximal Aerobic and Anaerobic Power Generation in Large Crocodiles versus Mammals: Implications for Dinosaur Gigantothermy

Roger S. Seymour

published 05 Jul 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 6

July 6:

1833 - Auguste Jaccard was born in Culliairy, Switzerland.
1874 - Bernard du Bus de Gisignies died in Bad Ems, Germany.

Convergence and Divergence in the Evolution of Cat Skulls: Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Morphological Diversity

Manabu Sakamoto, Marcello Ruta

published 06 Jul 2012

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 7

July 7:

1819 - William Hellier Baily was born in Bristol, England.
1835 - Paul Henri Fischer was born in Paris, France.
1993 - Ove Arbo Høeg died.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 8

July 8:

1811 - August Emanuel von Reuss was born in Bílina, Czech Republic.
1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at St. Helena.
2001 - Jia Lanpo died in Beijing, China.
2015 - David C. Evans and Michael J. Ryan described the new genus and species of ceratopsid Wendiceratops pinhornensis from the Campanian Oldman Formation of Alberta, Canada.
Jorge Cubo and others reported the first evidence of biomechanically adaptive bone modeling in non-avian dinosaurs from the limb bones of Maiasaura specimens of different ages. Their find provided more evidence that this hadrosaur hatched as a biped and gradually transitioned to walking on all fours as it grew.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 9

July 9:

1867 - Jean-Louis Hardouin Michelin de Choisy died in Versailles, France.
2015 - David M. Raup died in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 10

July 10:

1851 - Samuel Wendell Williston was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
1873 - Ion Th. Simionescu was born in Fântânele, Romania.
1879 - Paul Bertrand was born in Loos-lez-Lille, France.
1982 - Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald died in Bad Homburg, West Germany.

Skull Ecomorphology of Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada

Jordan C. Mallon, Jason S. Anderson

published 10 Jul 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 11

July 11:

1944 - Patricia Vickers-Rich was born in the USA.
1996 - Zeev Reiss died.

A Giant Chelonioid Turtle from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco with a Suction Feeding Apparatus Unique among Tetrapods

Nathalie Bardet, Nour-Eddine Jalil, France de Lapparent de Broin, Damien Germain, Olivier Lambert, Mbarek Amaghzaz

published 11 Jul 2013

The Enigmatic Marine Reptile Nanchangosaurus from the Lower Triassic of Hubei, China and the Phylogenetic Affinities of Hupehsuchia

Xiao-hong Chen, Ryosuke Motani, Long Cheng, Da-yong Jiang, Olivier Rieppel

published 11 Jul 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 12

Distributions of Cranial Pathologies Provide Evidence for Head-Butting in Dome-Headed Dinosaurs (Pachycephalosauridae)

Joseph E. Peterson, Collin Dischler, Nicholas R. Longrich

published 16 Jul 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 17

July 17:

1814 - Amanz Gressly was born in Bärschwil, Switzerland.
1871 - Ethel Shakespear was born in Biddenham, England.
1878 - Thomas Oldham died in Rugby, England at age 62.
1907 - Angelo Heilprin died.
1992 - The Seattle Times ran an article reporting that Allison Andors and several other experts on Diatryma had concluded that the purported fossil Diatryma footprint of Flaming Geyser State Park, Washington state, USA the paper reported on May 3rd was actually a clever hoax. Nevertheless, ichnologists Martin Lockley and Adrian Hunt have since concluded that the track was legitimate after all.

Evolution of High Tooth Replacement Rates in Sauropod Dinosaurs

Michael D. D’Emic, John A. Whitlock, Kathlyn M. Smith, Daniel C. Fisher, Jeffrey A. Wilson

published 17 Jul 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 18

July 18:

1858 - Ernst Friedrich Glocker died in Stuttgart, Germany at age 65.
1950 - Mignon Talbot died at age 80.
1992 - Pierce Brodkorb died in Gainesville, Florida.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 19

July 19:

1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Ascension Island.
1898 - Jaci Antonio Louzada Tupi Caldas was born.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 20

July 20:

1804 - Richard Owen was born in Lancaster, England.
1943 - Charles Hazelius Sternberg died.
1995 - Cesare Emiliani died in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 21

July 21:

1913 - Carl Hermann Credner died.
1931 - Malcolm McKenna was born in Pomona, California, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 22

July 22:

1776 - Etheldred Benett was born in Tisbury, England.
1878 - Ray S. Bassler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1945 - Vladimir Zherikhin was born in Moscow, USSR.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 23

July 23:

1834 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Valparaiso, Chile.
1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed Ascension Island for Bahia, Brazil.

A ‘Terror of Tyrannosaurs’: The First Trackways of Tyrannosaurids and Evidence of Gregariousness and Pathology in Tyrannosauridae

Richard T. McCrea, Lisa G. Buckley, James O. Farlow, Martin G. Lockley, Philip J. Currie, Neffra A. Matthews, S. George Pemberton

published 23 Jul 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 24

July 24:

1794 - Heinz Christian Pander was born in Riga, Russian Empire.
1828 - Perceval de Loriol was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
1953 - J. Willis Stovall died.

Long Bone Histology and Growth Patterns in Ankylosaurs: Implications for Life History and Evolution

Martina Stein, Shoji Hayashi, P. Martin Sander

published 24 Jul 2013

New Australovenator Hind Limb Elements Pertaining to the Holotype Reveal the Most Complete Neovenatorid Leg

Matt A. White, Roger B. J. Benson, Travis R. Tischler, Scott A. Hocknull, Alex G. Cook, David G. Barnes, Stephen F. Poropat, Sarah J. Wooldridge, Trish Sloan, George H. K. Sinapius, David A. Elliott

published 24 Jul 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/July 25