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1919 in paleontology

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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.

Vertebrate paleontology

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotesImages
PanoplosaurusLambe, L.M. 1919. Description of a new genusValid taxon
UintasaurusHolland, W.J. 1919. Report on Section of

Newly named pterosaurs

NameStatusAuthorsAgeUnitLocationNotes

References

References

  1. Olshevsky, George. "Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List".
  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.
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