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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Influence of Skull Reconstructions and Intraspecific Variability in Studies of Cranial Morphometrics in Theropods and Basal Saurischians

Christian Foth, Oliver W. M. Rauhut

published 08 Aug 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 9

August 9:

1813 - William Fox was born in Cumberland, England.

Convergent Evolution in Aquatic Tetrapods: Insights from an Exceptional Fossil Mosasaur

Johan Lindgren, Michael W. Caldwell, Takuya Konishi, Luis M. Chiappe

published 09 Aug 2010

Assessing Arboreal Adaptations of Bird Antecedents: Testing the Ecological Setting of the Origin of the Avian Flight Stroke

T. Alexander Dececchi, Hans C. E. Larsson

published 09 Aug 2011

Lujiatun Psittacosaurids: Understanding Individual and Taphonomic Variation Using 3D Geometric Morphometrics

Brandon P. Hedrick, Peter Dodson

published 09 Aug 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 10

August 10:

1886 - George Busk died in London, England at age 78.

A Subadult Specimen of Rubeosaurus ovatus (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae), with Observations on Other Ceratopsids from the Two Medicine Formation

Andrew T. McDonald

published 10 Aug 2011

Variation, Variability, and the Origin of the Avian Endocranium: Insights from the Anatomy of Alioramus altai (Theropoda: Tyrannosauroidea)

Gabe S. Bever, Stephen L. Brusatte, Amy M. Balanoff, Mark A. Norell

published 10 Aug 2011

Earliest Example of a Giant Monitor Lizard (Varanus, Varanidae, Squamata)

Jack L. Conrad, Ana M. Balcarcel, Carl M. Mehling

published 10 Aug 2012

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 11

August 11:

1799 - Joachim Barrande was born in Saugues, France.
1817 - Benjamin Franklin Mudge was born in Orrington, Maine, USA.
1943 - Frederick Schram was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 12

August 12:

1807 - George Busk was born in St Petersburg, Russian Empire.
1833 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin met General Juan Manuel de Rosas, who was on a punitive expedition against local natives, and received permission to continue his expedition.
1857 - William Conybeare died in Itchen Stoke, England.
2005 - Jack A. Wolfe died.

Scales and Tooth Whorls of Ancient Fishes Challenge Distinction between External and Oral ‘Teeth’

Qingming Qu, Sophie Sanchez, Henning Blom, Paul Tafforeau, Per Erik Ahlberg

published 12 Aug 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 13

August 13:

1946 - Ashton F. Embry was born.
2014 -

Titanosaur Osteoderms from the Upper Cretaceous of Lo Hueco (Spain) and Their Implications on the Armor of Laurasian Titanosaurs

Daniel Vidal, Francisco Ortega, José Luis Sanz

published 13 Aug 2014

Fenglu Han and others described the new ankylosaurid genus and species Chuanqilong chaoyangensis from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of China

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 14

August 14:

1834 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, embarked on horseback up the Andes near Valparaiso, Chile.
1856 - William Buckland died of tuberculosis in Islip, England at age 72.
1869 - Mignon Talbot was born in Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
1873 - Léon Pervinquière was born in La Roche-sur-Yon, France.
1929 - Osvaldo Reig was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Inter-Vertebral Flexibility of the Ostrich Neck: Implications for Estimating Sauropod Neck Flexibility

Matthew J. Cobley, Emily J. Rayfield, Paul M. Barrett

published 14 Aug 2013

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 15

August 15:

1815 - Alexander Keyserling was born in Kabile parish.
1914 - Alfred R. Loeblich Jr was born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
2010 - Andre Keyser died of cancer in Pretoria, South Africa.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 16

August 16:

1848 - William Jacob Holland was born in Jamaica.
1887 - Julius von Haast died in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 17

August 17:

1834 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, spent the day at the summit of Cerro La Campana in Chile.
1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed Bahia, Brazil to finally head home.
1909 - Earl Douglass of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History discovered a series of eight articulated Apatosaurus tail vertebrae in Utah, USA.
1978 - John Marwick died in Hastings, New Zealand.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 18

August 18:

1917 - Charles Eugène Bertrand died.
2004 - Helen Niña Tappan Loeblich died in Anaheim, California, USA at age 86.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 19

August 19:

2015 - Aude Cincotta and others published the results of two censuses of the French Velaux-La Bastide Neuve fossil site in PLoS ONE. They reconstructed it as a late Campanian floodplain home to creatures like Atsinganosaurus, crocodilians, pterosaurs, hybodonts, and bony fish.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 20

August 20:

1857 -

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 21

August 21:

1833 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin revisited the fossil sites near Punta Alta, Argentina that he studied the previous year.

New Insights into Non-Avian Dinosaur Reproduction and Their Evolutionary and Ecological Implications: Linking Fossil Evidence to Allometries of Extant Close Relatives

Jan Werner, Eva Maria Griebeler

published 21 Aug 2013

2015 - A man named Stjepan Sucec discovered a megalodon tooth while hunting for shells in the Kupa River near Pokupsko, Croatia. Sucec's megalodon was once an inhabitant of the region's Miocene-Pliocene Pannonian Sea.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 22

August 22:

1832 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed from Cape San Antonio, Argentina to survey the South American coast.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 23

August 23:

1769 - Georges Cuvier was born in Montbéliard, France.
1833 - Giovanni Capellini was born in La Spezia, Italy.
1947 - Clive Forster-Cooper died.
1990 - Mirko Malez died in Zagreb, Croatia at age 65.
2003 - Pierre Hupé died in Paris, France.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 24

August 24:

1824 - Antonio Stoppani was born in Lecco, Italy.
1831 - August Henslow wrote a letter to Charles Darwin urging him to take the supernumerary naturalist position aboard the HMS Beagle, which was being prepared for its second voyage.
1954 - James Kirkland was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
2011 - Leonid Petrovich Tatarinov died in Moscow, Russia.

A New Ankylosaurid Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous (Kirtlandian) of New Mexico with Implications for Ankylosaurid Diversity in the Upper Cretaceous of Western North America

Victoria M. Arbour, Michael E. Burns, Robert M. Sullivan, Spencer G. Lucas, Amanda K. Cantrell, Joshua Fry, Thomas L. Suazo

published 24 Sep 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 25

August 25:

1911 - André Leroi-Gourhan was born in Paris, France.
1917 - Alfred Nicholson Leeds died.
1943 - Niles Eldredge was born.

Estimating Impact Forces of Tail Club Strikes by Ankylosaurid Dinosaurs

Victoria Megan Arbour

published 25 Aug 2009

2013 - Rajko Pavlovec died in Ljubljana, Slovenia at age 81.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 26

August 26:

1881 - Alice Wilson was born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada.
1957 - Joseph Tyrrell died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at age 98.

A New Mass Mortality of Juvenile Protoceratops and Size-Segregated Aggregation Behaviour in Juvenile Non-Avian Dinosaurs

David W. E. Hone, Andrew A. Farke, Mahito Watabe, Suzuki Shigeru, Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar

published 26 Nov 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 27

August 27:

1855 - Jane Longstaff was born in Carlisle, England.
1947 - Robert R. Reisz was born in Oradea, Romania.
1948 - Louis L. Jacobs was born.
1962 - Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan was born.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 28

August 28:

1914 - Frank Peabody was born.
1939 - Jere H. Lipps was born in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 29

August 29:

1831 - Charles Darwin's father, Robert, temporarily convinced him not to join the planned second voyage of the Beagle.
1930 - Gundolf Ernst was born in Hamburg, Germany.
1959 - Alexey Bystrow died.

Martharaptor greenriverensis, a New Theropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah

Phil Senter, James I. Kirkland, Donald D. DeBlieux

published 29 Aug 2012

Abdominal Contents from Two Large Early Cretaceous Compsognathids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) Demonstrate Feeding on Confuciusornithids and Dromaeosaurids

Lida Xing, Phil R. Bell, W. Scott Persons, Shuan Ji, Tetsuto Miyashita, Michael E. Burns, Qiang Ji, Philip J. Currie

published 29 Aug 2012

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 30

August 30:

1831 - At his father's bidding, Charles Darwin penned a letter to August Henslow, declining the offer of a supernumerary position aboard the HMS Beagle, which was then being prepared for its second voyage. He would change his mind and accept the offer the next day.
1910 - Carlos de Paula Couto was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
1918 - Samuel Wendell Williston died in Chicago, Illinois, USA at age 67.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/August 31

August 31:

1809 - Oswald Heer was born in Nieder-Utzwyl, Switzerland.
1815 - Heinrich Ernst Beyrich was born in Berlin, Germany.

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