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Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 1

Bird-Like Anatomy, Posture, and Behavior Revealed by an Early Jurassic Theropod Dinosaur Resting Trace

Andrew R. C. Milner, Jerald D. Harris, Martin G. Lockley, James I. Kirkland, Neffra A. Matthews

published 04 Mar 2009

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 5

March 5:

1834 - Charles Darwin and the rest of the crew of the second voyage of the HMS Beagle returned to the missionary outpost they established. They found a native they attempted to civilize had returned to his previous ways.
1933 - Keith Holmes was born in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia.
1936 - Yuri Alexandrovich Popov was born in Moscow, USSR.

Torvosaurus gurneyi n. sp., the Largest Terrestrial Predator from Europe, and a Proposed Terminology of the Maxilla Anatomy in Nonavian Theropods

Christophe Hendrickx, Octávio Mateus

published 05 Mar 2014

Lapita Diet in Remote Oceania: New Stable Isotope Evidence from the 3000-Year-Old Teouma Site, Efate Island, Vanuatu

Rebecca Kinaston, Hallie Buckley, Frederique Valentin, Stuart Bedford, Matthew Spriggs, Stuart Hawkins, Estelle Herrscher

published 05 Mar 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 6

March 6:

1915 - Eberhard Fraas died of dysentary contracted during field work in German East Africa in Stuttgart, Germany.

Dinosaur Footprints and Other Ichnofauna from the Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of Morocco

Nizar Ibrahim, David J. Varricchio, Paul C. Sereno, Jeff A. Wilson, Didier B. Dutheil, David M. Martill, Lahssen Baidder, Samir Zouhri

published 06 Mar 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 7

March 7:

1857 -

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 8

March 8:

1877 - James Scott Bowerbank died in St Leonards-on-Sea, England at age 79.
1938 - Andre Keyser was born in Pretoria, South Africa.

First Evidence of Reproductive Adaptation to “Island Effect” of a Dwarf Cretaceous Romanian Titanosaur, with Embryonic Integument In Ovo

Gerald Grellet-Tinner, Vlad Codrea, Annelise Folie, Alessandra Higa, Thierry Smith

published 08 Mar 2012

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 9

March 9:

1847 - Mary Anning died of breast cancer in Lyme Regis, Dorset at age 47. Alfred Nicholson Leeds was born in Eyebury, England.
1998 - Colin Patterson died of a heart attack in London, England.
2013 - Larry Martin died of cancer at age 69.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 10

March 10:

1830 - Eugène Eudes-Deslongchamps was born in Caen, France.
1905 - Bryan Patterson was born in London, England.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 11

March 11:

1874 - Charles W. Gilmore was born.
1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews died in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California at age 76.
2011 - Osvaldo Rodrigues da Cunha died in Belém, Brazil.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 12

March 12:

1784 - William Buckland was born in Axminster, England.
1818 - Frederik Johnstrup was born in Christianshavn, Denmark.
1888 - Walter Hermann Bucher was born in Akron, Ohio, USA.
1928 - Wilhelm von Branca died in Munich, Germany.
1968 - Michael P. Taylor was born in Bishop's Stortford, England.

An Ornithomimid (Dinosauria) Bonebed from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, with Implications for the Behavior, Classification, and Stratigraphy of North American Ornithomimids

Thomas M. Cullen, Michael J. Ryan, Claudia Schröder-Adams, Philip J. Currie, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi

published 12 Mar 2013

A Diminutive New Tyrannosaur from the Top of the World

Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ronald S. Tykoski

published 12 Mar 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 13

March 13:

1885 - Wilhelm Dunker died in Marburg, Germany.
1949 - Philip J. Currie was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
1992 - Osvaldo Reig died.

Turning Semicircular Canal Function on Its Head: Dinosaurs and a Novel Vestibular Analysis

Justin A. Georgi, Justin S. Sipla, Catherine A. Forster

published 13 Mar 2013

2015 - Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska died in Poland.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 14

March 14:

1858 - Eduard Toll was born in Reval, Russia (now Tallinn, Estonia).

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 15

March 15:

1872 - François Jules Pictet de la Rive died.
1923 - Josef Victor Rohon died.
2005 - Miklós Kretzoi died.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 16

March 16:

1822 - Charles M. Wheatley was born in Chipping Ongar, England.
1834 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, returned to the Falkland Islands to help suppress a native rebellion.
1850 - Alexander Bittner was born in Friedland, Czech Republic.
1985 - Archibald Lamont died.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 17

March 17:

1869 - Józef Grzybowski was born in Kraków, Poland.
1882 - George William Stow died of heart failure in Heilbron, South Africa.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 18

March 18:

1899 - Othniel Charles Marsh died in New Haven, Connecticut, USA at age 67.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 19

March 19:

2002 - Eduard Meine van Zinderen-Bakker died of a stroke in Somerset West, South Africa.

Early Triassic Marine Biotic Recovery: The Predators' Perspective

Torsten M. Scheyer, Carlo Romano, Jim Jenks, Hugo Bucher

published 19 Mar 2014

The Earliest Colubroid-Dominated Snake Fauna from Africa: Perspectives from the Late Oligocene Nsungwe Formation of Southwestern Tanzania

Jacob A. McCartney, Nancy J. Stevens, Patrick M. O’Connor

published 19 Mar 2014

A New Large-Bodied Oviraptorosaurian Theropod Dinosaur from the Latest Cretaceous of Western North America

Matthew C. Lamanna, Hans-Dieter Sues, Emma R. Schachner, Tyler R. Lyson

published 19 Mar 2014

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 20

March 20:

1934 - Francis Arthur Bather died.
1946 - Amadeus William Grabau died of an internal hemorrhage in Peking, China at age 76.
1949 - James Chatters was born.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 21

March 21:

1835 - Charles Darwin during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, embarked on another voyage up the Andes near Valparaiso, Chile.
1972 - Louise Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya.

New Information on the Cranial Anatomy of Acrocanthosaurus atokensis and Its Implications for the Phylogeny of Allosauroidea (Dinosauria: Theropoda)

Drew R. Eddy, Julia A. Clarke

published 21 Mar 2011

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 22

March 22:

1875 - Friedrich von Huene was born in Tübingen, Germany.
1901 - Harold John Finlay was born in Comilla, India.
1907 - Pierre Hupé was born in Baye, France.
1935 - Luigi Piacenza was born in Bussolengo, Italy.
1987 - Gustava Kahler died .

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 23

March 23:

1946 - Philip D. Gingerich was born in Iowa, USA.

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 24

March 24:

1868 - Edward Drinker Cope gave a presentation to a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia reporting his description of a giant plesiosaur from Kansas, USA that he named Elasmosaurus platyurus.
1916 - Harry B. Whittington was born in Birmingham, England.
1945 - Robert T. Bakker was born in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA.
1963 - Ethel Currie died in Glasgow, Scotland.

A New Basal Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of Southern Utah

Joseph J. W. Sertich, Mark A. Loewen

published 24 Mar 2010

Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 25

March 25:

1963 - Elmer S. Riggs died in Sedan, Kansas, USA at age 94.
1982 - Sterling Nesbitt was born in Mesa, Arizona, USA.
2015 - Laura Domingo, Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla, and Oscar Cambra-Moo studied the climate and ecology of the Late Cretaceous Lo Hueco site in Spain using the δ18O oxygen isotopes of the fossils preserved there.