1919 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils.^[1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (ichnites), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 1919.

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.^[2]

Vertebrate paleontology

Newly named dinosaurs

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[3]

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dysalotosaurus[4]	Valid taxon.	Virchow		late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian	Tendaguru Formation	Tanzania	A dryosaurid.	Dysalotosaurus
Panoplosaurus[5]	Valid taxon	Lawrence Lambe		middle-late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada ( Alberta)	A nodosaurid	Panoplosaurus
Uintasaurus[6]	Junior synonym.	Holland		late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian	Morrison Formation		Junior synonym of Camarasaurus.

Newly named pterosaurs

Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes
Parapsicephalus	Valid	von Arthaber		Toarcian	Whitby Limestone Formation	UK	A rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888).

See also

• Paleontology portal