Portal:Paleontology/On this day/February 18

1839 - Harry Seeley was born in London, England.
1876 - Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart died.
1928 - John Ostrom was born in New York City, New York, USA.
1938 - Dmitrii Mushketov died in the Great Purge of the USSR.
1974 - Oliver Bulman died in Cambridge, England at age 71.
2015 - Femke M. Holwerda, Diego Pol, and Oliver W. M. Rauhut demonstrated that the wrinkled texture of sauropod tooth enamel could be used to distinguish different species found in the Early - Middle Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation of Argentina and possibly elsewhere.
Momo Yamashita, Takuya Konishi, and Tamaki Sato published a study of the sclerotic rings of mosasaur eyes.

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