On this day in January
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January 1:
- 1861 - Marcellin Boule was born.
- 1891 - Carl Owen Dunbar was born in Hallowell, Kansas, USA. Antonio Stoppani died.
January 2:
- 1851 - Charles Eugène Bertrand was born in Paris, France.
- 1857 - Viktor Uhlig was born in Frýdek-Místek, Austria-Hungary.
- 1980 - Irene Crespin died at age 83.
- 2013 -
Contemporaneous Trace and Body Fossils from a Late Pleistocene Lakebed in Victoria, Australia, Allow Assessment of Bias in the Fossil Record
Aaron Bruce Camens, Stephen Paul Carey
published 02 Jan 2013
January 3:
- 1917 - Henri Émile Sauvage died in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
- 1957 - Trevor H. Worthy was born in New Zealand.
January 4:
- 1850 - Georg Karl Berendt died.
- 1889 - Walter A. Bell was born in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
- 1920 - Robert Etheridge, Junior died of pneumonia.
- 1986 - Myra Keen died of cancer in Sonoma, California, USA at age 80.
- 1996 - Zhou Ming-Zhen died.
January 5:
- 1875 - Henry Crampton was born.
- 1879 - Bartolomeo Gastaldi died in Turin, Italy.
- 1895 - Auguste Jaccard was born in Le Locle, Switzerland.
- 2005 - Charles Repenning was murdered by meth addicts Richard Kasparson and Michael Wessel during a burglary in Lakewood, Colorado, USA. Repenning was 82 years old.
January 6:
- 1808 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1832 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
- 2012 -
Bone Histology in Dysalotosaurus lettowvorbecki (Ornithischia: Iguanodontia) – Variation, Growth, and Implications
Tom R. Hübner
published 06 Jan 2012
January 7:
- 1886 - John Morris died.
- 1944 - Ion Th. Simionescu died.
January 8:
- 1894 - Pierre-Joseph van Beneden died Louvain, Belgium at age 84.
- 1909 - Harry Seeley died in London, England.
- 1936 - Elaine Anderson was born in Salida, Colorado.
January 9:
- 1834 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Puerto San Julián, Argentina.
- 1868 - William Beard died at age 96.
- 1870 - Amadeus William Grabau was born in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, USA.
- 1906 - Karl von Fritsch died.
- 1917 - Claud William Wright was born in Ellenborough, England.
- 1927 - Allison R. Palmer was born in Bound Brook, New Jersey, USA.
- 2012 -
Cretaceous Small Scavengers: Feeding Traces in Tetrapod Bones from Patagonia, Argentina
Silvina de Valais, Sebastián Apesteguía, Alberto C. Garrido
published 09 Jan 2012
January 10:
- 1891 - Henry Bowman Brady was born in Bournemouth, England.
- 1923 - John T. Robinson was born in Elliot, South Africa.
- 2007 - Jaroslav Kraft died at age 66.
January 11:
- 1845 - Etheldred Benett died in Norton Bavant, England at age 68.
- 1937 - Miguel Telles Antunes was born in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1984 - Erik Stensiö died.
- 1998 - Erik Jarvik died.
January 12:
- 1836 - The crew of the HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, caught first sight of Australia.
- 1837 - Lorenzo Gordin Yates was born on the Isle of Sheppey, England.
- 1866 - Charles-Théophile Gaudin died in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 1994 - John W. Wells died.
January 13:
- 1951 - Dorothea Bate died of a heart attack in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.
January 14:
- 1801 - Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart was born in Paris, France.
- 1847 - Charles René Zeiller was born in Nancy, France.
- 1995 - Gerard Frederick van Tets died in Canberra, Australia.
January 15:
- 1798 - Samuel Stutchbury was born in London, England.
- 1902 - Alpheus Hyatt died in Massachusetts, USA.
- 1932 - Rajko Pavlovec was born in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
- 1955 - Clive Finlayson was born in Gibraltar.
- 1979 - Yang Zhongjian died.
- 1983 - Armin Öpik died in Canberra, Australia.
- 2004 - Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski died in Sofia, Bulgaria at age 69.
- 2014 - Florian Witzmann and others reported evidence for spondyloarthropathy in the backbone of a Late Triassic phytosaur from Halberstadt, Germany.
January 16:
- 1839 - William More Gabb was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1991 - Preston Cloud died of pneumonia, brought on as a complication of Lou Gehrig's disease in Santa Barbara, California, USA at age 78.
- 2013 - J. Alistair Crame found differences in the neogastropod taxa present at Earth's poles as far back as the early Cenozoic, suggesting that the polar faunas started becoming distinct from each other earlier than traditionally believed.
January 17:
- 1794 - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps was born in Caen, France.
- 1867 - Jacques Amand Eudes-Deslongchamps died.
- 1946 - Ethel Shakespear died of cancer at age 74.
- 2004 - Walter Auffenberg died in Gainesville, Florida at age 76.
2012 - Fabien Knoll and others published a study of the braincase of primitive Jurassic sauropod Spinophorosaurus from Niger. They found that it shared some traits with more advanced sauropods, but couldn't determine if these traits developed independently or not.
Caleb Marshall Brown and Anthony P. Russell examined some mysterious bony structures in the tails of pachycephalosaurs and found theme to be normally soft connective tissue in the tail that evolved into bone. They concluded that these boney structures distinguished them from other four-limbed animals.
January 18:
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January 19:
- 1847 - Josef Ladislav Píč was born in Mšeno.
- 1899 - Henry Alleyne Nicholson died in Aberdeen, Scotland.
- 1904 - Pei Wenzhong was born.
- 1919 - Gerard Frederick van Tets was born in London, England.
- 1935 - Jane Longstaff died in Bath, England.
- 1937 - Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douvillé died.
- 1965 - Zhou Zhonghe was born in Jiangdu, Jiangsu, China.
January 20:
- 1921 - Alfred Gabriel Nathorst died in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 2011 - Andrew A. Farke re-examined the anatomy and taxonomy of the Late Cretaceous chasmosaurine ceratopsid Nedoceratops hatcheri from the western United States. He concluded that it was a distinct species, as was Torosaurus, and that the coexistence of these three species during the end of the Cretaceous suggested that dinosaur biodiversity was not in decline before the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
January 21:
- 1783 - Charles Léopold Laurillard was born in Montbéliard, France.
- 1921 - Raymond Thorsteinsson was born in Wynyard, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 1950 - Andrzej Elżanowski was born.
January 22:
- 2013 - William J. Breed died in Flagstaff, Arizona at age 84.
Manus Track Preservation Bias as a Key Factor for Assessing Trackmaker Identity and Quadrupedalism in Basal Ornithopods
Diego Castanera, Bernat Vila, Novella L. Razzolini, Peter L. Falkingham, José I. Canudo, Phillip L. Manning, Àngel Galobart
published 22 Jan 2013
January 23:
- 1833 - The crew of the HMS Beagle, which carried Charles Darwin on its second voyage, helped set up a missionary outpost in South America.
- 1869 - Elmer S. Riggs was born in Trafalgar, Indiana, USA.
Multivariate Analyses of Small Theropod Dinosaur Teeth and Implications for Paleoecological Turnover through Time
Derek W. Larson, Philip J. Currie
published 23 Jan 2013
Neurocranial Osteology and Neuroanatomy of a Late Cretaceous Titanosaurian Sauropod from Spain (Ampelosaurus sp.)
Fabien Knoll, Ryan C. Ridgely, Francisco Ortega, Jose Luis Sanz, Lawrence M. Witmer
published 23 Jan 2013
January 24:
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January 25:
- 2015 - Giancarlo Ligabue died in Venice, Italy at age 83.
January 26:
- 1826 - Charles Abiathar White was born in North Dighton, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1834 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, passed through the Straits of Magellan.
- 1884 - Roy Chapman Andrews was born in Beloit, Wisconsin.
- 1895 - Gaston de Saporta died in Aix-en-Provence, France.
A New Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Patagonia and the Origin and Evolution of the Sauropod-type Sacrum
Diego Pol, Alberto Garrido, Ignacio A. Cerda
published 26 Jan 2011
January 27:
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January 28:
- 1846 - J. K. Murphy donated some fossils to the Smithsonian Institution of a large theropod dinosaur discovered in Washington D.C., USA by workers attempting to install a sewage system. The specimen was catalogued as NMNH 3049 and known by the nickname Capitalsaurus.
- 1858 - Eugène Dubois was born in Eijsden, Netherlands.
- 1878 - Édouard Lartet was born in Séissan, France.
- 1930 - Edwin Tulley Newton died.
- 1956 - Tim Flannery was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- 1998 - Capitalsaurus was recognized as the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.
- 2000 - The site in Washington, D.C. where Capitalsaurus was discovered was named Capitalsaurus Court.
- 2001 - Washington, D.C. mayor Anthony A. Williams declared January 28th a local holiday, "Capitalsaurus Day".
Evidence of Combat in Triceratops
Andrew A. Farke, Ewan D. S. Wolff, Darren H. Tanke
published 28 Jan 2009
January 29:
- 1857 -
A New Titanosaurian Sauropod from the Hekou Group (Lower Cretaceous) of the Lanzhou-Minhe Basin, Gansu Province, China
Li-Guo Li, Da-Qing Li, Hai-Lu You, Peter Dodson
published 29 Jan 2014
January 30:
- 1928 - Alan Cheetham was born in El Paso, Texas, USA.
A New Azhdarchid Pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania: Implications for Azhdarchid Diversity and Distribution
Mátyás Vremir, Alexander W. A. Kellner, Darren Naish, Gareth J. Dyke
published 30 Jan 2013
January 31:
- 1865 - Hugh Falconer died in London, England.
- 1883 - Heinrich Quiring was born in Haus Hüllen, Germany.
- 1910 - Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh was born in Falun, Sweden.
- 1946 - Elizabeth Nicholls was born.