On this day in June
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June 1:
- 1860 - Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii was born.
- 1897 - Yang Zhongjian was born in Huaxian, Shaanxi, China.
- 2015 - Phillip L. Manning, Victoria M. Egerton, and Mike Romano reported the oldest known sauropod fossil discovered in Britain from the Aalenian Saltwick Formation of Whitby, England.
June 2:
- 1857 -
June 3:
- 1954 - Stephen Donovan was born.
- 2015 - Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion, Michael P. Taylor erected the new genus Haestasaurus for the sauropod species “Pelorosaurus” becklesii from the Early Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group, near Hastings, England, United Kingdom.
June 4:
- 1911 - Viktor Uhlig died in Karlovy Vary, Austria-Hungary at age 54.
June 5:
- 1857 -
A New Basal Hadrosauroid Dinosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) with Transitional Features from the Late Cretaceous of Henan Province, China
Hai Xing, Deyou Wang, Fenglu Han, Corwin Sullivan, Qingyu Ma, Yiming He, David W. E. Hone, Ronghao Yan, Fuming Du, Xing Xu
published 05 Jun 2014
June 6:
- 1857 -
June 7:
- 1787 - William Conybeare was born in London, England.
- 1838 - Ferdinand Stoliczka was born near Kroměříž, Czech Republic.
June 8:
- 1948 - Gunnar Säve-Söderbergh died in Dalarna, Sweden.
A New Crocodylian from the Late Maastrichtian of Spain: Implications for the Initial Radiation of Crocodyloids
Eduardo Puértolas, José I. Canudo, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero
published 08 Jun 2011
Dinosaur Peptides Suggest Mechanisms of Protein Survival
James D. San Antonio, Mary H. Schweitzer, Shane T. Jensen, Raghu Kalluri, Michael Buckley, Joseph P. R. O. Orgel
published 08 Jun 2011
June 9:
- 1843 - Wilhelm Dames was born in Stolp, Poland.
- 1904 - William Joscelyn Arkell was born in Highworth, Wiltshire.
- 1947 - Jaroslav Perner died in Prague.
June 10:
- 2015 - Brandon P. Hedrick and others published a detailed description of the anatomy and taphonomy of the therizinosaurs Nothronychus mckinleyi and Nothronychus graffami.
June 11:
- 1797 - Andrew Geddes Bain was born in Thurso, Scotland.
The Functional and Palaeoecological Implications of Tooth Morphology and Wear for the Megaherbivorous Dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada
Jordan C. Mallon, Jason S. Anderson
published 11 Jun 2014
June 12:
- 1893 - Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov was born in Tomyshevo village, Simbirsk Governorate, Russian Empire.
- 1994 - William Elgin Swinton died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
June 13:
- 1933 - Beverly Halstead was born.
- 1991 - Governor James Florio signed a bill declaring Hadrosaurus foulkii to be the US state dinosaur of New Jersey.
June 14:
- 1801 - Peter Wilhelm Lund was born in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- 1850 - Santiago Roth was born in Herisau, Switzerland.
- 1918 - Edward Alexander Newell Arber died in Cambridge, England.
- 1928 - José Bonaparte was born in Rosario, Argentina.
June 15:
- 1815 - Charles Hazelius Sternberg was born.
- 1910 - Henry Nathaniel Andrews was born in Melrose, Massachusetts.
- 1946 - Jack Horner was born in Shelby, Montana, USA.
June 16:
- 1826 - Constantin von Ettingshausen was born in Vienna, Austria.
- 1846 - Joseph Henri Ferdinand Douvillé was born.
- 1877 - Karel Absolon was born in Boskovice, Czech Republic .
- 1902 - George Gaylord Simpson was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
June 17:
- 1857 -
June 18:
- 1803 - Auguste Bravard was born in Issoire, France.
- 1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, departed from Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1865 - William Parker Foulke died.
- 1956 - Rudolf Ruedemann died.
June 19:
- 1874 - Ferdinand Stoliczka died near Moorghi, India.
- 1946 - Mikhail Fedonkin was born in Orekhovo-Zuyevo.
- 1956 - Vladimir Obruchev died in Moscow, USSR at age 92.
- 1964 - Heinrich Quiring died in Berlin, Germany.
An Immature Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) Nasal Reveals Unexpected Complexity of Craniofacial Ontogeny and Integument in Pachyrhinosaurus
Anthony R. Fiorillo, Ronald S. Tykoski
published 19 Jun 2013
Aging, Maturation and Growth of Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs as Deduced from Growth Curves Using Long Bone Histological Data: An Assessment of Methodological Constraints and Solutions
Eva Maria Griebeler, Nicole Klein, P. Martin Sander
published 19 Jun 2013
June 20:
- 1875 - Othenio Abel was born in Vienna, Austria.
- 2010 - Harry B. Whittington died in Cambridge, England at age 94.
June 21:
- 1808 - Bernard du Bus de Gisignies was born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Netherlands.
- 2014 - Irajá Damiani Pinto died at age 94.
June 22:
- 1937 - Vratislav Mazák was born in Kutná Hora, Czech Republic.
- 1942 - Charles Davies Sherborn died.
Analyzing Taphonomic Deformation of Ankylosaur Skulls Using Retrodeformation and Finite Element Analysis
Victoria M. Arbour, Philip J. Currie
published 22 Jun 2012
June 23:
- 1733 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer died.
June 24:
- 1880 - Albert Heber Longman was born in Heytesbury, England.
- 1898 - Armin Öpik was born in Kunda, Estonia.
- 1919 - Stanley John Olsen was born in Akron, Ohio, USA.
- 1939 - Maria Gordon died in London, England at age 75.
June 25:
- 1854 - Charles Depéret was born in Perpignan, France.
- 1859 - Gerhard Heilmann was born in Skelskør, Denmark.
- 1866 - Alexander von Nordmann died of heart failure in Helsinki, Finland.
- 1889 - Paul Fallot was born in Strasbourg, France.
- 1892 - Jan Czerski died during a fossil hunting expedition to the Kolyma, Yana and Indigirka Rivers.
- 1901 - Chester A. Arnold was born in Leeton, Missouri.
- 1965 - Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser
The Completeness of the Fossil Record of Mesozoic Birds: Implications for Early Avian Evolution
Neil Brocklehurst, Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion, Jingmai O'Connor
published 25 Jun 2012
Avian Cerebellar Floccular Fossa Size Is Not a Proxy for Flying Ability in Birds
Stig A. Walsh, Andrew N. Iwaniuk, Monja A. Knoll, Estelle Bourdon, Paul M. Barrett, Angela C. Milner, Robert L. Nudds, Richard L. Abel, Patricia Dello Sterpaio
published 25 Jun 2013
June 26:
- 1862 - Eberhard Fraas was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
- 1955 - Dick Mol was born in Winterswijk, Netherlands.
June 27:
- 1958 - Frank Peabody died of a heart attack.
New Forearm Elements Discovered of Holotype Specimen Australovenator wintonensis from Winton, Queensland, Australia
Matt A. White, Alex G. Cook, Scott A. Hocknull, Trish Sloan, George H. K. Sinapius, David A. Elliott
published 27 Jun 2012
June 28:
- 1834 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Chiloé Island, in the Chonos Archipelago.
- 1939 - Hermann Behmel was born.
June 29:
- 1895 - Thomas Henry Huxley died of a heart attack in Eastbourne, England at age 70.
- 1910 - Charles Abiathar White died at age 74.
Cranial Ontogeny in Stegoceras validum (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauria): A Quantitative Model of Pachycephalosaur Dome Growth and Variation
Ryan K. Schott, David C. Evans, Mark B. Goodwin, John R. Horner, Caleb Marshall Brown, Nicholas R. Longrich
published 29 Jun 2011
Reanalysis of “Raptorex kriegsteini”: A Juvenile Tyrannosaurid Dinosaur from Mongolia
Denver W. Fowler, Holly N. Woodward, Elizabeth A. Freedman, Peter L. Larson, John R. Horner
published 29 Jun 2011
June 30:
- 1832 - Antonin Fritsch was born in Prague.
- 1857 - Alcide d'Orbigny died in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, France.
- 1861 - Charles Davies Sherborn was born.
- 2009 - Joan Wiffen died in Hastings, New Zealand at age 87.
Bermuda as an Evolutionary Life Raft for an Ancient Lineage of Endangered Lizards
Matthew C. Brandley, Yuezhao Wang, Xianguang Guo, Adrián Nieto Montes de Oca, Manuel Fería Ortíz, Tsutomu Hikida, Hidetoshi Ota
published 30 Jun 2010