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September 1:
- 1831 - Charles Darwin accepted the offer of a supernumerary naturalist position aboard the HMS Beagle, which was being prepared for its second voyage.
- 1833 - During the second voyage of the Beagle, Darwin discovered an articulated fossil skeleton near the sites of his 1832 fossil discoveries near Punta Alta, Argentina.
September 2:
- 1944 - Arthur Smith Woodward died in Haywards Heath, England at age 80.
- 2013 - Boris Sergeyevich Sokolov died.
September 3:
- 1857 -
Broad-Scale Patterns of Late Jurassic Dinosaur Paleoecology
Christopher R. Noto, Ari Grossman
published 03 Sep 2010
The Latest Succession of Dinosaur Tracksites in Europe: Hadrosaur Ichnology, Track Production and Palaeoenvironments
Bernat Vila, Oriol Oms, Víctor Fondevilla, Rodrigo Gaete, Àngel Galobart, Violeta Riera, José Ignacio Canudo
published 03 Sep 2013
September 4:
- 1831 - Captain Robert FitzRoy strongly objected to taking on Charles Darwin as the supernumerary naturalist for the second voyage of the HMS Beagle.
- 1890 - Samuel Beckles died in Hastings, England.
- 2011 - Lukas Hottinger died in Basel, Switzerland.
September 5:
- 1813 - Edward Charlesworth was born in Clapham, England.
- 1831 - Charles Darwin journeyed to London, England to talk to Captain Robert FitzRoy despite being rejected for the role of supernumerary naturalist aboard the second voyage of the HMS Beagle the previous day. Darwin learned that FitzRoy had been saving the position for a friend from whom he just received a letter declining the position. Darwin was accepted for the now-open position.
- 1865 - Reginald Hooley was born in Southampton, England.
September 6:
- 1802 - Alcide d'Orbigny was born in Couëron, France.
- 1807 - William Clark and his brother George Rogers Clark arrived at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, USA to obtain fossils. William Clark reported that so many people had taken bones from the site that even after two weeks of effort it was difficult to find quality specimens. Nevertheless, the Clarks' expedition uncovered about 300 bones they felt of sufficient caliber to send to then-US president Thomas Jefferson.
- 1921 - Henry Woodward died at age 88.
- 1941 - Walter W. Granger died of heart failure in Lusk, Wyoming, USA at age 68.
September 7:
- 1859 - Margaret Crosfield was born.
- 1968 - Graham Budd was born in Colchester, England.
- 2000 - The Des Moines Register reported the discovery of the first identifiable dinosaur fossil in Iowa, USA, a three inch long vertebra discovered in landscaping gravel excavated from a local pit.
A Short-Armed Troodontid Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and Its Implications for Troodontid Evolution
Xing Xu, Qingwei Tan, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Dong Xiao
published 07 Sep 2011
September 8:
- 1857 -
September 9:
- 1794 - William Lonsdale was born in Bath, England.
- 1823 - Joseph Leidy was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1844 - Wilhelm von Branca was born in Potsdam, Germany.
- 1987 - Vratislav Mazák died in Prague, Czech Republic.
- 1994 - Alfred R. Loeblich Jr died.
September 10:
- 1804 - Four members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition recorded in their journals a fossil discovery along the banks of the Missouri River in what is now Gregory County South Dakota, USA. They had discovered a 45-foot long articulated vertebral column with some ribs and teeth associated that was located at the top of a high ridge. The men interpreted the remains as originating from a giant fish, but today scientists think the specimen was probably a mosasaur, or maybe a plesiosaur. The expedition sent back some of the fossils, but these were later lost.
- 1897 - Egidio Feruglio was born in Tavagnacco, Italy.
- 1941 - Stephen Jay Gould was born in New York City, New York, USA.
- 1950 - Annie Montague Alexander died of a stroke in Oakland, California, USA at age 82.
September 11:
- 1844 - Henry Alleyne Nicholson was born in Penrith, England.
- 1919 - Roy Herbert Reinhart was born.
September 12:
- 1811 - James Hall was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1908 - J. A. Moy-Thomas was born in London, England.
September 13:
- 1820 - Christoph Gottfried Andreas Giebel was born in Quedlinburg, Kingdom of Prussia.
- 1829 - Charles Wachsmuth was born in Hanover, Germany.
- 2013 - Paul S. Martin died in Tucson, Arizona, USA.
September 14:
Forearm Range of Motion in Australovenator wintonensis (Theropoda, Megaraptoridae)
Matt A. White, Phil R. Bell, Alex G. Cook, David G. Barnes, Travis R. Tischler, Brant J. Bassam, David A. Elliott
published 14 Sep 2015
September 15:
- 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at the Galapagos Islands.
- 1877 - Mikhail Zalessky was born.
- 1903 - Edna P. Plumstead was born in Cape Town, South Africa.
- 1930 - Halszka Osmólska was born in Poznań, Poland.
- 1943 - Guy Ellcock Pilgrim died in Upton, England.
September 16:
- 1827 - Jean Albert Gaudry was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
- 1835 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, dropped anchor at Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Chatham Island in the Galapagos.
- 1956 - Kirill Eskov was born in Moscow, USSR.
A New Basal Sauropod Dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Niger and the Early Evolution of Sauropoda
Kristian Remes, Francisco Ortega, Ignacio Fierro, Ulrich Joger, Ralf Kosma, José Manuel Marín Ferrer, for the Project PALDES, for the Niger Project SNHM, Oumarou Amadou Ide, Abdoulaye Maga
published 16 Sep 2009
September 17:
- 1919 - Gunnar Henningsmoen was born in Kristiania, Norway.
September 18:
- 1857 - Florentino Ameghino was born in Luján, Argentina.
- 1943 - Charles E. Resser died in Washington, DC, USA.
- 1962 - Larry Kramer discovered a lower mastodon molar now catalogued as GRPM 12540 in Michigan, USA.
- 1982 - Pei Wenzhong died.
Forearm Posture and Mobility in Quadrupedal Dinosaurs
Collin S. VanBuren, Matthew Bonnan
published 18 Sep 2013
September 19:
- 1857 -
A New Troodontid Theropod, Talos sampsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America
Lindsay E. Zanno, David J. Varricchio, Patrick M. O'Connor, Alan L. Titus, Michael J. Knell
published 19 Sep 2011
September 20:
- 1821 - Auguste Pomel was born in Issoire, France.
- 1834 - Charles Darwin, during the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, fell seriously ill, possibly of Chagas disease, and spent the next month in bed.
- 1932 - Theodor Anton Neagu was born in Giurgiu, Romania.
September 21:
- 1873 - Émilien Dumas died in Ax-sur-Ariège, France.
- 1949 - Kenneth Carpenter was born in Tokyo, Japan.
September 22:
- 1829 - Alois Humbert was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1831 - Grigore Cobălcescu was born in Moldavia.
- 1832 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Captain Robert FitzRoy took Charles Darwin for a "pleasant cruise" to Punta Alta, Argentina. In the Punta Alta area he found fossils of shells and large mammal fossils.
- 1842 - Henri Émile Sauvage was born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
- 1865 - Heinz Christian Pander died in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire at age 71.
- 1957 - David Grimaldi was born.
New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism
Scott D. Sampson, Mark A. Loewen, Andrew A. Farke, Eric M. Roberts, Catherine A. Forster, Joshua A. Smith, Alan L. Titus
published 22 Sep 2010
September 23:
- 1832 - During the second voyage of the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin collected fossils in the Punta Alta, Argentina area, including the skull of a large rhinoceros-like mammal.
- 1953 - Kenneth Garrett was born in Columbia, Missouri, USA.
- 1972 - Norman Arthur Wakefield died as a result of a fall from a tree while trimming its branches at his home in Sherbrooke, Victoria, Australia at age 53.
- 1989 - Edna P. Plumstead died in Johannesburg, South Africa.
- 2014 - Washington Luiz Silva Vieira and others performed a statistical analysis of titanosaur biodiversity and co-occurrence in South America during the Late Cretaceous, finding that the coexistence of titanosaurs at various times and places in Late Cretaceous South America were essentially random rather than driven by ecological factors like niche partitioning.
September 24:
- 1802 - Adolphe d'Archiac was born in Reims, France.
- 1930 - William Diller Matthew died.
- 1936 - Alexandr Rasnitsyn was born in Moscow, USSR.
- 1971 - Michael S. Engel was born in Creve Coeur, Missouri, USA.
- 2014 - Victoria M. Arbour and others described the new ankylosaurid genus and species Ziapelta sanjuanensis from the Campanian Kirtland Formation of New Mexico, USA.
September 25:
- 1857 -
September 26:
- 1816 - Paul Gervais was born in Paris, France.
- 1832 - Zsófia Torma was born in Csicsókeresztúr, Austria-Hungary (now Cristeștii Ciceului, Romania).
- 1912 - Preston Cloud was born in West Upton, Massachusetts, USA.
- 1961 - Alexander Kellner was born in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.
- 1975 - C. H. Waddington died in Edinburgh, Scotland.
September 27:
- 1809 - François Jules Pictet de la Rive was born in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 1883 - Oswald Heer died in Lausanne, Switzerland at age 74.
- 1941 - J. William Schopf was born in Urbana, Illinois, USA.
- 1945 - Charles W. Gilmore died.
- 1964 - Peter J. Wagner was born in the USA.
A Second Soundly Sleeping Dragon: New Anatomical Details of the Chinese Troodontid Mei long with Implications for Phylogeny and Taphonomy
Chunling Gao, Eric M. Morschhauser, David J. Varricchio, Jinyuan Liu, Bo Zhao
published 27 Sep 2012
A New Archosauriform (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Manda Beds (Middle Triassic) of Southwestern Tanzania
Sterling J. Nesbitt, Richard J. Butler, David J. Gower
published 27 Sep 2013
September 28:
- 1856 - Jules Haime died in Paris, France at age 32.
- 1905 - Edwin H. Colbert was born in Clarinda, Iowa, USA.
- 1946 - Geerat J. Vermeij was born in Sappemeer, Netherlands.
- 1954 - Christopher P. Sloan was born.
Cranial Growth and Variation in Edmontosaurs (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae): Implications for Latest Cretaceous Megaherbivore Diversity in North America
Nicolás E. Campione, David C. Evans
published 28 Sep 2011
September 29:
- 1908 - Pierce Brodkorb was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- 1984 - A small monument was dedicated to Hadrosaurus foulkii near the site of its discovery in Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA. The dedication was the culmination of Haddonfield resident Christopher Brees's Eagle Scout project.
September 30:
- 1900 - William Elgin Swinton was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
- 2002 - Robert Masterman Stainforth died.
Evidence for Avian Intrathoracic Air Sacs in a New Predatory Dinosaur from Argentina
Paul C. Sereno, Ricardo N. Martinez, Jeffrey A. Wilson, David J. Varricchio, Oscar A. Alcober, Hans C. E. Larsson
published 30 Sep 2008
Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs
Ewan D. S. Wolff, Steven W. Salisbury, John R. Horner, David J. Varricchio
published 30 Sep 2009
Cartilaginous Epiphyses in Extant Archosaurs and Their Implications for Reconstructing Limb Function in Dinosaurs
Casey M. Holliday, Ryan C. Ridgely, Jayc C. Sedlmayr, Lawrence M. Witmer
published 30 Sep 2010