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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.
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.[3]
Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1919 | ||||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images | |
Valid taxon. |
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late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian |
A dryosaurid. |
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Panoplosaurus[5] | Valid taxon |
middle-late Campanian |
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"Uintasaurus"[6] |
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late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian |
Junior synonym of Camarasaurus. |
Pterosaurs described in 1919 | ||||||||
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Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | ||
Valid |
von Arthaber |
Whitby Limestone Formation |
A rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888). |