1919 in paleontology explained

Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries

• Summer: William Edmund Cutler resumed collecting dinosaur fossils in Dinosaur Provincial Park. One discovery was a disarticulated ceratopsian he identified as an "Eoceratops". He spent the remainder of the year excavating the specimen although his progress was hampered by illness and bad weather.

Institutions and organizations

Scientific organizations

Scientific advances

Vertebrate paleozoology

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.^[1]

Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1919
Name	Status	Authors		Age	Unit	Location	Notes	Images
Dysalotosaurus^[2]	Valid taxon.	Virchow		late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian	Tendaguru Formation		A dryosaurid.
Panoplosaurus^[3]	Valid taxon	Lawrence Lambe		middle-late Campanian	Dinosaur Park Formation	Canada	A nodosaurid
"Uintasaurus"^[4]	Junior synonym.	Holland		late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian	Morrison Formation		Junior synonym of Camarasaurus.

Research techniques

Law and politics

Protected areas

Ethics and practice

Unethical practice

People

Deaths

Popular culture

Literature

• In the Morning of Time by Charles G. D. Roberts was published. Paleontologist William A. S. Sarjeant has described it as unusually factual for a work of fiction.

Television

Notes and References

1. Web site: Olshevsky . George . Dinogeorge's Dinosaur Genera List . 2008-08-07 . 2011-07-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110715102453/http://www.polychora.com/dinolist.html . dead .
2. Virchow, H. 1919. Atlas and Epistropheus beiden Schildkroten. Sitzungsber. Ges. Naturforsch.Freunde Berlin 1919: pp. 303-332.
3. Lambe, L.M. 1919. Description of a new genusand species (Panoplosaurus mirus) of armoreddinosaur from the Belly River Beds of Alberta.Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. (ser. 3) 13: pp. 39-50.
4. Holland, W.J. 1919. Report on Section ofPaleontology. Annual Report of the CarnegieMuseum (for 1919): p. 38 [and see Holland, W.J. 1924. Description of the type of Uintasaurus douglassi Holland. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 15 (2-3): pp. 119-138.]