1919 in paleontology
# 1919 in paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. 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.

## 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.

## Scientific advances

### Vertebrate paleozoology

Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.

Prehistoric dinosaurs described in 1919 :

| Name | Status | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes | Images |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysalotosaurus | Valid taxon. | Virchow | late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian | Tendaguru Formation | Tanzania | A dryosaurid. | Dysalotosaurus |
| Panoplosaurus | Valid taxon | Lawrence Lambe | middle-late Campanian | Dinosaur Park Formation | Canada ( Alberta) | A nodosaurid | Panoplosaurus |
| "Uintasaurus" | Junior synonym. | Holland | late Kimmeridgian-Tithonian | Morrison Formation | | Junior synonym of Camarasaurus. | |

Pterosaurs described in 1919 :

| Name | Status | Authors | Authors | Age | Unit | Location | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Parapsicephalus | Valid | von Arthaber | | Toarcian | Whitby Limestone Formation | UK | A rhamphorhynchid; new genus for "Scaphognathus" purdoni Newton (1888). |

## 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.
