Insects
Vertebrates
Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.
Expeditions, field work, and fossil discoveries
* ''April:'' William Edmund Cutler prospected in Dinosaur Provincial Park. His work was underwritten by the Calgary Syndicate for Prehistoric Research, a group of local philanthropist businessmen, and a small local museum, the Calgary Public Museum, which no long exists.
[D. H. Tanke. 2010. Lost in plain sight: rediscovery of William E. Cutler's missing ''Eoceratops''. In M. J. Ryan, B. J. Chinnery-Allgeier, D. A. Eberth (eds.), New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs: The Royal Tyrrell Museum Ceratopsian Symposium. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 541-550.]
* ''Summer:'' The American Museum of Natural History dispatched a team of fossil hunters to Dinosaur Provincial Park. Cutler joined the expedition but was "asked to leave" after only a few months of involvement.
* Cutler excavated a juvenile ''
Gryposaurus
''Gryposaurus'' (meaning "hooked-nosed (Greek ''grypos'') lizard"; sometimes incorrectly translated as "griffin (Latin ''gryphus'') lizard") was a genus of duckbilled dinosaur that lived about 80 to 75 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceo ...
'' now catalogued by the Canadian Museum of Nature as CMN 8784. The site of the excavation has since been designated "quarry 252".
* ''Winter:'' Cutler partly prepared the young ''Gryposaurus'' specimen, possibly in Calgary while working on dinosaurs for Euston Sisely.
* A
US Geological Survey
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crew headed by Eugene Stebinger and a
US National Museum
The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. In 2021, with 7 ...
crew headed by
Charles Gilmore worked together to excavate the first dinosaur discovery of the
Two Medicine Formation
The Two Medicine Formation is a geological formation, or rock body, in northwestern Montana and southern Alberta that was deposited between and (million years ago), during Campanian (Late Cretaceous) time. It crops out to the east of the Rocky M ...
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See also
References
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[Trexler, D., 2001, Two Medicine Formation, Montana: geology and fauna: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 298–309.]
1910s in paleontology
Paleontology
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