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* ''Summer:'' William Edmund Cutler resumed collecting dinosaur fossils in Dinosaur Provincial Park. One discovery was a disarticulated ceratopsian he identified as an "''
Eoceratops ''Chasmosaurus'' ( ) is a genus of Ceratopsidae, ceratopsid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Period (geology), Period of North America. Its name means 'opening lizard', referring to the large openings (Fenestra (anatomy), fenestrae) in its fril ...
''". He spent the remainder of the year excavating the specimen although his progress was hampered by illness and bad weather.


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Data courtesy of George Olshevsky's dinosaur genera list.


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* ''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.


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{{Reflist, refs= 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. Sarjeant, W. A. S., 2001, Dinosaurs in fiction: In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life, edited by Tanke, D. H., and Carpenter, K., Indiana University Press, pp. 504-529. 1910s in paleontology
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