Portal:Paleontology/On this day/September 7

September 7:

• 1859 - Margaret Crosfield was born.
• 1968 - Graham Budd was born in Colchester, England.
• 2000 - The Des Moines Register reported the discovery of the first identifiable dinosaur fossil in Iowa, USA, a three inch long vertebra discovered in landscaping gravel excavated from a local pit.

A Short-Armed Troodontid Dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia and Its Implications for Troodontid Evolution

Xing Xu, Qingwei Tan, Corwin Sullivan, Fenglu Han, Dong Xiao

published 07 Sep 2011