Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 15

January 15:

• 1798 - Samuel Stutchbury was born in London, England.
• 1902 - Alpheus Hyatt died in Massachusetts, USA.
• 1932 - Rajko Pavlovec was born in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• 1955 - Clive Finlayson was born in Gibraltar.
• 1979 - Yang Zhongjian died.
• 1983 - Armin Öpik died in Canberra, Australia.
• Sofia, Bulgaria
  at age 69.
• 2014 - Florian Witzmann and others reported evidence for spondyloarthropathy in the backbone of a Late Triassic phytosaur from Halberstadt, Germany.