Portal:Paleontology/On this day/January 16

January 16:

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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• Lou Gehrig's disease in Santa Barbara, California, USA
  at age 78.
• 2013 - J. Alistair Crame found differences in the neogastropod taxa present at Earth's poles as far back as the early Cenozoic, suggesting that the polar faunas started becoming distinct from each other earlier than traditionally believed.