Portal:Paleontology/On this day/March 24

• 1868 - Edward Drinker Cope gave a presentation to a meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia reporting his description of a giant plesiosaur from Kansas, USA that he named Elasmosaurus platyurus.
• 1916 - Harry B. Whittington was born in Birmingham, England.
• 1945 - Robert T. Bakker was born in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA.
• 1963 - Ethel Currie died in Glasgow, Scotland.

A New Basal Sauropodomorph Dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone of Southern Utah

Joseph J. W. Sertich, Mark A. Loewen

published 24 Mar 2010