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.
 * 2004 - Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski died in 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.