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Born August 8, 1857 • Fairfield • Connecticut
Died November 6, 1935 (aged 78) • New York
Subjects Of Study dinosaur • adaptive radiation

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Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
Barnum Brown
American paleontologist
Edwin H. Colbert
American professor, curator, and paleontologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Paul Sereno
American paleontologist
John Ostrom
American paleontologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
James Hall
American geologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
Amadeus William Grabau
American geologist
Louis Valentine Pirsson
American geologist
William W. Rubey
American geologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist