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Born May 21, 1799 • Lyme Regis • England
Died March 9, 1847 (aged 47) • Lyme Regis • England
Subjects Of Study plesiosaur • fossil

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Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
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
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Charles William Peach
English naturalist and geologist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
Frank Hall Knowlton
American paleobotanist
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
Robert Kidston
British paleobotanist
Sir Richard John Griffith, 1st Baronet
Irish geologist and civil engineer

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