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Born May 22, 1846 • Indiana
Died November 2, 1930 (aged 84) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Notable Works “Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America” • “Pleistocene of North America and Its Verebrated Animals…”
Subjects Of Study vertebrate • fossil
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
Raymond Cecil Moore
American paleontologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
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
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
Friedrich August Quenstedt
German mineralogist and paleontologist
Davidson, Thomas
Thomas Davidson
Scottish paleontologist
Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist