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Born October 29, 1831 • Lockport • New York
Died March 18, 1899 (aged 67) • New Haven • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study Pterodactylus • dinosaur • vertebrate • North America • fossil

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Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
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Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
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Oliver Perry Hay
American paleontologist
Sir Richard Owen, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1845; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Owen
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Edwin H. Colbert
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Barnum Brown
American paleontologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Paul Sereno
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
Henry Fairfield Osborn
American paleontologist
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American zoologist
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Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
Raymond Cecil Moore
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Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
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Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
William Lonsdale
British geologist