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Born October 29, 1831 • Lockport • New York
Died March 18, 1899 (aged 67) • New Haven • Connecticut • (Anniversary in 4 days)
Subjects Of Study Pterodactylus • dinosaur • vertebrate • North America • fossil

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Edward Drinker Cope
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Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
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
British anatomist and paleontologist
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Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
Barnum Brown
American paleontologist
Edwin H. Colbert
American professor, curator, and paleontologist
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American paleontologist
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Henry Fairfield Osborn
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Alpheus Hyatt
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Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
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Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
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Florentino Ameghino
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William Lonsdale
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