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Dinosaur National Monument
The geologic history of the Grand Canyon
The Lufengosaurus fossil: The oldest soft tissue ever found?
fossil-containing strata
Fossil collection in the University of California Museum of Paleontology
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Dinosaur National Monument
fossil-containing strata
The geologic history of the Grand Canyon
The Lufengosaurus fossil: The oldest soft tissue ever found?
Fossil collection in the University of California Museum of Paleontology
Know about Earth's mass extinctions
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Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
George Gaylord Simpson
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
Paul Sereno
American paleontologist
Stephen Jay Gould
American paleontologist
John Ostrom
American paleontologist
Roy Chapman Andrews
Roy Chapman Andrews
American naturalist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
James Hall
American geologist
Orbigny, engraving
Alcide Dessalines d’ Orbigny
French paleontologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
Beneden, Pierre-Joseph van
Pierre-Joseph van Beneden
Belgian scientist
William Lonsdale
British geologist

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