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Albert Oppel
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Born December 19, 1831 • Germany
Died December 22, 1865 (aged 34)
Subjects Of Study Jurassic Period • fossil
Friedrich August Quenstedt
German mineralogist and paleontologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Amadeus William Grabau
American geologist
Henri-François-Émile Termier
French geologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Conybeare, William Daniel
William Daniel Conybeare
British geologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Mantell, detail of an engraving
Gideon Algernon Mantell
British paleontologist
William Joscelyn Arkell
British paleontologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Johann Gottlob Lehmann
German geologist
Penck, Albrecht
Albrecht Penck
geographer
Georg Christian Füchsel
German geologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Smith, William
William Smith
British geologist

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