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Born June 9, 1904 • England
Died April 18, 1958 (aged 53) • Cambridge • England
Subjects Of Study ammonoid • Jurassic Period • fossil • taxonomy
Friedrich August Quenstedt
German mineralogist and paleontologist
Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
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
William Lonsdale
British geologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
French botanist
ameghino, florentino
Florentino Ameghino
Argentine anthropologist
Marsh, Othniel Charles
Othniel Charles Marsh
American paleontologist
Hyatt, Alpheus
Alpheus Hyatt
American zoologist and paleontologist
Joachim Barrande
French geologist
Oliver Perry Hay
American paleontologist