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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
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Friedrich August Quenstedt
German mineralogist and paleontologist
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Earl Douglass
American paleontologist
Georges Cuvier
Georges Cuvier
French zoologist
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George Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist
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Albert Oppel
German geologist and paleontologist
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
Huxley, Thomas Henry
Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Sir Richard Owen
Richard Owen
British anatomist and paleontologist
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William Lonsdale
British geologist
Alfred Sherwood Romer, 1965
Alfred Sherwood Romer
American biologist
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
German biologist
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Otto Heinrich Schindewolf
German paleontologist
Leidy
Joseph Leidy
American zoologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist
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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
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Joachim Barrande
French geologist
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Oliver Perry Hay
American paleontologist