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unusual facts about fossil collector



Lejopyge laevigata

In a monograph on Bohemian trilobites, Prodrom einer Monographie der böhmischen Trilobiten (1847), the Czech fossil collector Ignaz Hawle and botanist August Carl Joseph Corda established the genus Lejopyge using B. laevigatus as the type species.


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Andrew Geddes Bain

He was friendly with William Guybon Atherstone, who was also a keen geologist and fossil collector and who was present at the discovery of Paranthodon africanus Broom at the farm Dassieklip on the Bushmans River, about half-way between Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth.

Campylognathoides

A fossil collector found a well preserved Campylognathoides hip in a Braunschweig shale quarry in 1986.

Charles Sternberg

Charles Hazelius Sternberg (1850-1943), American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist

Darren Tanke

Current research and writing projects include several articles on the use of helicopters in Alberta to collect fossils and lift heavy dinosaur skeletons in their plaster field jackets; relocation of a lost (1914) Basilemys turtle quarry and other fossil turtle sites in Dinosaur Provincial Park; and a biography of Albertan amateur fossil collector and artist Hope Johnson (1916–2010).