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4 unusual facts about paleontology


Josephine Kablick

Josephine Ettel Kablick (1787–1863) was a pioneering Czech botanist and paleontologist.

Oleaceae

Relict forests retain endemic fauna and flora in communities of great value in inferring the palaeontological succession and climate change that followed the breakups of the supercontinents.

Secret Life of a Paleontologist

The series follows the international adventures of the fictional paleontologist Dr. Robert Burn.

Zack Addy

Zack appears to have an on and off-again relationship with "Naomi, in Paleontology", despite hints in the first season she was dissatisfied with his sexual prowess.


1822 in paleontology

James Parkinson (after whom the disease is named) publishes a general text on paleontology wherein he illustrates and describes teeth belonging to Megalosaurus.

Allison R. Palmer

Allison Ralph (Pete) Palmer (9 January 1927 in Bound Brook, New Jersey) is an American paleontologist and geologist.

Deinotherium

Adrienne Mayor, in The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek and Roman Times, has suggested that deinothere fossils found in Greece helped generate myths of archaic giant beings.

Carroll, R.L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.

Dissorophidae

Carroll, R. L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.

Edward Oscar Ulrich

Ulrich was a prolific writer, publishing numerous pamphlets on the subject of American paleontology, treating particularly the fossil Bryozoa, Gastropoda, Ostracoda, and Pelecypoda.

Eryopidae

Carroll, R. L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, W.H. Freeman & Co.

Florentino Ameghino Department

The department is named in honour of Florentino Ameghino (September 18, 1854 – August 6, 1911), an Argentinian naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist

Georgii Frederiks

As well as major contributions to stratigraphy and geological mapping, G. N. Frederiks is particularly remembered for his contributions to the paleontology of the late Paleozoic era (Carboniferous and Permian periods), notably Brachiopoda, Ammonoidea, and Bryozoa.

Giant of Castelnau

The bones of the Castelnau giant were studied at the University of Montpellier and examined by M. Sabatier, professor of Zoology, at the University of Montpellier, and M. Delage, professor of paleontology at the University of Montpellier, in addition to other anatomists.

Henry Christy

An account of the explorations appeared in a half-finished book left by Christy, entitled Reliquiae Aquilanicae, being contributions to the Archaeology and Paleontology of Perigord and the adjacent provinces of Southern France; this was completed by Christy's executors, first by Lartet and, after his death in 1870, by Rupert Jones.

Hermann Behmel

He worked as a long term consultant for NATO in Newcastle, England, and Torino, Italy, and was head of Department at Universität Stuttgart, Institute for Geology and Paleontology.

Hypsamasia

Hypsamasia seni was named in reference to its high crowned cheek teeth (Greek: hypsos, "height"), the type locality (the Roman town and province Amasya), and after Dr Sevket Sen for his important contribution to the paleontology and geology of western Asia.

Jack A. Wolfe

Jack Albert Wolfe (1936–2005) was an American paleontologist best known for his studies of Tertiary climate in western North America through analysis of fossil angiosperm leaves.

Jack Sepkoski

His Ph.D. was on the field geology and paleontology of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

James Cambias

He is one of the founders of Zygote Games, and the co-designer of the game Bone Wars: The Game of Ruthless Paleontology, based on the Bone Wars of the late 19th century.

Jean Dorst

Dorst was born at Mulhouse and studied biology and paleontology at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Paris.

João Baptista de Lacerda

Soon after, he was invited by the Minister of Agriculture of the Second Empire to be the associate director of the section of anthropology, zoology and paleontology of the recently created National Museum of Natural History of Rio de Janeiro, by Emperor D. Pedro II.

K.3364

Alexander Winchell, a Professor of Paleontology and history author discussed the racial identity of the "dark race" of K.3364 in his work Pre-adamites (1880) from which he maintained the "dark race" were sunburnt Hamites of the Mediterranean race.

Lurdusaurus

As Chabli had left the field of paleontology, the type species Lurdusaurus arenatus was formally named by Taquet and Dale Russell in 1999.

Manuel Iturralde-Vinent

In the field of paleontology has been a prominent fossil hunter who shed light on Jurassic of Cuba with Argentinian researchers, especially Zulma Brandoni Gasparini, revising the taxonomy of Cuban species of marine reptiles and dinosaur.

Megalonychidae

Jefferson's ground sloth has a special place in modern paleontology, for Thomas Jefferson's letter on Megalonyx, read before the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, in August 1796, marked the beginning of vertebrate paleontology in North America.

Mesalands Community College

Program offerings include Business, Wind Energy Technology, Farrier Science, Fine Arts Bronze, Paleontology, Agribusiness, Animal Science, Building Trades, and General Education.

Murgon fossil site

The Murgon fossil site is a paleontological site of early Eocene age in south-eastern Queensland, Australia.

Of Pandas and People

A review of Of Pandas and People by paleontologist Kevin Padian of the University of California at Berkeley for the National Center for Science Education's Bookwatch Reviews in 1989 called the book a "wholesale distortion of modern biology", and says that FTE's writers had misrepresented such topics as the Cambrian explosion, the history of birds, and the concept of homology.

Paleontological Research Institution

PRI is affiliated with Cornell University, houses one of the largest fossil collections in North America, and publishes, among other things, the oldest journal of paleontology in the western hemisphere, Bulletins of American Paleontology.

Pascal Godefroit

Pascal Godefroit is a Belgian paleontologist.

Peter Dodson

A professor of vertebrate paleontology and of veterinary anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Dodson has also taught courses in geology, history, history and sociology of science, and religious studies.

Pipe Creek Sinkhole

Pipe Creek Sinkhole near Swayzee in Grant County, Indiana, is one of the most important paleontological sites in the interior of the eastern half of North America, due to preservation, and the exception from 'typical glacial strata mixing' from glaciation.

Prodeinotherium

Sanders, W.J., 2003, chap 10, Proboscidea, in Mikael Fortelius (ed) Geology and paleontology of the Miocene Sinap Formation, Turkey, Columbia University Press, New York

Prosaurolophus

Well-known paleontologist Barnum Brown recovered a duckbill skull in 1915 for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 5836) from the Red Deer River of Alberta, near Steveville.

Ronald Pearson Tripp

Born in England in 1914, Tripp was self-taught in paleontology, but became an authority on the taxonomy of the trilobite families Encrinuridae, Lichidae, and Lichakephalidae – the latter of which he named.

Sara Yorke Stevenson

In 1891, Stevenson, Pepper, Talcott Williams, and Joseph Coates were appointed by the University Archaeological Association to create a department of archaeology and paleontology to manage the museum.

Sillosuchus

A reconstruction of the fossil was presented in 2008 by the National University of San Juan in Argentina, in an homage to Dr. William Dudley Sill who was an important promotor of paleontology in San Juan.

Sinosaurus

Sinosaurus was described and named by Chung Chien Young, who is known as the 'Father of Chinese Vertebrate Paleontology', in 1948.

Stenopelix

But paleontologists Richard Butler and Robert Sullivan nonetheless view the species as being Marginocephalia incertae sedis, rejecting the presumed synapomorphies with the Pachycephalosauria as incorrect identifications or lacking cogency because of a possible presence in ceratopsian groups.

Telmatosaurus

Ilona had an elder brother, Ferenc or Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás who was inspired by the find to become a paleontology student at the University of Vienna.

Teruel

Promoted as a paleontological park, it includes a life-size robotic model of a Tyrannosaurus rex.

Trigonoconcha

The specimens are currently deposited in the Department of Geology paleontology collections in the National University of Córdoba.

Waco Mammoth Site

The Waco Mammoth Site is an paleontological site and museum in Waco, Texas, United States where paleontologists uncovered fossils of twenty-two Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) and other mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch.


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