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Lefalophodon: Louis Agassiz
Key figure in the history of organismal biology and geology. Formulated theory of the Ice Ages..
nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/lefa/LAgassiz.htm...

The Great Feud - Cover Page: August '98 American History Feature
Paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh were great rivals, and their mutual animosity fueled the search for fossils in the American West. ..
thehistorynet.com/AmericanHistory/artic...

A History of Dinosaur Hunting and Reconstruction
In 1822 Gideon Mantell, a doctor from Lewes, East Sussex, described a fossil tooth which his wife had found by the side of the road in Cuckfield, West Sussex. This tooth was the first dinosaur fossil in the world ever to be found and identified...
dinohunters.com/

John C. Merriam
Most of Merriam's original research in paleontology was carried out between 1900 and 1919. He made many contributions to knowledge of the vertebrate and invertebrate fossils of the West Coast...
ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/merriam.html

ASAP Articles - Finding life in ancient corals - Dorothy Hill
Finding life in ancient corals - Dorothy Hill. Also contains links to archival and history of Australian science, technology and medicine resources...
asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/tps/a...

Cope's Reconstructs Laelaps, 1869
The Hayden surveys of 1855 had turned up a tooth of what appeared to be a carnivorous dinosaur..
lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/dino/cop1869....

Lefalophodon: Othniel Charles Marsh
One of America's three great 19th century vertebrate paleontologists..
nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/lefa/Marsh.html

Rock Star Profile: Sir William Dawson
He was as much a paleontologist as a geologist, an administrator as well as an educator, and a popular writer on scientific ...
geoclio.st.usm.edu/dawson.html

Yale Peabody Museum: People — O. C. Marsh
During his career Marsh published about 300 scientific papers and books in which he described and named approximately 500 new species of fossil animals ...
peabody.yale.edu/people/whoswho/MarshOC...

Rock Star Profile: Charles D. Walcott
Walcott became interested in collecting local fossils before he was a teenager..
geoclio.st.usm.edu/walcott.html

Rocky Road: Edward Drinker Cope
In his attempts to get the better of Marsh, Cope made himself one of the most productive fossil hunters in history, naming over 1,200 vertebrate species and publishing 1,400 papers..
turnpike.net/~mscott/cope.htm

Mantell's Iguanodon Teeth, 1825
Gideon Mantell, a physician of Lewes in Sussex in southern England, had for years been collecting fossils in the sandstone ...
lhl.lib.mo.us/pubserv/hos/dino/man1825....

When was the Dinosauria named?
Today, in 1841, Richard Owen formally named the Dinosauria...
isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/jdp/dino/name.htm

Georges Cuvier
Catastrophism is the doctrine that explains the differences in fossil forms ...
arts.unimelb.edu.au/amu/ucr/student/199...

Sir J. William Dawson
In 1851, Dawson and Lyell teamed up again to examine the interiors of fossil tree trunks ..
museum.gov.ns.ca/fossils/finders/dawson.htm...

Paleontologists - Sir Richard Owen
Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) was a pioneering British comparative anatomist who coined the term dinosauria
zoomdinosaurs.com/subjects/dinosaurs/gl...

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