American paleontologists

Alpheus Hyatt ( 5 April 1838 – 15 January 1902) was an American zoology and palaeontologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alpheus Hyatt"

Annie Montague Alexander ( 1867- 1950) was an American financier and paleontological collector. She is best known as the benefactress of the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) and the financier of university museum collections as well as a series of important paleontological expeditions to the western United States at the turn of the 20th century. She took part in many of these expeditions, gathering a significant collection of fossils and exotic game animals in her own right. ...more on Wikipedia about "Annie Montague Alexander"

Barnum Brown was very famous for his fossil discoveries. Among the most popular were several Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons in the beginning of the 20th century. He also had discovered Triceratops horridus which would "rival" Tyrannosaurus in fame and fortune. Barnum Brown worked at the American Museum of Natural History. There he would place his discoveries. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barnum Brown"

Charles Doolittle Walcott ( March 31, 1850 - February 9, 1927) was an eminent American invertebrate paleontologist. He has become well-known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess shale formation of British Columbia, Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Doolittle Walcott"

Charles Hazelius Sternberg ( 1850 – 1943) was an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist. In 1880 he married Anna Reynolds. Their three sons, George F. Sternberg ( 1883- 1969), Charles Mortram Sternberg ( 1885- 1981) and Levi Sternberg ( 1894- 1976), also had careers in vertebrate paleontology. They are famous for their "Trachodon mummy", an exquisitely preserved specimen of Edmontosaurus annectens (see hadrosaurid). ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Hazelius Sternberg"

Charles Repenning ( August 4, 1922, Oak Park, Illinois— January 5, 2005, Lakewood, Colorado) was an American paleontologist and zoologist noted for his work on fossil rodents, modern pinnipeds and their extinct relatives, the demostylians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Repenning"

Charles Wachsmuth ( 1829 – 1896) was a significant U.S. ( German-born) paleontologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Wachsmuth"

Professor David B. Weishampel (born November 16, 1952) is a American palaeontologist in the Department of cell biology and anatomy at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Weishampel received his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. His research focuses include dinosaur systematics, European dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, jaw mechanics and herbivory, cladistics and heterochrony and the history of evolutionary biology. Weishampel's most well known published work is The Dinosauria University of California Press; 2nd edition ( December 1, 2004). ...more on Wikipedia about "David B. Weishampel"

David Grimaldi is an entomologist and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Grimaldi"

David M. Raup is a University of Chicago paleontologist. Raup studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth. Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events along with his colleague Jack Sepkoski. They suggested that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 mya was part of a cycle of mass extinctions that may have occurred every 26 million years. ...more on Wikipedia about "David M. Raup"

Edward Drinker Cope ( July 28, 1840– April 12, 1897) was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Drinker Cope"

Edward Hitchcock ( 24 May 1793 – 27 February 1864) was the third President of Amherst College, from 1845 to 1854. Born to poor parents, he attended newly-founded Deerfield Academy and in 1821 was ordained as a Congregationalist pastor. A few years later he left the ministry to become Professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Amherst College. He held that post from 1825 to 1845, serving as Professor of Natural Theology and Geology from 1845 to his death in 1864. In 1845 Hitchcock became President of the College, a post he held until 1854. As President, Hitchcock was responsible for Amherst's recovery from severe financial difficulties. He is also credited with developing the College's scientific resources and establishing its reputation for scientific teaching. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Hitchcock"

Edwin H. Colbert ( 1905 – 2001) was a distinguished vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author. He received his A.B. from the University of Nebraska and his Masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edwin H. Colbert"

Fielding Bradford Meek ( December 10 1817 - December 22 1876) was a American geologist and paleontologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fielding Bradford Meek"

Frank M. Carpenter ( 1902- 1994) recieved his PhD from Harvard University, and was curator of fossil insects at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology for 60 years. He studied the Permian fossil insects of Elmo in Kansas, and compared the North American fossil insect fauna with Paleozoic taxa known from elsewere in the world. A careful and methodical worker, he used venation and mouthparts to determine the relationships of fossil taxa, and was author of the Treatise volume on Insects. A "lumper" rather than a "splitter", he reduced the number of extinct insect orders then described from about fifty to nine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank M. Carpenter"

Frederick Robert Schram (born August 11 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American palaeontologist and carcinologist. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1968. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frederick Schram"

George Gaylord Simpson ( June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. He was an expert on extinct mammals and their intercontinental migrations. ...more on Wikipedia about "George Gaylord Simpson"

Gregory S. Paul (born 1954) is a freelance paleontologist, author and illustrator. He is best known for his work and research on theropod dinosaurs, and his detailed illustrations, both live and skeletal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gregory S. Paul"

Henry Fairfield Osborn ( August 8, 1857– November 6, 1935) was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Fairfield Osborn"

John "Jack" R. Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist who discovered and named the Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that dinosaurs cared for their young. In addition to his many paleontological discoveries, Jack served as the technical advisor for all three of the Jurassic Park films, and even served as partial inspiration for the movie's lead character, Dr. Alan Grant. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Horner (paleontologist)"

J. John Sepkoski Jr., ( July 26, 1948 - May 1, 1999), was a University of Chicago paleontologist. Sepkoski studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth. Sepkoski and David Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events. They suggested that the extinction of dinosaurs 65 mya was part of a cycle of mass extinctions that may have occurred every 26 million years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Sepkoski"

John Bell Hatcher ( October 11, 1861 – July 3, 1904) was an American paleontologist most famous for discovering the triceratops. Born in Cooperstown, Illinois, Hatcher matriculated at Grinnell College in Iowa in the autumn of 1880, then transferred to Yale, where he and his paleontological prowess were discovered by the great paleontologist Othniel C. Marsh, who invited him to a paleontological dig in Nebraska. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Bell Hatcher"

John Campbell Merriam ( October 20, 1869 - October 30, 1945) was an American paleontologist. The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of vertebrate fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, particularly with the smilodon (sabertooth cat). ...more on Wikipedia about "John C. Merriam"

John H. Ostrom ( February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs in the 1960s, when he demonstrated that dinosaurs are more like big non-flying birds than they are like lizards (or "saurians"), an idea first proposed by Thomas Henry Huxley in the 1860s, but which had garnered few supporters. The first of Ostrom's broad-based reviews of the osteology and phylogeny of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx appeared in 1976. His reaction to the eventual discovery of feathered dinosaurs in China, after years of acrimonoius debate, was bittersweet ( Gentile, 2000). ...more on Wikipedia about "John Ostrom"

Joseph Leidy ( September 9 1823 – 30 April 1891) was an American paleontologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joseph Leidy"

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