Paleontology

In 1796, Cuvier presented a paper comparing the bones of modern African and Indian elephants with fossil bones of elephants (now called mammoths) from Europe and Siberia and the "animal de l'Ohio" from Big Bone Lick.

The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum.

Infobox fields: Paleontology

Infobox fields: Paleontology, zoology, herpetology

Infobox fields: Paleontology

Infobox fields: Paleontology

Infobox fields: Geology, palaeontology

Infobox fields: Geology, Paleontology

Infobox fields: Geology; Paleontology

Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804-18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902, October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist.

Mary Anning (21 May 1799-9 March 1847) was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist.

William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784-14 August 1856) was an English theologian, geologist and palaeontologist.

Gideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS (3 February 1790-10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist.

Andrew Herbert Knoll (born 1951) is an American paleontologist and paleobotanist, who is the Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Raymond Cecil Moore (February 20, 1892, Roslyn, Washington, April 16, 1974, Lawrence, Kansas) was an American geologist and paleontologist.

Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894, November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution.

Henry Woods (18 December 1868, in Cottenham, 4 April 1952, in Meldreth) was a British paleontologist.

Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 6 April 1951) was a British-South African medical doctor and palaeontologist.

Sir Proby Thomas Cautley, KCB (3 January 1802-25 January 1871), was an English engineer and palaeontologist who is best known for having conceived and supervised the construction of the Ganges Canal during East India Company rule in India.

Hugh Falconer (29 February 1808-31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist.

Christian Leopold von Buch (26 April 1774-4 March 1853), usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder (now a part of Angermünde, Brandenburg) and is remembered as one of the most important contributors to geology in the first half of the

William Daniel Conybeare FRS (7 June 178712 August 1857), dean of Llandaff, was an English geologist, palaeontologist and clergyman.

William Lonsdale (9 September 1794 in Bath11 November 1871 in Bristol), English geologist and palaeontologist, won the Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals.

Étienne Jules Adolphe Desmier de Saint-Simon, Vicomte d'Archiac (24 September 180224 December 1868) was a French geologist and paleontologist.

Joachim Barrande (11 August 1799-5 October 1883) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.

Searles Valentine Wood (February 14, 1798, October 26, 1880) was an English palaeontologist.

Heinrich Georg Bronn (3 March 1800-5 July 1862) was a German geologist and paleontologist.

Thomas Davidson (17 May 181714 October 1885) was a British palaeontologist.

Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet FRS (13 November 1806-5 April 1881) was an English palaeontologist and Conservative politician from the Egerton family.

Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck (3 May 1809 - 16 July 1887) was a Belgian palaeontologist and chemist, born in Leuven.

Dr Thomas Wright FRS FRSE FGS (9 November 180917 November 1884) was a Scottish surgeon and palaeontologist.

Peter Martin Duncan FRS (20 April 1821 - 28 May 1891) was an English palaeontologist.

Jean Albert Gaudry (16 September 1827-27 November 1908) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.

George Busk FRS FRAI (12 August 1807-10 August 1886) was a British naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist.

Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel (25 September 1839-5 January 1904) was a German palaeontologist best known for his Handbuch der Palaeontologie (1876-1893).

Charles Eugene Barrois (21 August 18515 November 1939) was a French geologist and palaeontologist.

William Berryman Scott (February 12, 1858, March 29, 1947) was an American vertebrate paleontologist, authority on mammals, and principal author of the White River Oligocene monographs.

Charles Doolittle Walcott (March 31, 1850February 9, 1927) was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and the third director of the United States Geological Survey.

Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS (23 May 1864-2 September 1944) was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish.

Edward Oscar Ulrich (1 February 1857, in Covington, Kentucky, 22 February 1944, in Washington, D.C.) was an invertebrate paleontologist specializing in the study of Paleozoic fossils.

Charles Schuchert (July 3, 1858, November 20, 1942) was an American invertebrate paleontologist who was a leader in the development of paleogeography, the study of the distribution of lands and seas in the geological past.

Wendell Phillips Woodring (13 June 1891, Reading, Pennsylvania, 29 January 1983, Santa Barbara, California) was an American paleontologist and geologist.

Walter Hermann Bucher (March 12, 1888 - February 17, 1965) was a German-American geologist and paleontologist.

Preston Ercelle Cloud, Jr. (September 26, 1912, January 16, 1991) was an American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist.

Steven M. Stanley (born November 2, 1941) is an American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the Florida State University.

Pramatha Nath Bose (12 May 1855-1934) was a pioneering Indian geologist and paleontologist.

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Prof Erik Helge Osvald Stensiö HFRSE (2 October 1891-11 January 1984), né Andersson, was an influential Swedish paleozoologist and founder of the so-called "Stockholm School" of vertebrate paleontology.

William Crawford Williamson (24 November 1816-23 June 1895) was an English naturalist and palaeobotanist.

Gustav Arthur Cooper (February 9, 1902, October 17, 2000) was an American paleobiologist.

Cavaliere dottore Carlo Fornasini (3 November 1854-24 December 1931) was an Italian micropalaeontologist who specialised in Foraminifera ('forams').