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Jennifer Clack

Jennifer Clack (1947–2020) was a prominent British paleontologist who specialized in the evolution of early tetrapods. B...

Historical British Devonian Vertebrates

9.7 Brilliant

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A. S. Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer was an American paleontologist and biologist who extensively researched the evolution of vertebrat...

American Historical Paleozoic Vertebrates

9.7 Brilliant

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George Cuvier

George Cuvier (1769-1832) was a French naturalist who established extinction as a scientific fact through his analysis o...

French Historical Cenozoic Vertebrates

9.6 Brilliant

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Harry Blackmore Whittington

Harry Blackmore Whittington was a British paleontologist known for his studies of trilobites and Cambrian fossils. As a...

Historical British Cambrian Burgess Shale

9.6 Brilliant

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David Raup

David Raup was an American paleontologist recognized for applying quantitative and computational methods to the study of...

American Historical Quantitative Invertebrates

9.5 Brilliant

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Dolf Seilacher

Adolf "Dolf" Seilacher was a prominent German paleontologist who held academic positions at universities in Germany, the...

German Historical Ichnology Trace Fossils

9.4 Excellent

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Karl Alfred von Zittel

Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904) was a prominent German paleontologist who served as a professor at the University of...

German Historical Textbooks Vertebrates

9.2 Excellent

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Ernst Stromer

Ernst Stromer was a German paleontologist known for his significant discoveries of dinosaur fossils in Egypt. He is most...

German Historical North Africa Dinosaurs

8.9 Great

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Elmer S. Riggs

Elmer S. Riggs was an American paleontologist who worked for the Field Columbian Museum in the early 20th century. In 19...

American Jurassic Historical Dinosaurs

8.9 Great

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Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach

Ernst Stromer von Reichenbach was a German paleontologist who studied fossil vertebrates from the Cretaceous of Egypt an...

German Historical Egypt Cretaceous

8.9 Great

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Ralph von Koenigswald

Ralph von Koenigswald was a German-Dutch paleoanthropologist known for his research on hominin fossils, particularly Hom...

German Asia Historical Primates

8.7 Great

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Friedrich von Huene

Friedrich von Huene was a German vertebrate paleontologist whose extensive 20th-century research addressed dinosaurs, ea...

German Historical Dinosaurs Triassic

8.7 Great

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Hermann von Meyer

Hermann von Meyer was a 19th-century German paleontologist whose work on fossil vertebrates made him one of the most imp...

German Historical Vertebrates Mesozoic

8.5 Great

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Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer

Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer was a German paleontologist recognized as a leading figure in the study of European fo...

German Historical Vertebrates Mesozoic

8.5 Great

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Werner Janensch

Werner Janensch (1878–1969) was a German paleontologist best known for leading the German Tendaguru Expeditions in what...

German Jurassic Historical Dinosaurs

8.5 Great

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Allison R. Palmer

Allison R. Palmer was an American paleontologist whose research on Cambrian trilobites established influential biostrati...

American Historical Cambrian Trilobites

8.2 Great

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Dieter Korn

Dieter Korn is a German paleontologist affiliated with the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, specializing in Paleozoic am...

German Paleozoic Invertebrates Biostratigraphy

8.2 Great

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Otto Jaekel

Otto Jaekel was a German paleontologist whose research significantly advanced the understanding of fossil fishes and ech...

German Historical Paleozoic Vertebrates

8.1 Great

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Wolfgang Stinnesbeck

Wolfgang Stinnesbeck is a German paleontologist and geologist affiliated with Heidelberg University. He is recognized fo...

German Cretaceous Stratigraphy Invertebrates

7.4 Good

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Alpheus Hyatt

Alpheus Hyatt (1838–1902) was an American zoologist and paleontologist who specialized in the study of fossil invertebra...

American Historical Invertebrates Mesozoic

7.3 Good