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Charles Doolittle Walcott

Charles Doolittle Walcott was a prominent American paleontologist renowned for his extensive research into invertebrate...

USA Historical Invertebrates Burgess Shale

9.3 Excellent

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José Bonaparte

José Bonaparte was a prominent Argentinian paleontologist specializing in the study of mammals and dinosaurs. His work s...

Historical Argentina Mammals Dinosaurs

9.3 Excellent

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Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh was a prominent 19th-century American paleontologist associated with Yale University. His extensiv...

USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

9.2 Excellent

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Alfred Sherwood Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer was a prominent American paleontologist specializing in the study of vertebrates, particularly tet...

USA Historical Vertebrates Tetrapods

9.2 Excellent

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (1830-1897) was a prominent American paleontologist renowned for his prolific discoveries of dinosau...

USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

9.1 Excellent

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Joseph Leidy

Joseph Leidy was a prominent 19th-century American paleontologist specializing in vertebrate fossils. He significantly a...

USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

8.7 Great

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Henry Fairfield Osborn

Henry Fairfield Osborn was an American paleontologist and American Museum of Natural History president who named Tyranno...

USA Historical Mammals Dinosaurs

8.6 Great

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Elisabeth Vrba

Elisabeth Vrba was a Yale paleontologist, known for the turnover-pulse hypothesis and for coining exaptation with Stephe...

USA Evolution Africa Mammals

8.6 Great

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Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin H. Colbert was an American paleontologist who studied Ghost Ranch's Coelophysis assemblage and found Antarctic Lys...

USA Historical Dinosaurs Vertebrates

8.4 Great

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Carlos de Paula Couto

Carlos de Paula Couto was a pioneering Brazilian paleontologist who founded the paleontology department at the National...

Historical Brazil Mammals Vertebrates

8.4 Great

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Philip D. Gingerich

Philip D. Gingerich is an American paleontologist renowned for his extensive fieldwork and discoveries of early cetacean...

USA Mammals Eocene Whales

8.4 Great

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Kay Behrensmeyer

Kay Behrensmeyer is an American taphonomist at the Smithsonian, known for East African fossil sites and long-term Ambose...

USA Mammals Paleoecology Taphonomy

8.2 Great

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William Diller Matthew

William Diller Matthew was a Canadian-born paleontologist at the AMNH, noted for 1915 work linking mammal evolution with...

USA Historical Mammals Biogeography

8.1 Great

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Richard H. Tedford

Richard H. Tedford was an American paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History, highly regarded for his fou...

USA Historical Mammals Carnivorans

8.0 Great

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Farish Jenkins

Farish Jenkins was an American vertebrate paleontologist at Harvard who co-described Tiktaalik, the 2006 Canadian fossil...

USA Anatomy Historical Vertebrates

7.9 Good

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Xiaoming Wang

Xiaoming Wang is a prominent paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, widely recognized as a...

USA Mammals Neogene Carnivorans

7.9 Good

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Hugh Falconer

Hugh Falconer was a Scottish paleontologist who studied India's Siwalik fossils and named the giraffid Sivatherium with...

Britain Historical Mammals Proboscideans

7.8 Good

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Mary R. Dawson

Mary R. Dawson was an American vertebrate paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, celebrated for her e...

USA Mammals Eocene Vertebrates

7.7 Good

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Christine Janis

Christine Janis is an American paleontologist noted for her extensive research on the evolutionary morphology, ecology,...

USA Evolution Mammals Paleoecology

7.7 Good

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Donald Prothero

Donald Prothero is an American paleontologist and prolific author recognized for his significant contributions to the st...

USA Evolution Mammals Stratigraphy

7.6 Good