Best Fossil Collector
Charles H. Sternberg (1850-1943) was a pioneering American fossil collector who made significant contributions to paleontology. Working initially under Edward Drinker Cope during the late 19th century, Sternberg developed innovative field techniques for fossil excavation. He established a family dyn...
Joan Wiffen was a New Zealand amateur paleontologist who became the first person to discover dinosaur fossils in the country. In 1975, she found the bone of a theropod dinosaur in the Maungahouanga Valley in Hawke's Bay, definitively proving that dinosaurs had once inhabited the Zealandia landmass....
Levi Sternberg was an American-Canadian fossil collector who led Royal Ontario Museum expeditions and collected its Parasaurolophus specimen in 1920.
*Tripneustes californicus* is a sea urchin found in the Eastern Pacific, first described by Alexander Agassiz in 1863 and closely related to other commercially harvested Tripneustes species.
*Tripneustes antiquus* is a recognized species of echinoid within the Toxopneustidae family, primarily studied through paleontological records to understand ancient marine biodiversity.
*Tripneustes parkinsoni* is an extinct prehistoric sea urchin species named in honor of the early paleontologist James Parkinson, known from fossil deposits dating back to the Eocene epoch.
*Tripneustes gahardensis* is an extinct species of Eocene-era sea urchin identified through fossil discoveries in France, providing insight into prehistoric marine echinoid diversification.
