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Catherine E. Badgley (United States, 1950-) William Hellier Baily (England, 1819-1888) Andrew Geddes Bain (South Africa, 1797-1864) Robert T. Bakker (United States, 1945- ) Jean-Christophe Balouet (France, 1956-2021) Harlan Parker Banks (United States, 1913-1998) Mário Costa Barberena (Brazil, 1934-2013) Erwin Hinckly Barbour (United States ...
The location of the United States in North America. A substantial amount of paleontological research has occurred within or conducted by people from the United States. Paleontologists have found that at the start of the Paleozoic era, what is now "North" America was actually in the southern hemisphere. Marine life flourished in the country's ...
C. Susan Cachel; Charles Lewis Camp; Frank M. Carpenter; Kenneth Carpenter; Thomas Carr (paleontologist) Robert L. Carroll; Ermine Cowles Case; Kenneth Edward Caster
Paleontology or palaeontology is the study of prehistoric life forms on Earth through the examination of plant and animal fossils. [1] This includes the study of body fossils, tracks (), burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (), palynomorphs and chemical residues.
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1): 119–143. Dinosaur Fossils are not found in Indiana Archived 2018-04-04 at the Wayback Machine Our Hoosier State Beneath Us: Paleontology. Indiana Geological Survey, Department of Natural Resources. Accessed August 2, 2012.
The simplest definition of "paleontology" is "the study of ancient life". [7] The field seeks information about several aspects of past organisms: "their identity and origin, their environment and evolution, and what they can tell us about the Earth's organic and inorganic past".
PRI was founded in 1932 by Gilbert Harris, a professor of geology at Cornell University from 1894 to 1934. Frustrated by the university's lack of assurance for the safety and perpetuation of his fossil collections and printing enterprise, Bulletins of American Paleontology, Harris established PRI as a separate organization, unaffiliated with Cornell, to house his collection of fossils and ...
Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). [2]