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George Fryer Sternberg (1883 – 23 October 1969) was an American paleontologist best known for his discovery in Gove County, Kansas of the "fish-within-a-fish" of Xiphactinus audax with a recently eaten Gillicus arcuatus within its stomach. Sternberg was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and began leading fossil-hunting expeditions in the early 1900s. [1]
Chirostenotes has a confusing history of discovery and naming. The first fossils of Chirostenotes, a pair of hands, were in 1914 found by George Fryer Sternberg near Little Sandhill Creek in the Campanian Dinosaur Park Formation of Canada, which has yielded the most dinosaurs of any Canadian formation.
The holotype specimen of Dolichorhynchops osborni, KUVP 1300, was discovered in the upper Smoky Hill Chalk Logan County, Kansas, by George Fryer Sternberg, as a teenager, in around 1900. The remains were collected by him and his father, Charles Hazelius Sternberg , and then sold to the University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas).
FMNH PR 862 was found on September 9, 1922 by George Fryer Sternberg, brother of Charles M. Sternberg, as part of the 1922 expedition of the Field Museum of Natural History to the Red Deer River area under American paleontologist Elmer S. Riggs. It was found within a brown sandstone on the east side of Little Sandhill Creek around 1 mi (1.6 km ...
The Fryer Museum in Munnsville NY has seen renovations that will make it more welcoming and easily accessible for a wealth of local history. Fryer Museum full of hidden gems and historical ...
In this locality, Gilmore had employed George Fryer Sternberg to excavate skeletons of the horned dinosaurs Brachyceratops and Styracosaurus ovatus. [5] That summer, Horner obtained the permission of the Blackfeet Indian Tribal Council to prospect for fossils on Landslide Butte, which is part of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation ; it was the ...
A second specimen (which was also much better preserved) was discovered by George Fryer Sternberg in 1953, which he initially identified as a Clidastes velox. The specimen, formerly catalogued as GFS 109-53, was about 3 metres (9.8 ft) in length and largely articulated, though the tail and rear limbs were missing due to erosion. [4]
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