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John Campbell Merriam

John Campbell Merriam

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Paleontology

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ISBN10: 6136902818
ISBN13: 9786136902814
Publisher: Chrono Pr
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.26 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. John Campbell Merriam (October 20, 1869 - October 30, 1945) was an American paleontologist. The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of vertebrate fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, particularly with the genus Smilodon, more commonly known as the sabertooth cat. He was born in Hopkinton, Iowa the son of the postmaster and proprietor of a general store. As a young man, he began collecting Paleozoic invertebrate fossils near his Iowa home. He received a bachelors degree from Lenox College in Iowa, then went to the University of California to study geology and botany under Joseph Le Conte. He later went to Munich, Germany to study under the famous paleontologist Karl von Zittel. In 1894 he returned to the U.S. and joined the faculty at the University of California, teaching and performing research in both vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology.

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