Richard Swann Lull
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Richard Swann Lull was an American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered for championing a non-Darwinian view of evolution, whereby mutation could unlock p
Portrait by William Sergeant Kendall
American Museum party at Bone-Cabin Quarry, 1899. Seated, left to right, Walter Granger, Professor H.F. Osborn, Dr. W.D. Matthew; standing, F. Schneider, Professor R.S. Lull, Albert Thomson, Peter Kaison
Time cover, June 1, 1925
Brontosaurus
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Brontosaurus is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in present-day United States during the Late Jurassic period. It was described by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1
Richard Swann Lull
…1899, Lull worked as a member of the American Museum of Natural History's expedition to Bone Cabin Quarry, Wyoming, helping to collect that museum's brontosaur skeleton. In 1902, he again joined an American Museum team in Montana, then studied under Columbia University professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. In 1903…
Brontosaurus excelsus remount in the Peabody Museum
An 1896 diagram of the B. excelsus holotype skeleton by O.C. Marsh. The head is based on material now assigned to Brachiosaurus sp.
Obsolete mount of an apatosaurine referred to B. excelsus (specimen AMNH 460) with sculpted skull, completed in 1905, American Museum of Natural History
Infographic explaining the history of Brontosaurus and Apatosaurus according to Tschopp et al. 2015