Roland T. Bird
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Roland Thaxter Bird was an American palaeontologist. He is best known for his discovery of fossil trackways, including the first scientifically documented sauropod tracks, in the Glen Rose Formation n
Bird measuring a Brontosaurus impression in 1952
Workers preparing a slab with tracks formed by a Sauropod and another dinosaur for removal from the Paluxy River Basin
Barnum Brown
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Barnum Brown, commonly referred to as Mr. Bones, was an American paleontologist. He discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a career that made him one of the most famous fossil
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…fossils, the skull of an amphibian, in 1932 while camping in Arizona. He sent the skull to his father, an amateur entomologist, who passed it along to Barnum Brown, then a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. The specimen was a previously undiscovered genus and species…
Brown in 1897
Brown (left) with Henry Fairfield Osborn and the leg bone of Diplodocus specimen AMNH 223
The AMNH scow Mary Jane in 1911. Left to right: Henry Osborn; Fred Saunders (cook from Stettler, Alberta) and Brown
Barnum Brown conducting field work in a fur coat in Montana, 1914.