Othniel Charles Marsh

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Othniel Charles Marsh was a pioneering 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive dinosaur discoveries and his central role in the “Bone Wars” fossil-hunting rivalry.

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O. C. Marsh 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic
paleontologist
person
birthDate 1831-10-29
birthPlace Lockport, New York
surface form: Lockport, New York, United States
burialPlace Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1899-03-18
deathPlace New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States
educatedAt Sorbonne University
Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin

University of Breslau
Yale College
Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science
surface form: Yale Sheffield Scientific School

Yale University
employer Yale University
era 19th century
familyName Marsh
fieldOfWork dinosaur paleontology
paleontology
vertebrate paleontology
fullName Othniel Charles Marsh self-link
givenName Othniel
hasAcademicDiscipline geology
natural history
influenced development of American vertebrate paleontology
influencedBy European paleontological research
knownFor Bone Wars
surface form: Bone Wars fossil-hunting competition

rivalry with Edward Drinker Cope
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf National Academy of Sciences
notableAchievement major contributions to understanding of bird evolution
named and described numerous new dinosaur genera and species
notableFor Bone Wars
dinosaur discoveries
fossil hunting in the American West
notableWork description of Allosaurus
description of Apatosaurus
description of Brontosaurus
description of Stegosaurus
description of Triceratops
description of many North American dinosaurs
occupation paleontologist
professor
positionHeld Professor of Paleontology at Yale University
first professor of paleontology in the United States
relative George Peabody
residence New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: New Haven, Connecticut, United States

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Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut hasNotableBurial Othniel Charles Marsh
subject surface form: Grove Street Cemetery
Theropoda namedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Grove Street Cemetery hasBurial Othniel Charles Marsh
this entity surface form: O. C. Marsh
Edward Drinker Cope hasRival Othniel Charles Marsh
Protoceratidae taxonAuthor Othniel Charles Marsh
Protoceratidae describedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Triceratops describedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Apatosaurus namedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Othnielosaurus namedAfter Othniel Charles Marsh
Como Bluff associatedWith Othniel Charles Marsh
Diplodocus namedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Allosaurus namedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Stegosaurus namedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Dryosaurus namedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Ceratosaurus describedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Othniel Charles Marsh fullName Othniel Charles Marsh self-link
Edmontosaurus annectens describedBy Othniel Charles Marsh
Nodosauridae taxonAuthor Othniel Charles Marsh
Ornithomimus namedBy Othniel Charles Marsh