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Index Edwin H. Colbert

Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert (September 28, 1905 – November 15, 2001)O'Connor, Anahad,, The New York Times, November 25, 2001.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 87 relations: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Alfred Romer, American Alliance of Museums, American Museum of Natural History, Antarctica, Arapaho National Forest, Bachelor of Arts, Barnum Brown, Boy Scouts of America, California College of the Arts, Ceratopsia, Chinle Formation, Clarinda, Iowa, Coalsack Bluff, Coelophysis, Columbia University, Continental drift, Curator, Curator: The Museum Journal, Dale Russell, Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal, Dicynodontia, Dinosaur, Dinosauria (museum), Doctor of Philosophy, Effigia, Emeritus, Erwin Hinckley Barbour, Evolution (journal), Evolution of the Vertebrates, Evolutionary biology, Flagstaff, Arizona, George Gaylord Simpson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ghost Ranch, Hadrosaurus, Hayden Memorial Geological Award, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Hypsognathus, Icarosaurus, Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, John Ostrom, Kolkata, Laurence McKinley Gould, Leonia, New Jersey, Llewellyn Ivor Price, Lystrosaurus, Marshall Kay, ... Expand index (37 more) »

  2. Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, is the oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas.

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Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument is a U.S. National Monument near Harrison, Nebraska.

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Alfred Romer

Alfred Sherwood Romer (December 28, 1894 – November 5, 1973) was an American paleontologist and biologist and a specialist in vertebrate evolution. Edwin H. Colbert and Alfred Romer are American paleontologists and Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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American Alliance of Museums

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM), formerly the American Association of Museums, is a non-profit association whose goal is to bring museums together.

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American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.

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Arapaho National Forest

Arapaho National Forest is a National Forest located in north-central Colorado, United States.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Barnum Brown

Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), commonly referred to as Mr. Edwin H. Colbert and Barnum Brown are American paleontologists and People associated with the American Museum of Natural History.

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Boy Scouts of America

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California College of the Arts

The California College of the Arts (CCA) is a private art school in San Francisco, California.

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Ceratopsia

Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Chinle Formation

The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geological formation of fluvial, lacustrine, and palustrine to eolian deposits spread across the U.S. states of Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, western New Mexico, and western Colorado.

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Clarinda, Iowa

Clarinda is a city in and the county seat of Page County, Iowa.

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Coalsack Bluff

Coalsack Bluff is a small rock bluff standing at the northern limits of Walcott Neve, west-southwest of Bauhs Nunatak.

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Coelophysis

Coelophysis (traditionally; or, as heard more commonly in recent decades) is a genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 215 to 208.5 million years ago during the Late Triassic period from the middle to late Norian age in what is now the southwestern United States.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Continental drift

Continental drift is the hypothesis, originating in the early 20th century, that Earth's continents move or drift relative to each other over geologic time.

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Curator

A curator (from cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer.

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Curator: The Museum Journal

Curator: The Museum Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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Dale Russell

Dale Alan Russell (27 December 1937 – 21 December 2019) was an American-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist. Edwin H. Colbert and Dale Russell are American paleontologists.

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Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal

The Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for meritorious work in zoology or paleontology study published in a three- to five-year period." Named after Daniel Giraud Elliot, it was first awarded in 1917.

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Dicynodontia

Dicynodontia is an extinct clade of anomodonts, an extinct type of non-mammalian therapsid.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Dinosauria (museum)

Dinosauria is a museum devoted to dinosaurs in Espéraza, Aude, a département of southern France.

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Doctor of Philosophy

A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD or DPhil; philosophiae doctor or) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research.

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Effigia

Effigia was an extinct genus of shuvosaurid known from the Late Triassic of New Mexico, south-western USA.

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Emeritus

Emeritus (female version: emerita) is an honorary title granted to someone who retires from a position of distinction, most commonly an academic faculty position, but is allowed to continue using the previous title, as in "professor emeritus".

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Erwin Hinckley Barbour

Erwin Hinckley Barbour (April 5, 1856 – May 10, 1947) was an American geologist and paleontologist. Edwin H. Colbert and Erwin Hinckley Barbour are American paleontologists.

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Evolution (journal)

Evolution: International Journal of Organic Evolution, is a monthly scientific journal that publishes significant new results of empirical or theoretical investigations concerning facts, processes, mechanics, or concepts of evolutionary phenomena and events.

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Evolution of the Vertebrates

Evolution of the Vertebrates, subtitled "A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time" is a basic paleontology textbook by Edwin H. Colbert, published by John Wiley & Sons.

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Evolutionary biology

Evolutionary biology is the subfield of biology that studies the evolutionary processes (natural selection, common descent, speciation) that produced the diversity of life on Earth.

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Flagstaff, Arizona

Flagstaff is the county seat of Coconino County, Arizona, in the southwestern United States.

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George Gaylord Simpson

George Gaylord Simpson (June 16, 1902 – October 6, 1984) was an American paleontologist. Edwin H. Colbert and George Gaylord Simpson are American paleontologists, People associated with the American Museum of Natural History and Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia Totto O'Keeffe (November 15, 1887 March 6, 1986) was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major art movements.

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Ghost Ranch

Ghost Ranch is a retreat and education center in Rio Arriba County in north central New Mexico, United States.

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Hadrosaurus

Hadrosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now the Woodbury Formation In Pennsylvania about 78-80 Ma.

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Hayden Memorial Geological Award

The Hayden Memorial Geological Award is presented by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

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Henry Fairfield Osborn

Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate. Edwin H. Colbert and Henry Fairfield Osborn are American paleontologists and People associated with the American Museum of Natural History.

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Hypsognathus

Hypsognathus (from ῠ̔́ψος, 'height' and γνάθος, 'jaw') is an extinct genus of procolophonid parareptile from the Late Triassic of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Nova Scotia.

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Icarosaurus

Icarosaurus (meaning "Icarus lizard") is an extinct genus of kuehneosaurid reptile from the Late Triassic (Norian age) Lower Lockatong Formation of New Jersey.

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Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (''née'' Indira Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and stateswoman who served as the prime minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

Jawaharlal Nehru (14 November 1889 – 27 May 1964) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, author and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century.

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John Ostrom

John Harold Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Edwin H. Colbert and John Ostrom are American paleontologists and Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Laurence McKinley Gould

Laurence McKinley Gould (August 22, 1896 – June 21, 1995) was an American geologist, educator, and polar explorer.

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Leonia, New Jersey

Leonia is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Llewellyn Ivor Price

Llewellyn Ivor Price (October 9, 1905 – June 9, 1980) was one of the first Brazilian paleontologists.

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Lystrosaurus

Lystrosaurus ('shovel lizard'; proper Greek is lístron ‘tool for leveling or smoothing, shovel, spade, hoe’) is an extinct genus of herbivorous dicynodont therapsids from the late Permian and Early Triassic epochs (around 250 million years ago).

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Marshall Kay

Marshall Kay (November 10, 1904 – September 4, 1975) was a geologist and professor at Columbia University.

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Maryville High School (Missouri)

Maryville High School is the public high school for Maryville, Missouri.

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Maryville, Missouri

Maryville is a city and county seat of Nodaway County, Missouri, United States.

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Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.

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Museum of Northern Arizona

The Museum of Northern Arizona is a museum in Flagstaff, Arizona, United States, established as a repository for Indigenous material and natural history specimens from the Colorado Plateau.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization.

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National Science Foundation

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo MéxicoIn Peninsular Spanish, a spelling variant, Méjico, is also used alongside México. According to the Diccionario panhispánico de dudas by Royal Spanish Academy and Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, the spelling version with J is correct; however, the spelling with X is recommended, as it is the one that is used in Mexican Spanish.; Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Ohio State University

The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

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Page County, Iowa

Page County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Paleontology

Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Paleorrota Geopark

The Paleorrota Geopark Project was established in Preparatory Procedure No.

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Petrified Forest National Park

Petrified Forest National Park is an American national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona.

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Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis

Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS (29 June 1893– 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician.

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Romer-Simpson Medal

The Romer-Simpson Medal is the highest award issued by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology for "sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence and service to the discipline of vertebrate paleontology".

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Sivalik Hills

The Sivalik Hills, also known as the Shivalik Hills and Churia Hills, are a mountain range of the outer Himalayas.

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Society for the Study of Evolution

The Society for the Study of Evolution is a professional organization of evolutionary biologists.

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Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) is a professional organization that was founded in the United States in 1940 to advance the science of vertebrate paleontology around the world.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Staurikosaurus

Staurikosaurus (Pronounced "STORE-ee-koh-SAWR-us", "Southern Cross lizard") is a genus of herrerasaurid dinosaur from the Late Triassic of Brazil, found in the Santa Maria Formation.

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Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002) was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. Edwin H. Colbert and Stephen Jay Gould are American paleontologists and People associated with the American Museum of Natural History.

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Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Tetrapod

A tetrapod is any four-limbed vertebrate animal of the superclass Tetrapoda.

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The Age of Reptiles

The Age of Reptiles is a mural depicting the period of ancient history when reptiles were the dominant creatures on the earth, painted by Rudolph Zallinger.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Transantarctic Mountains

The Transantarctic Mountains (abbreviated TAM) comprise a mountain range of uplifted rock (primarily sedimentary) in Antarctica which extends, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare in northern Victoria Land to Coats Land.

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Nebraska State Museum

The University of Nebraska State Museum, also known as Morrill Hall, founded in 1871, is a natural history museum featuring Nebraska biodiversity, paleontology, and cultural diversity, located on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln City Campus near the corner of 14th and Vine Streets in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (Nebraska, NU, or UNL) is a public land-grant research university in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States.

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Vertebrate

Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

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William Diller Matthew

William Diller Matthew FRS (February 19, 1871 – September 24, 1930) was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils, although he also published a few early papers on mineralogy, petrological geology, one on botany, one on trilobites, and he described Tetraceratops insignis, which was much later suggested to be the oldest known (Early Permian) therapsid. Edwin H. Colbert and William Diller Matthew are People associated with the American Museum of Natural History.

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William King Gregory

William King Gregory (May 19, 1876 – December 29, 1970) was an American zoologist, renowned as a primatologist, paleontologist, and functional and comparative anatomist. Edwin H. Colbert and William King Gregory are American paleontologists and People associated with the American Museum of Natural History.

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Yale University

Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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See also

Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Colbert

Also known as E. H. Colbert, Edwin Colbert, Edwin Harri Colbert, Edwin Harris Colbert, Ned Colbert.

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