Charles Lewis Camp

Charles Lewis Camp (born March 12, 1893 in Jamestown, North Dakota , † August 14, 1975 in San José (California) ) was an American paleontologist and zoologist .

Camp studied from 1911 zoology in Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in 1915 and at Columbia University with a master's degree in 1916. After military service as a lieutenant in France during World War I, he taught comparative anatomy in the zoological faculty in Berkeley. In 1923 he received his doctorate from Columbia University (Classification of the lizards), where William K. Gregory and Henry Fairfield Osborn were his teachers. In 1923 he became director of the California Historical Society and from 1930 to 1949 he was director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology and was the Faculty of Paleontology at Berkeley from 1939 to 1949. In 1935/36 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and visited the sites of therapsids in the Karoo (where he was a second time in 1947/48), sites of the Triassic in China (excavation of Omeisaurus with CC Young ) and collections of vertebrates of the Triassic in museums in Europe . In 1960 he gave up the apprenticeship at Berkeley.

In 1930 he and Samuel Paul Welles discovered a placerias site near St. Johns (Arizona) . From 1953 he excavated ichthyosaurs in the Shoshone Mountains in Nevada (later Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park). He first described Segisaurus and the arroyo toad .

He published the Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates from 1933 on (this resulted in 8 volumes covering the literature from 1928 onwards, the last of which appeared in 1968). In 1946 he became president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology . In 1970 he received the Henry R. Wagner Memorial Medal from the California Historical Society.

Fonts

• California mosasaurs , Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1942
• Classification of the lizards , New York, NY, 1923, Reprint 1971 (his dissertation).
• Earth song: a prelude to history , Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1952
• A Study of the Phytosaurs, with description of new material from Western North America , Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1930
• with G. Dallas Hanna: Methods in Paleontology , University of California Press, 1937
• with Samuel P. Welles: Triassic dicynodont reptiles, Berkeley 1956
• Editor: James Clyman Frontiersman: The Adventures of a Trapper and Covered Wagon Emigrant as Told in His Own Reminisces and Diaries 1960
• Desert Rats. Berkeley, CA: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California. 1966

Web links

• Charles Camp Papers