George F. Sternberg

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George Fryer Sternberg (born August 26, 1883 in Lawrence (Kansas) , † October 23, 1969 in Hays (Kansas) ) was an American vertebrate paleontologist . He was a member of a family known for finding dinosaurs and other fossils for museums.

George F. Sternberg dissecting a Chasmosaurus in 1914 , National Museum of Canada

His father Charles H. Sternberg was a well-known paleontologist and accompanied him early on during excavations and found his first large fossil, a plesiosaurus . He also discovered the remains of a giant buffalo in Hoxie, Kansas (with horn cores 1.8 m) and in 1908 a triceratops in Wyoming. In 1912 he moved with his father and brothers to Canada, where they dug up dinosaurs in Alberta (on the Red Deer River ). In 1924/25 he dug in Patagonia and from 1927 he worked as a curator at the museum of Fort Hays State University in Hays (today Sternberg Museum of Natural History). His finds are in many other large museums such as the London Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. In 1961 he retired.

He is known for his excavation of a fish in the fish , a Xiphactinus audax with another fish in its stomach ( Gillicus arcuatus, 6 feet in length, 1.8 m) by 14 feet in length (4.2 m). It is exhibited in the Sternberg Museum in Hays. It was discovered by Walter Sorensen of the American Museum of Natural History in Gove County , Kansas in 1952 , but was excavated by Sternberg.

He was married twice, his first, later divorced, marriage to Mabel Clare Smith in 1907 (the marriage had three children) and since 1930 to Anna Gertrude Ziegler.

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