John Pojeta

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John Pojeta Jr. (born September 9, 1935 in New York City - † July 6, 2017 in Rockville ) was an American geologist and paleontologist .

Pojeta studied at Capital University in Bexley (Ohio) with a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry in 1957, at the University of Cincinnati with a master's degree in 1960 and a doctorate in paleontology and zoology in 1963. He was then with the US Geological Survey as Stratigraph and paleontologist. At times he was head of the USGS's paleontology and stratigraphy department. He also taught at George Washington University . He was an Adjunct Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian).

He dealt mainly with paleozoic mussels (pelecypods) and phylogeny of the mussels, but also palaeoecology and biostratigraphy. In 1972 he and his colleagues first described the extinct class of molluscs, the beaked shellfish (Rostroconchia).

In 1990 he was President of the Paleontological Society . The Paleontological Society gives him the Pojeta Award in his honor. Since he did research in Antarctica (1979/80), Pojeta Peak is named after him. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

He was married to Mary Louise Pojeta and had two children.

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  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ John Pojeta, Bruce Runnegar , Noel J. Morris, Norman D. Newell : Rostroconchia: A new class of bivalved mollusks. Science, Vol. 177, 1972, pp. 264-267
  3. ↑ Pojeta Award ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paleosoc.org
personal data
SURNAME Pojeta, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 6th July 2017
Place of death Rockville, Maryland