N. Gary Lane
Norman Gary Lane (born February 19, 1930 in French Lick , Indiana , † January 14, 2006 in Bloomington (Indiana) ) was an American geologist and paleontologist .
Lane grew up in Siddell, Illinois and studied at Oberlin College with a bachelor's degree in 1952 and at the University of Kansas , where he received his master's degree in 1954 (with a thesis on the Grenola limestone of Lower Permian Kansas) and received his doctorate in 1958 with Raymond C. Moore (The Monobathrid Camerate Crinoid Family: Batocrinidae). As a student he worked for the Geological Survey of Kansas and Canada and in 1955/56 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tasmania . He then went to the University of California, Los Angeles , where he became a professor of paleontology, and was from 1973 at Indiana University . From 1984 to 1987 he was head of the geology faculty. In 1994 he retired. 1971/72 he was a Fulbright Scholar at Trinity College in Dublin.
He was an expert on sea lilies (Crinoidea) from the Paleozoic (Ordovician to Permian), especially Batocrinidae from the Mississippian , Crinoids from the Permian of Nevada and the Devonian of England and China and micro-crinoids. In 1978 he contributed significantly to the Crinoid Volume of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology . He also dealt with paleoecology and the history of paleontology.
In 1988 he was President of the Paleontological Society . In 1995 he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology .
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| SURNAME | Lane, N. Gary |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lane, Norman Gary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American geologist and paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | French Lick , Indiana |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 14, 2006 |
| Place of death | Bloomington (Indiana) |