Ray S. Bassler
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Ray Smith Bassler (born July 22, 1878 in Philadelphia , † October 3, 1961 in Washington, DC ) was an American paleontologist.
Bassler grew up in Cincinnati and already collected fossils in high school, where he came in contact with paleontologists such as Charles Schuchert , Carl Ludwig Rominger (1820-1907) and Edward Oscar Ulrich . He studied geology at the University of Cincinnati with a bachelor's degree in 1902 and at George Washington University with a master's degree in 1903 and a doctorate in 1904. He was then until 1948 Assistant Professor of Geology at George Washington University. From 1904 he was also assistant curator at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D. C and from 1907 curator (in the department of paleontology of invertebrates). From 1910 to 1922 he was curator of the paleontology department and from 1923 to 1928 of the stratigraphic paleontology department. From 1929 he was head curator of the geology department and, after his retirement in 1948, associate in paleontology.
1905-1931 studied with the French Ferdinand Canu bryozoans (bryozoans) from the Tertiary of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast.
He is the author of the 1953 volume Bryozoen in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology .
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| SURNAME | Bassler, Ray S. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bassler, Ray Smith (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd October 1961 |
| Place of death | Washington, DC |