Richard E. Grant (paleontologist)

Richard Evans Grant (born June 18, 1927 in St. Paul, Minnesota , † December 7, 1994 ) was an American paleontologist . He was curator, senior scientist and head of the Department temporarily Paleobiology at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) in Washington, DC and was a specialist in brachiopods from the Perm and stratigraphy of the Permian.

Grant served in the US Navy in 1945/46, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor's degree in 1949 and a master's degree in 1953, and received his doctorate in geology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1958 . Even then he was working with the Smithsonian Institution and was assistant to G. Arthur Cooper, where he mainly dealt with the Permian of West Texas. He did field research in Alaska, Thailand, the Greek islands (Hydra, Chios) and the Salt Ranges of Pakistan.

Grant was with the US Geological Survey as a paleontologist until 1961 and at the Smithsonian from 1972 (1972 to 1977 as head of paleobiology). In addition to brachiopods, he also studied other invertebrate fossils such as trilobites . He contributed to the new edition of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology , Part H (Brachiopods) (with revision of some superfamilies of brachiopods).

In 1979 he was President of the Paleontological Society and received the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences . He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Web links

• Grant Papers

References and comments

1. ↑ Biography in Bruce R. Wardlaw, Richard E. Grant, David Malcolm Rohr (Eds.), The Guadalupian Symposium, Smithsonian Institution Press 2000. The symposium was held in Alpine, Texas in 1991
2. ↑ Date of death in obituary, Ameghiana, Volume 32, No. 4, 1995, p. 400