Roy Herbert Reinhart

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Roy Herbert Reinhart (born September 11, 1919 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † December 11, 2005 in Oxford , Ohio) was an American paleontologist and geologist . He is known for research on fossil manatees and the introduction of the fossil mammalian order Desmostylia . He also dealt with Cenozoic stratigraphy .

Life

Reinhart graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor's degree in 1941, served as a pioneer officer in Europe during World War II and then continued his studies at the University of Chicago with a master's degree in 1949. In 1952 he received his PhD in paleontology from the University of California, Berkeley . As a post-doctoral student he was at West Texas State College and from 1951 Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor of Geology and from 1962 Professor at the University of Miami. In 1982 he retired.

He had been married since 1941 and had three children. As a hobby he collected archaeological relics.

Fonts

  • A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia, University of California publications in geological sciences 36, 1959, pp. 1-146.
  • with James Edward Bever: Introductory geology: laboratory manual. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown 1961
  • Article Desmostylia and Sirenia in P. Gray, The encyclopedia of the biological sciences, 2nd edition, Van Nostrand 1970
  • Fossil Sirenians and Desmostylids from Florida and elsewhere, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological sciences 20, 1976, pp. 187-300.
  • The extinct mammalian or Desmostylia, Natl. Geogr. Soc. Res. Repts. 14, 1982, pp. 549-555.
  • with Richard C. Hulbert, Gary Scott Morgan, Ann E. Pratt: Sirenians, in: RC Hulbert: The fossil vertebrates of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2001, pp. 322-330.

References and comments

  1. ↑ Birth and career dates according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Reinhart, Roy Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2005
Place of death Oxford , Ohio