Timothy William Stanton
Timothy William Stanton (born September 21, 1860 in Monroe County , Illinois , † December 4, 1953 in Silver Spring , Maryland ) was an American paleontologist and geologist .
Life
Stanton, whose father was a farmer, moved the family to Missouri and in 1874 to Colorado, where he went to school in Boulder. He studied as one of the first students at the newly formed University of Colorado with a bachelor's degree in 1883 and a master's degree in 1895. After the bachelor's degree, he was a teacher in schools in Colorado for five years. He studied biology and geology at Johns Hopkins University from 1888 to 1889 and received his doctorate in 1897 from George Washington University (then Columbian University). From 1894 to 1910 he was also a part-time teacher of geology at Columbian University.
From 1889 he was with the US Geological Survey as assistant paleontologist to Charles Abiathar White , whose successor he was in 1892. At that time, like White, he was primarily concerned with chalk invertebrate fossils ( Alpheus Hyatt had taken over the area of invertebrate fossils from the Jurassic and Triassic from White at the USGS in 1889). In 1900 he became head of the palaeontology department and in 1903 the newly created department of paleontology and stratigraphy of the USGS and from 1932 until his retirement in 1935 he was chief geologist (a position he had already taken on in 1930). He was also custodian for Mesozoic invertebrates at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC from 1894 to 1953. From 1912 he was a long-time head of the USGS committee for geological names.
He was particularly concerned with Cretaceous invertebrates and was doing field research mainly in the west and southwest of the US (a planned monograph on the invertebrate fossils of the Lower Cretaceous in Texas remained unfinished). He was considered an outstanding fossil collector.
In 1921 he was President of the Paleontological Society . In the same year he was vice president of the Geological Society of America . In 1924 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Colorado.
literature
- John B. Reeside, Obituary in Science, Volume 119, 1954, pp. 307-308
Web links
- Stanton Papers (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stanton, Timothy William |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Monroe County , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1953 |
| Place of death | Silver Spring , Maryland |