Walter C. Sweet

Walter Clarence Sweet (born October 17, 1927 in Denver , Colorado , † December 4, 2015 in Tucson , Arizona ) was an American paleontologist .

Life

Sweet received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1954 and was then a professor at Ohio State University .

He is known for establishing a global conodonts - biostratigraphy especially for Ordovician and transition Perm - Trias . He worked with Stig Bergström on this. In addition, he dealt with nautiloids of the Paleozoic Era .

In 1994 he received the Paleontological Society Medal and he received the Gold Medal from the Pander Society and the Moore Medal from the Society for Sedimentary Geology . In 1984 he was President of the Paleontological Society .

Simon J. Knell: The Great Fossil Enigma: The Search for the Conodont Animal, Indiana University Press, 2012

The Conodonta: Morphology, Taxonomy, Paleoecology, and Evolutionary History of a Long-Extinct Animal Phylum, Oxford University Press 1988
with Stig Bergström (editor): Symposium on Conodont Biostratigraphy, Geological Society of America Memoir 127, 1971
with Stig Bergström: The generic concept in conodont taxonomy. Proceedings North American Paleontological Convention, 1, 1969, pp. 29-42.
with Stig Bergström: Conodont provinces and biofacies of the Late Ordovician, Geological Society of America Special Papers 196, 1984, pp. 69-88
with Stig Bergström: Conodonts and Biostratigraphic Correlation, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 14, 1986, pp. 85-112
A quantitative conodont biostratigraphy for the Lower Triassic. Senckenbergiana lethaea, 69, 1989, pp. 253-273.
with Raymond Ethington, Christopher Barnes. North American Middle and Upper Ordovician Conodont Faunas, Geological Society of America Memoris 127, 1970, pp. 163-194

personal data
SURNAME	Sweet, Walter C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sweet, Walter Clarence (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 17, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Denver
DATE OF DEATH	4th December 2015
Place of death	Tucson