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Marsh, Othniel Charles 1831-1899
Paleontologist; born in Lockport, N. Y., Oct. 29, 1831; graduated at Yale University in 1860.
After taking a course of science in the Sheffield School, he went to Germany, where he devoted three years to the study of zoology, mineralogy, and geology.
Returning to the United States, he was called to the chair of Paleontology at Yale University in 1866, which he retained till his death.
In 1868 he made his first visit to the region of the Rocky Mountains, to study its inexhaustible fossil remains.
Later he organized and conducted several scientific expeditions to that region.
During 1882-99 he was vertebrate paleontologist for the United States geological survey.
He discovered more than 1,000 new fossil vertebrates, more than half of which he classified and described.
Among his more important finds were a sub-class of birds with teeth, which he named Odontornithes; two new classes of large mammals, the Tillodontia and Dinocerata; several new o