Othniel Charles Marsh 357114 223641266 2008-07-05T01:07:18Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other {{Infobox Scientist | name = Othniel Charles Marsh | image = Othniel Charles Marsh - Brady-Handy.jpg | image_size = 200px | birth_date = {{birth date|1831|10|29}} | birth_place = [[Lockport (city), New York|Lockport, New York]], [[United States|USA]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1899|03|18|1831|10|29}} | death_place = [[New Haven, Connecticut]], [[United States|USA]] | Field = [[Paleontology]] | nationality = [[United States]] | work_institutions = [[Yale University]] | alma_mater = [[Yale College]]<br>[[University of Heidelberg]]<br>[[Harvard University]] | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | prizes = | footnotes = }} '''Othniel Charles Marsh''' ([[October 29]], [[1831]] &ndash; [[March 18]], [[1899]]) was one of the pre-eminent [[paleontologist]]s of the 19th century, who discovered and named many [[fossil]]s found in the [[American West]]. Marsh was born in [[Lockport (city), New York|Lockport, New York]]. He graduated [[Yale College]] in 1860, and studied [[geology]] and [[mineralogy]] in the [[Sheffield Scientific School]], New Haven, and afterwards paleontology and [[anatomy]] in [[Berlin]], [[Heidelberg]] and [[Breslau]]. He returned to the United States in 1866 and was appointed professor of vertebrate paleontology at [[Yale University]]. He persuaded his uncle, [[George Peabody]], to establish the [[Peabody Museum of Natural History]] at Yale. In May 1871 Marsh uncovered the first [[pterosaur]] fossils found in America. He also found early [[horse]]s, flying reptiles, the Cretaceous and [[Jurassic]] dinosaurs; ''[[Apatosaurus]]'' and ''[[Allosaurus]]'', and described the toothed birds of the [[Cretaceous]]; ''[[Ichthyornis]]'' and ''[[Hesperornis]]''. [[Image:OCmarsh.jpg|thumb|left|Othniel Charles Marsh (center, back row) and assistants ready for digging.]] Marsh is also known for the so-called [[Bone Wars]] waged against [[Edward Drinker Cope]]. The two men were fiercely competitive, discovering and documenting more than 120 new [[species]] of [[dinosaur]] between them. Marsh died in 1899 and was interred at the [[Grove Street Cemetery]] in [[New Haven, Connecticut]]. ==See also== * [[Marsh Botanical Garden]] == References == *{{cite news | author=Staff writers | title=Professor Marsh is Dead: The World-Famous Geologist Succumbs to Pneumonia | url=http://article.archive.nytimes.com/1899/03/19/117916234.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=0KENS5FNHEZD25CVYR82&Expires=1204695311&Signature=%2FYa2bQcQVNM852KwbyZO2nq3kn0%3D | work=The New York Times | date=19 March 1899 | accessdate=2008-03-05}} *{{cite web | url=http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/marsh.html | title=Othniel Charles Marsh (1832-1899) | author=University of California Museum of Paleontology | publisher=UC Berkeley | accessdate=2007-03-07}} *{{cite web | url=http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~alroy/lefa/Marsh.html | title=Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) | work=Lefalophodon | publisher=National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis | accessdate=2007-03-07}} {{NAS presidents}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marsh, Othniel Charles}} [[Category:1831 births]] [[Category:1899 deaths]] [[Category:American paleontologists]] [[Category:Burials at Grove Street Cemetery]] [[ca:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[cs:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[de:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[es:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[fr:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[it:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[hu:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[nl:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[ja:オスニエル・チャールズ・マーシュ]] [[pl:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[pt:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[ru:Марш, Гофониил Чарльз]] [[sv:Othniel Charles Marsh]] [[zh:奧塞內爾·查利斯·馬什]]