Othniel Charles Marsh
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{{Infobox Scientist
| name = Othniel Charles Marsh
| image = Othniel Charles Marsh - Brady-Handy.jpg
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| 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]]
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'''Othniel Charles Marsh''' ([[October 29]], [[1831]] – [[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}}
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