# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-douglass
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:59:06.497Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-douglass"
name: "Earl Douglass"
slug: "earl-douglass"
description: "Earl Douglass was an American paleontologist who discovered the dinosaur Apatosaurus, playing a central role in one of the most important fossil finds in North America. By 1922 Douglass had unearthed and shipped more than 700,000 pounds of material including nearly 20 complete skeletons of Jurassic dinosaurs such as Diplodocus, Dryosaurus, Stegosaurus, Barosaurus, Camarasaurus and Brontosaurus."
tagline: "American paleontologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Diplodocus%2C_Dinosaur_NM_1923.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1862-10-18"
deathDate: "1931-01-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.31
  momentum:             9.672327672327672
  historical:           4.806156
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "إيرل دوجلاس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Douglass"
    title: "Earl Douglass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Douglass"
    title: "Earl Douglass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Douglass"
    title: "Earl Douglass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Douglass"
    title: "Earl Douglass"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1277044"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump