# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-paul-welles
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:22:27.424Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-paul-welles"
name: "Samuel Paul Welles"
slug: "samuel-paul-welles"
description: "Samuel Paul Welles was an American palaeontologist. Welles was a research associate at the Museum of Palaeontology, University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the Placerias Quarry in 1930 and the Shonisaurus discoveries of 1954 and later, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. He accumulated an extensive collection of fossils of marine reptiles, amphibians, and fish, as well as describing the dinosaur Dilophosaurus in 1954 and the elasmosaur Fresnosaurus in 1943."
tagline: "American palaeontologist (1909–1997)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1909-11-09"
deathDate: "1997-08-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump