# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-joscelyn-arkell
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:56:07.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-joscelyn-arkell"
name: "William Joscelyn Arkell"
slug: "william-joscelyn-arkell"
description: "William Joscelyn Arkell FGS, FRS was a British geologist and palaeontologist, regarded as the leading authority on the Jurassic Period during the middle part of the 20th century."
tagline: "British palaeontologist (1904-1958)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/William_Joscelyn_Arkell.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1904-06-09"
deathDate: "1958-04-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.707865168539326
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  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump