William Diller Matthew
American paleontologist (1871-1930) · United States · On the map · Died at 59
William Diller Matthew FRS was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils, although he also published a few early papers on mineralogy, petrological geology, one on botany, one on trilobites, and he described Tetraceratops insignis, which was much later suggested to be the oldest known therapsid.
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Lived 1871 to 1930 · aged 59