Walter C. Sweet
Walter C. Sweet (17 October 1927 in Denver, Colorado – 4 December 2015 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American paleontologist. He was a Chief Panderer of the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology. In 1984, he was president of the Paleontological Society, an international organisation devoted to the promotion of paleontology. In 1979, he described the conodont genus ''Culumbodina''. In 1988, he described the conodont order Proconodontida and the conodont family Gnathodontidae.The Conodonta: morphology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and evolutionary history of a long-extinct animal phylum. WC Sweet, 1988, Oxford University Press, USA Awards and tributes He received the Pander Medal, the Paleontological Society Medal in 1994 and the Raymond C. Moore Medal in 1988. The conodont genus ''Sweetognathus'' is named in his honour. References * Stig Bergström and Walter C. Sweet, The generic concept in conodont ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pander Society
The Pander Society is an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology. It publishes an annual newsletter. Although there are regular meetings of the Pander Society, at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, at European Conodont Symposia (ECOS for short), and elsewhere, any meeting of three or more "Panderers" is considered an official meeting of the "Pander Society". The society is headed by the Chief Panderer, currently Maria Cristina Perri of the Università di Bologna. The society confers two awards, the Pander Medal for a lifetime of achievement in conodont palaeontology, and the Hinde Medal for an outstanding contribution to conodont palaeontology by a young Panderer. Heinz Christian Pander (1794–1865) is credited as the first scientist to describe primitive creatures known as conodonts. [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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List Of Presidents Of The Paleontological Society
The list of presidents of the Paleontological Society is a list of all the past and present presidents of the Paleontological Society. *1909 John Mason Clarke *1910 Charles Schuchert *1911 William Berryman Scott *1912 David White *1913 Charles D. Walcott *1914 Henry Fairfield Osborn *1915 Edward Oscar Ulrich *1916 Rudolf Ruedemann *1917 John Campbell Merriam *1918 Frank Hall Knowlton *1919 Robert Tracy Jackson *1920 Frederic Brewster Loomis *1921 Timothy W. Stanton *1922 William Diller Matthew *1923 T. Wayland Vaughan *1924 Edward Wilber Berry *1925 Richard Swann Lull *1926 Stuart Weller *1927 William Arthur Parks *1928 August F. Foerste *1929 Ermine Cowles Case *1930 William H. Twenhofel *1931 Edgar Roscoe Cumings *1932 Ray S. Bassler *1933 Edward Martin Kindle *1934 Percy Edward Raymond *1935 Charles Kephart Swartz *1936 Gilbert Dennison Harris *1937 Joseph Augustine Cushman *1938 Charles W. Gilmore *1939 Ralph W. Chaney *1940 Carl O. Dunbar *1941 Lloyd William Step ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Proconodontida
Proconodontida is an order of conodonts. References * A suprageneric taxonomy of the conodonts. Maurits Lindström, Lethaia, Volume 3, Issue 4, pages 427–445, October 1970, * The conodont apparatus as a food-gathering mechanism. Maurits Lindström, palaeontology, volume17, part 4, pages 729-744 * Taxonomy, Evolution, and Biostratigraphy of Conodonts from the Kechika Formation, Skoki Formation, and Road River Group (Upper Cambrian to Lower Silurian), Northeastern British Columbia. Leanne J. Pyle and Christopher R. Burnes, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences The ''Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1963, which reports current research on all aspects of the Earth sciences. It is published by NRC Research Press. The journal also publishes ..., 38(10), pages 1387–1401, 2001, External links Prehistoric jawless fish orders {{Conodont-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gnathodontidae
Gnathodontidae is an extinct conodont family in the order Ozarkodinida. It consists of the extinct genus '' Icriodus''. References * Carboniferous gnathodontid conodont apparatuses: evidence of a dual origin for Pennsylvanian taxa. RC Grayson, GK Merrill, 1990, Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft External links Ozarkodinida families {{Conodont-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Paleontological Society Medal
The Paleontological Society Medal is an award given by the Paleontological Society to a person whose eminence is based on advancement of knowledge in paleontology.Paleontology Society Medal information page https://www.paleosoc.org/paleontological-society-medal Awardees SourcePaleontological Society See also * List of paleontology awards This list of earth sciences awards is an index to articles on notable awards for earth sciences, or natural science related to the planet Earth. It includes awards for meteorology, oceanography and paleontology, but excludes awards for List of envi ... References {{Reflist Paleontology in the United States Paleontology awards American awards Awards established in 1963 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Raymond C
Raymond is a male given name. It was borrowed into English from French (older French spellings were Reimund and Raimund, whereas the modern English and French spellings are identical). It originated as the Germanic ᚱᚨᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Raginmund'') or ᚱᛖᚷᛁᚾᛗᚢᚾᛞ (''Reginmund''). ''Ragin'' (Gothic) and ''regin'' (Old German) meant "counsel". The Old High German ''mund'' originally meant "hand", but came to mean "protection". This etymology suggests that the name originated in the Early Middle Ages, possibly from Latin. Alternatively, the name can also be derived from Germanic Hraidmund, the first element being ''Hraid'', possibly meaning "fame" (compare ''Hrod'', found in names such as Robert, Roderick, Rudolph, Roland, Rodney and Roger) and ''mund'' meaning "protector". Despite the German and French origins of the English name, some of its early uses in English documents appear in Latinized form. As a surname, its first recorded appearance in Br ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sweetognathus
''Sweetognathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Sweetognathidae that evolved at the beginning of the Permian period (298.9 Ma), in near-equatorial, shallow-water seas. The genus is characterized by pustulose ornamentation on a wide, flat-topped carina. It originated in the earliest Permian as ''S. expansus'' from '' Diplognathodus edentulus''. ''Sweetognathus'' forms a species complex. The genus is named after paleontologist Walter C. Sweet. It has been found that recurrent parallel species pairs have occurred throughout ''Sweetognathus'' evolution between populations originating in Bolivia, the Mid-Western Unitied States, and Russia. Parallelisms have been found to occur in the denticle morphologies of their platform elements. Use in stratigraphy According to the List of Global Boundary Stratotype Sections and Points, the species ''Sweetognathus whitei'' made its first appearance during the Artinskian (some 290.1 ± 0.26 mya), in the Permian of the Ural ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stig Bergström
Stig M. Bergström (born 12 June 1935 in Skövde) is a Swedish-American paleontologist. In 1981, he described the conodont family Paracordylodontidae. In 1974, he described the multielement conodont genus '' Appalachignathus'' from the Middle Ordovician of North America. Awards and tributes He received the Pander Medal by the Pander Society. In 1999, he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal, awarded by the Society for Sedimentary Geology to persons who have made significant contributions in the field which have promoted the science of stratigraphy by research in paleontology and evolution and the use of fossils for interpretations of paleoecology. In 2011, he received the Paleontological Society Medal. The rhipidognathid conodont genus '' Bergstroemognathus'' Spergali 1974 has been named in his honour.Ordovician Rhipidognathid Conodonts from Australia and Iran. Yong Y. Zhen, Robert S. Nicoll, Ian G. Percival, Mir Alireza Hamedi and Ian Stewart, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 75, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ohio State University
The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best public universities in the United States. Founded in 1870 as the state's land-grant university and the ninth university in Ohio with the Morrill Act of 1862, Ohio State was originally known as the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College and focused on various agricultural and mechanical disciplines, but it developed into a comprehensive university under the direction of then-Governor and later U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes, and in 1878, the Ohio General Assembly passed a law changing the name to "the Ohio State University" and broadening the scope of the university. Admission standards tightened and became greatly more selective throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Ohio State's political science department and faculty have greatly contri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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American Paleontologists
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Conodont Specialists
Conodonts (Greek ''kōnos'', "cone", + ''odont'', "tooth") are an extinct group of agnathan (jawless) vertebrates resembling eels, classified in the class Conodonta. For many years, they were known only from their tooth-like oral elements, which are usually found in isolation and are now called conodont elements. Knowledge about soft tissues remains limited. They existed in the world's oceans for over 300 million years, from the Cambrian to the beginning of the Jurassic. Conodont elements are widely used as index fossils, fossils used to define and identify geological periods. The animals are also called Conodontophora (conodont bearers) to avoid ambiguity. Discovery and understanding of conodonts The teeth-like fossils of the conodont were first discovered by Heinz Christian Pander and the results published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1856. The name ''pander'' is commonly used in scientific names of conodonts. It was only in the early 1980s that the first fossil evidence o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |