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Edward Oscar Ulrich (1 February 1857, in
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– 22 February 1944, in
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) was an
invertebrate Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordate ...
paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...
specializing in the study of
Paleozoic The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. The name ''Paleozoic'' ( ;) was coined by the British geologist Adam Sedgwick in 1838 by combining the Greek words ''palaiós'' (, "old") and ' ...
fossil A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved ...
s.


Biography

Ulrich was educated at Wallace College and the Ohio Medical College. Abandoning the practice of medicine, he became curator of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History in 1877, and later was paleontologist to geological surveys of
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, and
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, also associate editor for ten years of the ''American Geologist''. Ulrich was a prolific writer, publishing numerous pamphlets on the subject of American paleontology, treating particularly the fossil
Bryozoa Bryozoa (also known as the Polyzoa, Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals) are a phylum of simple, aquatic invertebrate animals, nearly all living in sedentary colonies. Typically about long, they have a special feeding structure called a l ...
,
Gastropoda The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. ...
,
Ostracoda Ostracods, or ostracodes, are a class of the Crustacea (class Ostracoda), sometimes known as seed shrimp. Some 70,000 species (only 13,000 of which are extant) have been identified, grouped into several orders. They are small crustaceans, typical ...
, and
Pelecypoda Bivalvia (), in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of marine and freshwater molluscs that have laterally compressed bodies enclosed by a shell consisting of two hinged parts. As a group, bival ...
. In 1930 he was awarded the
Mary Clark Thompson Medal The Mary Clark Thompson Medalis awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for most important service to geology and paleontology." Named after Mary Clark Thompson and first awarded in 1921, it was originally presented every three years toget ...
from the
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, and he was awarded the
Penrose Medal The Penrose Medal was created in 1925 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr., as the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America. Originally created as the Geological Society of America Medal it was soon renamed the Penrose Medal by popular assent of t ...
in 1932. In
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, with
Ray S. Bassler Ray Smith Bassler (July 22, 1878 – October 3, 1961) was an American geologist and paleontologist. Biography Bassler was born in 1878, in Philadelphia. When he was in high school he used to sell fossils for Edward Oscar Ulrich. He got his ...
, he described the conodont genus ''
Ancyrodella ''Ancyrodella'' is an extinct genus of conodonts from the Late Devonian. During the Famennian stage of the Late Devonian, a biologic event occurred (Upper Kellwasser Extinction of all ''Ancyrodella'' and ''Ozarkodina'' and most ''Palmatolepis' ...
'',


Legacy

An extinct species of
graptolite Graptolites are a group of colonial animals, members of the subclass Graptolithina within the class Pterobranchia. These filter-feeding Filter feeders are a sub-group of suspension feeding animals that feed by straining suspended matter and ...
, ''
Climacograptus ''Climacograptus'' is an Ordovician to Silurian genus of graptolite Graptolites are a group of colonial animals, members of the subclass Graptolithina within the class Pterobranchia. These filter-feeding Filter feeders are a sub-group of ...
'' ''ulrichi'', was named for him in 1908. ''
Bactritimimus ''Bactritimimus'' is a genus of belemnite from the Mississippian Epoch. Species * ''Bactritimimus girtyi'' Flower and Gordon 1959 * ''Bactritimimus ulrichi'' Flower and Gordon 1959 See also * Belemnite * List of belemnites This list of b ...
'' ''ulrichi'', an extinct
Carboniferous The Carboniferous ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Permian Period, million years ago. The name ''Carbonifero ...
belemnite Belemnitida (or the belemnite) is an extinct order of squid-like cephalopods that existed from the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous. Unlike squid, belemnites had an internal skeleton that made up the cone. The parts are, from the arms-most to ...
, was named in honor of Ulrich in 1959. In 2002, an extinct
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
of monoplacophrans, '' Ulrichoconus'', was named in his honor for his geological studies of the Ozark Plateaus.


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References


Smithsonian Institution Archives - Record Unit 7332 - Edward Oscar Ulrich Papers
William Cox * Attribution: *


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ulrich, Edward Oscar American paleontologists Conodont specialists Paleozoologists 1857 births 1944 deaths Penrose Medal winners 19th-century American zoologists 20th-century American zoologists