George Jennings Hinde (24 March 1839 – 18 March 1918) was a British geologist and paleontologist.

Works

Extensive studies on

scolecodont A scolecodont is the jaw of a polychaete annelid, a common type of fossil-producing segmented worm useful in invertebrate paleontology. Scolecodonts are common and diverse microfossils, which range from the Cambrian period (around half a billion ...

s by George J. Hinde of material from England, Wales, Canada and Sweden established a basis for the nomenclature of what he regarded as being isolated components of annelid jaws; but study of them lapsed thereafter for almost 50 years. He also studied

conodont 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 ...

s from Canada and the United States or from Scotland. He named the genus ''

Polygnathus ''Polygnathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts. Species * †''Polygnathus acrinodosus'' Aboussalam 2003 * †''Polygnathus alkhovikovae'' Baranov, Slavík & Blodgett 2014 * †''Polygnathus angustipennatus'' Bischoff and Ziegler 1957 * � ...

'' in 1879. He published the ''Catalogue of the fossil sponges in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History). With descriptions of new and little-known species'' (Illustrated by 38 lithographic plates.) in 1883 In 1888, he published with

John William Dawson Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899) was a Canadian geologist and university administrator. Life and work John William Dawson was born on 13 October 1820 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he attended and graduated from Pictou Academy. Of Scotti ...

''New species of fossil sponges from Little Metis, province of Quebec, Canada''.

Awards

In 1896, he became a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

. In 1897, he was a recipient of the

Lyell Medal The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London, equal in status to the Murchison Medal. This medal is awarded based on one Earth Scientist's exceptional contribution of research to the scientific ...

, a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London.

Tributes

The Hinde Medal is an award given by the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of

palaeontology. The conodont genera '' Hindeodella'', '' Hindeodelloides'' and ''

Hindeodus ''Hindeodus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Anchignathodontidae. The generic name ''Hindeodus'' is a tribute to George Jennings Hinde, a British geologist and paleontologist from the 1800s and early 1900s. The suffix -odus typica ...

'' are named after G.J. Hinde.Pander Society Newsletter #39, July 2007
(retrieved 1 May 2016) The specific epithet ''hindei'', referring to prehistoric animals, is a tribute to G.J. Hinde. It can be found in species such as: * '' Diagoniella hindei'', a sponge species * ''

Choia ''Choia'' is a genus of extinct demosponge ranging from the Cambrian until the Lower Ordovician periods. Fossils of ''Choia'' have been found in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia; the Maotianshan shales of China; the Wheeler Shale in Uta ...

hindei'', a sponge species * '' Calceolispongia hindei'', a crinoid species

References

External links

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Obituary—George Jennings Hinde
by Henry Woodward - 1918 (retrieved 1 May 2016) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hinde, George Jennings English palaeontologists Conodont specialists 1839 births 1918 deaths Lyell Medal winners