John Willis Stovall (1891– July 24, 1953) was an American

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 ...

at the

University of Oklahoma , mottoeng = "For the benefit of the Citizen and the State" , type = Public research university , established = , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.7billion (2021) , pr ...

. Along with his student Wann Langston, Jr., he named the

theropod Theropoda (; ), whose members are known as theropods, is a dinosaur clade that is characterized by hollow bones and three toes and claws on each limb. Theropods are generally classed as a group of saurischian dinosaurs. They were ancestrally c ...

dinosaur Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago (mya), although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is t ...

Acrocanthosaurus ''Acrocanthosaurus'' ( ; ) is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that existed in what is now North America during the Aptian and early Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous, from 113 to 110 million years ago. Like most dinosaur genera, ' ...

'' in 1950. Most of his research centered on the Cimarron Valley region of extreme northwestern Oklahoma, which included his work regarding the Keyes meteorite. The Sam Noble Museum of Oklahoma Natural History was previously named "The Stovall Museum" in his honor.Droke, Julie A
"Sam Noble Museum of Oklahoma Natural History"
''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''

Selected publication

*Stovall, J.W., & W. Langston, Jr. 1950. ''Acrocanthosaurus atokensis'', a new genus and species of Lower Cretaceous Theropoda from Oklahoma. ''American Midland Naturalist'' 43(4): 686–728.

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American paleontologists 1891 births 1953 deaths {{US-biologist-stub