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Raymond Lindsay Ethington (born 1929) is an American paleontologist. He works in the Geology department at the University of Missouri in
Columbia, Missouri Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is the county seat of Boone County and home to the University of Missouri. Founded in 1821, it is the principal city of the five-county Columbia metropolitan area. It is Missouri's fourth ...
He was one of the Chief Panderers of the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of
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 ...
palaeontology. In 1983, with John E. Repetski, he described the conodont genus ''
Rossodus ''Rossodus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the clade Prioniodontida, the "complex conodonts", of the Early Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era. The Ordovician spa ...
''Rossodus manitouensis (Conodonta), a New Early Ordovician Index Fossil. John E. Repetski and Raymond L. Ethington, Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Mar., 1983), pages 289-301
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In 2007, he received the
Raymond C. Moore Medal The Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology is 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 a ...
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.


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Raymond L. Ethington
at University of Missouri website. Retrieved June 22, 2016. American paleontologists Conodont specialists 1929 births People from Columbia, Missouri University of Missouri faculty Living people Scientists from Missouri Date of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) {{paleontologist-stub