American paleontologist
Earl Douglass with his hand on a Diplodocus specimen, Dinosaur National Monument (August 1922).
Earl Douglass (October 28, 1862 – January 13, 1931) was an American paleontologist who discovered the dinosaur Apatosaurus , playing a central role in one of the most important fossil finds in North America.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] By 1922 Earl had unearthed and shipped more than 700,000 pounds of material including nearly 20 complete skeletons of Jurassic dinosaurs such as Diplodocus , Dryosaurus , Stegosaurus , Barosaurus , Camarasaurus and Brontosaurus .[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
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