Charles Mortram Sternberg

Charles Mortram Sternberg ( born September 18, 1885 in Lawrence, Kansas, † September 8, 1981 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian paleontologist ( dinosaur ).

He was the son of Charles H. Sternberg (1850-1943), who excavated for Edward Drinker Cope and from 1912 to 1917 in Alberta dinosaurs for the Geological Survey of Canada dug up, especially in the Drumheller region. Born in the USA Charles Sternberg went with his father and his two brothers, George F. Sternberg (1883-1969) and Levi Sternberg (1894-1976), which was also dinosaur excavations in 1912 to Canada. They were involved in the founding of the Calgary Zoo. Charles M. Sternberg in 1919 as a successor to Lawrence M. Lambe head of paleontology at the Geological Survey of Canada. His first publication (over Panoplosaurus, the Lambe already examined ) appeared in 1921 with his father. In 1948 he was curator ( nominally Assistant Biologist ) for vertebrate paleontology at the National Museum of Canada. In 1950 he retired, but still published until 1970. 1955 He was involved in the founding of the Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta.

He was the discoverer and describer of Edmontonia (1928 ), Stenonychosaurus (1932 ), Parksosaurus (1937 ), Pachyrhinosaurus (1950), Montanoceratops (1951) and Brachylophosaurus ( 1953). He also discovered early archaeological material of Daspletosaurus and Chirostenotes ( which he called Macrophalangia ).

In 1949 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary and Carleton University in Ottawa.