Charles W. Gilmore
Charles Whitney Gilmore ( born March 11, 1874 in Pavilion, New York, † September 27, 1945 in New York City ) was an American vertebrate paleontologist who dealt with dinosaurs.
Life
Gilmore grew up in Howell (Michigan) and studied from 1897, first mining at the University of Wyoming, interrupted by half a year in the Spanish -American War with the Rough Riders. He collected himself fossils and has been involved as a student at finding fossils for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which hired him after his graduation in 1901. There he worked under curator John Bell Hatcher in several field expeditions. In 1903 he was hired as a taxidermist at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. In 1908 he became curator of fossil reptiles and 1924 curator of vertebrate paleontology. In 1945 he retired and soon died.
His specialty was sauropods. He erstbeschrieb Alamosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Archaeornithomimus asiaticus, Mongolosaurus, Chirostenotes, Bactrosaurus, Brachyceratops, Hypsibema ( first Neosaurus missouriensis, then Parrosaurus, then Hypsibema missouriensis ), Styracosaurus ovatus, Thescelosaurus neglectus, Pinacosaurus grangeri.
He first worked on the scale in the Bone Wars collection of Othniel Charles Marsh, which was transferred from the Peabody Museum of Natural History to the Smithsonian.
With the taxidermist Norman H. Boss, he mounted in 1905 the first exhibition in Triceratops and 1931, the 21 -meter-long skeleton of a Diplodocus, which they had dug in 1923 to Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and was the attraction of the museum. With Boss and James Gidley he assembled most of the other dinosaurs that are on display in the Smithsonian, first presented in 1903 a complete Edmontosaurus. He served as curator total of 16 expeditions to the excavation of dinosaurs and other fossil vertebrates, among others, to Utah, Wyoming and Montana. He also evaluated the rich finds of the museum in Mongolia.
He has published about 170 papers and monographs, including in 1936 a monograph on Apatosaurus (his first dinosaur discovery in 1901 ) and Stegosaurus (1914), about predators in 1920 and 1936 about young dinosaurs Camara (which he excavated in 1902 ).
After his retirement in 2003, there was again a specialized dinosaur curator at the Smithsonian ( Matt Carrano ). Gilmore's successor Charles Gazin specialized in mammals.
He was married in 1902 and had three daughters. It is located at Arlington National Cemetery buried.
Several fossils are named after him, so Gilmoreosaurus.