George F. Sternberg

George Fryer Sternberg ( born August 26, 1883 in Lawrence (Kansas ), † 23 October 1969 in Hays ( Kansas) ) was an American vertebrate paleontologist. He was a member of a family that was known for her discoveries of dinosaurs and other fossils for museums.

Be Father Charles H. Sternberg was a noted paleontologist and accompanied these early excavations and found his first major fossil, a plesiosaur. He also discovered the remains of a giant buffalo in Hoxie (Kansas ) ( with horn - cores of 1.8 m) and 1908 a Triceratops in Wyoming. In 1912 he moved with his father and his brothers to Canada, where they were excavating in Alberta dinosaurs ( at the Red Deer River ). 1924/25, he dug in Patagonia and from 1927 he worked as a curator at the Museum of Fort Hays State University in Hays (now the Sternberg Museum of Natural History ). His findings, but in many other major museums such as the London Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian. In 1961, he went into retirement.

He is best known for his excavation of a fish in the fish, a Xiphactinus audax with another fish in the stomach ( Gillicus arcuatus, with 6 feet length, 1.8 m ) by 14 feet long (4.2 m). He has exhibited in the Sternberg Museum in Hays. He was in Gove County discovered by Walter Sorensen from the American Museum of Natural History, 1952, in Kansas, but unearthed by Sternberg.

He was married twice, first, later divorced marriage with Mabel Clare Smith in 1907 ( from the marriage were born three children) and since 1930 with Anna Gertrude Ziegler.