Walter W. Granger

Walter Willis Granger ( born November 7, 1872 in Middletown Springs, Vermont, † September 6, 1941 in Lusk, Wyoming) was an American fossil collector and vertebrate paleontologist.

Granger was one of five children of an insurance agent. He was interested in early for the stuffing of animals and was already working his father helped him a friend with 17 years for the American Museum of Natural History. He participated in fossils Search the museum in the Midwest 1894/95 and switched to all in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology ( led by Henry Fairfield Osborn ). In 1897 he discovered the rich fossil site Bone Cabin Quarry in Wyoming at Laramie, where among other things an Apatosaurus ( Brontosaurus ) for the museum was found next to other dinosaurs of the Jurassic Stegosaurus and Allosaurus as. In 1907 he was commissioned by the museum part in the first major American fossils expedition outside of North America in Egypt, where they dug in Fayum tertiary mammals. He was Associate Curator of the museum.

In 1921 he led an expedition of the museum in Mongolia and China. He was also involved in the excavations at Zhoukoudian under Johan Gunnar Andersson, led to the discovery of Peking man. 1922, 1923, 1925, 1927 and 1928, he participated in the expeditions of Roy Chapman Andrews in the Gobi desert, where he found, among other fossils of Velociraptor, Oviraptor and Protoceratops. He was curator of fossil mammals in 1927 at the Museum and also the curator of paleontology at the Asia Department. He died during an expedition in Lusk (Wyoming) of heart failure.

In 1935, he became president of the Explorers Club. In 1932 he received an honorary doctorate of Middlebury College in Vermont.