Charles Schuchert (3 July1858-20 November1942) was an Americanpaleontologist. American invertebrate paleontologist who was a leader in the development of paleogeography, the study of the distribution of lands and seas in the geological past. During the 1880s he made a living drawing fossil illustrations for state geological surveys, while continuing to search for specimens for his own growing collection. After serving as curator of the U.S. National Museum (1894-1904) Charles Schuchert joined the Yale University faculty following their first invertebrate paleontologist, Charles E. Beecher. is the 184th day of the year (185th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ...
Professor Schuchert coined the term Paleobiology in 1904. Paleobiology (sometimes spelled palaeobiology) is a growing and comparatively new discipline which combines the methods and findings of the natural science biology with the methods and findings of the earth science paleontology. ...
CharlesSchuchert (1858-1942) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1888, Schuchert was appointed as an assistant to James Hall, the New York Geological Survey Director, in Albany.
In 1904, Schuchert succeeded Beecher as Curator of geological collections at the Peabody Museum and was appointed Professor of Historical Geology at Yale.
Schuchert was author of A Text-Book of Geology (1915), Historical Geology of North America (1935), Textbook of Historical Geology, Paleogeography of North America, and The Earth and Its Rhythms (1927).
Schuchert was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1911 and won the Geological Society of America's Penrose Medal in 1934.
Schuchert's further honors can be found in a memorial by A. Knopf (1952, Nat.
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