John Bell Hatcher and his Torosaurus

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PART 2 Mary Anning and her Ichthyosaur fav.me/d7ybszx

PART 3 Charles Darwin and his Toxodon fav.me/d80hum8

PART 4 Gideon Mantell and his Iguanodon fav.me/d826xjg

PART 5 William Buckland and his Megalosaur fav.me/d83zg9s

PART 6 Hermann von Meyer and his Archaeopteryx fav.me/d86761e

PART 7 Georges Cuvier and his Mastodon fav.me/d88cp56

PART 8 Edward D. Cope and his Dimetrodon fav.me/d89umu9

PART 9 Othniel C. Marsh and his Triceratops fav.me/d8bp0tr

PART 10 Eduard Suess and his Struthiosaurus fav.me/d8e0aqc

PART 11 Richard Owen and his Gorgonops fav.me/d8g9cbf

PART 12 Johann Blumenbach and his Megaloceros fav.me/d8if1nn

PART 13 Barbara Rawdon-Hastings and her Diplocynodon fav.me/d8ks10o

PART 14 Wilhelm Lund and his Smilodon fav.me/d8lk4x6

PART 15 Lawrence Lambe and his Edmontosaurus fav.me/d8s02lr

PART 16 Edmond Hebert and his Gastornis fav.me/d90r8ay

PART 17 Joseph Leidy and his Direwolf fav.me/d9598c5

PART 18 Barnum Brown and his T-Rex fav.me/d977xsf

PART 19 Immanuel Walch and his Trilobites fav.me/d9a1qc9

PART 20 John Bell Hatcher and his Torosaurus

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John Bell Hatcher was born in 1861 in Illinois and graduated from Yale in 1884 after working as a coal miner to earn money for college. He eventually became an Assistant of Othniel Charles Marsh together with Charles H. Sternberg. John collected fossils in Kansas, Texas, Nebraska and South Dakota, but it was in Lusk (Wyoming) that he found the first remains of Torosaurus. However he was not allowed to name it since Marsh did not permit his students to publish anything on their own. A fact which made John quit his job as Marsh’s assistant. In the 1890s he led an expedition to Patagonia financed by Andrew Carnegie. John would also later be the curator for vertebrate Paleontology at the Carnegie museum, where he was responsible for the Diplodocus fossils. He died in 1904 and his grave was unmarked until 1995 – now his tombstone bares the image of a Torosaurus.

Here is a photo of John:

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