Thesis ID: CBB001561600

The Second American Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 1895--1905 (2005)

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Brinkman, Paul David (Author)


University of Minnesota
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory


Publication Date: 2005
Edition Details: Advisor: Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory
Physical Details: 416 pp.
Language: English

In the 1890s, the institutional setting for American vertebrate paleontology shifted from private collections to urban museums funded by large-scale philanthropy, including the American Museum in New York, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, and the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. This shift ignited a fierce competition among museum paleontologists to find, collect, and display fossil vertebrates, especially gigantic Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs from the American West. Museums launched ambitious expeditions aimed at collecting exhibit-quality dinosaurs. Fieldworkers scoured the western states for new Jurassic field sites. They developed new, better procedures for excavating, packing, and handling fossils. Fossil preparators, likewise, developed revolutionary techniques for removing fossils from their rocky matrix, and for mounting them for display. The object of building composite skeletons from the accumulated parts of individual dinosaurs encouraged "lumping," rather than "splitting," which was the norm during the first Jurassic dinosaur rush. Henry Fairfield Osborn, founder and first curator of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum, and chief protagonist of the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, emphasized that early 20 th century vertebrate paleontology was a cooperative venture. But Osborn and his rivals were every bit as competitive, petty and proprietary as their infamous 19 th century predecessors, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/12 (2006): 4508. UMI pub. no. 3198076.


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Authors & Contributors
Brinkman, Paul David
Cameron, Marlena Briane
Gabriele Ferrari
Richard Conniff
Rieppel, Lukas Benjamin
Logan, Alison M. B.
Concepts
Paleontology
Dinosaurs
Museums
Evolution
Controversies and disputes
Natural history
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
United States
Wyoming (U.S.)
Alberta, Canada
Connecticut (U.S.)
Russia
North America
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History, New York
University of Wyoming
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale Univ.
Field Museum of Natural History
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