Charles Hazelius Sternberg
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Charles Hazelius Sternberg (1850 – 1943) was an American fossil collector and amateur paleontologist. In 1880 he married Anna Reynolds. Their three sons, George F. Sternberg (1883-1969), Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885-1981) and Levi Sternberg (1894-1976), also had careers in vertebrate paleontology. They are famous for their "Trachodon mummy", an exquisitely preserved specimen of Edmontosaurus annectens (see hadrosaurid).
In the Bone Wars, Sternberg was in Edward Drinker Cope's camp. He wrote two books: The Life of a Fossil Hunter and Hunting Dinosaurs.
[edit] Sternberg Museum
Many of the fossils discovered by Charles Sternberg are on display in the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas.
[edit] External links
- Class materials on the Sternbergs from a History of Geology course at Emporia State University.
- Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas
